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Stockpiled materials from wmd program that was publicly abandoned in 2003 after pressure from the u.s. the focus is in northwest libya near the capital and also sabhah in the south where yellow cake is stored. uranium or toxic. there is no active inventory of the radioactive waste including low enriched uranium fuel and significant quawns of radio ice taupes that libya the remaining material could, if it ended up in the wrong hands, be used as ingredients for dirty bombs. the situation at tajoura today is unclear. the state department is quote emphasizing to the rebels the importance of obviously securing these sites, shep. shepard: looting, i m sure is a concern. it s more than that, right? it is. one of the lingering questions whether the libya leader would use what remains of his wmd program as part of an insurance ....
Rushed to her side, helped her get to her seat. we are told she was not hurt as scary as it looked and the event went on as planned. i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. dozens of journalists were held captive in libya. today they are free. qaddafi loyalists had been holding them at gunpoint or guarding them with guns in tripoli for the weekend. the reporters had to deal with the power cutting in and out. limited food, scarce information, and never really knowing whether their captors might decide to do something crazy at any moment. and then just hours ago those journalists boarded red cross vehicles and left for another hotel where they reunited with friends and colleagues. god, i was so worried about you guys. most awful to see you guys there. how come they let you out of prison? red cross. ....
shepard: as rebel forces take control of most of libya, the u.s. and other world powers are scrambling to free up billions of dollars in frozen assets. the united nations blocked that money to punish the qaddafi regime. now some international leaders want to get in the hands of the cash-strapped rebels, at least some of it, as soon as possible. wendell goler is at the state department tonight. part of an effort, i guess, to help this libyan opposition, right? you are right, shepard. south africa which is a member of the u.n. sanctions committee has been blocking attempts to free up the frozen assets so u.s. officials say the u.n. security council as a whole will vote tomorrow to transfer about a billion and a half dollars in libya s frozen u.s. assets to the opposition group. and about 10 times that much in libya s frozen british assets. experts think muammar qaddafi s family has up to $100 billion spread around the world. 50 billion of that was frozen about five months ago. offici ....
you re welcome. bret: the european union is slapping captions on the coug force unit of the iran revolutionary guard saying they are providing equipment and support to help syrian crack down on dissent. activists say army tanks stormed today and the government released picture of decomposes corpses saying armed terrorists group kidnapped and tortureed people around the city of homes. north korean leader kim jong il says they will have a nuclear test if the international talks resume. kim met today with russian president dmitry medvedev in siberia. the so-called six party nuclear talks have been stalled since late 2008. from market gyrations to libya, to tuesday s earthquake, president obama s vacation has been so busy, he probably can t wait to get back to the white house for a break. there was more news today. of the unpleasant variety for the white house. chief white house correspondent ed henry is with the president on martha s ....
Policy. mad man that s what qaddafi is. so certainly anything is possible. now, obviously the nuclear program is one that would be very difficult to hide away. but whether he has other capabilities, i think, is a matter of speculation. for some context, we saw a similar situation play out in iraq after the fall of saddam hussein when nuclear and radioactive materials were taken from a baghdad research facility. both of these cases, libya and iraq, we re talking about potentially primary materials for dirty bombs and we could get a briefing tomorrow with the state department on this very subject, shep. shepard: catherine herridge in washington tonight. thanks. a fox you are jest now. the man who co-founded apple making computers accessible to average people and revolutionizing the way the world communicates has just announced is he stepping down of ceo of that tech giant effective immediately. apple reports steve jobs submitted that letter of resignation with no official word on w ....