around the world in nearby places like egypt or libya and saying that we can t afford dissident, because we know what happens to people like moammar khadafy, if we allow that, we will disappear, and look at the americans and say, they don t have our back, because when they saw the dissent in egypt they stepped away and said we support the people. so i could see the new crown prince saying that he is nervous, and even though we may not evaluate the opposition as a threat, they may say that we are. if the turks have the audio of the mird, isn t it odd that the president or other officials wouldn t have heard that the recording firsthand and not able to verify? not quite. give me another 48 hours, and it is odd. there is a couple of explanations, and i confess that i am scratching my head. they don t have it, and i am saying that media commentary or quotes from sources, and the second is that they have it, but
but they are trained in how to use the device and where to be for maximum effect to kill as many people as possible. reporter: a view of the ied is under review and the shrapnel is considered a vital clue in this case because investigators are tracing it back to manufacturers. they can ultimately identify where it was sold, shannon. shannon: that will give them some good clues, we hope. now, what are we hearing about the father s potential connection to terrorist groups? reporter: counter terrorism told fox the father is a member of the lisg, this is the libyan islamic fighting group. that is an al qaeda affiliate in libya. it really goes back to that period around the fall of the libyan dictator moammar khadafy. at that time the group splintered off with some members being loyal to al qaeda and others joining isis in libya. there s potentially another important tie to manchester. this memo shows that in 2014, a
captured and killed is hometown f moammar khadafy is captured and killed. they quickly set up a diplomatic out post in benghazi, rebel stronghold that president obama vowed to save but the violence continues there. says the state department s number two man, gregg hicks. you had assassinations and car bombings in benghazi but the assessment was this libyan on libyan. not directed at foreigners. bret: americans move into this villa on the west side of the city. inside the walls are four buildings including a large residence where a safe haven is built. you enter sbir lieu a heavy metal grill with heavy locks on it. security at benghazi compound consists of five diplomatic special agents and four members of the february 17th brigade, an islamic militia group.
diplomatic presence in that country and soon says hicks. according to chris, secretary clinton wanted benghazi converted into a permanent con city went post. timing for this decision was important, chris needed to report before september 30th the end of the fiscal year. september 6th, charlotte, north carolina, the democratic national convention. without a single american casualty, moammar khadafy is gone and people of libya are free. an egyptian america activist blasts an email promoting a 9/11 event with koran burning pastor terry jones. it includes a link to the youtube trailer. september 8th, cairo, a popular islamic broadcaster airs portion of that trailer.
egyptian strong man hosni mubarak. arab spring would present the president with a defining policy crisis. in march 2011 he addressed the people in washington. the president was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in libya. it was to stop a blood bath in a ported city that most americans had never heard of, a place called benghazi. if we waited one more day, benghazi would have suffered a massacre that would have reverberated across the region. i refuse to let that happen. but saving benghazi from khadafy was not the end of that story. in a jail cell in southern california, a czech former cooker was working on a scheme that would one day command international attention. it employed a low budget