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And at least one other citizen as well to name a few. >> these victims, with he know shlgs primarily, fr shlgs, primarily from belgium, around the world. are they saying this may have been the motivation to target this hotel because it was so international? >> yes. this could have likely been the exact reason why the attackers would have picked the radisson blu hotel. it is an american-owned hotel. a number of westerners would have been staying there at any given time. it was a very popular hotel. 1 190 rooms in total. the diplomate held a lot of meetings there. probably the reason that these ...

Daughter in the wake of all this. martha: the pentagon says that a u.s. drone strike killed a key al qaeda leader in syria. he was a high up in an al qaeda offshoot group. how important was this strike for our fight? >> reporter: senior defense officials called this a big strike. he was a key figure in a terror group that's known to have the most advanced non-metallic bombs in the world. al qaeda says he was killed in an airstrike while traveling in a vehicle in northwest syria. he was falsely reported has having been killed last fall. but the pentagon says they are sure they got him. yesterda...

Embassy in baghdad. we saw u.s. personnel evacuated at the airbase. talk about the al qaeda offshoot group is said to be worse than al qaeda as our own bret baier reported last year. they're an offshoot in part because their tactics are even nastier, even worse terrorists. lindsey graham yesterday after a briefing behind closed doors. look out, what i heard scared the hell out of me what might be next in iraq. think about u.s. military weapons have gone to iraq. the state department is investigating corporate these terrorists have those weapons now. that's a big deal. >> what i took from this,...

Offshoot group. the white house so far is saying, look, they can't help. a statement we've gotten from the national security council saying, quote: while the national security team always looks at a range of options, the current focus of our discussions with the government of iraq and our policy considerations is to build the capacity of the iraqis to successfully confront and deal with the threat posed by isil, a reference to the islamic state of iraq and syria. the problem, of course, is the capacity of the iraqis to do it. the iraqi military, we've seen in recent days, has been in retreat, ...

Means killing thousands of more of his own people. >> reporter: it seems to be so difficult was bashar al-assad continues to blame all of this on insurgents or terrorists if you will. >> reporter: i'm sorry, say again. we're having a problem with the signal. >> reporter: i apologize for that. the problem really lies in bashar al-assad's stand. he continues to blame awful his attacks on his own country coming from terrorism. >> reporter: well, he may have a point at some level in that sense, kelly. you have the rebels who are based there inside of syria, a number of them are hard-line islamists...