he has just seen the photos of usama bin laden o. thank you very much. yes, sir. shepard: libyan state television is airing pictures of qaddafi what could be his first appearance since a nato strike reportedly killed his own son. this as the united states makes new moves to help the rebels in the not war there. and what about you? do you want to see the pictures of usama bin laden? now that the senator has described them, is it time to open this debate again? or is it a done deal? your thoughts are welcome. details ahead.
led by usama alone. all along they expected al qaeda and to make a statement after his death. the goal is to hit us domestically, shep. shepard: al qaeda in yemen that group off chute is important for a number of reasons. it is. a senior counter terrorism official has told fox that al qaeda in yemen has street cred come up with a bomb evading scanning procedures that s what we saw with the printer plot that failed. nonmetallic explosives. the group s leadership includes former gitmo detainees, one is is a yeed on the left. anwar al awlaki on the cia s kill or capture list. someone called nasaerr. he was one of his meantees. he understands the ideology. you have the trifecta.
shepard: i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. the first members of congress are getting to see pictures of usama bin laden s body. and we re about to hear from the first senator who see them. the cia is showing the photos to members of the house and the senate and intelligence committee, but the lawmakers have to go to the cia headquarters to view them. one man has. joining us now from washington is oklahoma senator jim inhofe, a senior member of the armed services committee who went to the cia headquarters today to view those photos. senator, good evening and thank you. nice to be with you, shepard. shepard: i know there were 12 from the compound where we re told that they killed him. three from the ship where they are said to have buried him at sea. let s begin about the first 1. they have been described to us as gruesome. how would you describe them? yeah, shepard, they are gruesome, of course, because it was
he has seen 15 pictures of dead usama bin laden. and for the first time, he will talk about it on television. after this commercial break. the new blackberry playbook. it runs all this at the same time. why can t every tablet do that?
shepard: usama bin laden kept a journal, a hand-written journal made entries every day, they tell us. and it is said to be among the evidence that he had stashed in his hide out. we re getting all of this from u.s. officials who say navy seals grabbed this notebook during their raid on his compound in pakistan. i wonder what s in there? our news correspondent catherine herridge works intelligence for us. she is in d.c. tonight. what are you hearing. thanks, shep. a u.s. official confirming earlier today that the handwritten notebook or journal was recovered from the compound and it was described to us as containing a number of elements. one where the operational ideas for bin laden are the second was a target list. and third really is what amounted to brainstorming sessions. in effect, what his wishful thinking shepard: we re getting word of new threats tonight from another branch of al qaeda, right? well, that s right. we got this statement earlier today, it comes from al qa