all sorts not just of dogs as director of future terrorism project at the foundation for defense of democracies in washington d.c. sir thank you for being on r.t. to talk about these very unfortunate events in the norwegian capital tonight and just as well it has to be said that noise participation in nato operations has been identified as a major factor maybe behind these attacks at least that's the claim of a group called the helpers of global jihad who said they are responsible for these one of these events tonight but why norway do you think well first of all we have to look to whole history between the jihadist movement the wonder claims and so good name today and those who find themselves a different name five six years ago norway has been you know over the past decade on. that was announced by usama bin ladin now dead and by someone here and at that time in the middle we've been asking ourselves what a good norway but there is another one and the fact is that inside norway they wear homegrown or actually locally grown jihadi groups who have been battling politically with the government o

horowitz the manifesto also cited right wing american organizations like the foundation for the defense of democracies the middle east media research institute and pajamas media basically the manifesto reads like a who's who of radical right wing bloggers condon's and phony experts who set up shop not in norway but right here in america to spread fear and hatred of muslims breivik also used his manifesto to attack climate change citing how the two thousand and nine so called climate gate scandal proved that manmade climate change is a hoax it's unclear if private concrete arrived to that conclusion by watching fox news's endless stream of coverage devoted to so-called climate gate but what is clear is a lot of the arguments and ideas breivik claims motivated him can be heard every single day and fox news and the rest of the right we need. so what we have here is a frightened and angry man who lashed out at his progressive our region government with unspeakable violence and who got many of his ideas from the very same people who are fomenting hate against muslims and progressives here in america and it

he's gone nuts he's courting pamela geller frank gaffney david horowitz the foundations for defense of democracies pajamas media it's a who's who of the right wing you'll support and york times the washington post. i think it's offensive that you just led in with the right wing this is not well i'm not a right wing let's call let's let's not be nice to him let's call him what he is he's evil and what and it's not it's too nice to him to say he's an evil guy is you mates muslim is he who is he isn't terrible night tom. piers you of course not rational what do you think what do you think would be your game on progressive he quoted what do you think of one program so you put it well that this is easy and so i could do like noam chomsky were you thinking noam chomsky that's not the issue now is the issue this osama bin laden went on when he's one of his rants held up a noam chomsky book and said this is what this is a book that americans should read do you play noam chomsky for the death of three thousand people in the world trade center says i was you know noam chomsky it's the same type of our god i

joining us now former terrorism analyst and vice president for research at the foundation for defense of democracieszer. jonathan, first of all, do you agree with that assessment? >> i think you need to caveat that assessment. i think we're talking about the potential end of the headquarters, the pakistani-based core of al qaeda that was run by osama bin laden. if you look at the reports they're talking not about the end of the affiliate networks or some of the other outlying groups associated with al qaeda in yemen or north africa or elsewhere and certainly not the end of the taliban. you're looking at core group of individuals founded al qaeda and running it over the years. that may be on the brink of collapse but let's not say this movement is near its end. jon: so a little bit like turning the lights and cockroaches scatter? you may kill them off in places like afghanistan but they are over in the other places, somalia and arabian peninsula? >> that's right. actually this is a testament to bin laden's plan for the al qaeda network. he created a more diffuse network after the united states began

fellow in the executive structure of the center for the counterterrorism of the foundation for defense of democracy is as a result of the extensive research and writing his distinguished himself as a terrorism expert focusing on how al qaeda and other organizations operate on the world and is the senior editor of the long war journal. we welcome you back and you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much a devotees the three german king and ranking member thompson and other members of the committee having me here today to talk about al-shabaab. my colleagues have been falling since 2006, 2007 fairly closely, and there are two principal observations i come to that i want to share with you today. first is to our mind al-shabaab as a threat to u.s. interests abroad and the homeland and second is most of the terrorism is actually focused on muslims both in somalia is a muslims i would say internationally. to the first point, the threat to the u.s. only five like to point to the committee to have been previously with the al qaeda peninsula in yemen. prior to the december 25th, 2009 terroris

defense of. support has been dubbed an affront to democracy. divers have lifted more bodies from the water the sunken pleasure cruise. it brings the official death toll from russia's worst disaster to one hundred twelve meanwhile the police have made the first arrests detaining the owner of the company that rented out the ship and the person who certified it seaworthy. is at the site. the first two arrests have been made in the ongoing criminal investigations the first is in new york and she's been arrested because she was the owner of the company that rented the pleasure boat for its final cruise and it's thought that she may have known about the poor condition of the ship but when she made that decision to rent it the second shot of here's a state shipping expert and he cleared the ship as fit to sail some time ago and it's thought that he may have been negligent in making that decision they will stay in detention for around a month to be questioned and then the case will go on from there emergencies ministry here on the volga bank and the di

defense of at and t. boycott bill which aims to support settlers. affront to democracy. but to washington where russia lays out a new step by step strategies who want to run the neighboring terrans back to negotiating table for its nuclear. same a credit rating agency that sparked fresh panic in the e.u. has now threatened the u.s. moody's says it's reviewing america's top aaa debt rating for a downgrade citing the political bickering that's deadlocked budget negotiations in washington and even if the budget is approved it's unlikely that it will offer a solution to america's debt that's according to investor co-founder of the quantum fund jim rogers u.s. rating should have been downgraded years ago you know i don't know why they're just now getting around to it but we know that the rating agencies don't have much of a clue about anything blued is trying to save itself why didn't they tell you great portugal three years ago five years ago or greece you know they're just getting around to reality it's like the. prime mortgages they didn't downgrade anybody until it was al

of the pro democracy demonstrators. >>> tough words for iran for u.n. secretary of defense, leon panetta. from afghanistan. iran is supplying weapons to extremists in iraq as they prepare to leave the country. panetta says he will not walk away from this challenge and urging iraq to crack down on the insurgents. troops were killed in june. three more in the first ten days of this month. a few hours after panetta spoke with u.s. troops, three rockets landed in the green zone in central baghdad, no casualties. >>> in texas, hundreds of people attended the funeral service today for a man who fell to his death at a texas rangers baseball game. 39-year-old shannon stone will be buried in his hometown of brownwood. a firefighter died thursday after falling 20 feet while trying to catch a ball for his 6-year-old son with him at the game. josh hamilton tossed a foul ball to the stands. he reached for the ball but lost his balance and crashed head first to a score board. the rangers have donated an undisclosed sum of money to help the stone family. >>> even though british tabloid "news of the worl

on all of our democracy well speaking of some of his newspapers advocating for things the wall street journal penned a unsigned op ed last sunday essentially coming in a bit of that into a defense about themselves saying that it's not fair that every news corp journalist now falls under this umbrella they attack the new york times the guardian they attack pro publica and they attack them by comparing this phone hacking scandal to wiki leaks saying how dare those organizations that publish documents made public by wiki leaks actually have something to say here what do you think of that comparison. well i think if mr murdoch or any one of his entities is signing your paycheck you really need to think very long and very carefully before you go out and hurt the values that newspapers and journalists are brought up with those you know sadly many journalists ones over there and and here and some who work at the various decent newspapers have had their integrity questioned and compromised and it's going to take a while for that to be restored if it's going to be restored but one would hope that some of the reporters at the wall street journal would adhere to the great tradition of tha

breivik's lawyer adding the only reason he's taking the case is to defend an ideal of democracy, every person's right to a legal defense. the question now whether breivik could face more serious charges of crimes against humanity. greg burke is in oslo, norway, with more for us. >> reporter: hey, jon, that's right. in just about an hour they're going to start releasing names of the victims, of course, people know who many of them are, but this will be the first time the police start doing it officially. it's a long process because, of course, they have to notify the relatives first, and victims are located all over the country. now, earlier today breivik's lawyer giving some insight into what his client was thinking. he certainly does suggest he was insane or in the words of the lawyer, quote, not like one of us. he says his client was not aware of the reaction it has and the outrage that his actions have provoked. he also says that breivik thought he was going to be shot. he wouldn't, didn't think he would be able to pull it all off, but would be shot right after the bombing. the lawyer says breivik sees himself as th

democracy. a difficult to gain and easy to lose crowd disclosure puerto rico not as if we have something here that is part of a large defense system connected to significant defense conflicts like nato and two superpower like the united states with whom the czech republic and back here have only had the best of experiences and our safety will be ensured like never before in history ignorance this is the main point. i was harassed because as you received any feedback from the white house from president bush but the song you give me last year a woman who lives around her now do you know that was just a little thing. about that except for an interview with a native he's i don't remember ever getting back to it at seventy i don't have a car ever on. record what did the aide say good she liked it because i don't. have a lot of this is pretty crazy. this is a child after a bomb attack on can do. we want to bring. it to ask you about this place about your activities because in chicken years there is nothing about people like you there are just news about gordon brown and mr blair you know saving pilots and just. the thought yeah b

democracy and. but in reality he will have. believe that very low. changed. the british ministry of defense has apologized after one of its attack helicopters one of five children by mistake in afghanistan according to the u.n. a number of civilians killed by nato air strikes has gone up or the death toll this year alone standing at seventy nine anti-war activist linda german sayings it's time for the alliance to admit the failure of its afghan campaign i think that it will just convince more people in afghanistan the war isn't helping them really is actually killing and injuring more and more people so it isn't working it isn't going to work when you have a war where the recent growing insurgency will bring the full sort of people who are the victims of this and children are obviously one of the worst of the casualties the only solution to this is to say war isn't working it has there is absolutely no justification for nato forces to be there and that they should withdraw the troops this is now coming up to the tenth anniversary of the war and there is absolutely no question that this war

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of criminals. a beefy defense policy. lower taxes. fair enough. our country makes it. we decide things out of this back and forth add vvocaadvocac. whose turn is, noisy democracy at work. now a level to one side of this argument right now that's negative, nasty, out of hand. it it's threatening to destroy and behaving like the little rich kid who wants to leave the game, take his ball and go home. remember that kid? it's my ball and i want to go home. he's grown up now and says it's my money, and i want to go home and i want it all. is it really the main purpose of the united states government now to cut taxes on the wealthy? is that the purpose of government? not to deal with theç fact hal our kids are not grad grad weightedi i graduate from high school, and allowing emerging countries in the world to compete. it the purpose of this country of federal government tone sure the wealthy get the largest possible per percentage of growth? is that the purpose of society? make sure the people with money keep at much as possible? i don't any the overwhelming number of americans think it is spch i think people are a lot more enlightened than that and they need to spe

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democracy. we are difficult to gain and easy to lose out of our discussion with other grow not as if we have something here there is part of a large defense system connected to significant defense conflicts like nato and through super power like united states with whom the czech republic and slovakia have only had the best of experiences and our safety will be ensured like never before in history ignorance this is the main point. is you must make them did you receive any feedback from the white house from president bush but the song you give last year and a woman who was around her now do know that she was just a little thing. about that except for an interview with a native he's i don't remember ever gettin that to it at seventy one of the heart of rock i didn't want to be aged say good she liked it wasn't on. i thought this is pretty crazy. this is a child. after a bomb attack on can do. we want to rethink it's it to ask you about this place about your ex it's because in chicken years there is nothing with people like you there are just news about gordon brown and mr blair you know saving pilots and i just. thought yeah ok it was so sic

the sense of fair play and democracy in the marketplace again it's a fraud it's perpetuating a fraud and let me just put make a little side here the who's the biggest shareholder to come to defense on day one but saudi prince who's a big shareholder and of course the saudi arabia's a perfect example there is a country that's completely in the throes of a dictatorship or pernicious dictatorship portly the wealth and income gap is probably one of the highest in the world that's what the murdoch's aspire to they the spire to lords in service they speier to the divine right of schlepped cannot keep dictators well going back to the story about hedge funds ditching the shares and selling them to institutional investors institutional investors are also of course the passive funds of the pension funds so these once again all the risk all of the toxic waste all of the fraud all of the bad stuff gets dumped onto passive investors us chunks whether we're you know taxpayers or peasants in these this oligarchic system we get dumped with the risk whatever. or you want it doesn't matter it's what happened when we saw the same thing with british petroleum there were other reasons why they weren

think for example and israel defense geography and its infrastructure and all the rest and certainly the structure of new york and washington and the futures of the democracy and commitment to the middle east and civil liberties and all the rest, so we both have a profound concern with mutual terrorism but they are concerned about them and we are concerned about us as a first proposition and then there's a history distrust between the cia and the mossad feeling on behalf of the u.s. sometimes to manipulate us to our in-house which would be shocking. >> more so we have the cooperation that's also a g. the broad question of the israeli u.s. connection foreign policy is a very tricky one and when you address this as i have, you have to be really careful because you're going to make somebody mad. but there certainly has been an effort on behalf of the support of israel here in the united states to find the discussion of the u.s. national interest through israel, under very narrow bounds because they're supportive of the reform and that's fine. i try to distinguish my talk about the same profound commitment for the is right to israel to exist and never forget w

of economic injustice and racial justice. and, remember, malcolm is the person who talked about democracy's jagged edges. martin luther king talked about black america as a defense attorney. malcolm is a prosecuting attorney. king is defending black folks, white folks and white folks to black folks. what malcolm does, he takes black humanity as a given and says there's something wrong with a society that doesn't appreciate black humanity and black citizenship. and that society should be held culpable, all right? he's a prosecuting attorney in that sense, and he's consistent even when he's part of the nation of islam. he says that there's something wrong in a country that allows child abuse, that allows racial segregation, that allows poverty and that allows violence to be perpetbe waited against citizens just because they happen to be black, and that's why after john f. kennedy's killed, he's not rejoicing in the killing of kennedy, he's saying that the killing is connected to chickens coming home to roost because the united states is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world, and that violence has had a boomerang effect and killed a sitting u.s. president.

in 1996 when congress passed the defensive marriage act, the taste of the old bitter fruit filled my mouth again. the act is a stap op our democracy. we must do away with this unjust discriminatory law once and for all. it reminds me of another dark time in our nation's history. in many years when state passed laws banning blacks and whites from marrying. we look back on that time now with disbelief, and one day we will look back on this period with the same sense of disbelief. when people used to ask dr. martin luther king, jr., he said racists do not fall in love and get married. individuals fall in love and get marrieded. marriage is a basic human right. no government, federal or state, should tell people they cannot be married. we should encourage people to love and not hate. human rights, women rights, these are issues of dignity. every human being walking this earth, man or woman, gay or straight, is entitled to the same rights. it is in keeping with the american premise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. these words mean as much now as they did at the signing of the declaration of independence. that is why cong

democracy? i'm willing to make the tough choices. i have already made a tough choice, to support this significant and draconian cuts in domestic spending, with very little coming out of defense when more should come. i wanted to get rid of sacred cows like the ethanol subsidy, like the oil and gas subsidy, those sacred cows that just slurp it up and milk the public trough. but oh, no, we couldn't go to revenues. we just had to go to cuts. so guess what? democrats have compromised. we have gone 80% of the way. why can't they come the other 20% and say yes to reid. reid gives us a deadline through 2013 which provides the certainty that the credit ratings look like. we make a significant down payment on reducing the debt, and we have a political process, and i'm willing to put more teeth in it, a political process to get rid of tax earmarks, and that's what they are, make no mistake. they are tax earmarks for the pampered and the prosperous. i'm ready to reform that and then taking the look at entitlement reform. madam president, i think the reid proposal is the path forward. what i say is we wrap up. could we put politics aside? could we put partisan sniping aside? could we no

defense. i know a lot of americans don't like that. i don't like it either, but it's the way it is. we are the arsenal of democracy. when america doesn't fly, wars go on longer, more people get raped, more people get killed, and let me tell you if gadhafi survives, this is the end of nato. if you don't want america to go alone in this dangerous world, count me in, but who are we going to partner with if the u.n. is seen by the american people as unreliable group to deal with dictators, and it is, what if nato is no longer an organization that people throughout the world respect on the side of good and the evil side of the ledger duped care if -- doesn't care if nato gets involved because they don't have the will to do anything about it so we should be involved with our nato partners. our nato partners depend on libya more than we do. they came to afghanistan not because they were attacked, but because we were attacked. they were our friends. they are our allies. they've been with us making sure afghanistan never goes back into the darkness, a place to attack us or them again, so when they need us, i'll tell preside

defense. i know a lot of americans don't like that. i don't like it either but it's the way it is. we are the arsenal of democracy. when america doesn't fly, wars go on longer, more people get raped, more people get killed. and let me tell you, if qadhafi survives, this is the end of nato. and if you don't want america to go alone in this dangerous wor world, count me in. but who are we going to partner with if the u.n. is seen by the american people as an unreliable group to deal with dictators -- and it is? what if nato is no longer an organization that people throughout the world respect on the side of good and the evil side of the ledger doesn't care if nato gets involved because they don't have the will to do anything about it? so we should be involved with our nato partners. our nato partners depend on libya more than we do. they came to afghanistan not because they were attacked but because we were attacked. they were our friends, they're our allies. they've been with us trying to make sure afghanistan never goes back into the darkness, a place to attack us or them again. so when they need us, i would tell