al-qaida is affiliates of theirs and all al-qaida supporters are very much involve would in this and they directed this and this is something planned for a period of time. north africa in particular is going to be what afghanistan was. a gathering place for the islamic militants that want a launching pad. it is close to europe . it can target the united states and our alplice and north africa is the new battle ground in the war the al-qaida war against yus our war against them. >> we thought that the war with al-qaida and islamic extremism was from the middle east. is that like where you strike them in one place and they pop up somewhere else . they are not disappearing but relocate to a different region. >> they have had elements going over the years in tus nisia . nigeria . now a concerted effort that appear to going in north africa and mali and algeria . they are effective fighters and they are ruthless and a combination of al-qaida and islamic . they get people from iraq and core al-qaida and they get those from the arabian peninsula. it is a international movement and there is a

you have al-qaida in the mob grab moving through that, they're in mauretania and niger. the point of this is the administration covered up the fact that al-qaida was not on the run, it was not on the path to defeat, it was responsible for what happened in benghazi, and it is all over the place now. >> we're letting the french handle things now. i think it's more kind of leading from behind on foreign policy, and it's incredibly dangerous, because as pat was saying, al-qaida is not on the run, they're on the rise, and nothing is being done about it. >> al-qaida central has been virtually decimated, but what they espouse, or all over the place, i think the administration -- you have to be engaged but you handle in a different way. they're not going to put boots on the ground. they're going to assist the french. the french have more of an interest in mali than we do. you are going to see more use, probably of drones. the administration is not ignoring this area. all of the critics are out there saying do this, do this, do this. like what? nobody really has any great answers

they are from an al-qaida syndicate group. they are the best warriors in syria but at the same time they tend to be al-qaida loyalists, trained by al-qaida in iraq and strongly in support of a radical form of islam and jihad. the question is how many civilian deaths will continue as the civil war becomes more fluid as the rebels become slightly better? we got a stark lesson in that today when the regime bombed a gas station in a damascus suburb, an area the rebels had taken control of in damascus, tightening the news on bashar al-assad. that's when it was bombed. a dozen people dead on the ground. the question going forward for the regime is how many people are they willing to kill including civilians to regain control some of the areas that the rebels that have now new pow 0er are starting to get control of. they say the regime is willing to kill as many people as they need to to keep president bashar al-assad in power. jenna: thank you. jon: an indiana hospital is stirring some controversy now after firing eight of its emplo

for that reason, we have made a commitment that we are going to go after al-qaida wherever they are. >> in this specific case we are talking al-qaida and the group thought to be responsible for the operation . a few more facts here uma, british petroleum and bp are running the facility. they have said that four of their staffers still remain unaccounted for. on the other hand, we are getting new word that eight british hostages thought to be unaccounted for are believed to be safe. it is a very shifting situation . algerian security forces came across 15 body and charred and burned and said to be waiting for investigation. shifting stories and we are waiting for the crucial bit of information from washington and the state department, except for the tragic case of one american lost that we know for sure, that all other americans that were held hostage are free and safe. we don't have that information yet. back to you. >> greg, thank you for the update. news out of iran. the country will not stop the uranium enrichment program. iran claims it is for peaceful purposes, but the internati

al-qaida-linked militants holding workers at an algerian gas plant. the release of terrorists locked up in the you. brand-new hour of "happening now." i'm jon scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. these islamist terrorist are hold up deep in the sahara tkerts. desert. the whole operation believed to be masterminded by this al-qaida-linked commander. amy kellogg is live in london with more. >> he is an afghan veteran of algerian descent. he is set to be based in mali and to have possibly four malian wives. it's not necessarily the case that he is on site, again based in mali and direct being operations from there. he came up with the proposition to free two american hostages for two islamic militants, including the so-called blind sheik in jail in america. defense secretary leon panetta speaking today in london had words for him and his foot soldiers. >> terrorists should be on notice that they will find no sanctuary, no refuge, not in algeria, not in north africa, not anywhere. those who would wantenly attack our country and our people will have no place to hi

the french military helps mali holds an al qaida link drabble advance by launching airstrikes on the key town of qana. made in the u.k. local clothes manufacturers call on the prime minister and top brass to buy british . as one pm of the russian capital you're watching r.t. on marina joshua welcome to the program president obama says that u.s. forces will and most combat operations in afghanistan by spring and switch to a support role that's the outcome of a meeting between the president and afghan leader hamid karzai in what's thought to be the final chapter of america's military presence in the country but as r.t. has got it she can now reports. at a stand well beyond twenty fourteen. during his election campaign president obama may have sounded very resolute to leave afghanistan in two thousand and fourteen but the white house is now negotiating terms to stay there the president said if u.s. forces stayed their role would be different but critics argue it's an attempt to regroup and a military presence which both the majority of americans and afghans oppose want a solution to a p

while the north of mali has been under the control of islamic militant groups that have links to al qaida for almost a year now and that's an area the size of france they've heard shari'a law that a stance simply it's a response to the mali government's request for help in trying to sort of hold back these rebel advances of going further into mali but of course many experts and linking this crisis to sort of the libyan legacy of what happened in libya because . the toric people who traditionally came from northern mali they actually made up a large portion of mormon gadhafi as army in libya and after the very brisk military intervention that to topple gadhafi many of these toerags actually returned to their native northern mali they took with them a lot of weapons and a lot of gadhafi his military arsenal has kind of uncontrollably been flowing into mali now and lots of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya or he's pretty boyko there in london more for more on france's military intervention in mali i'm joined by london based political activist j

threat of terrorism not reduce it that warning has proved sadly absolutely correct there was no al qaida in iraq before we invaded that there is not al qaeda had not spread to pakistan in the way that it has since the invasion of afghanistan the intervention in libya has led directly to the spread of al qaida in mali and we should at least have learned by now but this is not the way in which to reduce the threat of terrorism which is actually a way in which you both straight in which increases attractiveness to young people in the region it is something that identify with perhaps if they want to better relations with the muslim world they can start by bettering their relations with the muslim community in france itself that would be a far more significant step forward the bombing yet another muslim country. the hostage crisis in algeria has caused the british prime minister to postpone a much anticipated speech on the u.k.'s membership of the european union but a review revealed david cameron's warning that the u.k. may leave along and europe made bail more analysis of this is something

has spread to the middle east now we're told we've got al qaida in the macweb now whatever the truth is about what exactly all these groups represent what you're finding is after eleven years of war on terror more grievances against western powers more terrorist groups more fife in the areas and until there is a political solution to the grievances and to the problems there. and a case of sexual abuse against a russian child services authorities in moscow seem just as well public feeling over the newly implemented ban on american adoptions are still runs high. identity theft cyber hostages online terrorism that's not a plot of a new science fiction bestseller but a forecast given by the chairman of google eric schmidt one that our very short lives are becoming as vulnerable as our real ones are going off explains. the image of a human future liberated by technology and to hunger teleportation and so on just got a reality those from a guy who knows eric schmidt who is worth one point five billion dollars and the chairman of google voice his views on in the internet and the dangers tha

the only ones that benefit are the radicals and extremists who are connected to terror groups like al qaida were convinced the solution lies in following the geneva agreements without any preconditions because preconditions will make it impossible to start a dialogue it's necessary to force all sides including the opposition that's now refusing the talks to come to the negotiating table with. rebels seized. while regime forces bombarded opposition fighters out of the suburbs of the capital damascus earlier western experts claim the government might be hiding up to fifty tons of roll up to make five nuclear bombs well enough to recent the regime could lose control of its massive stockpile of chemical weapons is now concern you reyna may fall into the hands of islamic extremists however some say that's just one side of the story. there's a lot of noise about it there was a bombing in two thousand and seven the israeli jets bombed the site in syria claiming that it is a nuclear site there was no indication yes the i.a.e.a. visited the site the i.a.e.a. said that there were traces of fuel rain

is a lethal cocktail or various groups including many islamist groups and many groups linked to al qaida and the free free syrian army is of course backed by certain countries in the west and certain countries in the region and the free syrian army has been responsible for heinous terrorist acts in the last couple of peace in syria but ultimately it's got to be america turkey saudi arabian cut off they've got to stop supporting the militants people who are ideologically speaking the same people who talked about the terrible attacks in new york washington london madrid and bali. damascus is constant insisted that what's taking place in syria is not a genuine revolution but simply mercenaries fueling unrest obvious i mean takes a closer look at how the standoff is attracting competence from far beyond the country's borders. she keeps her son's room exactly the way he left it last spring his clothes and art supplies are the only reminders she has of twenty one year old son. sami told his mother he was going to a conference in libya you wouldn't stay more than one week to ten days he went in

and al qaida will exploit the situation there are some signs of division yes but it seems to me that we may well be in for a quite a long high tech surveillance warfare being conducted by the french and possibly was britain and others as. against people that know the terrain very well will be hidden by the local population this could be a very long and very nasty conflict. the french have been criticized as labeling this sort of a humanitarian intervention kind of in to help save the day but have been accused of this being a resource grabbing mission what is in it for the u.k. why that region. well the u.k. and france are quite close on an awful lot of resources use and indeed whilst the companies involved in the mineral exploitation of mali tend to be french that's not to say there isn't a british involvement in the also the question of huge quantities of gas that are supplied from algeria to france and of course it's not that difficult for some of that gas also to be then sold on to britain was britain doesn't import very much directly from algiers and i reason why it couldn't in t

has spread to the middle east now we're told we've got al qaida in the macweb now whatever the truth is about what exactly all these groups represent what you're finding is after eleven years of the war on terror more grievances against western powers more terrorist groups more five food there is and until there is a political solution to the grievances and to the problems that rover than the whole of interventions that are becoming more and more of a pattern in german i'm going to have to you are not saying like we are today i'm very sorry but i've just run out of time with you thank you very much i will tell you i'm here in london based activists from stop the war coalition lindsey german. egypt's opposition send a clear message to the president they want to see mohamed morsi for urgent talks after almost a week of deadly unrest as we lost going to the engine starts publishing deals this is a shortened by jail cell phone that's in a few minutes. and a load of work ahead for america's grand new secretary of state john kerry even while we're asking whether a special person on top of

bill: the general has a point about how the nature of the al-qaida attacks could be changing now.hat, general. do you agree with the point that kt is making there. >> absolutely. we did retaliate in 98. we through some bombs up into afghanistan as a result of the embassy bombings that had absolutely no effect on the al-qaida in afghanistan. but anyway, back to your point, yes, it could be, because the fact of the matter is their strategic objective, bill has been to trite west and specifically the united states out of the region so they can dominate it. and they've in the past most of these attacks have been government-related facilities or forces. economic interests are very strong between the united states and the west and the middle east and this is clearly an attack, natural gas facility a very large one, huge economic interests of the west, and the united states, this is an attack on that facility. they promised and they have stated as recently as yesterday, that they intend to do more attacks like this. bill: that is interesting. we'll see if that's the case. it's an interes

for that reason we have made a commitment that we are going to go after al-qaida wherever they are and wherever they try to hide . we have done that. obviously in afghanistan, in pakistan, we have done in somalia and yemen and we will do it in north africa as well >> also tonight some of the rescued hostages are starting to talk publicly about it. one man from romania said he heard gunshots outside of his office on wednesday. >> they started to shoot guys in the gate. they came inside of the hostage buildings and start to take hostages and i barricaded myself with another colleague of mine. >> so many questions of how they gained access so quickly. the oil company said it spans 7 acres and mined with explosives with the militants planing to blow it up. greg, what do we know about the people who survived and the people who died now that the operation is over. >> it was apparently a nasty end. algeria security forces moved in today when it looked like the hostages were going to be executed by the mill tans. still a lot of people died on all sides . over all in the four-day siege all 32 m

police say the 26-year-old is an alleged al-qaida operative and he's accused of planning the attackse with the 8th anniversary of september 11th a few years back. rick leventhal is live at the u.s. district court in brooklyn, new york. what do we know about the suspect? >> reporter: martha he's a 26-year-old originally from pakistan who moved to the uk on a student advice a. he was originally arrested back in 2009 for an alleged plot to bomb a shopping center in manchester, england. he was released for lack of evidence but remained on the f.b.i.'s radar and was rearrested an extra dieted here to the u.s. last week when his name surface ned this other investigation into a foiled suicide bombing attack on the new york city subway system. his first appearance is here inside federal court at 2:00 this afternoon, and if convicted on these charges he faces up to life in prison, martha. martha: rick, he is not the first one in this plot to face charges, is he? >> reporter: no, actually he is the 8th defendant to face charges here in brooklyn on that foiled subway bombing plot in new york ci

the militants, an al-qaida offshoot, say they launched the raid in support of islamists who are battlingent forces in mali. a government effort which is being supported by france. the u-s has also decided to increase its support. >> tonight, police are investigating a shooting in hayward. this is video from our helicopter partnership with a-b-c 7 news. of police responding to the call. it happend on tenneson. hayward police are looking for a man involved in a shooting in the western part of town. kron four's jeff bush shows you the scene. and explains what happened. >> reporter: hayward police were called to this apartment building on tennyson road just before four o=clock for a report of shots fired. when they arrived they found that one male victim had been shot. he's 24 from oakland. he was treated at the scene and then transported to a hospital. let's take some video that was shot by our partners at abc sky seven and you can see what the scene looked like. dozens of officers combed the lord tennyson apartment complex looking for the shooter. you can see they were going door to door l

that in english translates to al-qaida's reward.ddle east media research institute or memory has been tracking actually several twitter accounts that have been posting audio clips, calling for the murder of firestein who is referred to as the jewish u.s. ambassador. he's a married father of three who has been posted throughout the middle east in his nearly four-decade-long career. he joined the foreign service in 1975 and has served in pakistan, taoupb tunisia, saudi arabia. this is good for six months. his life is not the only whose life they are trying to pay terrorists to pay. there is a reward being offered to anyone who kills any american soldier in yemen. arthel: peter, last the state department stepped up security in light of these threats? >> reporter: a state department spokesman emailed this morning to say they were taking these threats very seriously and the spokesman added, this is a quote, as you know our embassy in yemen already operates in a highly sensitive and difficult security situation. we continue to support the

in for one specific reason and that was to dismantle the government of the taliban and to destroy al qaida now people ask why are we still there how many al qaeda are there under president bush in the early part of the obama administration we heard the numbers fifty there may be fifty al qaeda left in afghanistan are we there because a fifty fifty al qaeda members know it is morphed into something far larger than that is it because. the former soviet union the former what we'll call the stands it was because ten tajikistan because it could stand you could stand to have the largest untapped oil and natural gas reserves in the world if you talk to the afghans you talk to the taliban you'll say oh that's why the united states wants to stay here people say it's because we want to surround iran bases in the gulf we have bases once before in iraq we certainly have them in afghanistan do we want afghanistan and pakistan not to go to war with one another neither the bush administration nor the obama administration has been straight with the american public about that and finally we are responsible

. >>> we have developing news out of al jeeria where a group linked to al-qaida is part of this hostageey put the death toll at 12 with algerians and foreigners. and the workers at the plants including americans have been freed. the terrorists have offered to trade the remaining americans for two terrorists being held in u.s. prisons. the state department confirmed some americans are still being held. >> this is an ongoing hostage situation. i am not going to be in a position to get into any details here with regard to the status of americans or any other hostages out of concern for the safety and security for all of them. >>> defense secretary leon panetta said it will not negotiate with terrorists and the hostage takers have nowhere to hide if they don't release the hostages immediately. >>> we have new information in the opening of the death investigation. robert wagner is reportedly refusing to cooperate with detectives. the los angeles county sheriff's department has said he refused to speak to investigators about what happened on a boat in 1981 on the night wood died. officials re

factions call them comedies they don't people who don't want to be occupied they're a jihadi boming al qaida first time around was a blunder she admits we had helped to create the problem we're now fighting the bin she does it again funding terrorists first in libya and now syria bespeaks international consultant agents obuchi well there's all this say to you hillary clinton herself admitted that yes we did create the taliban and we did create al qaeda what we have are really people have huge amounts of power we have no morality and on top of that many of them i'm not saying hillary but many of them are downright stupid in iraq troops would still be doing if obama husband overruled her staying on on a dentist on a d.c. inside the road this assessment of her approach i am concerned to the state department fully supported us nation building in afghanistan while knowing that attacks on u.s. troops were not an insurgency but a proxy war mounted by pakistan it took years longer than should have been necessary to secure a russian supply route to afghanistan that avoided pakistan state supported wh

as we're learning the best fighter inside of syria are the al-qaida syndicate groups, al-qaida tradersin iraq or the jihaddists, foreign fighters brought in to build an islamic state inside syria. heather. heather: we understand that israel is worried about their border. >> reporter: absolutely for 40 years the syrian israeli border has been very quiet and they counted on bashar al-assad to keep it that way. now there is serious concerns about these militants who are inside syria, particularly the al-qaida syndicate groups, the other jihaddists turning their focus from syria towards israel. israel is now building an immense fence that is about 12 feet small, steel reinforced lattice all along the syrian border to try to get ahead of these by the time the militants may end up winning inside of syria israel has a much better defense against them infiltrating in here to launch attacks, heather. heather: leland vetter reporting live, thank you so much. bill: the obama administration releasing its plans for new government regulations right before everyone left for the holidays. we've got ev

expected to arrive until september there are fears that the region could become a stronghold for al qaida linked militants some european leaders are concerned that the region may also be used as a springboard for attacks on the continent. two people have been wounded at a california high school after a student turned a weapon on his classmate a teacher managed to persuade the teenager to put down his gun avoiding possible further violence people who know the students say he was a loner and often teased by classmates because of his height the shooting comes less than a month after a gunman killed twenty elementary school children in connecticut fueling a nationwide debate on u.s. gun laws. french police are looking for the killers of three female kurdish independence activists who were shot in the hand in paris on thursday for the murders to which took place which took the lives of the p.k. k. party co-founder is not yet clear and has recently started disarmament talks with the jail can take a leader after a twenty five year conflict between the organization at the government the murders s

minister's question time please tell me the difference between the al qaeda were killing in mali and the al qaidawere supporting in syria in order for them to kill thousands of innocent people christians shiites and other religious and ethnic minorities so the whole strategy was doomed and flawed from the start and everything that we in the antiwar movement predicted has come true. bucket loads and yet these people don't seem to learn from their mistakes it was famously of the bull bones whose inattention led to the french revolution and seventeen but they learn nothing they forgot nothing but it's true of the lot of the boer bombs who run your country. they don't learn from their mistakes they constantly compound the big swamp of hatred and bitterness out of which islamist extremism climbs is being endlessly deep water with new blood new injustices it does seem that george that it is so outrageous it's so obvious that it really does seem sometimes like it is by design to just keep terrorism. exacerbated and just keep these wars and perpetuity ever really does make me question you just said somet

he and others were communicating with a shado shadowy al-qaida member.-mailing phrases, such as marriage. he was stopped and the plot was foiled. nasir was using the name language as zazi while communicating with this guy in pack sthapb and was part of this kpheur to commit multiple terrorist attacks and that's why the u.s. attorney in the u.s. was able tow prosecute him. that first appearance scheduled about two hours from now. jenna we'll look forward to developments on that case. thank you. jon: a big take down for the f.b.i. to tell you about. federal agents scratching a name off their most wanted list, after this man is arrested on the other side of the world. details on the bust and his alleged crimes coming up. plus, heavy artillery on the move, you might say. patriot missiles heading to the edge of a raging war zone, and u.s. troops are already on the ground waiting to man them. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest

is considering getting involved in the battle against al-qaida fighters trying to take over the africanion of malia. our defense secretary leon panetta says the u.s. could soon provide france with logistical recon a sans and air support on its assault on terrorists there which started dramatically over the weekend. militants linked to al-qaida control an area of northern malia roughly the size of texas and it's growing. let's bring in j. peter bond. we've talked about this over the last several months. it's nice to have you back with us. >> pleasure to be back, jenna. jenna: this story has changed. france is involved now specifically going after these terrorist cells. what should our role be? >> i think what france has done, and insofar as on a limited basis it's been helpful is it stopped an offensive by the islamists last week which was driving southward. the problem now, though, as france has not yet deployed sufficient troops to retake the large area that you spoke about that the islamists control and they really don't have enough troops really to stop all the offenses that they've

a jihadist group with links to al qaida in northern africa claims its holding 40 hostages. this man-- mokhtar belmoktar-- claimed yesterday days they were seeking retaliation for the french military action in mali. a day later the algerian gas field was attacked. the gas field is at a site in southern alergia called in amenas. it is on the border with libya, but algeria also shares a border with mali. across this area of north africa al qaida inspired militants have been growing in numbers and growing in strength. >> ultimately, across the entire north african reason, a lot of these islamists we see come from roughly the same group which is a fragmented and splintered group that's been reinforced as mostly after the fall of moammar qaddafi in libya and the floo of weapons that it's released. >> reporter: the action in neighboring mali against islamist militants is led by the french, although u.k. transport planes have helped to ferry supplies. tonight the group claiming to have kidnapped the gas workers demanded an end to that operation in return for their safety. >> in was

this is the outfit they are going after, al-qaida and the islamist maghreb.what we're focusing on in the past couple of hours. algeria, apparently islamist militants linked to al-qaida came over from libya and hit a natural gas field run by the bp company there in algeria, and then the result is this. these numbers are fluid. as many as fe two foreigners reported to be killed. eight foreigners kidnapped. and the new claim that we are looking at is as many as 41 foreigners taken hostage, as many as seven americans, this only coming from the islamists reporting to one of the media agencies in africa. absolutely no confirmation of that. at most times at that site there are only 20 foreigners total operating it. that number and the americans absolutely not confirmed. we do know this is own on going situation and the claim is that this is being done because of the operation being run by france against the militants in mali. let's take a look at that a little more closely too, because there is ground combat action right now that we are hearing from the french gover

situation the only wants the benefit of the radicals and extremists connected to terror groups like al qaida were convinced the solution lies in following the geneva agreements without any preconditions because preconditions will make it impossible to start a dialogue it's necessary to force all sides including the opposition that's now refusing the talks to come to the negotiating table meanwhile on the ground the rebels have invaded the largest military air base in the north while syrian military warplanes have bombed damascus suburbs forcing the opposition out of the strategic area earlier western experts stated that the syrian government might be storing up to fifty tons of raw uranium enough to build five nuclear bombs fears are mounting that the arsenal could fall into the wrong hands however political analyst says that the west isn't drawing a full picture of the conflict. a lot of noise about it there was a bombing in two thousand and seven the israeli jets bombed the site in syria claiming that it is a nuclear site there was no indication yes the i.a.e.a. visited the site the i.a.e.