Page 2 - Val Libby News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> the united states of america will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable, and those members of al qaeda and other terrorists organizations -- >> cnn international correspondent, nic robertson, joins us. you have new developments coming in the last few minutes about al libby and his capture. >> his wife said his capture look less than a minute. she reports that ten masked men approached her husband and he apparently tried to get into his vehicle to get a handgun and was unable to do that and was completely taken by surprise.

The u.s. droned the terror network's number two leaders yesterday in pakistan. we reported on this last night but couldn't confirm his death until today. the white house says he was an al qaeda general manager. he became the second in command, we're told, when ayman al zawahiri took over the top spot after the death of usama bin laden. >> al libby's death is a major blow to core al qaeda removing the number two leader for the second time in less than a year and further damaging the group's morale and collusion and bringing it closer to ultimate demise than ever before. >> shepard: the white ho...

Mohammad had been water boarded 183 times. >> they asked him what he knows about the courier. >> and khalid shaikh mohammed was completely dismissive, completely dismissive of who this person wud was and said, not important. and it was the lie, as my source said, that was alerting. the lie of khalid shaikh mohammed the lie of al libby, those two men lying about this courier made them understand that, in fact, the courier was actually important because they knew from other sources that the courier had been a protege of ksm. and he made it believe he didn't know who it was. so bingo, right? so t...

From the fbi and the military who had more direct access to what was going on with those interrogations than i who suggest that coercion was not involved. >> reporter: whatever techniques the interrogators are using, they are finally taking the first steps along the path that will take them to osama bin laden's front door. >> what they had was not the courier's name, but a nickname. and it took them a couple more years to try and figure out who this courier was, whether or not the courier was important or not important. one of the interesting things here is that they went to khalid shaikh moha...

Believe in 2005, and he also gave us information. so i think it's fair to say that it was a long road to getting bin laden. but the first major steps on that road resulted from the interrogation, very intense interrogation, of khalid sheikh mohammed and al libby. i do support it, and i'm only speaking for myself now when i say this, but i think it was the moral thing to do. i'm not defending it, i'm actually being very emphatic, being very proactive in supporting it. i use the example, piers, if on september 10th, 2001, we had captured mohammed atta, one of the other 19 conspirators, and we kn...