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Power, stinger missiles. they are powerful enough to take down a commercial airliner. with us now, retired air force gentle. also a fox contributor. thank you both so much. general, explain the stinger missile and importance of them getting their hands on them? >> its called a man pad. its shoulder mounted. its effective u.s. made and can be lethal against aircraft if you do not have what we call decoy flairs. if youve got decoy flairs and aware theyre in the area, most fighter pilot, u.s. fight...

Power, stinger missiles. they are powerful enough to take down a commercial airliner. with us now, retired air force gentle. also a fox contributor. thank you both so much. general, explain the stinger missile and importance of them getting their hands on them? >> its called a man pad. its shoulder mounted. its effective u.s. made and can be lethal against aircraft if you do not have what we call decoy flairs. if youve got decoy flairs and aware theyre in the area, most fighter pilot, u.s. fight...

Associated press that manual strongly suggests militants already have the missile in their possession. experts also call it a man portable air defense system or a man pad. the analysts say those fighters in maly likely swiped the missile from libya amid the fall of the dictator there muammar qaddafi two years ago. the u.s. ambassador to belgium says is he devastated by state department memo that suggests he solicited sex from prosecutes and children he is ambassador howard gutman who released a ...

Through this to learn from the mistakes. theyre hiding from the american people the primary source of the truth in benghazi, the people who lived through it. >> bret: why was ambassador stevens in benghazi if he had been sending all the m memos and cables that the security was unsustainable? why was he there? >> because that is where the action was regarding the rising islamist extremist trying to get their hands on weapons flowing freely in libya. we were desperately trying to control the antia...

Demonstrated how broad al-qaidas influence has become, its ability to control a territory in northern mali, the size of texas, the attack on the natural gas in a silt i facility in algeria over 40 hostages killed. the turmoil across the middle east and north africa shows america stra teen i can interests are under grave threat and we have no effective policy. martha: what do you make of this question of whether or not -- what they were up to at that cia annex and whether or not it had to do with...

Rebels on the front line. >> this is a ship by the name of victory carrying weapons that are found in libya. >> he is a middle east and terrorism expert for fox news. >> the ship came that way, all the way up to extend it in turkey. s. >> now the information available there were weapons. a lot of weapons. >> it included surface to air antiaircraft missiles like these. rpgs. russian designed man portable air defense systems known as man-pad. the ship captain told "times of london" "i can only tal...

Watch and listen. also from the sky, government warplanes launching new air strikes against rebel forces. the rebels as you can guess are asking for outside help, pleading for a no-fly zone to protect them. ez president obama meeting with senior advisers to talk about that. military analyst chuck nash back with me. good morning to you. we spoke a couple of times last week. you did not like this idea of a no-fly zone. have you changed your mind. >> no i dont like it. in that lead in that you did ...