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Coordination with the libyans at all? anyone? >> okay. theres a lot there. on whether hes coming back to stand trial, im referring you to the justice department. i cant speak to that. what i can tell you is that certainly we have long maintained on the consultations with libya, we have long made it clear that we were going to hold accountable the perpetrators of benghazi. this should come as no surprise to anyone, least of all the libyan government, and i can tell you that they were notified -- ...

Gave an interview to the "new york times" on october 18, short just a few days within a month afterwards and he was very confident at that time. he didnt feel any special operators were going to be rounding the corner. he was out in the open. then last october when the delta force operators landed in libya and snatched another high value target, terror suspect from back in the 1990s, we understood at that time that this man was on the list of possible targets for that capture operation back in o...

With the libyan? >> we have long maintained on the conitations of libya, we have long made clear we would hold accountable the perpetrators of benghazi. this is no surprise to anyone least of all the libyan government. they were notified about this capture operation: i am sorry, your other one. was living, well, look,

Recall the capture operation that occurred not long ago in libya against somebody who attacked the united states many years ago in africa. the united states stays on the case. this president, our president obama, has said that we do what will it takes to bring the perpetrators to justice. and indeed, we will. >> finally, i just want to on a final point about ukraine and what you will be monitoring and watching for today and in the days to come. >> well, most importantly, david, we want to obviou...

Its the greatest honor in the world to work for the president of the united states and on behalf of the american people. and i couldnt ask for anything more. >> we know, as was said at that time and has been found later, that security at the compound was a gaping deficiency. but its also an issue of finding the people responsible for this attack. the president spoke forcefully about that during the presidential debates. this is what he said in october of 2012. >> we are going to find out who did...

Of 2012. >> we are going to find out who did this, and we are going to hunt them down because one of the things that ive said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with americans, we go after them. >> 17 months later, are we any closer to finding who was responsible? >> yes, i think youve heard the attorney general speak to this. the investigation is ongoing and it has indeed made progress. but the point is we will get the perpetrators. we will stay on it until this gets done. and if you n...

Force operatives. his wife speaking exclusively to cnn about what she saw. >> translator: we expected them do do anything, but they took us by surprise. this thing came all of a sudden. there was no longer any talk about him in the media. so i felt somewhat reassured. he even stopped taking his weapon or his sons with him or hiring private security. he was living his life normally. everything happened rapidly. they grabbed him and shoved him in the car. i saw them doing this and saying get in. b...

Asked can tell us what the current law says in terms of how long a suspect who has been captured can be held on a u.s. navy ship before being handed over to u.s. federal authorities, jon. jon: so thats the raid that went down in tripoli. what about the one in somalia, what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well, what we learned, jon, that raid was supposed to be a capture operation, not a capture or kill operation. the navy seals came ashore as we reported yesterday. they came ashore. the...

U.s. militarys war against al qaeda and we saw that in two strikes over the weekend. two u.s. strikes. in somalia, the target was the leader of al shabaab, the group behind the terrorist attacks in nairobi. in libya, the u.s. attacked abu anas al libi. two terrorists, two different operations, two very different results. the somali began from a mission off the coast, an amphibious raid. u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s, some from s.e.a.l. team six targeted a safe house. witnesses say they came under intense ...

Africa here, in libya has been taken out. there are two operations going on. we are talking this man who topped the most wanted list for years. in fact, he is the al qaeda operative responsible for the 1998 bombing of the u.s. embassies. again, may have been captured. barbara starr is our pentagon correspondent. update us on the story, please. >> the senior u.s. official is telling cnn he was captured and that it was indeed u.s. special operations personnel, a second mission in the last 24 hours...