again today. alisyn: the death of qaddafi hold special meaning for one group of people within the relatives of the victims of the lockerbie bombing. after years of anguish they say they are rejoicing over his death. the bombing of pan am flight 103 killed 270 people, including 189 americans. the emotions pouring out of susan cohen whose daughter was killed in that terrorist attack. it s the happiest i have been since december 20, 1988. he killed her and in a sense killed me. her body landed a mile from the plane. what a horrible death for a young person. alisyn: qaddafi has long since been considered a key planner of that bombing. bill: it s remarkable to listen to family members how much this
between 3 to 5,000 troops for contingencies, but a divided iraqi government could not reach an agreement that would give american forces some immunity from iraq s laws. the iraq war costing the u.s. more than $800 billion when all is said and done, and claiming the lives of more than 3500 american service members. many more wounded. we re getting details now on the death of moammar qaddafi as people across libya celebrate the law of the brutal dictator, his life ending where it began in his hometown of sirte. we are learning more about the very last violent moments of moammar qaddafi s life. jennifer griffin is investigating this for us. live from the pentagon, hey, jennifer. reporter: moammar qaddafi was supposed to be buried today in an unmarked grave but clearly the new government is deciding not to keep with muslim tradition, not to bury him within the first 24 hours. his body is still being essentially moved around, but
continue to spend massively more than we take in. we have to cut our spending, we have to cap how much the federal government is going to take out of our economy, and we have to have a balanced budget. bill: while rom think was at that town hall romney was at that town hall, rick perry was releasing an ad basically calling romney a liar. alisyn: we re going to talk about gadhafi s death, discussing the future of libya. nato s secretary general saying the death of moammar gadhafi means the end of the campaign is much closer now. all across the war-torn country celebrations like these are breaking out, but libyans are distinctly aware that big challenges still lie ahead. ironically, hillary clinton visited the country just a couple days before gadhafi s death. here s her reaction. the death of colonel gadhafi has brought to a close a very unfortunate chapter in libya s history.
a very fluid situation. we ve seen snippets of film played incest tapbt leon media outlets throughout the world, but that does not provide a clear enough picture of what took place. reporter: we have more details from nato about the role of their air strikes. a convoy of about 75 vehicles were leaving sirte, nato aircraft struck one vehicle, we re told, 20 vehicles then broke away. in the end a u.s. drone and french warplane destroyed 11 vehicles all together. but nato is going out of its way to say that they didn t know moammar qaddafi was in the convoy, quote, the vehicles were carrying a substantial amount of weapons and ammunition posing a significant threat to the local civilian population. the convoy was engaged by a nato aircraft to reduce the threat. they are saying that, martha, was according to the u.n. mandate they did not have the right, nato didn t have the right to target moammar qaddafi or any individual himself, martha. martha: very interesting.
wife urged the u.n. to investigate moammar qaddafi s death. look at this. unbelievable video that we saw of this violent scene, as he was killed on the streets there in libya. as libya s new government is about to announce the country s quote liberation. david piper, streaming live from tripoli with the plan going forward in libya. good morning, david. reporter: hi, mart that, yes the plan at the moment was to bury moammar qaddafi s body within 24 hours but that has been delayed at this time because a third party international criminal court, we believe, has asked to examine the body just to make sure it is in fact the body of moammar qaddafi. his body is in the found of misrata at this time. it has been put on display over the last 24 hours with many citizens of that town having their picture taken with it. you need to understand, we ve been to misrata, and large parts