i believe a group declaring allegiance to al qaeda or isis, that would be part of al qaeda or isis. >me he question is really, how far he could commit our military to these types of campaigns. when we were attacked on september 11th, we recognized the need tore to military response and understood that american troops would be called upon to protect our country. and i'm not sure that they would have trps in africa. i'm not sure unless we modified this aumf, you would feel you'd have adequate authorization to commit american ground trips in africa? >> senate, if the president determined they were a threat to the united states and if they say they are aligned with al qaeda or isis, yes, sir, i believe so. >> thank you. >> senator johnson. >> mr. chairman, first, thank both secretaries for their service to the country. let me think upon the point of ground troops. secretary mattis in your testimony you talked about 16-year global conflict, totally different than anything we witnessed in the past. i remember we had this discussion a couple of years ago with the advent of isis, trying to re

do you see them becoming more like al qaeda in that respect? ways come yes,me in terms of a distributed sought tout al qaeda clandestine command effort they're controlled who protest of painted in the organization. morehas been much movement to be a mass with low barriers to entry. if you say you are isis and want to act on their behalf coming you are in. more difficult problem to address. even as the organization loses bringb, it can individuals into the movement or encourage them to act on behalf of the movement, and that is different than al qaeda. have you seen the number of fighters trying to leave syria into europe? nicholas: if you look back the last couple of years, our european partners have done more to make it a more difficult to travel from the conflict zone to europe. gamehave upped their own in terms of tracking individuals theirve gone from countries to iraq in syria and sharing that information with other partners so we can all be trying toomeone is travel back into europe to carry out an attack. ago when theears numbers were st

unfortunately, the use of lethal force against isis, al qaeda and other terrorist groups will remain necessary for the foreseeable future to prevent attacks against americans and our allies. the president, just like president obama, believe he is has the legal authority he needs under the 2001 aumf to fight isis, al qaeda, and other terrorist groups. and i agree. i agree with the obama administration and i agree with this administration that they currently have that authority. it is clear that congress is united in a strong support of the fight against al qaeda, the taliban, isis and other terrorist groups and i believe congress as a whole would agree that the president should continue to act against these threats. congress has regularly notified -- been notified of troop deployments around the world, including the buildup in niger, and has responded consistently by funding the department of defense and its operations against isis and terrorists around the world. at the same time, i also believe we should update the aumf to reflect the current conflict and reassert congress' constitu

it is a preoccupation with al qaeda and isis. secondly, with aviation security, we are always at risk of the lowest common denominator of an aviation security system. you can have incredibly high standards and incredibly high performance in terms of aviation security at some airports, and at other airports around the world you have observed your selves that standards are lax and capabilities not up to snuff. feeling answer is to increase our capabilities globally to detect explosives and prevent terrorists from getting explosives onboard an airplane. that is a long-term project with a technology component to it and an investment component to it. secretary duke and dhs are leading that effort. she is right to highlight it. i don't know if i would use the words "9/11-style attack" because that conjures up something specific in most people's minds, but she is right. terrorists seek to attack us in the aviation sector. they think that is a particularly effective way of getting what they want. brian: how many investigations are curren

north africa was theperiphery of the al qaeda mobilizations in the past al qaeda headcontrol over north africa affiliates and over it south asian were saudi arabian. there's a part of the question about whether the lack of impact isis ideology here is done decades ago by other groups and were just seeing the outcome of that. thingsuld just say two in response, doug. the first is that i think people manymore animated in regions by social issues than the political one. this being a state-building project. what we we are looking at in 2013-2014 was compelling for people in the region that was a lot more animated about the questions of how to use socially organized in islamic society as opposed to how do you contest the influence of materialism or colonialism et cetera. these are the regions of saudi arabia that are also protesting the new laws that the kingdom has passed about allowing women to drive. i think it will be the source of a lot of angst as the kingdom continues down this path of economic reform it has been promising. the other piece of it is the message of recruitment is powerf

if you had the data on where everyone else and where are the al qaeda affiliated movements but the al qaeda brand where are they getting their recruits and for that matter, other minor jihad groups that are some that still don't fall under the isis or the egg q umbrellas. if you could get the data on these then do you think the current map would look much more like this historical norm and in other words do you think they are still producing these source countries across north africa and their essentially producing foreign fighters at the same rates or in the same portions in the gross numbers last overtime but proportionately does it look the same or do you think something is changing in the way that jihadist groups across, it was called the family of extremism, across the way that all of these groups are recruiting. is this something new or a limitation of have one snapshot of one segment of the group? >> i would say there are two things that have helped improvement among the full variety of organizations. al qaeda, isis, variety the others and those are that the syrian conflict in

an alliance of factions spearheaded by a former al qaeda affiliate turkey wants to ensure security in the region where some of the most violent conflicts of the syrian civil war have taken place during the talks in may russia turkey and iran signed a deal to establish deescalation zones in syria which included adlib ancora says it isn't sending its forces and just yet to provide him with just a cool and telegin support turkish president of iran gave more details but. we have opened up a space in our region with operation euphrates shield and now we are making efforts to take a step forward by maintaining security in a lab today there is a serious operation in a lab and it will continue because we have our brothers there who came to live fleeing violence in aleppo we can't tell them whatever happens happens you can either die or survive we have to extend a hand to our brothers now this step has been taken and it is underway we get to our guests in a moment but first this report from from gaza and turkey near the border with syria . turkish artillery shelling to hit a sham positions ins

. al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, isis. so we can't forget 16 years later the complacent of the 9/11 style threats. but we are in a new face of it got a lot more to do on that new face, and that is the hallmark of which is the self radicalized individual, the individual sometimes known as a lone wolf. we can talk about that, or homegrown terrorist. and we got a lot more to do on that score because the nets we built that a described post-9/11 is not designed for that threat. because those threat actors, san bernardino, orlando, the new york-new jersey plot from last summer, charlottesville, those actors don't come in to the net that we built if they don't have contact with international terrorist groups, a shadowy group of hierarchical figures operating from case in afghanistan, communicating with people from you. if that's not, that's the net we built and we need to construct a new one. how do you understand when answering something goes wrong in somebody's mind such that they take a machine gun and kill 50 people in a bar

al qaeda was there, al qaeda preexisted the decision to invade iraq, of course. but the form that isis took in 2014 where they were controlling large swaths of territory is hard to get there without the collapse of iraq and the problems that emerged. now we don't follow the , conventional wisdom perfectly because i think when you dig into it it's a little more nuanced. the conventional story makes it seem pretty easy but there were a number of things that we would've had to deal with if we hadn't invaded iraq. we'd have to deal with the fact that saddam hussein has large stock piles of weapons of mass destruction. we only learned after we had invaded that he had gotten rid of them. the invasion itself had a pernicious effect on al qaeda, it became a rallying cry, but it also became a death trap. al qaeda flooded troops, their troops into iraq theater and through the course of the war and particularly the surge they were killed and dealt a very, very serious blow and so our analysis of iraq is more nuanced maybe than the conventional , wisdom. we come down basical

his name is a national secret, but, in 2012, al-qaeda knew him as tamer elnoury.t he was a wealthy arab-american with seething anger at the united states, but, in reality, he had dedicated himself to the war on terror the morning of 9/11. >> tamer elnoury: i remember thinking, "please, god, don't let this be a terrorist attack. please, god." and that's how naive i was. that's how naive we all were at that time. >> pelley: tamer elnoury-- one of his many aliases-- immigrated from egypt as a child and was raised in new jersey in a traditional islamic home. >> elnoury: we're not at war with islam. we're at war with radicals. i am a muslim, i am an american, and i've been serving my country for 22 years and counting. and i am appalled at what these animals are doing to my country while desecrating my religion. >> pelley: devoted to islam and america, comfortable working alone amid killers, he was a rare find for the f.b.i.'s undercover counter-terrorism group. >> elnoury: it's called the national security covert operations unit. >> pelley: and what do the guys in the

well there's two different issues here one is al qaeda. and there i think that the united states is very pleased to have turkey moving in and trying to address this issue along with russia united states does not want al qaeda surviving in northern syria as far as the kurds this is a very difficult problem for the united states i think increasingly we will see the united states remain in northern syria where they've been building bases but today there was a big fight within the american administration about how long and how much military support to give to the kurds and whether that was sacrificed relations with turkey because united states wants good relations with turkey they understand the value of turkey turkey is date it's a big economy big military they want it as an ally but they can't abandon the kurds missa go chon is turkey still interested in regime change in syria at all or has it given that up to fight the kurds and to fight the. to hottest on its border. i think it's inevitable rescind regime change change is all about foreign

we're there because isis and al qaeda are operating in that area. that's why our forces are providing advice and assist to local forces, is to help them to deal with that particular challenge. with regard to our equipping, our responsiveness and so forth, those will all be questions we'll ask ourselves at every level once the investigation is concluded. i think it's important for us to baseline what support was requested at what particular time, when did it arrive. it was what they needed. all those are fair questions. but again i would just ask for your patience in just giving the time it takes to do the investigation. one of the questions we haven't asked yet is how long it will take to do the investigation? we've talked to the general, we certainly have expressed a sense of urgency in getting the answers to the questions that you've asked and the family have asked. we want to have that investigation concluded as quickly as possible. but we have prioritized making sure that the investigation is accurate. and that when we go to the families and we

of al qaeda or isis, yes. mr. cardin: my question really is related to how far he could commit our military to these types of campaigns. when we were attacked on september 11, we recognized the need for a military response and we certainly understood that american troops are going to be called upon to protect our country. i'm not sure that congress envisioned that we would have the potential of ground troops in northern africa in combat missions. if i understand what you're saying, unless we modified this aumf, you would feel that you have adequate authorization to commit american ground troops in northern africa. mr. mattis: senator, if the president determined they're a threat to the united states and under the aumf, if they say they are allied with al qaeda or isis , yes, sir, i believe so. mr. cardin: thank you. mr. corker: senator johnson. mr. johnson: let me thank both secretaries for their service to the country. let me pick up on the point of ground troops. secretary mattis in your testimony you talked

not to fight al qaeda but under al qaeda escort to take up positions against the kurdish canton afrinthis is a complete violation of the austin argument the syrian government has called for turkey to get out turkey meanwhile in the other area they control in north central syria is setting up turkish government post offices urging doesn't play well he needs a serious stake in the tribes you know one of the things that you know again looking at the me. cheering on trump defeating isis in syria and iraq i find it is really just down doing. the heavy lifting that russia has been involved in the last couple of years gets no airtime at all it's all the credit is given to the i think sort of weeks ago it took to this that every time there is a war and the u.s. centers at some point down the united states declares itself the victor and we are seeing that today again so we could predict that several years when the crisis in syria is going to end and. you know articles books are going to be written about it people are going to find stuff about it in textbooks what are they going to eat in the u

we're there because of isis and al qaeda operating in that area. with he are providing assist tore local forces to help them deal with that particular challenge. with regard to our equipping and responsiveness and sole forth, -- and so forth those will be , questions that we ask ourselves at every level because it is important to baseline what support was requested, when did it arrive, was it what was needed. but i would ask for your patience and just giving us the time it takes to do the investigation. and one of the questions we haven't asked is how long does it take to do the investigation. we have expressed a sense of urgency to get answers to the questions you have asked and the families have asked. we want those answers as quickly as possible but we want to prioritize making sure the investigation is accurate and when we go to the families and tell them what happened, that it's based on fact. so we're trying to balance the need to do this quickly with the need to be accurate. we will air on the side of accuracy. >> should there have been othe

we're there because of isis and al qaeda operating in that area. that is why our forces are providing advice and assisting local forces to help them deal with that particular challenge. with regard to our equipping and responsiveness and so forth those will be questions that we , ask ourselves at every level once the investigation is included because it is important for us to baseline what support was requested at what particular time, when did it arrive was it , what was needed. all those are fair questions but , i would ask for your patience and just giving us the time it takes to do the investigation. and one of the questions we haven't asked is how long does it take to do the investigation. for secretary mattis and i, we certainly have expressed a sense of urgency to get answers to the questions you have asked and the families have asked. we want to have that investigation concluded as quickly as possible. but we have prioritized making sure the investigation is accurate, and that when we go to the families and tell them what happened that it's

slowed today we see al qaeda and to clean that message and the ownership. and then will be successful with that. . . booktv's monthly in-depth program with author and historian lynne olson the author of several books many on world war ii including troublesome young men, those angry days into the recently published last hope island bridge in occupied europe and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war. was september 311939 a surprise? >> the day that hitler marched into poland and it was a surprise attack and people i think most of the old kind of accepted it but hoped it wouldn't happen, but it did. poland thought it was prepared, but it wasn't. nazi germany

ofis every much a bit priority as our work against al qaeda and isis. that goes on around the globe aggressively every day. i will stop there and turn it over to the ambassador. >> good afternoon, everyone. this past weekend mark a 20th anniversary of the united states designating hezbollah as a foreign terrorist organization. with backing from its patron, the iranian regime, hezbollah remains one of the world's most dangerous terrorist organizations. it conducts destabilizing activities across the globe. these threats hezbollah poses to this country were underscored in june when the fbi arrested to a legend operatives, one in new york and one in michigan. they were -- hezbollah has a truly global reach. in the past several years, we have seen the group launch an attack in bulgaria. undertake to separate plots and cyprus. develop large caches of weapons in kuwait and nigeria. we've seen it send operatives to peru and thailand. that can leave no doubt about hezbollah's true nature and invitations. intentions. and intentions. countering hezbollah, today i

we're there because isis and al qaeda are operating in that area. that's why our forces are providing advise and assist to local forces to help them deal with that particular challenge. with regard to our equipment and responsiveness and so forth, those will all be questions we will ask ourselves at every level once the investigation is concluded because i think it's important for us to baseline what support was requested at what particular time? when did it arrive? was it what they needed? all of those are fair questions, but, again, i would just ask for your patience in just giving us the time it takes to dot investigation. one of the questions that we haven't asked yet is how long will it take to do the investigation? for secretary mattis and i, you know, we've talked to the general. we certainly have expressed a sense of urgency in getting the answers to the questions that you've asked and the family have asked. we want to have that investigation concluded as quickly as possible but we have prioritized making sure that the investigation is accur

>> i don't think this is al qaeda. liz: i'm not saying that, say with me. hang on a second. that went defunct in 2005, isis said, you individual lone wolves stay in place. we need to you conduct terror attacks on your own. in fact in 2010 you saw them inspired, online english language isis, al qaeda actually magazine, go after pedestrians and achieve maximum carnage with vehicles. go ahead. >> here is the thing. this sort of impact that isis wants to accomplish. and al qaeda obviously wanted to accomplish but isis in individual attacks they want to get society so scared not just that it shuts down people, you don't just commit a murder, you start having impact on the society and the economy. when you see a lot of these things, that is where that impact, where people stop going out. where people don't go to work. it does have economic impact. the repetitiveness of such acts. it will be interesting to see, not that i want to reduce every issue to a market event but that is kind of what we do here sometimes, how people so

in my judgement we're dealing global threats like al qaeda and isis. we're trying to put pressure on them simultaneously wherever they are. and important to participate where they will be. to anticipate where they are and where they will be when they get there, local security forces have ability to meet challenges from al qaeda, isis and other groups. we're working with partners on the ground and in other parts of africa. that is what we're doing in africa and afghanistan. if you look at numbers we have 800 americans, 4,000 french and other partners. look at numbers in afghanistan, 11,000 americans on the ground, 300,000 afghans. with a relatively small footprint we're enabling local forces to deal with the challenges before they become a threat to the american people. and to help them deal with the challenges so they don't further destablize their local area or region. melissa: so you have been listening to general dunford at the pentagon, and this is really the heart of the story we've been talking about here with the four green berets lost in niger.

we can talk about isis, al qaeda, the muslim motherhood. we can talk about the islamic radical of iran. we can talk about hezbollah, many of the hamas forces. >> right. >> is so when you look at this array, they don't all represent the same kind of challenge. when you look at this, does it call for a more calibrated strategy in your mind or do think one set of principles works for all? what do you think about that? >> i think one of the big ideas is to knowledge we never have the enough of what we would like to have. soldiers with enough money, enough bandwidth nowadays. so you have to, at the and of the day, prioritize and to some to have. degree no element is going to get everything they want as the absolute priority. that means of course the others are not going to get all that they want. you have got to assess in a very cold-i'd weigh what elements are posing the greatest threat to our homeland and the homeland of our allies and partners, which pose the potential for another 9/11. you've got to do this in a very brutally realistic manne

shabab and al qaeda organizations inside of east africa. so, you know, we tailor the conduct of u.s. forces based on the threat. the bias in africa is to support local forces in dealing with the threat. where there is a threat to the u.s. homeland, american people, or our allies, we're going to do whatever is necessary to address that particular threat. so if we -- let me just be clear and use an example. if we have a specific threat to the homeland and local forces are unable to deal with that threat, the united states forces are going to deal with that threat. but the bias is towards enabling local african partners to conduct operations in africa. >> clarity on the timeline on the meds vac. how long did it take for the casualties were medevaced and how long before the dead americans were returned on the contractor flight? >> okay. what i outlined for you earlier was the evening of -- during the firefight, so this is probably some time late in the afternoon and then in the evening is when the two soldiers who were wounded were evacuated. w

general petraeus made it clear that we want to show the atrocities of al qaeda so people could see what was really going on there. we found a torture house up in the north where people were just brutally murdered. and i wanted to get that story out as a colonel, but my intermediate boss would not let me do it because it was too ugly. but yet, i knew that he would say we need to show it was done. so i did something that was probably not wise. i did it anyway. and i put it out, despite my boss, who is a general, and he was coming down to -- i was going to hang on the end of -- i was going to be hanging. but before he came down, general petraeus sent a note saying, great job, that's one of the best things i've seen done. so, i got saved, thanks to him. but anyway, we owe general petraeus a debt of gratitude with his many deployments in the middle east. moderating today's discussion is ambassador ross. and i got to see him at national war college as one of our guest speakers in 2003 and '04. here's a person that started out as a sovietologist, but he is the foremost expert when it comes to

that is where al qaeda had been headquartered, the main sanctuary for them. so we were hoping we were going to maybe capture some of them. we actually captured or killed some of the al qaeda on the way to kandahar in a village we held for 10 days, when we were trying to get into kandahar and we had to go past the airport because it was being held by the bad guys. when we were able to get by, we got to kandahar and started going after the targets that headquarters had said to raid. we were hoping to capture more guys, figuring they had probably gone by now, or at least get intel. we did get some intel, no question the most important thing was a -- basically a casing report and attack plan to attack a u.s. naval ship in singapore by a cell in asia. so photos, diagrams, everything, it would be on the scale of like -- vince: the carl vincent is a massive nuclear power aircraft carrier. duane: right. vince: i'm saying it could have been catastrophic beyond the level of -- duane: so that report got out immediately of course. it took some weeks, but they rounded up

the campaign to drive al qaeda linked fighters from its lead in syria they promise to fight to the death. of revolutionary remembered commemorations marking fifty years since the death. and the u.s. has suspended all normal immigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in turkey it means turks won't be given visas to visit the united states unless they are planning to move there let's take you straight away to washington d.c. and speak talk or spot on that so tom explain what is behind this decision. the embassy says that the reason for this is security reasons but it's plainly linked to their previous condemnation of the arrest of a local employee at the u.s. consulate in istanbul who has been accused by the turkish authorities of plot a conspiracy or participating in a conspiracy to overthrow the turkish government more than a year ago led by allegedly by self exiled turkish pastor of a tuna glenn lives in the united states and the embassy at that at the time the american embassy said that there are only without merits those charges that he was linked to a terrorist plot but nev

out appealing for you to turkey and the free syrian army launched an offensive to drive a former al qaeda group from one of syria's four deescalation zones and hurrican native races towards the u.s. gulf coast after killing at least twenty five people across central america. hello thank you for joining us russian police have detained more than two hundred people at anti-government protests around the country. uh. in st petersburg sixty people were taken into custody when police moved in to break up a demonstration it was one of at least a twenty seven held to coincide with president vladimir putin's sixty fifth birthday the demonstrators are supporters of opposition leader alexina valmy who is currently serving a twenty day jail term or a challenge reports from moscow where thousands more protesters rallied against the government. saturday was a test for alexei navalny and a test for russia's security forces on the day president putin turned sixty five the opposition leader wanted supporters to demand his release from twenty days administrative detention and for him to be allowed to run i

the campaign to drive al qaeda linked fighters from it live in syria they promise to fight to the death. and campaigning over it's time for the voters to decide who can be the leader of africa's just a quick. follow the diplomatic dispute between turkey and the u.s. has escalated ankara has now suspended all normal immigrant visa services at its embassies in the u.s. just hours after washington did the same in turkey it means most turks in americans now can't apply for visas to travel to each other's countries let's go live to washington d.c. and speak to our correspondent there diane estabrook and diane why is always happening. well this tit for tat actually was prompted last week by the arrest and the detention of a and an embassy a u.s. consulate employee in turkey and is stamboul who the turkish government claims had ties to a muslim cleric a turkish cleric who's been living in exile in the u.s. for almost twenty years a federal a google and now the u.s. says that these claims are baseless and this is been a bone of contention between the u.s. and turkey for many many years turkey h

adam gadan an american board al qaeda member 0 released a video calling on al qaeda in 2011 for al qaeda members and like minded terrorists in the united states to take advantage of u.s., the accessibility to guns in the united states. frankly, i think authorities have been surprised, myself included that we have not seen more of this. but i would point out, just this week, authorities announced a 2012016 plot in new york city we taking guns and shooting inside the new york city subway system was an aspects of that plot. >> so, you know, it is not like al qaeda, isis and the terrorists don't watch what happens in the united states. and the fact that a las vegas was not terrorist related doesn't mean terrorists aren't watching, the method of operation and considering it for their own plans. >> dickerson: so they can go to school on, this essentially? >> absolutely. >> dickerson: mary allen, let me ask you about the motive, the fact there is not one yet identified. is that very curious to you? >> it is very curious, but we may have to look tia little bit differently and what i mean by that

former al qaeda linked fighters promised a battle to the death against syrian rebels backed by turkey. hello again i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up people from all over spain pour into the hearts of caseloads a session as leaders consider a unilateral declaration of independence also ahead. i'm out of a tussle reporting from zambia many of the children fleeing violence in the democratic republic of congo children i'll tell you how some of them are trying to survive in a new country. welcome to the ancient cheap seats the probably would have offered the best view of the regular bloodbath down below but they do offer a sensational view of the city. new levels opened in rose color c m thanks to financing from well heeled residents. an alliance led by former al qaeda linked fighters is promising a fierce battle against those who enter its territory in syria's province of it is . higher. released a statement after the free syrian army or f.s.a. crossed into the area on saturday being backed by turkish soldiers who opened fire from the

flexes its military might along the border with syria as part of an operation to rid the province of al qaeda linked fighters safety standards under the spotlight in ghana after a massive gas explosion killed seven people and injure is that dozens more blasts campaigning over it's time for the voters to decide who will be the leader of africa's old the street public. they're calling themselves the silent majority and they've been out in force in barcelona their message they want catalonia to stay part of spain hundreds of thousands of people traveled from all over the country to make their call for unity exactly one week after catalonia as a session vote the referendum has plunged spain into a political crisis and as john a whole reports both sides are only hardening their positions. has seen plenty of huge demonstrations but not like this one will see red light yellow the cleveland city and flying alongside the spanish national flag region gripped by calls for independence this is a highly unusual show of national unity. some have come from other parts of spain but most are from catalonia it

they ran a brilliant program to counter al qaeda propaganda. am i right? wake up. anyway.hopefully. then comes hello fried kitten, director of the hud and institute center on islam democracy in the future the muslim world. so he is of course a great authority. anyway, we are going to start off today are fascinating, hopefully, discussion. since 9/11 of course the u.s. said we have big enemies in the middle east, one being terrorism and one b. iran. so, i'm going to ask the piano to comment each and hopefully briefly an interesting pleased on how you see it, starting with you. >> brief and interesting. >> well, i look at the brief part right, hopefully. >> terrorism is a strategic option of the iranian state. it is actually they have does a proxy and also there was a time terror muslim was considered as a weapon of considerable strategic deterrence because right now the iranian case is that if the united states accuses us of terrorism, we will respond with terrorism against american forces in iran and elsewhere. that argument has been persuasive to a lot of people who essen

now an alliance led by former al qaeda linked fighters is promising a fierce battle against those who enter its territory in syria's province that had released the statement after the free syrian army or the f.s.a. crossed into the area from turkey on saturday they're being backed by turkish soldiers a lot of reports from near the turkish syrian border. turkish to we shall to hit a sham positions inside syria. the former al qaeda affiliate group controls most of province and this border area is the focal point of what turkish authorities refer to as a serious campaign. and the free syrian army is sending reinforcements to that i had. the starting point for the new cross border campaign. thank you but to hail a sham which has thousands of fighters is vowing to fight to the death news of the new campaign is raising concerns for civilians in there if the turkish army enters back by russian planes they have committed a massacre a few days ago in our midst that is for sure and acceptable to me and to any muslim who rejects the presence of occupiers in our country. the russians are the firs

targeting alleged leaders financing as and facilities is of i still in iraq syria and yemen and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula eleven again many nationals a charitable organization and a supermarket make up the list of thirteen well the sanctions include asset freezes and travel bans the two countries say the move strengthens their joint commitment to combat terrorism and terrifying and say well jordan has more now from washington d.c. . a number of yemeni citizens and two yemeni organizations are now in the sights of the u.s. government and of several governments in the gulf that's because they've been accused of providing financial support to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula based inside yemen as well. i soul in yemen these two groups have been accused of carrying out deadly attacks on yemeni citizens and institutions for several years now and as the us treasury secretary steven minucci and said on wednesday these two groups pose a national security threat to the united states and to its allies what is significant about this new round of sanctions it's that it's being done through

in syria, they fund al qaeda and the taliban. qatar has a unique and disturbing relationship with iran. i believe it is time to hold them accountable. if qatar is to remain an ally, it must renounce its tempora affiliations. thank you. [applause] the muslim brotherhood continues on the march to threaten egypt and the region. there is also i qaeda that -- al qaeda that grew out of the brotherhood. the so-called arab spring liberated them. president lcc is trying to restrain them and we must support them. usemuslim brotherhood under of proclaimed allah used it off hitler's to wreak the holocaust upon the jews as the fine punishment and praised him for putting the jews in their place. winning the struggle is personal to me. my father was a bombardier in world war ii and participated in a dj air campaign. he bombed not these. i recently visited auschwitz to see the terror and systematic extermination see not these perpetrated on the jewish people and the horrors of the gas .hambers what my father and their fathers were fighting again

al qaeda was the number one. they had approximately 32,000 members, potential fighters. 16 years we have invaded two countries, toppled three regions, and conducted military responses in a number of nations. 10,000ng nearly hundred adherents. if somebody want to make the argument how the military strategies doing well, i would love to hear that in the lunch session because the logical implication that all of our military efforts have not achieved the main goals we're looking at. sub point to the previous. we've conducted strikes as part of the war on terror in seven muslim-majority countries. you're supposed to be able to see three bars here, a bar that represents the average number of tax in the 14 years prior to 2001, a bar for 2001, and a bar for the 14 years after 2001. with the exception of pakistan, you only see the bars afterwards. all the terror activity that we are experiencing today did not precede but followed u.s. military strikes in the u.s. alter strategy to combat the war on terror. all right. i we

we can talk about isis, al qaeda, the muslim motherhood. we can talk about the islamic radical of iran. we can talk about hezbollah, many of the hamas forces. >> right. >> is so when you look at this array, they don't all represent the same kind of challenge. when you look at this, does it call for a more calibrated strategy in your mind or do think one set of principles works for all? what do you think about that? >> i think one of the big ideas is to knowledge we never have the enough of what we would like to have. soldiers with enough money, enough bandwidth nowadays. so you have to, at the and of the day, prioritize and to some to have. degree no element is going to get everything they want as the absolute priority. that means of course the others are not going to get all that they want. you have got to assess in a very cold-i'd weigh what elements are posing the greatest threat to our homeland and the homeland of our allies and partners, which pose the potential for another 9/11. you've got to do this in a very brutally realistic manne

the iranian al qaeda links that the president mentioned? director pompeo: i cannot say a whole lot more than he said, but i think it is an open secret and not classified information that there have been relationships. there are connections. there have been times the iranians have worked alongside al qaeda. the state is going to release in the next handful of days related to a rate who -- that may prove interesting to those who wish to take a look at the issue a little further, but there have been connections were at the very least they have cut deals so as not to come after each other. as ais a view in the west greater threat. the intelligence community has reported on this for an awfully long time. it is something we are very mindful of, and with the defeat of the real state proposition in syria anorak for isis, we watch what is going on where you have isis folks, al qaeda folks up in the north. we are watching to see if there are not places where they work together for a common threat against united dates. states.d >> let's take that thre

it was also al qaeda that grew out of the brotherhood. president morsi and the so-called arab spring liberate them. president al sissi is trying to restrain them. and we must support him. the muslim brotherhood under youssef al kharadawi proclaimed that allah used adolf hitler to wreak the holocaust against the jews as divine punishment and praised him for putting the jews in their place. winning the struggle is personal for me. my father was a bombardier in world war ii and participated in the d-day air campaign. he bombeded the nazis. i recently visited auschwitz to see firsthand the terror and systematic exterminations that the nazis perpetrated on the jewish people and the horrors of the gas chambers and dr. mengele. what my father and ed royce's father and their generation was fighting against was pure evil. it is no surprise that the radical islamists were then allies of the nazis. as a once famous jewish man said in jewish history, there are no consequences, we must always remember and never forget. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank

we were there on day one in the skies against isis, and we are together now in yemen fighting al qaeda together. this partnership goes back a long way, as far back as the late '80s and early '90s, the crown prince of abu dhabi forged a close working relationship with general norren schwarzkopf. actually, it was more than that, they developed a friendship. and here we are many decades later, where i have the privilege of introducing general votel today. this partnership has made the uae safer. it's made the region safer. but the point that gets overlooked far too often is that that partnership also made the u.s. safer. now, of course, there's much more to do, and we still have to make much more progress, even despite our best efforts against al qaeda and isis. and as we do, another extremist threat has been gaining strength the entire time, and that threat is iran. we welcome president trump's new strategy to address the full range of iranian interference and destabilization. this includes its growing ballistic missile program, support for terrorist organizations, cyber attacks, interfe

under escort of al-qaeda i mean it's called a little bit on the b.b.c. and c.n.n.ght now no they're not reporting it very well but i mean you do you will find references to it this is and certainly all the experts in the area the journalists tweeting amongst themselves or commenting on it. this is all i hear it all sean this is the latest alias of al qaeda they are firmly in control of provinces it's as she how do you paradise there and turkey which was illegally armed trained in south you know these these and other jihadi proxies for the last six years the answer is not to fight al qaeda but under al-qaeda escort to take up positions against the kurdish camps and afrin and this is a complete violation of the austin argument the syrian government has called for turkey to get out turkey meanwhile in the other area they control in north central syria is setting up turkish government post offices urging doesn't play well you need serious staging the tribes you know one of the things that you know again looking at the mainstream. cheering on defeating isis in syria and