Al Qaeda Suspect Now in U.S.
BALDWIN: Breaking news just into CNN. Al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al-Libi is right here on U.S. soil. He was snatched from his home in Tripoli two weeks ago and taken to a Navy vessel for interrogations, indicted for his involvement in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in both Kenya and Tanzania. So, joining me now, senior international correspondent Nic Robertson and our national correspondent, Susan Candiotti. And, Susan, let me just begin with you. How did all this happen?</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, we're going to find out very soon, no doubt, but he is not only in the United States. He arrived over the weekend. He is in New York. He is in this area, and he is expected to make his very first court appearance tomorrow here in Manhattan. As you indicated, this was someone who was picked up in a dramatic raid just a couple of weeks ago. And he will have to appear in court on this indictment that actually has been on the books for many, many years. He was indicted back for the 1998 bombing, as you said, of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Now, of course, he was brought here from that U.S. Navy ship where he had been questioned or attempted to be questioned by a high-value interrogation group that goes after high-value detainees to try to see what information he might know about any current al Qaeda plans that might be in effect for the United States to carry out any future attacks. That would be the first thing they would want to know. But, of course, when he's in court tomorrow, he will have to answer for that indictment of the 1998 bombings.</s>BALDWIN: Nic Robertson, to you. Just give us a little bit more context, the significance here, and to Susan's point, the fact that the U.S. may get some key information out of him.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I have just returned from Libya. I have met with his family, neighbors, been to his house. The sense that they have is that this is a man who had given up on al Qaeda a long time ago, that he was living pretty much in the open in Libya. Of course, it's been a very divisive issue in Libya because it's seen as a -- it has had a very negative impact on the government there, the prime minister himself kidnapped during the week by armed militias in the city essentially over the fact that he was suspected of helping the United States in pick up al-Libi, so for him, a very dangerous development. But the fact that his friends and that his family say that he was living in the open, that he had nothing anymore to do with al Qaeda, and two government officials I talked to, including the justice minister, told me that al-Libi had reached out to the Libyan authorities to try to clear his name -- so the fact that he has only spent about seven days in U.S. custody -- he was picked up nine days ago, Saturday, the weekend before last, in Tripoli -- the fact that he's only spent seven days in custody outside of the United States being questioned about other potential al Qaeda activity or his knowledge about that is perhaps an indication that he didn't actually have much to offer up or he was deemed to be noncompliant in that regard. But it does seem to indicate, at first flush, at least, that he didn't have a lot to say. Libyan government has said that it respects the U.S. legal system, that it expects him to get a fair trial here. But they have said that they do want him to have a Libyan legal representation here, Brooke.</s>BALDWIN: Nic Robertson and Susan Candiotti, my thanks to both of you. We are going to take you back to breaking news out of Washington. The vice president was scheduled to be at the White House meeting that would have happened at 3:00 -- had the White House decided to postpone it, we have learned, so that the Senate can continue to make inroads in the negotiations to hopefully broker some kind of deal that they can take to the White House before that deadline midnight on Wednesday. But we're going to hone in on the vice president's role here in previous negotiations and the current one coming up next.