Libya Operation News Today

In the cool, tense morning air of April 15, 1986, an SR-71 Blackbird, piloted by Major Brian Shul with Major Walter Watson as the Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO), penetrated Libyan airspace at staggering speeds to document the aftermath of Operation "El Dorado Canyon." This was the United States direct military response to Muammar Qaddafi's rampant…

Font Size Agents and attorneys at the FBI and State Department are furious about how FBI directory James Comey let Hillary Clinton off the hook and they are finally speaking out. However, if you get your news from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks you’ve heard nothing about it.  Fox News and The New York Post have cited current and former agents in stories that paint a picture of an FBI and State Department full of hard-working employees who are irate at the way Clinton e...

Libya operation. have you to be careful because kim jong un he is listening what he remember from libya is that qaddafi was killed. you understand where north korea, they are saying we dont want that to happen to us here. have you got make sure everyone is on the same page when theyre out there communicating their message that theyre all on board. pete: absolutely. and stand firm. when north korea puts out the foolish statement they did trying to play the games they did. were out. were done. you...

Did it happen? you know the family well. >> yeah, because of time, i think he lost maybe you know part of his skills from a security perspective, so when he -- yeah, after he was at prayer in the morning, i think 6:00 local time, on his way back to his home, i think a special unit there, about ten people in three cars, i believe, they were waiting for him and just snatched him within a few seconds, and he even failed to reach his gun. thats what happened. his wife, she is so you know, i think pa...

Thank you for starting your morning with us. >> we have much more ahead on "new day," that starts right now. good morning, everybody. i am poppy harlow. >> i am victor blackwell. 7:00 here on the east coast, and a very early 4:00 on the west coast. big fish in the battle of al qaeda. american commandoes snatched abu anas al liby off the streets in apparently broad daylight. barbara, you have been on this story since it broke and since the beginning. first, tell us about this operation and ex...

Knew of or not, but you say the new face of al qaeda and the ungoverned spaces, and weak governments trying to get back on their feet that arguably dont have a handle on this. what does that tell us about the broader significance of this? >> well, i think that maybe its what is next to come, you know. its no secret that the obama administration is looking to try and get to the suspected attacker still in libya on that benghazi attack, the diplomatic compound a year ago. the libyan government bec...

But i dont think its clear what exactly he has been doing in tripoli for the last three years. >> what can we gather from the timing of these two operations, the one in somalia and libya? any indication that they were connected, and if so why now? >> victor, i dont think there is any indication that they were connected. i think it is simply a coincidence. its obvious from the libya operation that this has been planned for many, many weeks. they would have been surveying him and working out the o...

Professionals in the field and need to concentrate on him, and i was in contact with his family and they told me details about the issue and everything. >> understood. the last 15 years since the 98 bombing, what has he been doing and has there been a sense of inevitability that some day he is coming? >> yeah, he returned to his home. >> did he think one day they are coming back or did he think i am off and scott free and they are not going to find me? >> an interesting question. a lot of people...

Conclusion that he should have directed limited action going after assad to make very clear to the world that when we draw a line and we give our word, damn it, we back it up. >> anything embraced by vladimir putten and assad fills me with skepticim. somebody asked the president the other day, do you trust putin? my answer is are you kidding me? my bottom line is that i believe to blow a bunch of stuff up over a couple of days to underscore or validate a point or a principle is not a strategy. >...

Congressional declaration of war, or a congressional authorization for use of force, or if the united states is attacked. so in this situation, not unlike the libya operation in 2011, the administration got around that, saying the u.s. wasnt engaged in official hostilities. do you feel like its appropriate that the president has to reach out the you this go-around or take the libya model? >> its clear to me in an increasing number of my colleagues, as expressed in the letter that has doubled in ...