in afghanistan we see al-qaeda's vision for the world. the united states respects the people of afghanistan, but we condemn the taliban regime. by sponsoring and sheltering and supplying terrorists, the taliban regime is committing murder. they will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate. - [narrator] us troops have been in afghanistan for more than 15 years, making it the longest war in american history. the september 11th attacks prompted washington and nato to send forces to neutralize the al-qaeda terrorist organization and the taliban regime that sheltered them. the architect of those attacks, osama bin laden, is dead, but the taliban has rebounded. as washington and nato pivot away from afghanistan, the ability of the government and security forces to maintain stability will be tested. afghanistan, next on great decisions. - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. - [narra

that's essentially al qaeda in yemen. tell us more about them and how they developed this expertise. >> al qaeda in yemen are at the center of the concern when it comes to this threat. they are significantly ahead of isis when it comes to developing sophisticated devices, concealing bombs inside electronics. they have a master bomb maker ibrahim al asiri, a saudi who's very good at building these kind of devices. and for years has been developing underwear bombs, shoe bombs, even the group has experimented with surgically implanting devices inside people so that they can get them on planes. there's intelligence that's come out on that. and this is a group which is believed to have shared this technology with a number of other al qaeda affiliates in the region, including al qaeda's affiliate in syria, the so-called khorasan group, a group that western intelligence learned in the summer of 2014 were plotting to get a bomb inside electronics in some kind of laptop or other device onto a plane. and actually, that plotting led

the allegation itself made by al-qaeda and the al—nusra front, so we by al-qaeda and the al—nusra fronthave to investigated they announced it. it. it is under their control and no one else's. about the attack, as we say, it is not clear whether it happened or not, because how can you verify video? you have to take videos now. they are al-qaeda, the al—nusra front. they wore white hats, and appeared as humanitarian heroes. which is not the case. the same people were killing syrian soldiers, and we have the proof on the internet, so the same thing for that chemical attack. we do not know whether those dead children... where the dead atoll? —— were they dead at all? who committed the attacks? we have nothing at all, nothing has been investigated. sue you think it isa been investigated. sue you think it is a fabrication? definitely, 10096. we don't have the arsenal and would not use it. and nobody has concrete information or evidence, but, for example, information or evidence, but, for exa m ple, less information or evidence, but, for example, less than two weeks... ten days before that att

(dramatic piano music) - [narrator] the government of saudi arabia is itself the target of al qaeda and other terrorist groups. the gulf states have collaborated closely with the us and others in the fight against terror. - saudi arabia has been fighting the war against terror in their home ground since 2003 when al qaeda launched their attacks. what that has done is drawn us closer and closer together with them on the counter-terrorism front and the intelligence front. - the biggest support, i think, for the saudi security services there has been the saudi citizen who rejects all these terrorist activities and works closely with the security services by reporting suspicious activity or suspicious individuals and so on. (soft piano music) - [narrator] saudi arabia, a sunni nation, considers itself a leader of the arab world but its position in the middle east is threatened by a century's old rivalry with iran, a predominantly shia muslim nation. - it's not so much saudi arabia versus iran, it's a persian-arab conflict which goes back thousands of years. so, that's built-in to the dna of

al qaeda has a long history of loyalty to the taliban. osama bin laden swore allegiance to the taliban's leader even before 9/11. when bin laden was killed in afghanistan, al-za warry ommitted ties -- al-zawahiri committed ties to the taliban. since 2010, they said that al qaeda had a small presence in the country limited only to 50 to 100 fighters. then in 2015, a shocking u.s. raid in afghanistan uncovered a massive al qaeda training camp unding up over 150 alk terrorists. -- al qaeda terrorists. this is more than they claimed existed in the entire country. officials announced that 250 al qaeda terrorists were killed or captured in 2016 alone. along with al qaeda in afghanistan, we have the other terrorist group that is directly linked to al qaeda and the taliban. the network is responsible for more american deaths in the region than any other terrorist group. the network attacks inside afghanistan and have been directly traced back to, you guessed it, pakistan. in fact, in 2011, admiral mike mullen, then chairman of the joint chiefs of

al qaeda men disguised as heroes. they were fake. they are al qaeda. they wore white hats and appeared as humanitarians, which is not the case. here --event killings have the proof on the internet. a week ago has changed a great deal for the regime for the first time being seen hit by the u.s.. america's next moves are but threatens a regime change in syria. assad says it plays into the hands of al qaeda. assad: this plays into the hands of the terrorists. they fabricated the whole story. and's prime minister says he was inspecting the -- and keeping up the pressure. >> scientists have analyze material from the site of the attack and it is very clear that like substancein- was used. we believe it is highly likely that the attack was carried out by the assad regime. >> ansys he has nothing to gain by carrying out these attacks. -- america.are watching " police are still questioning the --year-old iraqi known as over tuesday's attack. two people were injured against monaco. thanibyan coast says more 90 migrants have a drowned off the coast of libya some

difficult for us to be persistent in our efforts against al qaeda. it has caused us to break relationships we had with yemeni forces and given rise to the threat we have already talked about this morning in the red sea, an area where we have 60 to 70 ships go through every day. not just u.s. but international ships go through there. the thing we have to continue to efforts, our diplomatic to resolve that conflict as quickly as we can. table.ll help set the things we canaps assist with on the military aside to bring that forward without becoming enmeshed in a civil conflict. we should consider those things. i have talked with our ambassador on a regular basis, he is excellent. he is extraordinarily engaged and we have to continue to press in this particular area. department,her state and others to help us move through. mr. russell: do you still see a base of report -- support? a lot of report has been built over decades and much is lost if we see things tip toward of rebels and al qaeda getting leverage. in thegagement population, assisting them and f

you look at the laptop bomb in somalia in 2016 last year and it's well known that al qaeda and the arabian peninsula had almost a decade now increasing connections with al shabab, the al qaeda affiliate in somalia. so the concern there is there's sort of -- if you will, a certain amount of public domain information that allows you to see a link, what intelligence authorities have behind the scenes, we don't know. but the real concern is that spread of this key sophisticated bomb makers expertise and skills. >> and so, david, now that reportedly these terror groups obtained these screening devices, if that is, indeed the case, then is it possible for airports, for the screening devices to be updated so that they are far many sophisticated than any of these terror groups may have gotten their hands on? >> security at airports is konl evolving thing. it's reactive. what we're seeing here is the fact that the airports that haven't been upgraded to detect this type of weapon have not been done yet. so that's -- it's on the mitigation side. it's the threat and mitigation and that balance between

al qaeda has a moment right now where you can say we told you so. you build a caliphate prematurely and it will be destroyed. it will look good briefly and it will be destroyed which is actually exactly what isis told al qaeda about september 11. it will look good for a few days and then you've lost your traits so i think there's a moment now where al qaeda can say we're still around, we're still athreat . we will try to perhaps revamp slightly our strategy but it was discarded prematurely. that's perhaps one of the directions it going. >> this was a fascinating discussion to say the least and i think it gives us a new glimpse into the depth of knowledge and information and discussion inside the book. one of the most striking things that you are reminding yourself as you read the book is how you control yourself in those interviews. your meeting these people who are celebrating murder, slavery, all these things and yet you throughout the book don't even lose the sense. >> top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. book tv, television for seriou

airport screeners. >> the big concern is from al qaeda in yemen.d isis when it comes to the sophisticated devices. there is an expert bombmaker experimenting with shoe bombs and underwear bombs and surgi l surgically implanting bombs on humans. he has been sharing that intelligence. al qaeda in syria in 2014, were planning a similar laptop bomb. that group in yemen is richer now. better than 2009 and 2010 when it put together the printer bomb plot and underwear bomb throplo. they stole mother from a source to get more r & d. >> have they got hands on the airport screening machines to test it before they send it off on a plane. >> that is right. there is concern that the terror groups have got hold of the equipment so they can refine methods of getting bombs on plans. we need to put the threat in perspective. there has been quality concern for some time that advanced x-ray systems may miss a laptop bomb, there is other technology explosive trace detection that really is good at detecting a laptop bomb that al qaeda may put together. even a bomb make

the american attack, president assad said, played into the hands of al-qaeda.ion that the west, mainly the united states, is hand in glove with the terrorists. they fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack. britain's prime minister was inspecting newly commissioned officers at sandhurst, and keeping up the pressure. british scientists have analysed material from the site of the attack. they're very clear that sarin, or a sarin—like substance, was used. and, as our ambassador to the united nations made clear yesterday, like the united states, we believe it's highly likely that that attack was carried out by the assad regime. president assad insists he has nothing to gain by attacking syrian civilians. he will be relieved if all he faces in the next few months are more words of condemnation. the us military has dropped the biggest non—nuclear bomb, for the first time, the so—called mother of all bombs, on a tunnel complex used by the islamic state group in afghanistan. the attack has been strongly condemned by the former afghan preside

isis and al qaeda have been competing with each other.arlier this year, al qaeda's leader repeated his criticism of the islamic states violent attacks such as the beheading of civilians. al qaeda has refused to recognize -- analysts save the animosity between these two groups may be further fueled by the fact that each of them wants to be identified as the true leader of the islamic cause throughout the world. isis might now be on the run, erects vice president says "i can't see isis disappearing into thin air." >> jenna: thank you. >> jon: the suspect in the murder of a 27-year-old jogger in massachusetts appearing in court today for the first time. the police finally tracked down the accused killer. north korea making bold new stress. what mike pence is saying about a peaceful resolution. for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megab

whoever that's found responsible, be if the syrian government, al-qaeda or isis, must be held accountable. >> here is the issue, wolf, what i believe or what you believe or others believe is irrelevant. what matters is the evidence and facts. if bashar al-assad is responsible for these horrific chemical weapon attacks. i will be the first one to denounce him and call him a war criminal and prosecution at the international court and make sure the consequences are there. the key is now with president trump's military strike last night, directly in the face of the action that the u.n. is working on at that time to launch an independent investigation to find out exactly what the facts are and who was involved and who was responsible. the appropriate consequences could be levied. >> when the upon gone says it was the regime of bashar al-assad who was responsible and se secretary of states said that, they all conclude they all have the evidence to back it up. they said assad did it and his military did it, you don't believe them necessary? >> last time i checked, wolf, congress has the authorit

radical sunni islam in the form of isolation al qaeda have to be dealt with. they are a threat to the homeland. assad have to be pushed out because he is a puppet of the iranians. as long as he is there, this war never ends. as long as syria is in a state of constant conflict, the region cannot breathe. >> people talked about sanctions on russia for other things. do you see this as potentially -- yes, i'm going to amend my own bill and add supporting a sod -- supporting a ssad.- supporting a think if trump uses another strike without consulting congress, we you have a problem with that? sen. graham: none. the only constitutional requirement that exists involving war is for congress to put the nation and declared state of war. the constitution does not require the president to get congressional approval to use military force. we had a declaration of war i handful of times in the history of the country. there is no constitutional requirement that the executive branch get approval of congress to use military force. there is a constitutional requirement that the e

>> there is evidence that al qaeda in yemen has been sharing intelligence with al qaeda in syria. remember in the summer of 2014, there was that float from the cora son group, there was electronics, smuggling them on to planes and that led to new security requirements at overseas airport including having to power up your develop. now they're looking at devices that you don't need to power up, that you can hide in the dvd drive some explosives and we understand that that's what happened in that case in 2014 in that somali airline bomb attempt. this comes from our colleague, that that device was put on an export device by two airport insiders and actually got through the x-ray machine and almost blew that plane out of the sky. the investigators actually went back to that x ray machine, they reviewed the scanned image and on that review of the saved scanned image, they were able to determine the possibility of explosives. so even with a x-ray machine, which is the least effective at detecting these kinds of explosives, that should have been caught in mogadishu. but with these more ad

and syria and al qaeda in yemen. u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe that isis and other terror groups have developed innovative ways to plant explosives in electronic devices that can fool airport security screening. the concern is heightened because there is u.s. intelligence suggesting that terrorists have obtained sophisticated airport security equipment to test how well the bombs are concealed. cnn has learned this new intelligence was a significant part of the decision earlier this month to ban laptops, tablets and other electronic devices from the passenger cabins of planes flying directly to the united states from ten middle eastern and north african airports. depending, instead, they be stored in checked luggage. >> elevated intelligence that we're aware terrorist groups target commercial aviation and pursuing methods to undertake their attacks to smuggle explosive device and various consumer objects. >> reporter: officials have told cnn that there was credible and specific intelligence th

we've seen a lot of different incarnations, various levels of sophistication, the al qaeda in yemen asts known, whose master bomb-maker, al asari, who was making liquids at one stage, involved with underwear, then we saw isis get involved, they were the ones who took down the russian jet, taking it down with a soda can held in the hold. and if you look at the bombs and weapons factory that we've seen with isis in mosul, it's really noticeable how much more sophisticated their technology and ambitions have become, whether it's using drones or trying to develop planes, whether it's working on driverless cars they have almost started to match al qaeda in yemen, which had traditionally been at the sort of the forefront of this effort to come up with this type of technology, anderson. >> yeah, john, i mean, you were the head of tsa for years, how concerned are you that according to the intelligence that some of these terrorists have actually obtained airport equipment to test how to contain these airport explosives? >> well, that is a factor anderson, and really the u.s. intelligence and la

people have forgotten that al qaeda is certainly not down and out, it was al qaeda intelligence that to the recent ban of -- the other thing i think people have lost sight of is that isis has really changed the dynamic of the terrorism game. that's also very true here domestically. isis has done something that al qaeda was never able to do. if you look at iraq and syria, last year they had over 1,000 suicide attacks. they have done something al qaeda has not been able to do. we have seen that play out in these domestic self radicalized attacks here in the u.s. >> greg: i expect that our lives may be harder but safer? not just harder -- i am assuming things will be implemented. >> if there was going to be in large mass scale casualty attack, it will most likely be carried out by al qaeda. not isis. i'm not minimizing it but they are more likely to carry out an attack as we've seen just last week in europe, the vehicle was used as a weapon of mass murder. >> greg: it's either good news or bad news that isis is fading and al qaeda is stepping in. jennifer, your story concerns a referend

it isjust the hands of al qaeda affiliates or isis.rop them in a bomb, or re—engineer them to be able to use them in an improvised explosive device, for example. the issue, it wasn't just chemical device, for example. the issue, it wasn'tjust chemical munitions depots which were hit, it was also airbases, fuel depots and traditional conventional munitions as well, hopefully a lot of barrel bonds as well. thank you very much indeed. we can speak to max abrams, international relations professor at northeastern university. what is your thinking about all those?” just can't believe how rapid the trump pivot has been on syria. i mean, this is a guy who campaigned against regime change. that was one of the key ways he differentiated himself from hillary clinton. also, of course, his close relationship with the russians, particularly in syria. and here he is, you know, just a couple of days after basically saying that assad could stay, here we are targeting regime assets. so it isjust stay, here we are targeting regime assets. so it is just a

las agencias de inteligencia de estados unidos descubren que grupos terroristas islÁmicos como al qaedapero lo peor es que estas bombas podrÍan eludir los controles de seguridad en los aeropuertos. reportero: grupos terroristas como el estado islÁmico isis y al qaeda, contarÍan con sofisticados equipos que les permiten eludir la seguridad del aeropuerto. >> ellos planifican esto desde hace aÑos. trataron ataque con los explosivos en los zapatos, explosivos en larga interior, el explosivo dentro de la computadora. reportero: y ahora, segÚn un informe de inteligencia, estarÍan camuflado bombas en las baterÍas de ordenadores portÁtiles y otros dispositivos electrÓnicos, sin enfrentar ninguna traba en los controles de seguridad. subjetivo es causar ataques comunes como este ocurrido en una aerolÍnea somalÍ el aÑo pasado. >> despuÉs de pasar todos los controles de seguridad del aeropuerto,y saber que con un telÉfono o un simple juego esto pueden activar algo, es increÍble. reportero: esta estrategia de planificaciÓn de ataques contra vuelos comerciales por parte de terroristas, segÚn este ge

that these were taken by al qaeda. that the children may have been dead from some previous attack or maybe they were not dead at all. that this was all a play that was teenaged staged by al qaeda united states to create a pretext for invading syria. that is the syrian version of events. u.s. officials say they have evidence. they have radar evidence and signals intelligence effectively evesdropping that proves that it was the regime. but so far they have not made their evidence public. >> i want to follow up with you and play a little more of that sound. the government demanded they use itself own equipment. let's play more of the sound and get your reaction on the other side. >> our impression that the west, the united states, can is working with the terrorists. it wasn't because of what happened, it's one event, a staged one, the play that we saw on the tvs. the propaganda, and the military attack. that is what we believe is happening. >> propaganda. the united states talks of a political revolution to this, removing

>> we've seen insiders recruited by isis and al qaeda in the past.orry about more when i did this in the business at the cia and fbi was insider self-recruiting, somebody in an airport after they go through airport security and get a job, nominate themselves volunteering to join al qaeda and isis and then saying we can get you behind airport security or in this case possibly give you this kind of equipment. what it tells me, those when they acquire this is not only their commitment to take down an aircraft but the fact that the lock is twik these bomb makers i mentioned earlier. remember the under wear bomber used highly sophisticated invisible piece of clothing under his pants, almost take down an aircraft. that was eight years ago. the bomb maker involved in building that device is still around. he's this amount of time not only to try to build a laptop bomb but as you're saying to acquire equipment to see if that thing can get around airport security. that bomb maker has to go. otherwise he'll succeed. >> we appreciate your expertise here. thank y

in syria and al qaeda in yemen.telligence and law enforcement agencies believe that isis and other terror groups have developed innovative ways to plant explosives in electronic devices that can fool airport security screening. the concern is heightened because there is u.s. intelligence suggesting that terrorists have obtained sophisticated airport security equipment to test how well the bombs are concealed. cnn has learned this new intelligence was a significant part of the decision earlier this month to ban laptops, tablets and other electronic devices from the passenger cabins of planes flying directly to the united states from ten middle eastern and north african airports. demanding instead that they be stored in checked luggage. >> elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling of explosive devices and various consumer objects. >> officials have tol

there was -- al qaeda came into being and then the taliban unified in 1996. and then in the 10 years, ideals for terrorist planning and that is where 9/11 was planned by al qaeda. because it was a total -- and 9/11, so this religious militancy is not pakistan's doing. we are a victim of circumstances in the region. so therefore, we cannot be blamed at all. it is only those who do not understand the history. now we have to fight against terrorism and whatever has happened. and we're doing that to the best of our ability. i think those who are blaming pakistan are absolutely wrong. they must understand pakistan sacrifices the role that we played and sacrifices that we have given fighting terrorism and we still sacrifice fighting terrorism. >> thank you so much. it hurts when you're a victim of terrorism and you are labeled as a terrorist. so thank you. >> -- >> thank you all for your very good questions tonight. and general perve musharraf thank you for your time and insight. [applause] >> thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

yes there is terrorism but isis is not al qaeda and they don't have the ability to attack the way al agree with you in that. but other elements in libya, syria and elsewhere, the developments in arab spring weren't about america, so obama idea of hanging back and letting it play outs with exactly right. but where they impact our values, military force has been important. i think it's important tool for commander in chief to deploy, not the only tool. >> you've reported on the region and syria is driving force. but also a war in yemen. should be clear. humanitarian disaster. looking at pictures of children, children starving in yemen. saudis we're arming and allied with and supporting as they bomb civilians taking place against the backdrop of increased escalation in syria. >> we'll see iran condemn the strikes and saudis hail them. going to get worse in yemen and also syrian, we'll see barrel bombs in syria. assad will react. >> retaliation will be against the people of syria? >> yeah. barrel bombs. >> thanks for sticking with me in this special coverage of this hour. going to continu

the enemy is the taliban, or al qaeda or isis. that's the enemy.nd i think that we should stay focused on that. i will say there is a huge and profound degree of frustration that i experienced personally when we see afghanistan still being fought over with such bitterness and the violence still necessary to get any, you know, minimal law and order in that country 16 years after tora bora. you just wonder here in 2017 we started in 2001. how much longer do we go before we can defeat this very very difficult enemy? >> dana: when president obama basically gave the date when we were going to leave and the taliban, very patient, and allowing safe haven to be created there, that now this change, if there is a change, and i think dropping the biggest bomb that we have in that area would signal that, does that then say that there might be a way to try to get this back on track, in terms of coming to some sort of resolution? i don't think we will be leaving there for a generation because the problems are so great. what do you make of it in terms of the chan

knowslamist leader will someone in al qaeda or he will be affiliated with al qaeda. are there people who had the al qaeda passed in the bdb? probably. is the involvement of unhelpful? yes. i don't think the libyan national army has the ability to it indefeat or challenge the royal crescent. it will be a site of contention for years. i would only add that there were many who argued that when haftar engaged in benghazi, he undid the work that had been done in parsing off the extremists around those malicious and drove them back together because their sole objective became to defeat him. it is pairing off at the national grouping and marginalizing the extremists. queryain, as frederick yankees, theyke have somebody they would rather not have at the table. of the because he revolutionaries -- they are cousins or someone else. i would say that the hard-core al qaeda group is different. they have historically been a refuge because it is filled with caves and it is easily cut off. to hang outints is there in the fifth century. it is a problem. benghazi is a mix. they drove

the fakery, he said, included the white helmets rescue teams, al-qaeda men disguised as heroes.r example. they are al-qaeda, they are al—nusra front, who shaved their beard, wore white hats, and appeared as humanitarian heroes, which is not the case. the same people were killing syrian soldiers, and you have the proof on the internet anyway. the american cruise missile attack a week ago has changed a great deal for the regime. for the first time, it has been hit by the us. america's next moves are not clear, but the rhetoric has switched to regime change in syria. the american attack, president assad said, played into the hands of al-qaeda. 0ur impression that the west, mainly the united states, is hand in glove with the terrorists. they fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack. britain's prime minister was inspecting newly commissioned officers at sandhurst, and keeping up the pressure. british scientists have analysed material from the site of the attack. they're very clear that sarin, or a sarin—like substance, was used. and, as our ambassador to t

for whether al qaeda or isis or al shabab. what is your analysis? >> any action like this, because we are the united states, will be an opportunity for that action, even if it's justified, to be manipulated by our enemies to say, look, they're always against us, or, you know, here's -- one of the challenges is going to be the expectation management challenge. we have now gone in. there are a lot of rebels in syria. there are a lot of people in syria that will hope that we go in a lot further. it is not clear to me the trump administration is going to do that. so, denied expectations are often used as a form of recruitment. so, all of that, we're going to have to be watching because if this was just a one-off, there are a lot of people in syria, probably applauding this now, hoping that this is the beginning of the end of assad. we've been down this path bef e before, the administration's statements are not -- i would say just not precise about, you know, assad at this stage, about whether we want him in or out. and i think we're just going to have t

the american attack, president assad said, played into the hands of al-qaeda.mainly the united states — is hand in glove with the terrorists. they fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack. britain's prime minister was inspecting newly commissioned officers at sandhurst and keeping up the pressure. british scientists have analysed material from the site of the attack. they are very clear that sarin, or a sarin like substance, was used. as our ambassador to the united nations made clear yesterday, like the united states, we believe it's highly likely that that attack was carried out by the assad regime. president assad insists he has nothing to gain by attacking syrian civilians. he will be relieved if all he faces in the next few months are more words of condemnation. jeremy is with me now. the first time that president assad has spoken about this. what does his interview say about the position he finds himself in? i have interviewed him a couple of years ago and judging by his demeanour he seems rather anxious at the moment. things h

al qaeda finding in their region means to do us harm. these are folks that have planned and correlated and prepared attacks to be able to come and the big issue with syria still is iran. iran is trying to form what they call their crescent running everything from lebanon all the way to yemen. they are a direct threat when t they move into syria and a right next to israel. if you want to be with the stabilize the democracy and the eight area like israel and stay with allies there keep living unstable, stable as was happening. you've got to be able to stabilize what's happening in syria. >> tucker: up next, lansing, michigan, just made itself a sanctuary city besides mornings, they will lose federal funds. they've accidentally been breaking the water in flint. went from senator to the president very fast with very little vetting from the press.y a new biography coming out next month, talks about his life before the senate. got new details on that. stay tuned. senate. stay tuned. senate. got new details on that. it's the simple things in li

and the al qaeda affiliate become this effort to stop the bloodshed, and i think ultimately, that is g to include notions like security zones, perhaps some no fly zones and perhaps some further strikes against bashar al-assad's air forces, if indeed, they continue to carry out horrific actions they have been known for over recent years, not just for chemical weapons in a repeated basis but barrel bombs striking deliberately on civilian facilities like hospitals. first bombing civilian targets and then the places where they are going for their medical assistance. >> let me ask you very quickly before the break, really 30 seconds. do you believe that the battle against isis will be won in the next three to six months that raqqah will fall? >> well, i think raqqah may well fall but this battle is a generational struggle and i think everyone in the white house and the pentagon, state department is keenly aware of that that therefore you have to have a strategy that's sustainable measured in blood and treasure and i think there is a lot of consciousness of the need to have a strategy that

they have done somethingbl al qaeda has not been able to do.e have seen that play out inth these domestic radicalized attacks here in the u.s. still one i expect that our lives may be harder but safer. not just harder. i'm hoping domestically there are things that will be implemented. >> the view is that if there was going to be a large care mass casualty attack here in the united states, it is more likely to be successfully carried out byl al qaeda not by isis. isis is more likely -- and i'm not minimizing the loss of life, sbut it's more likely to carry out, as we have seen in europe, a car to carry out a attack of mass murder. >> greg: it is either good news or bad news that isis isn. fading. jennifer, your story concerns the referendum in turkey.rn please explain. >>re i would say all eyes should be on turkey this sunday. this referendum, it has been waiting until president erdogan had this because they didn't want to go ahead with the efforts to retake raqqa because they are going to require the u.s. to give heavy arms to t kurdish fighter

get something through this kind of technological screening, it is not just isis and iraq, it is al qaeda and yemen, all the intelligence is pointing to all of these groups really stepping up their efforts to try and attack commercial aviation, even aviation coming into the united states, and they came close to an airplane landing in detroit to somebody detonating a bomb on their body. so this is all part of the reason you're seeing the growing concern, all of this contributing to the ban on consumer electronics when you fly. anderson? >> and evan, the tsa limited the ban to direct flights only to specific countries. so with this new information the government still, they're not widening the laptop ban? >> not just yet. and that is a big question, the explanation that was given when the ban was introduced, anderson, was that the u.s. and european countries had layered security that greatly protects the threat against explosives, beyond just the screening. we heard from homeland security tonight saying that the u.s. government continually reassesses intelligence and collects new intelligen

and that is where 9/11 was planned by al qaeda, because it was a total vacuum in afghanistan. and 9/11 was executed in 9/11, in 2011, right? so this religious militancy is not pakistan's doing. we are a victim of circumstances in the region. so therefore, we cannot be blamed at all. it's only those who don't understand the history. now we have to fight against terrorism or whatever has happened there. and we are doing that to the best of our ability, and i think those who are blaming pakistan are absolutely wrong. they must understand pakistan's sacrifices, the role that we played and the sacrifices we've given fighting terrorism, and we still continue to sacrifice fighting terrorism. >> thank you so much, general. because it hurts when you are victim of terrorism, but then your leader is a terrorist. so thanks for clarifying. >> yeah. i've been through these attacks already. two known ones and i think six unknown ones. >> thank you all for your very, very good questions tonight. general musharraf, thank you very much for your time and your insight. goodnight. [ applause ] >>

i would say the hard corps al qaeda group is in darna. and it historically has been a refuge for people because it's cave, filled with caves. it's isolated and easily cut off. so even when gadhafi was, there people were there. the christian saints used to hang out there in the fourth and fifth century. that is a problem. benghazi is a mix. but i think it's hard to say that whole group of the revolutionaries is part of this problem. they drove out isil, by the way, from darna and from benghazi as well. >> on the broader question about libya, this is what i hear from a lot of people. i'm simplifying it. gadhafi was a really bad person but he kept the country stable. he was overthrown and now all the islamists are there and it's a play ground. my counter to that argument has been, number one, the jihadists are not the people that overthrew gadhafi, it was the libyan people. he was gone one way or the other. the choice before us at the time was not whether or not gadhafi stayed but whether or not a vacuum would follow. is my assessment of wha

are there people that had al qaeda in the past edb?robably, but is in itself an al qaeda fit affiliation? no. is it involved in escalation on helpful, yes. i don't think the libyan national army has the ability to fully defeat a force that could challenge it. the key thing is the oil crescent will be a side of contention for years. it has been ever since 2015 at least. >> i would only add that there are many who argued that when have to are engaged in benghazi, that he hunted the work that had been done of putting off the extremists from the core of the militias that in fact drove them back together because their sole objective came to defeat him instead of what they had been doing before which was tearing off and coming back into the national grouping after the revolution and marginalizing the extremists. as a dr. says, every libyan family it's like rebels and yankees, they have somebody they would rather not see at the table. then they feel sorry when that person passes away. i've seen people weep over benghazi revolutionaries becaus

they are al-qaeda, they are the al—nusra front, who shaved their beards, qwore white hats, and appeareds, which is not the case. the same people were killing syrian soldiers, and you have the proof on the internet. so the same thing with the attack, in khan sheikhoun, whether they did that at all. those children, where the dead at all? who committed the attack, if there was one? we have no information at all, no investigation. seizing it is a fabrication? definitely. 10096 for us, it is a fabrication. —— so you think that it is a fabrication? we don't have the chemical weapons arsenal and if we did we would not use it. less than two weeks, or around ten days before that attack, the terrorists were advancing in many fronts, including the suburbs of damascus, and not far from many fronts, including the suburbs of damascus, and not farfrom khan sheikhoun. let's suppose we have this arsenal and let's suppose we have the will to use it. why didn't he use it when we were retreating and they were advancing? actually the timing of that attacked or alleged attack was when the syrian army was adv

we are fighting both of them, meanwhile we are arming a third force which has ties to al qaeda. >> what are the threats to america coming from syria? we agree isil is a threat to america. >> tucker: i don't think anyone is supporting isis. >> i'm not saying you are, i'm saying the only way to destroy the caliphate is for somebody to go on the ground and kill them. >> tucker: we seem to be fighting both sides. no one would disagree that bashar al-assad is killing far more members of isis than we have. but now are fighting him too. >> he is not killing isil he's killing the opposition. he's a threat to the region and threats to us because he's backed by iran. >> tucker: he's a secular leader who's against isis, were against isis. >> iran is run by a religious fanatic, iran is not a secular state. they have they write desk to israel. i think the deal with iran is the worst deal since munich. assad is as long as he is in power, isil and al qaeda can't be destroyed. >> tucker: i just want to see if i can understand this. if i can't tell who the main enemy is here. you said that isil is the m

in syria and al qaeda in yemen. u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies believe that isis and other terror groups have developed innovaty wa -- innovative ways to plant devices. the concern is heightened but it's suggested terrorists have obtained sophisticated airport equipment to test how well the bombs are concealed. cnn learned this new intelligence was a significant part of the decision earlier this month to ban laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices from the passenger cabins of planes flying directly to the united states from ten middle eastern and northern african airports. demanding they be stored in checked luggage. >> elevated intelligence shows terrorists are targeting aviation and we're trying to undermine their attacks. >> reporter: officials have told cnn there was credible and specific intelligence that isis would try to attack aviation assets and a hint from a top u.s. commander about why the accelerated effort on the ground in syria against the group. >> there's an imperative to get i

in syria and al qaeda in yemen.nt agencies believe that isis and other terror groups have developed innovative ways to plant explosives in electronic devices that can fool airport security screening. the concern is heightened because there is u.s. intelligence suggesting that terrorists have obtained sophisticated airport security equipment to test how well the bombs are concealed. cnn has learned this new intelligence was a significant part of the decision earlier this month to ban laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices from the passenger cabins of planes flying directly to the united states from ten middle eastern and north african airports. demanding instead that they be stored in checked luggage. >> elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation and are aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks to include smuggling of explosive devices in various consumer products. >> there was credible and specific intelligence

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i do believe that there is enough connection between isis and al qaeda, mess so he tabian al qaeda that i fought that justifies it. youe going after assad -- the assad regime, hezbollah any of its allies, you need to come back to congress. there is no nexus there. it makes very little sense. we need to know what the plan is. we need to know where this is going before this truly escalates to the point beyond the control of where any of us want to go. >> the point the congressman made there about associated forces is that. isis is a plausible way of interpreting associated forces there with assad it's -- >> very difficult. >> yeah. >> what do you think about the sort of -- the kind of next step idea, right? particularly the sort of ways in which -- i'm really curious as someone who was outside the state department came into it. the ways in which becoming president and being part of the sort of institutional decision-making structure for the most powerful nation on earth changes your calculus. >> well, i mean, part of it is you get mugged by reality in terms of what happens out there. i do