s. succeeded in killing al qaeda leader. i man, i'll so ari with a drone. according to the pentagon, dozens of taliban and al qaeda militants have been taken out by drone strikes. but the fact remains that after 20 years at the u. s. war the taliban art once again in power. this former u. s. space is now a taliban police headquarters. the police chief is a former militant. he claims that drone strikes drive people to extremism. oh, wonderful. you can go to list it up or fucker is the mac. i believe that will or less, more and more innocent people were dying at the many people losing their families so much. and that's when we saw the number of militants increasing with us for the to do more of a national rocker with it's a fairy, even the c. i came to the conclusion in an internal study conducted several years ago that drones might have military advantages. but could also give rise to new enemies of the u. s. u. s. drones targeted the taliban, but in every village here, people tell us about strikes that claimed the lives of innocent people. the u. s. militar

in july 2022 al qaeda leda. i man also watery. was killed by a u. s. drown strike in cobble afghanistan. mm. no matter how long it takes, no matter where you. hi. if you are a threat to our people, united states will find you. take you out. the u. s. uses drones to kill alleged terrorists around the wild with or without a declaration of war executions without trial. august the 29th 2021 original footage filmed from a jo as combat drone suckling over cobble scanning for terrorists. nato forces on heightened didn't days earlier. an i as terrorist attack, killed over 170 people with cobble add port among them. with 13 us soldiers, many of the victims were trying to leave the country after the about takeover. but in other parts of the city, life was continuing as normal hulu. the exam is in the, it was a sunday and as it up we were outside was st. updating the kids were playing, they were happy with, i need to, there was going to be a wedding that we were just on the shopping that he got to see that golden. around 9 a. m, the u. s. military receives int

both have ties to al qaeda and the 2001 aumf dealt with al qaeda. all this talk about a re-emergence of isis, read the inspector general's report of the last quarter that indicates that isis is not a threat to the homeland and with the turks conducting operations in syria against isis, with assad and russia having every incentive to create pressure on isis, do i not believe that what stands -- do i not believe that what stands between a caliphate and not a caliphate are the 900 americans who have been sent here with no definition of victory, no clear objective, and purely existing as a vestige to the regime change failed foreign policies of multiple former presidents. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: pleased to yield as much time he may consume to the gentleman from montana, mr. zinkey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from montana, is recognized. mr. zinke: i thank you, mr. speaker. i stand before you today in strong opposition to resolution

in a secret, uh, and instead of him , uh, usada comes to the leadership of al-qaeda. apparently he was recruited by the americans. we must give them their due, they made a good choice, they found a very successful candidate , promising in many respects, and this is exactly what happened in afghanistan, there is no doubt that this happened in afghanistan with the withdrawal of soviet troops from afghanistan, the main enemy, how to say , left, yes, he is with the political scene in afghanistan and the search for a new enemy begins, most likely, uh, bin laden just left the influence of american intelligence services and at the same time in relation to his family with mean americans and er with the arab elite throughout the ruling elites throughout the east, they survived and father. uh, bin laden himself publicly renounced it. in order to bring their assets out of harm's way. in general, here's the murder of bin laden himself. maybe i'm getting a little ahead of myself. this is also a very mysterious story. uh, since who prevented the americans, uh, take him prisoner and

defeated al-qaeda in iraq. and brought the level of violence down to the point where it was not a strategic threat to the regime in baghdad and where politics could resume. we paid a huge price. we, the american people, our men and women in uniform, those of our coalition and allies, most of all the iraqi people both in terms of -- of loss of life, injury, disruption, failure to get on to being able to build their country. and opportunity cost because we lost the leverage of our remarkable military operations in both afghanistan and iraq as we got bogged down with both of those countries. on the opportunity cost, people forget that because of the effectiveness of them, muammar gaddafi gives up the weapons of mass destruction. the iranians we learned that they suspended most of their iranian covert development and and enrichment program. why? because they thought they were going the be next. we work through didi -- diplomacy working with three european countries. we get a similar agreement in iran in 2003 and 20

we didn't know enough about al qaeda. and we needed to try to get ahead of the game and also not to be surprised again. and one of the things the president gets criticized for, the so-called axis of evil speech, where he talked about iran, iraq, and north korea and he said they represent an axis of evil. when the president wanted to give that speech we thought the problem was going to be evil, the use of evil, and everyone would say, well, this is bush, once again, on this religious crusade. the problem was the word axis. are you saying there's a coalition? and what the president said -- people didn't pay enough attention to was i think these three countries share a common characteristics where they're pursuing weapons of mass destruction, which we thought hussein was at the time, and they're supporting terrorism. and therefore, could there be a link where weapons of mass destruction would get in the hands of terrorists? having been through 9/11 and seeing what 19 terrorists could do with box cutters, you can only imagine

and in terms of its support for terrorism, we have established that iraq has permitted al qaeda to operate within its territory. were these claims just prefect use to, for the long term objective of some of the administration so overthrow saddam in how much the sending evidence was ignored and the run up to the war. last, this week's headliner, former u. s. under secretary of state for arms control, john both the john bolton. thank you so much for joining me on upfront. i had to be with you or you or president george w bush's under secretary of state for arms control and international affairs in the lead up to the iraq war. and you were one of the strongest advocates for the invasion of iraq saying, quote, we are confident that saddam hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction or w. indeed in iraq. what intelligence even at the time, didn't fully support that statement throughout 2002, there were many descending views within the us intelligence community and from the united nations around these claims of w. m. d 's in iraq. in fact, in september 2002, about 2 months before you made tha

niger has channels of negotiations with al qaeda affiliates.n you have his directions, you have to have channels of negotiation in order to counter them. sometimes, it ends up helping in a hostage situation. >> until today, the left proof of life from dubois was a video released in march pretty 21 -- 2021. he was the last french hostage in the world. now, finally safe. >> someone else kidnapped in niger more than six years ago was also released today. jeffrey woodke was kidnapped where he had been doing -- humanitarian work. the biden administration says his release was the result of years of effort. no ransom money was paid. just days after an international arrest warrant was issued for vladimir putin, he was giving a political left as xi jinping kicks off a three-day visit to moscow. the visit has been closely watched in western capitals. president xi said his visit would give it new momentum to ties between moscow and beijing. of the subjects key leaders will be discussing is china's 12 point position on the ukraine public. it aims to end th

a cauldron of frequent attacks on american forces by armed groups, including by al qaeda. >> it reallyle of death. you left in the morning and you didn't know if you would come back home. >> dhahi was a low level member of saddam's baath party and initially supported the sunni insurgency, before it was taken over by al qaeda. >> in the beginning, there were strong sympathy when the resistance when it wasn't yet al qaeda because they were hitting the americans. but the americans had armored vehicles, but the ordinary civilians are in the street, so the biggest death toll was among the iraqis. >> both sunni and shia civilians were caught in the middle. further south in the town of twareej, we meet jebel abdel amir. he used to work as a minibus driver and often took passengers on the dangerous journey through the triangle of death. >> there were so many victimin this area. >> but one incident remains etched in his memory: an american military convoy opened fire on his own family while they were driving down this road. >> we were driving very slowly, the american soldier got angry at us, h

saddam hussein was believed to be supporting al-qaeda.had an exceptionally antagonistic relationship with al-qaeda, and when the americans launched their attack on the officer corps, which consisted of souvenirs on the administrative apparatus and so on. eh, then eh, here. this balance was disturbed and the country plunged into complete chaos for many years, and in the army of the sunnets there were most and all officers of all generals, as a rule, there were sunnis and in the party and thus . uh, all leadership cadres. they were subject to expulsion from the state apparatus. this was already an example. autizations in the middle east this was an example where the actions of the united states caused, uh, thousands of americans to die in the first place. there, most of the american military personnel were then treated, uh, such was a severe syndrome. uh, psychological when the americans dropped a bomb on a bomb shelter on civilians and not all shells hit military facilities , many civilian facilities and houses were destroyed a thousand pe

al qaeda is not defeated, isis is not defeated. they have been dealt a blow, but if we take our eye off the ball, they will come back here and the easiest targets are those on the front lines and a radical is ism that would kill us all if they could. i think the administration is right to keep that residual force in iraq as an insurance policy against the rise of isis. but you're wrong not having your voice lent to the cause that the authorization to use military force against shiite militias, that needs to be the law of the land. we owe it to those in iraq. it's not a hypothetical problem. 56 attacks in the last two years and if we pull the plug on the aumf and iraq without dealing with -- without dealing with the shiite militia threat will send a horrible signal at the worse possible time. i urge a yes vote for this amendment to replace the 2002 aumf with a specific authorization to use military force against shiite militias that are attacking americans continuously in the last two years to protect those that are on the front lin

right now with al qaeda they are not a threat since we killed al-zawahiri.y has replaced him that is gone down. but isisk continues to grow, my concern with taliban saying to isis-k, you go extic external. i think within 6 months you may see it, our concern we have difficulty in picking up chatter, we had the ability to do that while in afghanistan with our cia teams, we don't have that any more. first time we see something happen it will be an explosion, not in the united states, they will go after ssofter targets, in regions of american interest. are they they threat, they are, that say reason for that is how we left afghanistan. we let them grow. trey: this is the way i'm going to praise it, not your words, there seems to be a growing isolationism within the republican party, they want all troops out of syria they don't want to arm ukraine, they wanted out of afghanistan that was both republican president and a democrat president. is this isolationism degrading our ability to get intelligence we need to thwart a terrorist attack from isis-k ? >> yeah, a g

they are doing that times thousands. >> john: your military career, senator, you went after al qaeda and isis. what should we do about the cartels? >> well, john, it is a terrible news story about the loss of two american lives and other two wounded. lindsey graham is right, though, we are losing 100,000 americans everything clear to drug debts, almost exclusively because of mexican drug cartels. the question posed to me a lot from arkansans and i always turn around to the question to them, i will do it to your viewers, as well, if isis and al qaeda have set up shop in juarez or monterey or tijuana, what would you expect your government to do? if they were killing 100 thousands of americans a year? whatever that is, that is exactly what we should do to them in mexico. with or without the mexican government. we have a long history of our military protecting us, these threats, drug traffickers and narco terrorists. we toppled an entire government in panama in 1989 because of drug trafficking. it is well known that special operation forces were present in columbia 1993 when pablo escoba

al qaeda regroups and in 2014 comes in and takes 40 percent of iraq. and in some sense defeats all the good that came out of this. it is president obama, not bush who sends in troops to help the iraqis out isis but it's a different model. it's not the kind ofhundred 60,000 occupy the country . it is by with and through iraqi forces. in a supported and trained mission and that is the mission that continues to this day with 2500 troops. it is the right model for how we help countries held a democratic process and i am not pessimistic about iraq. i think iraq after all it's been through, the trauma of saddam and the trauma of four years of security chaos, the trauma of the invasion about crisis, fluctuation in oil prices, covid-19, meddling by turkey and syria, this is a government that held together, has fixed now seven and fair elections, peaceful transition to power. yes the turnout is down and people get disillusioned with governments that don't team to be producing but it is a struggling democracy and there are signs of hope. i think it is still poss

al qaeda crushed.no denying we went to war on a false promis. >> john: general jack keane to kick us off this week. good to get your thoughts on things. >> great talking to you, john, thank you. >> dana: also in the middle east a wave of deadly shootings in israel and west bank sparking fears the security situation is deteriorating as ramadan approaches. good morning, trey. >> over the weekend an israeli american dual citizen was shot and injured while driving through the west bank. it was carried out by a palestinians gunman. the victim is a former u.s. marine. stern was able to return fire before israeli shoulder tracked down and arrested the shooter. prayers for a speedy recovery and for calm to prevail. since the shooting the israeli military has closed down the west bank town that sits just south of the city over fears of retaliatory attacks. who israeli citizens were shot and killed there a month ago. it led to is railey settlers lighting cars on fire and burning the area. security officials rema

media uncritically repeated dubious claims about weapons of mass destruction and possible links to al qaeda claims that were thoroughly debunked in the months and years that followed. so how complicit was the media in selling the iraq war to the public and has the press learned any lessons from past failures? that's our discussion this week in it up front special. ah, joining us today is katrina vanden heuvel, publisher and editorial director of the nation norman solomon, founder and executive director of the institute for public accuracy and author of war made easy. how presidents and pundents keep spinning us to death. and peter, o born former chief political commentator for the daily telegraph, an author of the rise of political lying, want to thank you all for joining me on up front. katrina. i'm going to start with you in the lead up to the iraq war. we saw officials and sarah gets up with the administration of then us president george w bush making the rounds in the press. and during those press rounds, it seemed like they were making a real effort to link the security of the united s

we eliminated an ally of al-qaeda and cut off the terrorists' source of funding.efinitely not one terrorist network that will not receive weapons of mass destruction from the arak regime, because that regime is no more. bush, as it were, poured onto the brains of the whole world that which did not have time to get enough sleep from the notorious test tube. colin powell it all started with less than a teaspoon of anthrax spores . approximately this amount was required to close the us senate in the fall of 2001. iraq announced the availability of eight and a half thousand liters of this substances terrible deceit in the walls. it will turn into terror. losses, especially striking are their difference of 4,500 military personnel from the united states and yes, one and a half million iraqi dead. 330 times the vast majority of these civilian casualties , the invasion claimed not only the lives of ordinary iraqis among the dead, but also the sons of asadam hussein and his fourteen-year-old grandson, and he himself decided to sentence saddam hussein al-majid to death by

we go after isis and al qaeda with everything we've got.t's why we are demanding and asking to give these authorities to the white house and for example we are not talking about invading mexico. that was hyperbole to jenna then nationalist space. for example, offenses cyberthat rest with us military cybercommand. we have to give that authority to use those military assets or space assets are going after the many with other types of authorities to dismantle their leadership using special operations forces. there are all kinds of tools we can use. we did this in the nineties. we did this against the cartels and dismantled them. so that the kantian government could handle it through traditional law enforcement. that's the point we are at now. steve: do you think this can be done without the cooperation of the mexican government but opposing it? >> . >> we are at a point now to send a very clear message. much like donald trump to say we have to do this with you or without you. we have no choice. we cannot except under international law to allow

president, al qaeda did this." bush said, "look, i want to know any shred."rk added later that he felt they were being intimidated to find a link between 9/11 attacks and iraq. and when the attack on iraq came in 2003, at the leading democrats -- joe biden, hillary clinton, as students were being dragged out of her office in new york, she was editor at the time, she voted for the war in iraq. talk about the consensus at that point. the media was building this consensus for war. >> that is an important point. there was a convergence of different ways and factis. we know from the early 1990's, the group of neocons had already started this notion of changing the regime in iraq. not for the benefit of theraq is for liberty or freedom, but protecting the interest of israel and u.s. jiminy. then it converges with bush's vision -- let's remember, those who are old enough to remember but i think younger viewers should realize and should read about the type of messianic and insane vision bush has a mandate from god, the lingering issue of his father and supposed assas

they want to purify islam in their own image, isis and al qaeda. they want to destroy the state of israel and eventually come after us. leaving them alone doesn't guarantee you much. in 2001, before 9/11, we didn't have one soldier in afghanistan. we didn't have an embassy etch -- embassy. the attack on 9/11 originated in afghanistan. when do you learn they are out to get you, when i say you, i mean americans. they have a world view that has no place for you. the good news is most people in the mideast are not buying what they're selling, but they're very lethal and dangerous left unattended. when you create the right mix of u.s. forces and local forces, you pretty well keep them on the run and keep them at bay. so to those who suggest we shouldn't be in syria with 900 u.s. forces to prevent isis from coming back, you're setting the sustainable for a reemergence of isis. once is enough, folks. they destroyed the yazidis population, raped women by the thousands and created carnage all over syria and iraq and projected attacks against american wester

and he had this tie up with al qaeda and that had to have been a state sponsor of 911. and of course it had to have been saddam and worn, and i divided up the work i started looking at the weapons of mass destruction ah question. and quickly came to doing the journalism to the understanding that it was not a clear case that he was amassing weapons of mass destruction. he had been under the most rigid, most intense un inspection program up to that date. and there were a satellites and spy planes watching iraq. and they were not uncovering anything, if in fact, what they were fighting was they are, they were either finding the remnants of these programs or they were learning that in fact he had gotten rid of these programs. and, you know, that took us into the, into this reporting project where we determined that the information and i call it information, not intelligence, that the administration was using to justify the invasion to sell to the united, to the american people. was in fact, either bogus, exaggerated, or was cherry picked and that's exactly what came to be k

this, despite the state broke off the problem, 20 full price offer is an interview with a reputed al qaeda lee that pulls it up. role among local brands. 24 claims freedom of speech, but you cannot talk about freedom of speech, freedom of expression. when you talk about terrorism, they can be unhappy all they want, but it is our country, and our country is fighting terrorism. so the decision is just with today, and i welcome to the international cost in life from moscow. i'm willing to mommy and it's always good to have you with this. let's take a look at the top floor. is this out ross? for a mess as hell. toltz was his russian cast park in moscow about miles for a conference of strategic partnership treaty between the 2 countries. he praised their nations corporation and international relations earliest with him to archie. the visiting topped diplomat issued scathe and criticism of the us saxons tad. and why on american sanctions are perceived as a field policy. we believe that the sanctions are an instrument of economic terrorism against peoples. however, the islamic republic of iran, i

it gave rise to groups like al qaeda in iraq and isis, and it cost billions in us taxpayer dollars. but what happened on the ground in the weeks and months that followed the invasion, paul bremer was appointed by then president george w bush to head the coalition provisional authority. the temporary transitional government established, just after the invasion. he held the post from 2003 to 2004. mister bremo, or thank you for joining me on up front. thank you. you arrived in baghdad to lead the cpa less than 2 weeks after president bush stood in front of a banner and declared mission accomplished on board an aircraft carrier in the pacific. over the next 13 months. while you were in charge, iraq, now effectively a lawless state was seeing the rise of a violent insurgency. there were the now infamous really revelations about torture and i will re, are there are billions of dollars in reconstruction funds, allegedly squandered or misplaced, or all this happens in just over a year. in a recent article you wrote that when you arrived in baghdad in 2003, you found very different conditio

classes for suspending the state broadcast of france. 24 is offered an interview with a reputed al qaeda leda, causing uproar among the locals. france, 24 claims, freedom of speech, but you cannot talk about freedom of speech, freedom of expression. when you talk about terrorism, they can be unhappy all they want, but it is our country, and our country is fighting terrorism. so the decision is just a finding the globe live for moscow. it's time for your news on asi international. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu slams what he calls, the country's closest friends, saying israel will define its own path independently. now, one of this coming on the heels of american criticism of the countries judicial reform, the spot nationwide protest. israel is the sovereign country, which makes is decisions by the will of its people and not based on precious from abroad, including from the best of friends i trying to learn more cross a lot of that or correspond i'm or if an ocean are there, she is maria, very good afternoon to you. this is a pretty fascinating story. frankly, the prime minist