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and it is no accident that president obama chose this time to lay out the strategy to defeat a new terror threat from isis. we've got more on that straight ahead. it is midnight on the east coast, everyone. this is "cnn tonight." welcome, i'm don lemon. >> i'm allisyn camarota. will americans increasably worried about terrorism, is this what it will take to keep us safe? >> plus, isis is looking for a few good women. how they're recruiting women, even girls as young as 14. they're far more successful than you might think. we're going to tell you why. >> why are women attracted to that? and new developments in the ray rice case. former fbi director mark mueller will conduct an independent investigation. and an nfl executive did receiver a cop. i of this infamous elevator video back in april.
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>> every time i see it, it's like the first time. but let's begin with a solemn anniversa anniversary. the anniversary of the worst terror attacks on our soil. and as we remember, 2,977 people who were killed in new york city, washington, d.c., and outside of shanksville, pennsylvania, president obama has laid out his plan to battle another terror threat from isis. and the stakes could not be higher. tonight, president barack obama laid out four points to defeat the terror group known as isis. here is the president. >> my fellow americans, tonight i want to speak to you about what theite will do with our friends and allies to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as isil. as commander-in-chief, my highest priority is the security of the american people. over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country.
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we took out osama bin laden and much of al qaeda's leadership in afghanistan and pakistan. we targeted al qaeda's affiliate in yemen and recently eliminated the top commander of its affiliate in somalia. we've done so while bringing more than 140,000 american troops home from iraq. and drawing down our forces in afghanistan where our combat mission will end later this year. thanks to our military and counterterrorism professionals, america is safer. still, we continue to face a terrorist threat. we can't erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. that was the case before 9/11 and that remains true today. and that's why we must remain vigilant as threats emerge. at this moment, the greatest threats come from the middle east and north africa where radical group exploit grievances for their own gain.
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and one of those groups is isil, which calls itself the islamic state. now, let's make two things clear. isil is not islamic. no religion condones the killing of innocents. and the vast majority of isil's victims have been muslim. and isil is certainly not a state. it was former an al qaeda affiliate in iraq and they started a civil war to gain boat sights. isil is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. and it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way. in a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. they execute captured prisoners, they kill children, they enslave, rape and force women into marriage.
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they threatened a religious minority with genocide, and in acts of barbieriism, they took the lives of two american journalists, jim foley and steven soklov. so isil poses a threat to the people of iraq and syria and the fwroder northeast including america's personnel and facilities. if left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the united states. while we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland, isil leaders have threatened america and our allies. our intelligence community believes that thousands of foreigner, including europeans and some americans have joined them in syria and iraq. trained and battle hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks. i know many americans are
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concerned about these threats. tonight, i want you to know that the united states of america is meeting them with strength and resolve. last month, i ordered our military to take targeted action against isil to stop its advances. since then, we conducted more than 150 successful air strikes. these strikes have protected american personnel and facilities, killed isil fighter, destroyed weapons and given space for iraqi and kurdish forces to reclaim key territory. these strikes have also helped save the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children. this is not our fight alone. american power can make a decisive difference, but we cannot do for iraqis what they must do for themselves. nor take the place of arab partners in securing their region. that's i've insisted that additional u.s. action depended
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on iraqis forming an inclusive government which they have now done in recent days. so tonight, with a new iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and congress at home, i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. our objective is clear, we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil, through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy. first, we will conduct a systematic campaign of air strike against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government, we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we're hitting isil targets as iraqi forces go on offense. moreover, i've made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country wherever they are. that means i will not hesitate to take action against isil in syria as well as iraq.
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this is a core principle of my presidency. if you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. second, we will increase our support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. in june, i deployed several hundred american service members to iraq to assess how we can best support iraqi security forces. now that those teams have completed their work and iraq has formed a government, we will send an additional 475 service members to iraq. as i've said before, these american forces will not have a combat mission. we will not get dragged into another ground war in iraq. but they are needed to support iraqi and kurdish forces with train, intelligence and equipment. we'll also support iraqi's efforts to stand up national guard units to help the sunni communities secure their own freedom from isil's control. across the border in syria, we have ramped up our military assistance to the syrian opposition.
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tonight, i call on congress again to give us additional authorities and resources to train and equip these fighters. in the fight against isil, we cannot rely on an assad regime that terrorizes their own people, a regime that will never regain the legitimacy hit has lost. instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like isil, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve a serious crisis once and for all. third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent isil attacks. we stem the flow of foreign fighters into and out of the middle east. and in two weeks, i will chair a meeting of the u.n. security council to further mobilize the
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international community around this effort. fourth, we will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. this includes sunni and shia muse limbs who are at great risk, as well as tens of thousands of christians and other religious minorities. we cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands. so this is our strategy, and each of these four parts of our strategy, america will be joined by a broad coalition of partners. already, allies are flying planes with us over iraq. sending arps and assistance to iraqi security forces and the syrian opposition. sharing intelligence and providing billions of dollars in humanitarian aid. secretary kerry was in iraq today, meeting with the new government and supporting their efforts to promote unity. and in the coming days, he will travel across the middle east and europe to enlist more
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partners in this fight, especially arab nations who can help mobilize syrian communities to drive these terrorists from their lands. my administration has also secured bipartisan support for this approach here at home. i have the authority to address the threat from isil, but i believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and congress work together. so i welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that americans are united in confronting this danger. now,er it will take time to eradicate a cancer like isil. and anytime we take military action, there are risks involved. especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. but i want the american people
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to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it will not involve american combat troops fighting on foreign soil. this counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out isil wherever they exist using our air power and our support for partners, forces on the ground. this strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us while supporting partners on the frontlines is one that we have successfully pursued in yemen and somalia for years, and it is consistent with the approach i outlined earlier this year. to use force against anyone who threatens america's core interests, but to mobilize partners wherever possible to address broader challenges to international order. my fellow americans, we li in a too many of great change. tomorrow marks 13 years since our country was attacked. next week marks six year since
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our economy suffered its worst setback since the great depression. yet despite these shocks, through the pain we felt and the grueling work required to bounce back, america is better positioned today to seize the future than any other nation on earth. our technology companies and universities are unmatched. our manufacturing and auto industries are thriving. energy independence is closer than it's been in decades. for all the work that remains, our business is in the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in our history. despite all the divisions and discord within our democracy, i see the grit and determination and common goodness of the american people every single day. and that makes me more confident than ever about our country's future. a broad american leadership is the one constant in an uncertain world. it is america that has the
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capacity and the will to mobilize the world against terrorists. it is america that has rallied the world against russian aggression. and in support of the ukrainian people's right to determine their own destiny. it is america our scientists, our doctors, our know-how that can help contain and cure the outbreak of ebola. it is america that helped remove and destroy syria's declared chemical weapons so that they can't pose a threat to the syrian people or the world again. and it is america that is helping muslim communities around the world, not just in the fight against terrorism, but in the fight for opportunity and tolerance. and a more hopeful future. america, our endless blessings bestow an enduring birth, butur we welcome the responsibility to lead. from asia to far reaches of
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africa toter capitals in the middle east, we stand for freedom, for justice, for dignity. these are values that have guided our nation since its founding. tonight, i ask for your support in carrying that leadership forward. i do so as a commander-in-chief who could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform. pilots who bravely fly in the face of danger above the middle east, and service members who support our partners on the ground. when we helped prevent the massacre of civilians on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said. we owe our american friends our lives. our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people. that is the difference we make in the world. and our own safety, our own
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security depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for. timeless ideal that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the earth. may god bles our troops and may god bless the united states of america. >> all right. you have been listening to the president's speech. we would love to hear what you think about it. you can tweet don and me on twitter and we'll also get reaction to it live from iraq, how it went over there. plus it is the early hours of 9/11. and americans say they are increasingly concerned about a terror attack. what will it take to keep us safe? >> and the growing scandal over ray rice. new information on what the nfl knew and when they knew it. a body at rest tends to stay at rest...
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it's 7:00 a.m. here. from those we have spoken to, they have concerns about president obama's con stecept o this being an inclusive government, a new iraqi government that has been formed in the past few days. as we know, the key ministries, defense and interior yet to be filled. it's extremely fragile. the kurds up here, they have not had any of their demands met. they're saying they'll give the government three months. after that, they'll potentially pull out and we get to hear from the sunni. obviously concerns about this government. we know it was a foundation for president obama moving forward in his mission here, not just in iraq but also in syria. so yes, definitely some concerns. what they will welcome, however,
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alisyn is news of a systematic air campaign. we're seeing those limited u.s. air strikes over the past five weeks, 150, more than 150 in total. but people here wanting to see a much more intensive campaign. welcoming the news of these u.s. air strikes going after isis in syria, and then, of course, the news of 475 additional troops to join the number already on the ground. taking it to about 1,700. none of those forces will be combat troops. however, they will be in that critical role of assist and advise, because one thing that they certainly need here on the ground to take the fight to isis is coordination and cooperation. the kurds and the iraqis, the military two bodies have been just been operating very separately. they need that coordination to certainly operate a lot more effectively, alisyn. >> it's nice to know they will
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welcome the additional 475 there. anna coren, thank you. >> let's bring in the senior national security analyst and former cia operative. carl bernstein, rick francona, fofrmer u.s. military attache in syria. did the president make the case tonight, or should i say last night, that isis is an immediate threat to the united states and our interests? >> i think he made the case that h he's a threat to in the long term. immediate? no. i think that's why he needs to go to congress, that's why he needs to go to the united nations. this isbeginning. this is the opening argument, not the end. the united states has to step up to the plate. not just militarily. let me just say one thing, don. young people who are flocking to this butcherist, horrible terror group need to be looked at for
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what they are. they are young people who are being preyed upon. and we've got to hold out some of these young muslims and tell them, we want them on our side. we want them to be developing new technologies, not new ways to chop heads off people. we've got to give a mission to the young people around the world. if we don't, these butchers will. >> that brings me to my next point, because we have been discussing this, colonel, everyone on the potential knows, talking about islam. and is there an inher rent violence in islam, whether or not it's getting perverted, what have you. obviously the president thought it was important enough to mention. here it is. >> now let's make two things clear. isil is not islamic. no religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of isil's victims have been muslim. and isil is certainly not a state. >> it's not a state, but many
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say they have organized a nation state with billions of dollars in oil revenue, colonel rick francona. what's your reaction? >> not only oil re knew, but they set up the trappings of a state. they collect taxes, they issue permits. they have a food distribution program. they're trying to be a state. but the president's point is well taken. they're not islamic. many things they do is against the tenets of islam. what we're seeing is in the sunnis in iraq is they're flocking to this. but i think it's an anti-shia thing, not really a pro radical islamic thing. and at some point, if there's an inclusi inclusive government in baghdad that's successful, they might be able to wean the sunnis away. but that's not on the horizon and i don't think it's going to be an easy fit.
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because there's a long-term problem nb iraq, and they have to address that. no the to mention syria. i think syria is the key to this and it's going to be a long-term solution. >> carl, the president admitted tonight that isis, while it is a threat to u.s. personnel in iraq and to innocent civilians in iraq, that it's not an imminent threat to the u.s. homeland. so are we getting into another preemptive military action? >> well, that's why i keep going back to the point that -- the president's caution, it seems to me in this part of the world, has been very well taken and has been very senator in many instances. at the same time, there's a greater threat to the homeland, call it what you will, to western civilization from terrorism, from fa nattism, from a religious civil war that we don't want to be in the middle of. with murderous people on both sides of this religious civil
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war. so somehow we in the so-called civilized world have got to come up with a long-term strategy that is defensive in nature and also hopefully moves this part of the world that moves so slowly over centuries, and let's look at the reality of the ids lambic world. even with dubai, et cetera. we are talking about places that culturally are centuries behind the rest of the world. and that's one of the reasons for some of this murderous behavior that we see. and this is going to be a very long-term -- we need to protect ourself, not get in the midst of a civil war when we can take military action perhaps by air strikes. >> hang on. hang on. we need to get bob in here. bob is sitting there patiently. and i want to talk -- i want to focus on what you were just saying, carl. let's talk about the strategy here, if we can put that up.
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the strategy is number one, air strikes in iraq and syria, number two, arming fighters on the ground. number three, counterterrorism efforts, number four, humanitarian aid. so bob, my question is, is it realistic for the president so say that we will degrade ultimately isil? we're still worried about al qaeda. what about the long-term strategy in this part of the world? >> well, you know, don, we can degrade isis, with ecan take out their armor. we can take out what communications they have. but the problem is, as people have been saying, it's a wider problem. and that's the sunni muslims. there's 20 mf old them between alepo and mosul, and they're implicitly supporting the islamic state, not because they agree with the ideology, but because they're anti-shia. they' been mistreated over the last year. they were threatening to break with baghdad for the last year. we sort of ignored them.
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they were never rewarded for the awakening. they're saying if we have to use the islamic state to get our way, we will. the problem is the president can't force baghdad to make more concessions to the sunni. we don't control that government. and frankly, the sunnis aren't particularly happy with this new prime minister, nor will they allow the army back into the major tsunni provinces. so he's pretty much stuck. he gave the best speech he could. he's right, we don't want to get in the middle of this civil war, because it goes back 1,400 years and we can't fix it. and, you know, then you've got problems with iran. we provided air cover and the man who was there on the ground also has killed americans. so there are no good sides in this war at all. i'm not very optimistic we can fix this in two years or three years or even 100. >> hold that thought, van. you'll get to take exception with whatever you want after a quick break. >> americans tonight, of course,
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it is the 9/11 anniversary, and we're more and more worried about terrorism. but will the strategy to degrade and destroy isis help keep us safe? or could it turn into a recruitment tool for isis? get 4 lines for just a hundred bucks a month. with unlimited talk, text and now up to ten gigabytes of 4g lte data. no overages no contracts we'll even buy you out of yours. so make the switch today.
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paul bernstein, rick francona and van jones. i want to bring you a recent poll that cnn has just taken in terms of acts of terrorism in the u.s. around september 11. the respon dent dents are worri about them. they now say acts of terrorism are likely around today. that compares to just in 2011, just three year s ago, only 39% think so. now 53% think so. what do you think is going on with the american public? >> i think it's the islamic state, so-called islamic state has been effective at scaring people. you have americans being butchered by horrible people. you're seeing acts of terror on the screen. people are afraid. how do we get back to feeling more safe? we've go the to take the fuel away from this fire. i love one thing that carl
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bernstein said and i objected to another. he said it's going to be a war of ideas and i agree with that. this is going to be a long war of ideas and values. the only thing that we have to be careful, though, is that we don't b fall into the pattern of portraying the islamic world as backwards, et cetera. we should actually be lifting up the young muslims, the great successes of the persians and the arabs and the islamic world in the name of science and progress. that's a big part of their contribution to world history. we want to go back to their positive roots to do something good in the world. not go in this torable, negative direction. and if we in the west don't start showing more respect to the best parts of the islamic world, we will bring out the worst. >> soo is that what you want to take exception to? >> yeah, just one thing. it was so brilliant when he was saying about the war of ideas. i just want to make sure the way that we talk about this war of ideas lifts up the best in all of humanity, including the best in the islamic world. i know he agree with me, just wanted to make sure we said
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that. >> we know that isis started as al qaeda in iraq. how concerned should the president be that this will backfire and only serve as a recruitment tool for isis. >> i think he threw down the gauntlet. one of the reasons you're seeing the poll numbers go up and there is fear in the united states is because we think -- inthat there will be some sort of attack on us because isis will try to do something. they know they have a shorter window of opportunity before we really inflict a lot of damage on them. and they'll want to take advantage of that. so i would be very concerned over the short term. in the long term, we're going to eventually degrade them. but i think -- and bob has said this for a long time. he believes that there are people ready to go. and i think we have to watch out for that. >> that plays into our next poll question. bob, let me pose it to you. we asked, if if you were worried that someone in your direct family would be a victim of terrorist, and here are the
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resu results. 41% of the respondents said yes. 41% of the families say they feel they'll be victimized. is that realistic? >> no, it's not realistic. they didn't inflict that much damage. but when i say isis is here,'m not just offering an opinion. i'm talking to people doing tactical intelligence. i still go back to the boston bombing where it was more than two people. i know that for a fact. so there are people capable of hitting us. we know they have the intent. is there an imminent threat? no. but then again, there wasn't before 9/11. the cia said the 6th of august, lights were blinking red, but no one said it was going to be airplan airplanes. in the middle east if there's chaos there, it tends to blow back here. i agree with rick that there's a
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chance they're going to hit us. they can do it, they have the intent to do it, and the question is when. >> here's another poll question. whow is president obama handling terrorism. now only 41% of americans approve of how he's handling terrorism. that's versus 49% back in june. what more could the president be doing? >> i think we take too many polls. you know, they're instant snapshots. i wouldn't read too much into them. i think what that last one indicates, the first two seem to me were fairly ridiculous polls. tell you a little bit about the fear that certain people have. but it's no surprise the president is held in much less regard by larger numbers of americans than he was a year or two or three years ago. and there's some reasons for it. some of them legitimate, some of them not legitimate. i would like to add one element to this discussion where i think the president really has failed. and that is, we've been talking about different approaches to
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this part of the world. and he had in richard holbrooke a great diplomat, a great understanding man about warfare who in bosnia helped us out of that terrible entrapment for a lot of the world. he ignored and isolated dick holbrooke and listened to this very small inner circle of his. and i think that's one of the reasons that those poll numbers show what they do. that there is a realization that this president has isolated himself from people in the political process, in the congress and others. >> carl, you bring up a very good point that gives people -- as you said, people think the president is isolated. the people he brought with him from chicago aren't necessarily the people giving him the best advice on how to deal with washington. in the 20 seconds we have left is that a legitimate concern?
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>> i think there are things they could do better, but i'm glad the republicans aren't using today to attack the president. he has brought us together to deal with this threat. let's see if congress will back him up and get to a better outcome. i heard there's something about the tea party that may have something to do with this. >> thank you, everybody. bob is going to stick around. >> i'm not going to take offense that bob didn't like the poll. >> isis is aggressively recruiting women around the world. that's next. so what we're looking for is a way to "plus" our accounting firm's mobile plan. and "minus" our expenses. perfect timing. we're offering our best-ever pricing on mobile plans for business. run the numbers on that. well, unlimited talk and text, and ten gigs of data for the five of you would be...
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the world. and it's not just men who are joining the terrorists. many women are being recruited. cnn's joe johns has more now. >> isis is looking for a few good women and they're being heavily recruited according to the author of a book on women terrorists. >> when you start look on social media and counting the number of teenage girls who have gone missing or young women who have gone missing, i think we're up to about 130. >> today, 19-year-old shannon conley of colorado, a nursing aide and convert to islam pleaded guilty to trying to provide material support to a terrorist organization. the rare u.s. example of a western woman seeking to turn isis bride. recruits overseas are younger than 19. >> young girls, 14 and 15-year-old girls in the somali community are specifically being targeted. >> they're looking for a specific type of woman. >> they're looking for converts, blond hair and blue eyed girls, the girl next door. >> unlike al qaeda who used
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women suicide bombers, women of isis are used to search and inspect other women crossing the border or to enforce morality codes, but otherwise -- >> they basically use them as baby machines. >> and also for cooking and cleaning. and what would draw a girl to this lifestyle? ail nati alienation back home is one answer. >> if you look at europe, you might be a native born british pakistan muslim, you're still not what people think of when they think of a brit, right? you're darker or you might war the hijab. >> part of their story is laid out in social media, twitter, tumblr. you are one of the great parts of this uma, or nation. and you can bring great benefit by raising your children in pure islam. >> there are occasional references, the things people left behind, comforts that are not available in a war zone like syria.
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>> they're really interested in the same kinds of things that women of this age in the western world are interested in. >> but there are calls to the cause, recruiting pitches to other women and men as well. on the tumblr page, pictures of the koran next to guns, calls to other fighters to follow in the footsteps of the boston bombers. her parents can't believe it. >> we have a modern muslim family, and it was a big shock for us. >> and there's this -- a stick figure suggesting the difference between ooer gither girls and ai bride. a girl on the right think of course a martini glass. and on the right, a woman holding a weapon. joe johns, cnn, washington. >> wow. here to talk more about this
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phenomenon is a former cia operative. bob, why are women attracted to a terror group? >> well, let me put it this way. a couple of years ago, the israelis let me visit one of their prisons where they had women suicide bombers from their networks. and they let us go for days on end talking to them. and i did get to interview them. and there was a variety of reasons. >> such as? >> among them, i should add, there was -- well, i mean, a lot of them, alienation is a big question. dysfunctional families. one girl i talked to tried to blow herself up at an israeli checkpoint. she had been scarred. and she wouldn't marry. and so her only solution to this was to blow herself up in a hospital, an israeli hospital. there was another interesting set where a husband caught his wife cheating on him. he wept to the -- by the way, she had two children with the
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lover and said what are we going to do about this? and they both agreed she would blow herself up. and they convinced her into that, and that's exactly what she did. leaving behind two children. some of them were lawyers, well educated, spoke good english. it's mainly people looking far cause. >> wait a minute. what you just said is the most kind of confounding. when somebody is educated and a lawyer, that seems that they're more assimilated into the culture, they're not alienated. what's their motivation? >> it was pure anger. she went into a restaurant in haifa and blew herself up between a table of israelis. she was completely empathetic according to the man she entered the restaurant in. what beautiful children these
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were. but that's how she thought the palestine kourld fight back the israelis. it's ultimately irrational, but, you know, al qaeda and isis and hamas and the other organizations, they don't discriminate against women. they will put them on the frontlines. and isis, i've heard anecdotal stories is training people to be suicide bombers. even children as young as 9. now whether they actually succeed and convince them to go outside and make this work, i just don't have any idea. but women, they found good soldiers. >> i don't remember hearing about women's involvement with al qaeda as much as we are now hearing about them with isis. is isis unique? have they upped the ante? or are they more attractive somehow to women? 4 will. >> well, there's a lot more werners inside isis. al qaeda was based in the tribal areas of pakistan. no equal opportunity there. and i think that isis is trying
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to become more modern. and they want the biggest following they can get. and they certainly don't want to exclude women from the west or from the arab world. >> yeah. more modern by making women baby machines and cooking and cleaning for them. bob baer, thanks for the insight. it's fascinating to explore that. >> all right, big developments in the ray rice case. the latest on that. >> plus, two wives of retired nfl players speak out, their thoughts on abusive relationships. this is charlie. his long day of doing it himself starts with back pain... and a choice. take 4 advil in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. honey, you did it! baby laughs!
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>> new dwoemts s developments the ray rice story. >> there's new questions about what the nfl knew and when they knew it. >> reporter: just when you thought this story was getting smaller, it seems to be getting bigger. the associated press say an anonymous law enforcement source provided the nfl with the videotape from inside the elevator three months prior. they did this because they wanted the nfl to have all the information at its fingertips. the nfl getting back to us very quickly. an nfl spokesperson saying we have no knowledge of this. we are not aware of anyone in our office who posessed or saw the video before it was made public on monday. we will look into it. the associated prez saying the way their reporter got on to
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this story was the law enforcement official allowed them to listen to a voice mail message from april 9 of this year. it was a female voice, that female voice, somebody with the nfl who they passed the videotape on to. the female voice expressed thanks for sending it along to the law enforcement official and then said, you're right, it's terrible. this scandal now following roger goodell wherever he goes. today he's in wake forest, north carolina. here's what he had to say. >> when we make a mistake we're honest about it and we're open about it and say we're going to work to do better. we were two weeks ago. that's when we improved our policies in this area and we have more work to do. >> now, one other thing i want to point out, the videotape aside, the complaint summons filed by the police officers that night in february is very clear what happened inside that elevator. he struck her with his hand, renderingunconscious.
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so clearly there was a hard hit made against janay palmer at that time. a press release the atlantic city police didn't mention that she was made unconscious by the strike. in fact, didn't even say that ever happened. at one point they said they both refused any medical attention as no injuries were reported by either party. how you go from uncongress to no injuries is another question that is hanging out there tonight. don, alisyn? >> thanks so much. we had a chance to speak to the wife of retired nfl player ryan newfeld. her own mother was in an abusive relationship with a decade. and also we speak to a close friend of ray and janay rice. dawn, i want to start with you. you're married to a former nfl player and your own mother was in an abusive relationship. so you connect to janay on many
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different levels. and you say you understand why she wouldn't leave. tell us about that. >> maybe not necessarily understand why she wouldn't leave, but i certainly understand why it's not an easy decision. people saying why doesn't she just leave? my mom, who is an incredibly intelligent woman, educated, an administrator in a school district before she retired. her own home was in a relationship for ten years who all she had to do was tell him to leave. all she had to do was lock the doors. and there was something about it that she just couldn't let go. and to see it happen with my own mother, who is a such a rock, i can imagine it can happen to anyone. >> and dawn, also some people have suggested that maybe janay is staying because of all of the wealth and privilege that comes from being married to an nfl player. do you think that could be playing into it? >> i think there's a perception that nfl wives are just gold diggers to begin with.
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but if you've actually lived this life, to know what it's like to have your spouse laying on the field with a blownout knee or some sort of injury, to have one of his teammates almost die on the field, there's no amount of money that ever compensate for some of the stress that come ace long with being an nfl wife. there's no doubt there's benefits to being in the nfl and being an nfl spouse, but there's a lot of things you trade off that goes along with that. >> mioshi, your husband played for the ravens with ray rice. and you are close friends with ray and janay rice. can you tell us what they're like as a couple? >> they as a couple, they're just like any normal nfl couple. you know, living the nfl life, where he works so hard to accomplish on the field, but also what they have worked so hard to build together as a family in this business of the nfl. they're a loving couple.
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>> i guess the question is, have you ever seen him act aggressively or abusive towards her? >> no. not at all. and i'm very well versed on working with domestic violence and seeing women who have the silent cries, who have the signs of being in a crisis relationship or some kind of domestic relationship. and there's never any signs to me at all ever. >> you say that you're very well versed in working with women that go through this. of course, you are because your own husband started this nonprofit to help abused women be able to break free of that cycle. because his own sister was killed by an abusive boyfriend. so are you and your husband able to counsel janay? >> that's why i lent my voice to her as a friend in that aspect. because she does know my stance on domestic violence. we founded the foundation for women and children not to just
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break free from domestic violence. if it's homes that need to be broken free from, battered homes where the women need to be removed, okay. but also to educate women about domestic violence, to educate families and to get families help and resources. and solutions if they are in a domestic violent relationship. so that's how she knew she could depend on me to help her try to transition through this. >> fascinating to talk to them. she said she's never seen him act aggressively. never seen ray hit or be abusive with her. that they are a loving couple. >> yeah. and many have said until now he has been the poster boy. but you never know what's happening behind closed doors. and listen, i'll give him the benefit of the doubt. but the owner of the panthers
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gave a speech in charlotte, north carolina. he was getting an award and became very emotional when talking about domestic violence. >> that is interesting. you never know whose life this has touched. it's hard to know if he had a personal story. they say that a quarter of all women in this country have had some sort of abuse experience. >> let's listen in. >> when it comes to domestic violen violence. [ crying ] my stance is not one of indifference. i stand firmly against domestic violence, plain and simple. to those who would suggest that we've been two slow to act, i ask that you consider not to be too quick to judge. >> interest, because one of these players, defensive end
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greg hardy was found b guilguil assaulting his girlfriend and then threatening to kill her. it's .haing even on his team. >> it is. but it's hard to know why he was so emotional about that. i would like to know the back story. >> we'll be right back. woman: everyone in the nicu -- all the nurses wanted to watch him when he was there 118 days.
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suffered cardiac arrest is disputing the report that it happened during a biopsy of h her -- vocal cords has never been performed there. a doctor made a spur of the moment to biopsy a growth on the 81-year-old comedian's vocal cord. yorkville ens do cdoscopy is al under investigation. a cause of manner of death will be announced at some point. meanwhile, a judge in south africa is on the verge of handing down a verdict in the oscar pistorius trial. pistorius says he mistook his
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girl friend for an intruder and panicked shooting her through a back of the door. the prosecutor says he intentionally shot her after an argument. we will have the latest on the verdict as it happens. >> great being with you tonight. that will do it. thanks for watching. >> good night. hello. and thanks for joining us for cnn's special coverage. >> great to have you with us. i'm john vause. >> i'm rosemary church. >> the strategy to defeat isis. >> our objective is clear. we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil there a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy. >> president obama lays out a four-part plan to take down isis, the militant group terrorizing iraq and syria. >> ahead this hour as well, we will bring you global reaction and analysis on the speech as only cnn
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