washington. big story by the admission by the white house that the september 11 attack on the u.s. consulate in libya was terrorism. tonight on special report, the president press secretary called it self-evident that the deadly assault was a terror attack. this contradicts a week s worth of official statements. now the president is weighing in. we ll also give you the latest intelligence about the al-qaeda-link terrorist who may have been behind the attack and believed to have been training jihaddist in libya. hillary clinton is launching accountability review board. the terrorist sufyan bin qumu was transferred out of the gitmo camp in 2007. we have the back story tonight. hispanics are courted by the presidential candidate. president obama spoke at univision forum in miami. romney addressed the group yesterday. special report from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and my colleagues with the five.
providing security. the two seals were in libya working for separate agency. they responded when they heard the gun fire and they killed themselves. bret: the decision to release gupta from gitmo was the bush administration. but the bigger story may be the presence of al-qaeda in libya and how strong they may be. what we have discussed before that al-qaeda has the franchise operations specifically in north africa. when we talk about someone like qumu what we are look at is not only hqim but the libyan islamist fighting group. i know speaking to my contacts today, they look at the makeshift camp that sprung up in eastern libya that may be training jihaddist. not only for attack in country but syria as well. bret: we will continue to follow it.