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These regimes and expect order to follow. %qaoshe.6ç;ú happened. >> reporter: gadhafi's death gave rise to even more sectarian violence. tens of thousands are now dead. cities like benghazi, where four americans were killed in 2012 during an attack on the u.s. diplomatic compound are caught in the chaos. without any organized opposition, nobody is in charge. >> libya broken up into tribal groups, islamic groups, sectarian groups. and we have what is open ended wound, a civil war that is going to continue for a very, very long time. >> reporter: nearly 30 years after he was elected president ...

But. benghazi residents, also libyan officials have blamed this violence on islamic groups like al sharia that they say ahmed abu khattala is a senior of. we've seen uprising and movements against jihadist groups in benghazi. we also saw last month, a retire libyan army general launched an air offensive against militias in the city. this is an ongoing offensive that is taking place, fighting, that really has left these ji d jihadist groups on the defensive in libya. one might see that possibly this has provided a better climate for the u.s. to conduct this operation at this time during this ch...

Resistance. that was no firefight. he that ahmed abu khattala was a well-guarded man. as you may recall a year ago, cnn interviewing abu khattala. my colleague arwa damon did an interview. he did not seem to be hiding. he seemed to be out there in plane sight. but u.s. officials say since these interviews has gone into hiding. the main concern after the capture of talk mud abu khattala here in syria is if we will see any backlash by islamic groups that are really very active and powerful in this country. the last time the united states carried out a raid here, in tripoli, back in october. and ...

Taliban and nigeria. it's doing well and they're more powerful in northern africa and the middle east than in the early 90s. remember they were an offshoot of us funding islamic groups. in the 80s, $6 billion was pumped in to fundamentalist groups which was spread across the the world create al-qaeda today. >> trace: we said by helpingñi t rid of bashar al-assad we might be inadvertently helping the rebels. what about the flip side? what if we don't help the rebels? do they say america left us hanging and we're going to lean more towards al-qaeda, who is giving us schools, money, food and hou...

The comments made by the uncle. i know you played some of them a little earlier. there was also a another comment that the uncle made when he was talking to reporters today. saying somebody radicalized them. and that is consistent with a pattern we've seen over and over again, of, of young men, going overseas and getting radicalized by islamic groups. now again, i come back to the point i, some of the information we picked up earlier, about the youtube account and tamerlan tsarnaev's name. we haven't verified that yet. but there's a lot of extremist islamic videos on that youtube account. so a...