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Committee. hes been briefed on libya and somalia. as, were watching all the days important news. hello to our viewers im wolf blitzer in washington. just moments ago, president obama urged congress to end it. jim acosta is our senior white house correspondent. hes standing by. jim, the president make something comments during a visit to fema headquarters near washington. what did he say? >> well, wolf, as you mentioned, president obama made the surprise trip over to fema just about an hour a...

Tear terrorists. and the government is not very strong. there are people there being trained to kill as terrorists. al shabaab is the group that really did the unspeakable. killing of innocent people in kenya. and they are trained, and they have ammunition and they know what theyre doing. but we again, again to protect the united states, and to bring people to justice who have targeted us and killed americans, we attempted to do and we attempted to capture or really bring to justice people in so...

Does he have any legal rights? in other words, does he have a right to an attorney? does he have a right to remain silent or is that all thrown out and he can be questioned at will by u.s. authorities? >> well, theres certain rights that he would have. >> what about right now? >> it depends on what they want to do. basically, hes in our custody, and hes going to be treated like anyone else. theres certain issues in the world that we have and certain laws, too. eventually, hopefully, he will give...

The suspect who was looked up in libya and what the the rules are with international waters? >> well, i can obviously confirm that mr. al libi was arrested and that he is in u.s. custody. i dont have more details for you about where he is. the operations were conducted, as you know, by the u.s. military under the authority conferred by the authorization to use military worse from 2001 which authorizes the use of military force against al qaeda and associated forces. you know, this operation was ...

In tripoli, libya, commandos with the u.s. arms delta force captured a man wanted in connection with the 1998 attacks on the u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya. hes identifies as abu anas al libi. officials say he will be sent to new york for city for a trial. 3,000 miles away, a second raid did not go as necessarily planned. they were after the leader of the al shabaab terrorist group which claimed responsibility for the slaughter two weeks ago at a shopping mall in nairobi, kenya. they had t...

international journalists. russians foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? >> reporter: thats a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a heros welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and fri...