militants in the north caucasus are part of an international network of political scientists dr walid phares says the bombing in north has said he is no different from other suicide bombings elsewhere in the world. this attack suicide attack in the northern caucuses is not just a local attack by a local terrorist we've seen this before it has a history at the acts by the hardest movement linked to al qaida worldwide inside russia in dagestan and chechnya in this part of the caucasus as we see around the world whatever you have suicide bombers you see also that threat against international democracy and freedom commentary from political scientist dr walid phares and the ninth anniversary of the deadliest terror attack in history has been marked this weekend almost three thousand people were killed on september eleventh two thousand and one in new york but nine years later the number of victims is still growing artie's marina horton i spoke to some of the first responders who say their health was ruined at ground zero and the government has failed to lend a hand. gary white was an american her

also threats against international democracy and freedom commentary from political scientist dr walid phares this weekend also marks nine years since the deadliest terror attack in history almost three thousand people were killed on september eleventh two thousand and one in new york and a mistrust of islam spread among many people in the u.s. but despite that tens of thousands of americans decided to become muslims since the tragedy. went to find out why. it's the call to prayer and it's answered by more than a billion muslims all over the world including caitlin billings a twenty two year old american who was raised christian i converted last year my mother. was crying a lot of thought that i was returning her by changing my religion backtrack almost a decade ago to nine eleven today our fellow citizens our way of life are very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist attacks president bush waged a war on terror targeting extremists muslims who were labeled as terrorists you know i was fourteen when september eleventh happened so i didn't really know what wa

are to them what got us and political scientist dr walid phares believes that the bombing in cars was part of a global terrorist war against democracy. this attack suicide attack in the northern caucasus is not just a local attack by a local terrorist it is considered internationally and even here in america as a jihadi terror against democracy in russia as a whole they don't want to go through the political process and beyond that as we see around the world whatever you have suicide bombers you see also a threat against international democracy and freedom we've seen this before it has a history attacks by the hardest movement linked to al qaida worldwide inside russia in dagestan in chechnya in this part of the caucasus have all the goal of basically bringing down the political process first locally in these local provinces in republics and then as much as they can try to form. russia as a country and as a democracy but this is not isolated to russia what we need to see is how similar networks operate in afghanistan bomb civilians in baghdad in algeria in london and madrid and we las