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Weapons that moammar gadhafi handed out to the libyan people in the final days of his reign as he was grasping at straws, trying to retain some kind of power. so like i said, this new government has its work cut out for it. well be watching them very closely. back to you. jenna: seems like a healthy dose of skepticism right now, still a lot of questions about whats next for this nation. rick, well continue to follow this at the breaking news desk and, of course, otherwise. jon? jon: we have brea...

You wrote together in the "wall street journal." it said you would like to expand our economic ties. because of your mention of oil id like you to expand on that a little bit. how do we expand our economic ties with that country? >> we can go over there and help them build their infrastructure up. there are business opportunities in libya. the country has been ravaged, they are looking for business partners. and we send business people to go over and talk with the new regime. jenna: the are part...

Jon: a fox news alert, libya, a country that carried out a variety of terror attacks over the course of moammar gadhafis four-decade rule. what will his death mean for terrorism in the region? does it put a damper on it or not? joining us now on the phone, neil livingston, a terrorism expert and a frequent guest of our program. neil, obviously, you know, there the standpoint of, you know, a guy who has been directly involved in terror attacks against americans, the death of gadhafi has to be per...

Funeral was held the very next day. qaddafi is now gone though. his legacy lives on and rick will perhaps agree with me here he may be gone but problems for libya remain. >> reporter: a lot of challenges for sure. >> reporter: some still believed him and supported him in tripoli up to the very end. >> reporter: you know that better than me. you spent a lot of time in tripoli. one thing i want to point out, i believe the opposition fighters knew where qaddafi was or had really strong position whe...

They have a lot of work to do. but people overall in libya are respectful of the transitional national council. jon: and you believe that its going to work? is. >> i hope it will work, and we can be of assistance in that area. by the way, theyre willing to reimburse us. its not a matter of money. but we have -- right now theres a lot of goodwill in libya towards the united states, and i think we should take advantage of that by helping them with their wounded first of all, thats their number one...

Terror campaign, and he allied himself with the soviet union and other communist regimes around the world. it was president reagan who first called him the mad dog of the middle east, and in 1986 he sent libyan agents to glow up a nightclub -- blow up a nightclub in berlin that was known as a popular hangout for u.s. soldiers based there. two soldiers were killed, one civilian died there as well. and then in december1988, libyan agents carrying out the bombing of pan am flight 103 in the scottis...

Was talking about self determination democracy, what we didnt have was no control. you could still argue to this day theres no command and control angst the -- amongst the rebel group such as it is. in the early days, we were talking about the influence of al-qaeda in eastern libya, for years now, in using that as a recruiting ground, the influence of the muslim brotherhood in that area. but nobody wanted to talk about that. they wanted to talk about holding hands and how this was going to work ...

Idea. i would say neither the army nor any of the other services seem to do a particularly good job of outreach on their web sites in terms of conveying this information to the public. it is embedded in several layers that you have to go down into. most people havent done research on this wouldnt know to look for fy-10 army profile to find this information. jenna: we know your information is on this article, the truth about who fights for us at "the wall street journal".com. look to talk about a...

Where theyre going. jenna: what would you do? >> i would basically do everything possible to try and convince the libyans to give us everything theyve got on what they had stockpiled, then youve got to do it very quickly, which is what were doing, were trying to play catchup, which is the problem. these things go across the border quickly. even if its al-qaeda, card carrying members of al-qaeda, if they cart them out and load them on to truck, youve got a vibrant gray market and black market for...

Targeting criminals who are illegal immigrants, the feds just wrapping up operation cross-check, and fox news gives you a front row seat to what actually went down. plus, new worries out of libya today. thousands of weapons, capable of shooting down a plane are missing. now what?