to this show we will be taking here and out of there but in the meantime i've been speaking to colleen rowley she's a former f.b.i. special agent and she says the scale of the bombing shows that foreign assistance had to have been given to the perpetrators of the attacks. the knowledge of how to make bombs except drought usually get shared and this is one of the reasons why terrorism has gone up the war zones are the fertile ground of the training and i think there's actually been some mock attribution they usually put out a video that shows that there's some truth and in this case it's not surprising at all but when you get this what the united states said they didn't want to do after nine eleven was to have a war on islam you now have that problem because you have radical islamic extremists attacking. christians and whatever and you also have radical christians extremist christians in area and you know groups attacking mosques it's almost like this is going to do nothing but ratchet up the problem and make it worse and worse unless the you know people return to a saner approach to terrorism

right but let's go back now to our top story of course the attacks in sri lanka we can speak to colleen rowley who's a former f.b.i. special agent and she's joining us via skype from minneapolis in minnesota thank you very much indeed for talking to us i'm just wondering first of all what your thoughts are about what appears to be a spectacular failure of communication between two wings of government the prime the president's office on the one hand and the prime ministers on the other. well it looks to be exactly on a par with the intelligence failures that led to nine eleven and which i was actually a whistleblower about and which the nine eleven commission described as a failure to share information within agencies between agencies and with the public that was their main conclusion as what as to what enabled nine eleven attacks if aliar to share information it looks like this is exactly the same and i don't know how much you know about sri lanka in particular but the prime minister today i mean up to a fairly rigorous examination from the assembled media and he dealt with the issue but he se

more now on our top story that of course the aftermath of the easter sunday attacks in sri lanka colleen rowleyis a former f.b.i. special agent in the u.s. she says the scale of these bombings shows that foreign assistance was given to the perpetrators. the knowledge of how to make bombs except drought usually get shared and this is one of the reasons why terrorism has gone up the war zones are the fertile ground of the training and i think there's actually been some ah attribution they usually put out a video that shows that there's some proof and in this case it's not surprising at all but when you get this what the united states said they didn't want to do after nine eleven was to have a war on islam you now have that problem because you have radical islamic extremists attacking. christians and whatever and you also have radical christians extremist christians in area and you know groups attacking mosques it's almost like this is going to do nothing but ratchet up the problem and make it worse and worse unless the you know people return to a saner approach to terrorism the united states has