secretary mark esper, speaking to reporters off camera, says there are indications militias loyal to iran are planning further attacks. do i think they may do something? yes. and they will likely regret it. ssy eporter: the embassy has been reinforced by more than 100 marines, and joint chiefs chairman general mark milley says it is secure. anyone who attempts to overrun that will run into a buzzsaw. reporter: i m ian lee in baghdad where tensions are still eigh. teerican apache attack helicopters are patrolling the skies over the u.s. embassy. the protesters have left, replaced by elite iraqi troops guarding the compound. ut reporter: but american troops and diplomats are also based at about 15 other locations in r aq, some of which have come under rocket attack by iranian- backed militias. general milley says last week s attack was the largest and deadliest yet. we know that the intent of this last attack was, in fact,
the washington post with for gadhafi, a bloody end in libya. and the chicago tribune went, with gadhafi gone, libya exhales. the always tasteful new york post had gadhafi killed by yankee fan, and showed gadhafi s killer wearing a yankees cap. it s all true. there were still questions about the sequence of events that lead to gadhafi s death. many are handing credit to this 20-year-old member of the rebel forces. there he is. and now for the big number. did you notice that each of those headlines went with a different spelling for the former libya leader s name. does it start with an a, k, g, or a q, and does it end with an i or y, and quite an arrange of spellings for his first name as well. in his 40 years as dictator, how many translations of his name have popped up?
there he is. and now for the big number. did you notice that each of those headlines went with a different spelling for the former libya leader s name. does it start with an a, k, g, or a q, and does it end with an i or y, and quite an arrange of spellings for his first name as well. how many translations for his name have popped up, 112, just in the english translations. the library congress alone lists 72 of them. 112 right ways or wrong ways to spell know mar gadhafi. that s tonight s big numbers. up next, jon huntsman is the presidential candidate democrats seem to like the most. he s coming here next. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc. if shopping for insurance were like shopping for diapers, you might think all these cost about the same. protect about the same. but what if you have an accident? allstate accident forgiveness starts the day you sign up.
the rebel forces. there he is. and now for the big number. did you notice that each of those headlines went with a different spelling for the former libya leader s name. does it start with an a, k, g, or a q, and does it end with an i or y, and quite an arrange of spellings for his first name as well. how much translations for his name have popped up, 112, just in the english translations. the library congress alone lists 72 of them. 112 right ways or wrong ways to spell mow nar gadhafi. that s tonight s big numbers. up next, jon huntsman is the presidential candidate democrats seem to like the most. he s coming here next. you re watching hardball, only on msnbc.
they are connected in al-qaeda the sense they have similar goals and like-minded groups and when the opportunity presents itself they will work together. al-qaeda, toe, or aq, has much more of a brand name or household recognition if you will than the taliban and al-qaeda seems to have more financial resources than the taliban. in the case of the pakistani taliban, one of the sort of issues u.s. officials are considering is whether they really have the financial wherewithal to fount future attacks outside of the region as they apparently did with shahzhad in times square. jon: so who does the attorney general say is responsible for that times square bomb? what s interesting to me, on thursday of last week, i interviewed a senior member of the nsc who said they hadn t reached conclusions of who was responsible for the planting of the bomb in times square but by sunday the top white house adviser for homeland security, as well as the attorney general, were definite about who was resp