110
110
Mar 29, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 110
favorite 0
quote 0
and cnn counter terrorism phil mudd. good morning to both of you.i want to start with the general. >> good morning. >> arab countries have created this unified military force. you have the saudis and this convoy headed towards the border. the egyptians all on this list. it's surprising. i had this conversation with general hertling there's a coalescing so quickly now after this has been going on for so many years. why now especially, general? >> well, the insurgency has been taking place for many, many years, going back at least three to four decades. the issue is you now have this -- two things are going on, viktor. you have this collapse of governance that you've seen throughout the middle east, the inability of capitals to exercise their number one responsibility, which is try to establish some degree of authority and security within their borders. ill-defined as terrorist organized may want those borders to be. the second thing is this has now reached -- insurgency in yemen has now reached a larger level and it's in the neighborhood. riyad canno
and cnn counter terrorism phil mudd. good morning to both of you.i want to start with the general. >> good morning. >> arab countries have created this unified military force. you have the saudis and this convoy headed towards the border. the egyptians all on this list. it's surprising. i had this conversation with general hertling there's a coalescing so quickly now after this has been going on for so many years. why now especially, general? >> well, the insurgency has been...
128
128
Mar 4, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 128
favorite 0
quote 0
want to bring in cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd.the cia in this part of the world during the battles in iraq over the last 10, 15 years or so. let me ask you point-blank, is it a good thing, a bad thing that this operation is happening in t and the u.s. has no involvement? >> it's inevitable. this is almost like we're viewing iran's decade rolling out in slow motion. look at what we've witnessed over the past couple of years. iran's dictator bashar al assad getting bachan his feet and iranian supported government in lebanon controlling a country they did not control a couple of decades ago. the houthi rebelled backed by iran taking over the capital. now looking to the west, you have a shia-backed government in baghdad in iraq starting to roll through sunni territory. it's inevitable the iranians are going to look at what happens and say, we have a shia government in baghdad, this is our chance to shine, let's go back them. >> do you think the u.s. should step in and say, don't use the iranians here, we want to be part of this? would
want to bring in cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd.the cia in this part of the world during the battles in iraq over the last 10, 15 years or so. let me ask you point-blank, is it a good thing, a bad thing that this operation is happening in t and the u.s. has no involvement? >> it's inevitable. this is almost like we're viewing iran's decade rolling out in slow motion. look at what we've witnessed over the past couple of years. iran's dictator bashar al assad getting bachan his feet...
104
104
Mar 20, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 104
favorite 0
quote 0
here with me in washington our counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. he sits on the national intelligence council and the board of the national terrorism center. nick let me get the latest information from you, the targets, the victims, what happened? >> reporter: over 120 dead over 300 injured. hospitals in the yemeni capital are crying out for blood donors to try and assist in treating that wave of wounded. it was during the busiest time of friday during friday prayer when two key shia mosques in the capital of sanaa were attacked chillingly similar to al qaeda, other extremists in the past. a suicide bomber went into the crowds of worshippers in both mosques and then as many rushed in to help another device a suicide bomber and a car bomb tore into those crowds of people trying to rescue the injured. now many deeply concerned this could be the beginning of a new chapter of sectarian violence in yemen. there has been great instability as the shia group, the houthis who were targeted today have swept across the country, taking hold of the capital, ous
here with me in washington our counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. he sits on the national intelligence council and the board of the national terrorism center. nick let me get the latest information from you, the targets, the victims, what happened? >> reporter: over 120 dead over 300 injured. hospitals in the yemeni capital are crying out for blood donors to try and assist in treating that wave of wounded. it was during the busiest time of friday during friday prayer when two key shia...
340
340
Mar 6, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 340
favorite 0
quote 0
let's bring in cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd. he used to track terrorists for the cia. phil good to see you. looks like iranian development -- involvement here runs pretty deep. if you were still with the cia, how concerned would you be about the iranians being involved in these operations especially in the leadership role they're playing? >> you've got to be concerned because going back years after the iranian revolution in 1979 when we have seen power vacuums across the middle east lebanon, fast forwarding to iraq remember we talked about the houthis, backed by iran in yemen. bh when there is a power vacuum the iranians will move in. in this case you have a country on their border that is two-thirds shia. we forget that. not surprising the vacuum after the u.s. departure the iranians are there in force. >> what can we expect? the bottom line is -- look i understand the iranians are state sponsor of terror but if isis is this enemy and the other arab countries, saudi arabia uae, qatar, aren't stepping up and sending in troops and the u.s. isn't sending in troops to comb
let's bring in cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd. he used to track terrorists for the cia. phil good to see you. looks like iranian development -- involvement here runs pretty deep. if you were still with the cia, how concerned would you be about the iranians being involved in these operations especially in the leadership role they're playing? >> you've got to be concerned because going back years after the iranian revolution in 1979 when we have seen power vacuums across the middle...
105
105
Mar 9, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 105
favorite 0
quote 0
joining us is a former cia counterterrorism official, phil mudd. thank you for being with us.f this. this is a guy who sounds nuts and not very smart. so does that make it less or more disturbing? >> i think in some ways it makes it less disturbing. superficially i liked it when i was at the fbi going after guys that were disturbed. easier targets. easier to take them down. the problem in this case is this individual case taken alone would be okay. what we're learning about looking at europe, canada and the united states is we're getting into a volume business with isis. that is you can find one guy if you're at the bureau. you can find ten. you can find 20. when you start to talk about hundreds and in europe thousands, you're starting to talk about a hit rate where you have to go 100 for 100. even if cases where somebody might be a bit mentally deranged assuming you can go 100 for 100, that's a tough game. i'm not worried about one guy. i'm worried about a hundred guys like this out there. >> to that point, he talked about this in that interview saying that we're in america a
joining us is a former cia counterterrorism official, phil mudd. thank you for being with us.f this. this is a guy who sounds nuts and not very smart. so does that make it less or more disturbing? >> i think in some ways it makes it less disturbing. superficially i liked it when i was at the fbi going after guys that were disturbed. easier targets. easier to take them down. the problem in this case is this individual case taken alone would be okay. what we're learning about looking at...
94
94
Mar 13, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 94
favorite 0
quote 0
let's talk about all of this with cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd who's joining us right now.'s get back to brennan, very sober, no mission accomplished declarations. this is going to go on for years and years, you heard him say that. i assume you agree. >> i think you've got to look at where we started years ago. when we sat at the threat table in 2002 for example, we knew where the target was focused. we had been surprised by september 11th. but the focus of the operations we had were in the tribal areas of pakistan where most of the al qaeda's leadership has gone. where would you focus today? boko haram in nigeria, al shabaab in somalia, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen? i haven't even mentioned isis yet. you look at how successful the al qaeda revolution has been -- we don't have the strategic threat with al qaeda. >> these young schoolgirls, 15 16 17 years old, come from britain, go to turkey and all of a sudden they're joining isis inside syria. how does this kind of stuff happen? don't they have security along that border? >> i think this is the real effect of
let's talk about all of this with cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd who's joining us right now.'s get back to brennan, very sober, no mission accomplished declarations. this is going to go on for years and years, you heard him say that. i assume you agree. >> i think you've got to look at where we started years ago. when we sat at the threat table in 2002 for example, we knew where the target was focused. we had been surprised by september 11th. but the focus of the operations we had...
357
357
Mar 23, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 357
favorite 0
quote 0
also our cnn terrorism analyst paul cruickshank, our counter terrorism analyst phil mudd former cia counterrorism official and former democratic congressman jane harmon who served on the intelligence committee for a long time. she is president and ceo of the wilson center. how big of a blow is it to the u.s. now in fighting al qaeda, these other terror groups that u.s. special operations forces have been forced to evacuate from yemen? >> this is pretty significant. you've got to think of operations in two terms. first, we can collect intelligence the united states remotely run drones take out the leadership of these organizations. what you want to do is when you're running these operations you want to keep the group out of a comfort zone. the only way you can do that is ground operations. running with special forces providing intelligence to yemeni services. now we have half that picture or less standoff drones. we don't have the other half to keep the group sort of out of a comfort zone. that's a real blow. >> paul cruickshank, aqap they are based in yemen. they have a master bomb maker. t
also our cnn terrorism analyst paul cruickshank, our counter terrorism analyst phil mudd former cia counterrorism official and former democratic congressman jane harmon who served on the intelligence committee for a long time. she is president and ceo of the wilson center. how big of a blow is it to the u.s. now in fighting al qaeda, these other terror groups that u.s. special operations forces have been forced to evacuate from yemen? >> this is pretty significant. you've got to think of...
80
80
Mar 18, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 80
favorite 0
quote 0
i want to bring in phil mudd, a cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia analyst. for being with us. we just heard from atika. as of now there's no claim of responsibility for this attack. three guys on the loose right now. you've been on the inside in the battle against terrorists. put us in the shoes of the cia right now and counterterrorism forces around the world. they see this attack. three guys on the loose. what do you do right now? >> you'll see the same thing on the inside at cia that you see on the outside, john, as you see a bunch of information that doesn't connect. it's going to take a few hours. maybe a day or two to sort through it. i would expect a claim to come soon if there's a group behind this, they'll want to show they're coming to tunisia in force. the step you have to take next is identification of the perpetrators and run through data. there will be a lot of security services working in partnership saying are there cell phones involved? do these guys have addresses you can go search for hard drives. that hunt for data is critical. you'll wan
i want to bring in phil mudd, a cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia analyst. for being with us. we just heard from atika. as of now there's no claim of responsibility for this attack. three guys on the loose right now. you've been on the inside in the battle against terrorists. put us in the shoes of the cia right now and counterterrorism forces around the world. they see this attack. three guys on the loose. what do you do right now? >> you'll see the same thing on the inside at...
334
334
Mar 2, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 334
favorite 0
quote 0
joining us now, cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd, former cia official. also joining us, fran townsend former homeland security advise orto president bush and "the washington post" columnist david ignatious, who covered the middle east for a long time, the intel intelligence community as well. what do you make of this whole jihadi john that maybe the british mistreated him and as a result he became this murderer? >> i don't have a lot of sympathy here. let's get back to what nic said about british security services. when you are julgggling cases every day in a real world, you have to look at resources and legal backing. the legal resources to pull somebody aside at an airport, search luggage, put him up in e-mail or phone coverage that is not a free item. there is something behind what the british security services did here beyond this guy looks funny and we want to look at him because you don't spend those resources for nothing. >> fran you know the news that the isis forces have apparently released 19 of those 220 christians in syria who were being held
joining us now, cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd, former cia official. also joining us, fran townsend former homeland security advise orto president bush and "the washington post" columnist david ignatious, who covered the middle east for a long time, the intel intelligence community as well. what do you make of this whole jihadi john that maybe the british mistreated him and as a result he became this murderer? >> i don't have a lot of sympathy here. let's get back to...
226
226
Mar 16, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 226
favorite 0
quote 1
. >> it's an unexpected soft side to phil mudd.you are saying tidz who want to be a part of isis killing people in syria, but they're kids nonetheless. so how do you treat them? how do you keep them from going to join this terror group? >> it's very difficult. i think there are some issues we have to deal with that are tough. one is profiling. how does a kid 15-years-old walk into a travel agent and buy a ticket for cash. in this case in many cases, you have a difficulty we call in the business of ci broken travel. they will not fly directly to turkey. in the most recent case they flew to madrid. still i think you have to get out there and profile with travel agents that ends up in turkey. >> how can you get that money? >> you say three muslim kids arabic nails, if they walk into a travel agency that itself the profiling you are talking about? >> i don't care about muslim i care about kids you want to buy a ticket to turkey? i don't get it. the problem though you will get into is volume. the australians, for example, a relatively s
. >> it's an unexpected soft side to phil mudd.you are saying tidz who want to be a part of isis killing people in syria, but they're kids nonetheless. so how do you treat them? how do you keep them from going to join this terror group? >> it's very difficult. i think there are some issues we have to deal with that are tough. one is profiling. how does a kid 15-years-old walk into a travel agent and buy a ticket for cash. in this case in many cases, you have a difficulty we call in...
265
265
Mar 20, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 265
favorite 0
quote 1
. >> phil mudd i know that we've learned that these two men that were killed by tunisian forces, they had been radicalized in a mosque in tunisia. they had trained in libya, we're finding out now. a, does this fit the profile? and b, do you believe this claim that this was isis-related? >> first of all, i believe the claim that it was isis related. that word "related" is critical. back 15 years when we had al qaeda, they would have more tightly controlled this. you would have said an al qaeda-controlled operation. now what isis is doing is sort of sending out sparks of this kind of islamist revolution to groups that don't have close connectivity to the center. but they believe in the ideology. so i think this is a spark of isis. it's not controlled by isis. in terms of the people radicalized in the mosque and trained in a neighboring country, that is libya, think about two things here. the revolution in tunisia meant looser guidelines on what people could say. freedom of speech. i think there's a lot of tunisians who are saying wow, freedom of speech brought us the ability to have som
. >> phil mudd i know that we've learned that these two men that were killed by tunisian forces, they had been radicalized in a mosque in tunisia. they had trained in libya, we're finding out now. a, does this fit the profile? and b, do you believe this claim that this was isis-related? >> first of all, i believe the claim that it was isis related. that word "related" is critical. back 15 years when we had al qaeda, they would have more tightly controlled this. you would...
238
238
Mar 18, 2015
03/15
by
CNNW
tv
eye 238
favorite 0
quote 0
we will speak with our counter terrorism expert phil mudd about this. >>> robert durst awaiting extraditionthis case next. i got the news. my wife and i looked at treatment options. cancer treatment centers of america kept coming up on the radar. so we flew to phoenix. greg progressed excellently. we proceeded to treat him with hormonal therapy, concurrent with intensity modulated radiation therapy to the prostate gland. go to cancercenter.com to learn more about our integrative therapies and how they're specifically designed to keep you strong mentally, physically and spiritually throughout your treatment. i feel great today i'm healthy, i have never been in a happier place, i can't imagine being treated anyplace else. fighting cancer has given me opportunities to live. i think i chose extremely well. call or go to cancercenter.com. cancer treatment centers of america. care that never quits. appointments available now. most of the products we all buy are transported on container ships. before a truck delivers it to your store, a container ship delivered it to that truck. here in san diego,
we will speak with our counter terrorism expert phil mudd about this. >>> robert durst awaiting extraditionthis case next. i got the news. my wife and i looked at treatment options. cancer treatment centers of america kept coming up on the radar. so we flew to phoenix. greg progressed excellently. we proceeded to treat him with hormonal therapy, concurrent with intensity modulated radiation therapy to the prostate gland. go to cancercenter.com to learn more about our integrative...