general john allen spoke exclusively to al jazeera jordan and talked about the challenges that lie aheadter: retired u.s. general john allen and president barack obama's man in charge of campaign against i.s.i.l. islamic state in iraq and levante, for six months he has been working with more than 60 countries to stop the group's spread. in an exclusive interview i asked general allen what kind of enemy i.s.i.l. has become. >> i would say that in many respects dash has become a proto state in some respects. it points to a peace of terrain that it calls a capitol. it has attempted local governance that look like provincial governments and has attempted to have its own currency. in some respects when it transitioned to becoming a proto state it created its own vulnerabilities. >> reporter: allen says i.s.i.l. doesn't have enough people to hold the land in syria and iraq it calls its own and the pentagon released this map on monday officials say that since september i.s.i.l. has lost between $1 1.3 hectors of territory and doesn't mean there is peace and say they are targeted by shia malitia

general allen talked exclusively to our white house correspondent rosalyn jordan. >> reporter: retired u.s. general john allen is barack obama's man in charge of the global campaign against i.s.i.l the islamic state of iraq and the levant. more than six months he's been working with more than 60 countries to stop the group's spread. in an exclusive interview i asked general allen what kind of enemy i.s.i.l. has become. >> i would say that in many respects daesh has become a protoe-state in some respects. it points to a piece of terrain it calls a capital it has local governments through imirs and emwallis it has attempted to have its own currency. in some respects when it transitioned to become a proto-state, it has. >> pentagon released this map on monday. officials say that since september, i.s.i.l. has lost between 1.3 and 1.3 million hectares of territory. but in iraq regaining territory doesn't mean there's peace. sunni residents say they're being targeted by shiite militia. prime minister haider al-abadi who is shia, made a point over raising the flag over liberated tikrit. >> does the coalition h

retired general john allen spoke to rosalyn jordan about the challenges that lie ahead. >> retired u.s. general john allen is president obama's man in charge of the global campaign against isil, the islamic state of iraq and the levant. he's worked to stop the group's spread with more than 60 countries. i asked general allen what kind of enemy isil has become. >> i would say that in many respects daish has become a protostate in some respects. it points to a piece of terrain that it calls a capital. it has that attempted local governance three emirs that look like provincial governments. it has even attempted to have its own currency, so in some respects when it transitioned to becoming a protostate, it created its own vulnerabilities. >> isil doesn't have enough people to hold the lands in syria and iraq it calls its own. coincidentally, the pentagon released this map on monday. officials say that since september, isil has lost between 1.3 and 1.7 million heck tars of territory. in iraq, regaining territory doesn't mean peace. sunni residents say they are targeted by shia militias. pr

john allen spoke to rosiland jordan and talked about the challenges that lie ahead. >> reporter: retired u.s. general john allen is president barack obama's man in charge of the campaign against isil. i asked general allen what kind of enemy isil has become. >> i would say that -- that in many respects daesh has become a pro toe state in some respects. it points to a peace of terrain that it calls the capitol. it has attempted local governments through amirs and wallies that look like provincial governments. it has even attempted to have its own currency. so in some respects it created its own vulnerabilities. >> reporter: and he says it doesn't have enough people to hold the areas it calls its own. officials say since september they have lost between 1.3 and 1.7 million 1.7 million hectors territory. the prime minister who is shia and the sunni governor recently made pint of raising the national flag over liberated ta tikrit. does the coalition have a moral obligation to stay engaged as long as possible to essentially get both sunni and shia to learn how to coexist again inside iraq? >> the u.s. gov

. >> host: and that's general john allen. >> guest: then the senator kind of adopted us. we were great. we were prepared to go sit in the back in the corner so we could take pictures of all of these people and that's when we went through the receiving line and mrs. obama said you're sitting with us tonight and who does that you know, we are just military parents, we have a farm, we were just blown away. we had a lovely night. >> host: did you pick the purple dress? >> guest: i wore a purple dress that night. >> host: explain what that means. >> guest: that is the color of joint forces. when our daughter commissioned to the air force, the commandant at the time was a captain and told me you are the joint forces mom. so i ended up picking a purple dress and later on when i was asked to introduce the first lady, one i already have in my closet that already happened to be purple. but it's kind of even the bigger idea that when we all need to be a joint force to support our military. it's against the enemies that we know and don't know. so, purple is way up there on my list of

. >> host: and that's general john allen?> guest: yeah and senator lugar and his wife kind of adopted us. people were just great. we were prepared to go because we are going to sit in the back of the back of the corners of the kataeb pictures pictures of all these important people. that is when we went to through the receiving line and mrs. obama said by the way you are sitting with us tonight. who does that? we are just military parents. we have a farm. we were just blown away. and we had a lovely night. >> host: did you pick the purple dress? thank you wear purple dress? >> guest: i were purple dress that night we had. >> host: explained to the viewers what that means. >> guest: purple is the color of joint forces and when our daughter went into the air force the commandant at that time he was then a captain but now he's an admiral. he told me when you are the purple mom you are the joint forces mom. so i ended up taking a purple dress and then later on when i was asked to introduce the first lady i got up wearing a purple

. >> general john allen really is a national hero and the perfect man for the job. unfortunately, a lot of the situation on the ground is frankly beyond the united states' reach. we cannot shape iraqi leader's world views. we can influence them but they have to decide to coexist and share power and resources and there is a history over the past decades in iraq of genocide, of war crimes perpetrated by all sides. that cycle of vengeance is continuing today. human rights watch, abc news, amnesty international and others have uncovered recent evidence of iraqi war crimes. as i told you earlier those iranian backed shia militias are now much larger and stronger that are not the iraq army itself and have more years now since the liberation of iraq in 2003 committed war crimes, committed atrocities, torture rape murder, summary executions and never been held accountable for any of those things. this his the problem we face now is we are about to spend a billion dollars more, a bottomless pit really and all we have seen is more corruption, more war crimes and no accountabi

general john allen is the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter isil. appointed on september 16th, 2014, by president obama. general allen is a retired u.s. marine four star general, former commander of coalition and u.s. forces in afghanistan from 2011 to 2013, during his combat tour in iraq he played a critical role in the awakening movement in al anbar province. brigadier general michael fantini is the middle east principle director for the office of the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. previously he served as commander of kandahar air field. brigadier general olson is with us. the deputy director from middle east joint staff strategic plans and policy at the department of defense and previously he served as the deputy commander for marine forces central command. brigadier general olson, as i understand, you'll not be giving oral testimony, but will be available to answer any members' questions. we thank you for that, sir. without objection, the witnesses' full prepared statements will be made part of the record and m

allen. >> john, local ki-activists want to crea a scene for the world create a scene for the world in general to be frank there's not going to be any oil drilling in elliottt bay. but 2,000 miles north here in the choohookchee sea. there's something big headed for seattle. really big. the polar pioneer shell's steerable oil exploration rig. it sits 80 miles away right now and has been greet it by a small fleet of protestors along its route. the welcome here on elliottt bay should be onelliott bayis much larger. they are calling themselves kiactivists. port of seattle's terminal 5. so now you have the long edge up. >> they have been holding training sessions for weeks and are organizing a three day eants oilanti-oil festival in mid may. they are calling to make a statement against shell. >> they are not drilling drillings drilling anywhere near seattle. they are drilling in the chookchee sea 2,000 miles from now. >> an arctic-stroigdestroying climate cooking project. >> this brings a lot of jobs and economic benefit to the city of seattle. >> but shell's arrival will also bring hundreds of wat

john carlin. the assistant attorney general for national security. well, i was also an attendant at the conference, i had the chance to talk to retired coast guard admiral, thad allenad a deal with edward snowden. i asked him the difference between plugging the oil leak and data leak. thad: what happens is when an event gets complex, it hurts to stretch the limits of your operating procedures and policy. you have to think about what you are doing. the focus should be focusing on the problem. cory: are we talking about oil or data? thad: both. data leaks and oil leaks are both messy. cory: it seems like a great struggle for companies. some companies shut down networks, they stop sharing with other entities. circle the wagons. what is the right response? thad: you need to think about to be severity of a breach that could occur. you need to be thinking about the severity and have an instant response plan, you need to practice and end involve senior leadership. you need to have a point of accountability, a single person. cory: companies are busy. i cannot imagine every company with every shape and strike deciding to devote lots of resources for an event that has not ha