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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? >> it's called a man pad. it's shoulder mounted. it's effective u.s. made and can be lethal against aircraft if you do not have what we call decoy flairs. if you've got decoy flairs and aware they're in the area, most fighter pilot, u.s. fighter pilots can handle them. it changes the name of the game. for the first time in the last 11 y...

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? >> it's called a man pad. it's shoulder mounted. it's effective u.s. made and can be lethal against aircraft if you do not have what we call decoy flairs. if you've got decoy flairs and aware they're in the area, most fighter pilot, u.s. fighter pilots can handle them. it changes the name of the game. for the first time in the last 11 y...

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 statement i'm angered and saddened by the baseless allegations. at no point have i ever engaged in a...

Through this to learn from the mistakes. they're 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 antiaircraft missile. man pad. that were all over libya. that are now all over the mideast. chrissteins ...

Demonstrated how broad al-qaida's influence has become, it's 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 moving weapons from -- through one place, possibly to support the rebels in syria? >> well that s...