only the islamic republic of iran can do it. as we discussed in our book, instead of recognizing and pondering this american political policy media elite are said to be picked in the republic is an illegitimate system so despised by its own population that isn't imminent danger of overthrow. american elites have been doing this literally for more than 30 years, virtually since the islamic republics founding the iranian revolution. for more than 30 years the islamic republic has simply defied the relentless predictions of its collapse or defeat. the islamic republic has survived because the integration of participatory politics and election principles and institutions of islamic governance and a strong commitment to foreign policy independent, this model is an actual fact what a maturity of romanian living inside their country one. they don't want a political mortar and western-style secular liberalism. they want an indigenously generated political order that reflects their cultural and religious value is the reformist president

the islam lic republic's nape to its west, with help from the islamic republic's other arab neighbors invaded iran killing 300,000 of its citizens. and today many of those same arab countries that helped iraq invade and fight the islamic republic today host thousands of u.s. troops and billions of dollars worth of the most deadly u.s. weapon systems. all poised and threatennenning to attack the -- threatening to attack the islamic republic to disarm it of weapons of mass destruction it does not have. to deal with these significant security challenges, the islamic republic of iran has built a strong, defensive military capability. but it has virtually no capability to project that military power offensively beyond it borders. -- beyond its borders. so what it has done and its real success in its national security strategy has been to develop a soft power strategy. a strategy that galvanizes regional publics, galvanizes these publics' most intentionally-felt grievances including their grievances against the united states and israel and, most importantly, their grievances against their o

confuse me its hundred percent muslim country that has islam this goals that is sympathetic to islam is a no it's not part of the worst of all it's it's it's part of saudi arabia if you can put it that way with a with an islamist agenda so what one has is suddenly what has muslim powers like turkey and qatar and saudi arabia and iran but of rebuilding it with a lot of clout in washington all right i want to i want to go back to washington now and we're also joined now by kelly block host in washington she is the journalist at antiwar dot com kelli thank you very much for joining us in this segment of the program i don't know much how much you heard of it the first part but you know when we talked about blowback and we talked about is there a learning curve with these interventions in mali is in the headlines right now what are your thoughts on that. well i would say a learning curve yes the most apparent example of that is what happened in libya where when there was an intervention by the united states there wasn't planning for what would happen afterwards as in iraq. and what we saw

the idea that now that sanctions are going to force the islamic republic of iran to surrender to what it sees as hostile foreign powers and their demands there is no place for that in the history of the history of the islamic republic of iran and frankly there is no basis for that anywhere the united states imposed crippling sanctions for example on saddam hussein's iraq for over a decade killing over a million people half of them children and even then saddam hussein's government did not implode and it did not concede to the demands of hostile foreign powers it took a massive us land invasion to do that the ability to stand in the other side's shoes to show that you can do it is key to diplomacy i think you would agree with that but everything the u.s. has done so far showed you read the opposite of that starting from the u.s. helping get rid of their democratically elected leader in the fifty's putting the shah in power much hated figure in iran what can the u.s. do to. now to show iran that they respect their national interests the first thing that has to happen is this basic accep

with some muslims against other muslims are plenty of muslims who don't want islam islam and we are sometimes helping them as a mali and sometimes we're working against them but i am not characterizing a billion people i'm saying there are many divisions in the muslim world and i think we should help the modern secular muslims because they are the people see the world like we do we won't always win we want they won't always win but we should help them they're the people that we have a philosophical and moral and practical connection to. i'm not characterizing what i'm saying that we should use our influence to help those people who are modern democratic. and the like. i i agree with you that we can't impose our will i'm not trying to impose our will but we do well in the west does impose it will it's well all of that colleen influence that we should it does all of the time i'll say you where it should be afghanistan is a good one iraq is a good one yemen eccentric cetera i mean why is the use of force there. i'll go out and lived in the black box into a recovery not knowing how lucky we got w

you know there's not a war against islam peter. that's for sure because in every one of these cases we're fighting with some muslims against other muslims every single case it's never the west against the muslims it's always some muslims fighting other muslims and we're coming on the side of one party the inconsistency however is that sometimes we're fighting the islamists and other times of fighting with the islamists so for example in syria we're hoping the islamists in mali we can close france as we are fighting the islamists so there's a very inconsistent message i believe that western powers should always be against the islamists honestly fighting them but always against them and why only one why do they always be against the moderns the secular so ok when shouldn't the people on the ground make that choice and we because of course enjoy so our ground go ahead. well i didn't say i didn't say we should always fight them i said we should our policy if i were the policy maker in my country i would say always oppose the islamists

there is relative peace now, but i islam's influence is growing. with the help of several governments, include saudi arabia, they have erected what could be the largest mosque and europe. and for christians, life for them cannot only be challenging, but potentially dangerous. cbn news agreed to conceal his identity for protection. >> i have been repeatedly warned by muslim radicals and local authorities to stop preaching, but i will not. i'm a simple man, who's life was one day touched by christ. i have the responsibility to tell others about him, no matter the cost. >> george: it's the price that these men and the other believers are willing to pay to bring everlasting life. >> this is my mission, to bring love and hope to this region. >> george: they call southern russia one of the most dangerous places in all of this country. and a man who spent years serving the devil is spending his life serving jesus christ now and bringing hope to the north caucuses. >> wendy: thanks, george. we'll be right back. >> george: and finally this week, iranian pas

of the talking points memo it's a frightening thought islamic terrorist training camps right here in america in our backyard so we made it through the holidays without a terrorist attack but that doesn't mean we could ever let our guard down because our enemies are persistent and it is for the hundreds of mosques in america be funds for terror training. or how about the case of sunanda forty six year old hindu man who was pushed onto a new york city subway track and killed by an oncoming train the perpetrator now identified as eric and mendez said quote i pushed a muslim off the train tracks because i hate them ever since two thousand and one when they put down the twin towers i've been beating them up. now these are just two cases but there are countless others and look i'm not saying that fox news the culprit islamophobia is being pushed through every strata of american culture through news media entertainment and politics so talk about this trend and what can be done to change course i'm joined by madeira. legal counsel of the council on american islamic relations or care thank yo

islamic militants threaten to carry out more terror attacks in retaliation for the french campaign in mali using powers of a truce a. german coalition government files an important test just months ahead of the national calm. christian democrats lose ground to the social democrats opposition in regional elections. for its own parliamentary launch each day we report on why many in the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the policies of the party to win the fight. and i welcome you watching. with me. so our top story the islamic terrorist cell allegedly responsible for the deadly siege in algeria says france is carrying out a crusader campaign in the region almost sixty hostages were killed after militants captured a remote gas plant in retaliation for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali these armies claimed they wanted to negotiate the release of their captives but the offer was turned down with the algerian military deciding to storm the facility causing a bloodbath more terror attacks have now been promised unless france and its campaign in west africa so

an islamic vigilante group that's what they call themselves a small number of people who were going up to members of the public in areas of london confronting them saying that they were implementing shari'a law and that this was a muslim area and they were demanding people throw away the alcohol they were insulting to women telling them to cover up this got uploaded on cd tens of thousands of people saw it the original video got to me force the police investigation started but once again you know that goes around so it's still on you tube right now and again tens of thousands of hits so a lot of concern here i think because obviously it's gone viral said speak a lot of people are saying this very threatening behavior from a small group of the certainly causing a lot of concern here that that's going to stir up tension so one of the people in the video said that this is c.k. it's not a miss america is no she realized but obviously we seeing that this is a debate the really does inflame tensions and causes a lot of control this thing and i think the muslim community core c.-k. really has

he was also chairman of the town's islamic community until he was dismissed by kosovo's grand mufti. he had opposed the use of saudi funding for the construction of the mosque. >> there are tendencies and efforts under way to expand its network of fundamentalist believers in the extremist wahhabi ideology. the islamic community must be far more vigilant than it is now. >> the e mom is highly respected by his own congregation for, among other things, his critical stance -- the imam. he is not alone. others have publicly warned against wahhabi extremism and suffered consequences for their courage. >> they waited for the right moment to attack me and beat me up. they thought i would keep silent, but to their surprise, i went to the public and warned against the radical wahhabis. these extremists are trying to take over the mosques. once that is achieved, they plan to go even further and maybe even take over the government. >> kosovo's government has assigned its police and intelligence service to track the activities of radical muslims. in the capital, kosovo's grand with the response t

and we have made information available in public libraries about muslims and islam and studies have shown that if people know a muslim their opinions tend to become more favorable about muslims and islam than we realize a lot of people don't know muslims because we're less than one percent of the population so in order to have a public positive opinion you might not be able to actually know a muslim or meet a muslim person but just go out and educate yourself and read about the faith and about the people and i think that's a good place to start thank you. so much for coming on for your time and. your very able counsel care for sure that. you see in order for war to function the oppressed must be an enemy in the eyes of the oppressors for the senate me to be maintained the media and the government must work together to sustain it this is humanization and demonization of an entire race and religion is what i call the islamophobia machine a machine whose gears of racism will continue to grind as long as these wars continue to be fought so you and i need to put our bodies on the gears t

legal counsel of the council on american islamic relations or care thank you so much for coming on to here thank you for having me so you're a legal counsel for a very large muslim organization the f.b.i. you we just heard the kind of the stats released this report saying that he crimes have gone down but really i mean when it comes to the muslim community it seems like they're escalating could you comment on kind of the strand absolutely well we noticed a very large spike starting in around july of last year and it continued until september and now we're seeing this recent uptick for example the gentleman that was pushed into the new york subway and the. gentleman that just pled guilty to burning a mosque in toledo ohio so it's just been continuing get a can just amazing pace since around july of last year what's really strange it seems and obviously i am wrong but logically it would seem to me that. the more time passes from a traumatic event like nine eleven you would think that more people would become tolerant of the propaganda would start to stop working on them the fear would w

the military carries out what's called the final assault to free the last remaining captives from islamic terrorists we'll bring you up to speed with the latest there. david cameron is accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rival seizing on extracts of his address on britain's future in the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. and latest too on the bolshoi theatre is artistic director he successfully undergoes the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack that's being linked to his profession. very good evening chief thanks for being with us it's kevin owen here at the new center tonight just after eight pm now moscow time and our top story eleven islamic terrorists and seven foreign civilians have reportedly been killed in algeria after the military launched a final raid to free the hostages held at that gas plant the militants said they took the captives in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali let's go live to paris know because there. what are the details of the operation in the algerian desert what do we know so far this

first french troops or for their first face to face battle with islamic insurgents in mali the ground operation comes after five days of intense air attacks that the army is aiming to prevent the al qaeda affiliated militants who sees vast areas in the north of the former french colony from moving towards the capital market but the operation has led to the first retaliation mother militants have raided a gas field in neighboring algeria killing two people and kidnapping a group of around twenty european u.s. and japanese workers the spokesman for marine le pen president of the national front in france says this could be a result of the country's reckless politics. now we're on the third level of four actually concerning the probability of being attacked by terrorist groups on our own soil it is linked to our international actions and wars that we are leading of course we are aware of that and this is a true it's a reality. we supported the revolution who has helped the militants to get a lot of money and weapons now today we have to clean up in mali but still we are defending islamist

. >> wendy: we're seeing islamic islamics intensifying. you have a bible that was stained in blood from nigeria. tell us the story. >> i got this bible last spring. and a year ago, in january of last year, there was an attack on a church in a place called gombay city in gombay state. a group called the boko haram, and i know you have reported many times on that islamic group. they went into the deeper life bible church, and three young men from the boko haram opened fire on the christians, and killed 10 people. two young boys were killed -- >> wendy: the person who owns this bible, they survived? >> yes. his name was youkuba, and he was shot in the waist area, and his blood is on the bible. when the shooting occurred, they had been praying for the boko haram. >> wendy: and they're tied to al-qaeda? yes. you have this militant islam spreading in nigeria, and it is coming to the central part, which is considered a plateau state, which is the christian south and the muslim north, and there are many christian associations doing evangelism into

killed in algeria as the military carries out a final attempt to free the remaining captives from islamic terrorists. david cameron is accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rival seeing as i had extracts of his address on britain's future of the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. the bolshoi theatre is artistic director successful in the growth of the first operation to save his eyesight after an acid attack is being linked with. good morning chief who just joined this kevin owen here at the new set of this morning's one am moscow time now our top story the hostage crisis in algeria has ended after four days but with further loss of life seven foreign civilians and eleven islamic terrorists were killed when the military launched an all day she's final raid to try to free the hostages held at that gas plant the number of civilian deaths now stands at twenty three than the militants said they took the captives in revenge for the french intervening intervening in neighboring mali artie's police reports from paris. what we have heard and the reports flying abou

islamic militants threatened to carry out more terror attacks in retaliation for the french campaign in mali accusing paris of a crusade. a german coalition government fails an important task months ahead of the national parliamentary vote until a merkel's christian democrats lose ground to the social democrats opposition in regional elections. and as israel prepares for its own parliamentary paul on tuesday we report on why many in the country are growing increasingly frustrated with the policies of the party that is set to win the vote. is seven pm here in moscow four pm in paris and he said no way and this is archie our top story this hour of the islamic terrorist cell allegedly responsible for the deadly siege in algeria says france is carrying out a crusader campaign in the region almost sixty hostages were killed after militants captured a remote gas plant in retaliation for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali where the islamists claimed they wanted to negotiate their release of their captives but the offer was turned down with the algerian military deciding to

many fled the country because of islamic extremism. some who remained, often share their faith with muslims. as a result, the evangelical house movement is now growing rapidly. ♪ the most important thing i can do today is praise him ♪ >> reporter: christian praise songs blast from the radio of this iranian taxicab. despite risk of arrest and possible death for a apostasy, he is unafraid to share his faith. a cross hangs from his rear-view mirror, and he keeps his bible. and he shares the gospel with his passengers, and gives them a bible if they want one. that, alone, can lead to his arrest. other christians have been martyred for shage their faith with muslims. their suffering and sacrifice is not just a modern day experience here. >> many have come before them, like the missionary, mary kathryn iranside, this is her grave. she was here until she died in 1921. >> she was not martyred, but she was sent to share the gospel throughout the middle east. an in expription on her tombstone reads, "will you not follow if you are given the call

an al-qaeda linked islam a stop arising in syria it's ordinary people who want a different life they want to be rid of a tyrant. in charge of them and this will solve itself apparently without any intervention from the outside i think the story in mali is completely different this is foreign intervention by the al-qaeda linked terrorists themselves this is not honest molly ivins trying to change the government while political analyst john laughlin says western countries support islamics when he's seen a geo political interest to do say. i greatly enjoyed the ambassador's. discomfiture when you put him back question i mean he doesn't have an answer and the western governments do not have an answer to the question of it which is to say why do we support islamic or islamist rebels in syria and yet send troops into crush islam it's rebels in mali there's no way of squaring the circle these are simply double standards for the by the same token why do we support last year the secession of south sudan but we certainly send in troops to prevent the secession of north mali these are political

algeria as the military carries out that final botched attempt to free the remaining captives from islamic terrorists. david cameron's accused of fudging the e.u. issue with political rival seizing an extract of his address on britain's future of the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. and the bolshoi theater as artistic director successfully undergoes the first operation to try to save his eyesight acid attack this big link but. for very good even kevin owen here the new center tonight at ten pm moscow time our top story than the crisis in algeria as we've been reporting in the last a couple of hours has apparently ended after four days but with sadly further loss of life seven foreign civilians and eleven islamic terrorists were reportedly killed when the military launched an audacious final raid to free the hostages held at a gas plant some are still unaccounted for the militants said the took the captives in revenge for the french intervention in neighboring mali. reports them from paris . what we have heard in the reports flying about that a number of the civilian

moderate islam the. second which also has ties with northern india with what in the school and all that so there's a following for the brand of tolerant and open islam that he has poses so he's not an ideological view he's not anti india but very. concerned in india ease with the fans that he may be opportunistically riding on the coattails of the military and maybe using the. normal elected undemocratic forces likely to be she and the military he wanted to rise to power and as we know all pakistan's history is full of such figures who have taken the hired help of the military and i've literally been devoured by so there is always concern because the militar takes over it means more tension with india and more problems in kashmir and there hasn't fact been an uptick in violence. and ceasefire of the nations and barbara by nations or if you want ok away from the regional implications let's look again at the domestic implications now in pakistan what would the government haps yield to cadres demands or per

military intervention in mali still another example of the worst overall war against islam ever been one instance where an outside intervention in the name of fighting terrorism has ever produced peace stability and democracy and with the lessons of blowback ever be learned. and also the french intervention in mali and tackling radical islam in the region were also among the topics and dressed by russia's foreign minister during his q. and a session today and in a few minutes we'll look in greater detail at what sergei lavrov said about the challenges facing the global community and of course don't forget you can also watch the news conference in full called. to mind have been arrested in the u.k. for being part of a vigilante group calling themselves muslim patrick patrol video footage shows youths harassing people telling them they have entered an islamic area and should obey sharia law. first tells us even though muslim leaders in london condemns the group is still causing a lot of anger. an islamic vigilante group that's what they call themselves a small number of people who were

islamic militants threatened to carry out more terror attacks in retaliation for the french campaign in mali accusing paris of a crusade. america bamma sets out his second term pledging to secure peace and democracy from africa to asia sparing concern over more intervention and if there is beyond american borders. and israel prepares for its own parliamentary poll on tuesday we report on why many in the country a growing increasingly frustrated with the policies of the party that said to win the fight. on our side your company you are watching live from the russian capital. terrorists allegedly responsible for the deadly siege in algeria says france is carrying out a crusader campaign in the region thirty eight hostages were killed after militants captured a remote gas plant in retaliation for the ongoing french intervention in neighboring mali islamics claimed they wanted to negotiate the release of their captives but the offer was turned down with the algerian military deciding to storm the facility causing a bloodbath more terror attacks have now been promised unless france and hi

that he was elected as president last year while the north of mali has been under the control of islamic militant groups that have links to al qaida for almost a year now and it's an area the size of france they've imposed a rare law there so a stance simply it's a response to the mali government's request for help in trying to sort of hold back these rebel advances of going further into mali but of course many experts are linking this crisis to sort of the libyan legacy of what happened in libya because . the toric people who traditionally came from northern mali they actually made up a large portion of. duffy's army in libya and after the very brisk military intervention that to topple gadhafi many of these toerags actually returned to their native northern mali they took with them a lot of weapons and a lot of gadhafi military arsenal has kind of uncontrollably been flowing into mali now and lots of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya or he's probably in london we need to investigate and prosecute later to doing auntie's cross-talk looks o

islam as a whole or just exactly where it could lead. united states is involved in about fifty four countries on the continent of africa right now finding people that maybe six months to six years down the road turn out to be. the bad guy so we are creating little fires all over africa and i don't think that you knighted states taxpayer is fully aware of this and would fully be on board with the idea that our ever dwindling resources are going to pay for all of these. incursions there were relationships. i don't use come in your life from moscow now exactly twenty minutes past the hour here jordanians are heading to the polls in early parliamentary elections announced by the king in response to two years of arab spring arrests this is the first time the prime minister won't be appointed by royal decree but the monarch will only consult the parliament over its choice for the chorus of critical voices so as the country is far from real change is ever claim that the government is likely to rig the ballot or the vote is being boycotted by th

algeria as the military carries out the final botched attempt to free the remaining captives from islamic terrorists. most of. them successfully undergoes the first operation to try to save his eyesight after that acid attack it's been linked to his profession. david cameron is accused of fudging the political rival seizing on the extracts of his address on britain's future with the union which they say threatens the country's democracy. this is our. top story tonight from moscow the hostage crisis in algeria is apparently ended after four days but with further loss of life seven foreign civilians and eleven islamic terrorists were reportedly killed when the military launched an all day she's final raid to free the hostages held at a gas plant some are still unaccounted for tonight the militant said they took the captives in revenge for the french intervening in neighboring mali. reports from paris. what we have heard in the reports flying about that a number of the civilian hostages were executed by the islamic militants that were holding them hostage at the gas plant it's a very remote

in sagan's see islam. militant the surgeon sees in somalia in northern nigeria. and then of course mali and this stretch across the width of africa and the fear is that is the link to gether it will cause even more problems now actually even though mali is we're on the west and somalia is way on there is the two are linked because in far over here is the president on monday in paris once you decided i was going to intervene in mali what we are putting together what we are speculating he then decided ok we have some information rescue our hostage. in somalia and it went wrong and you are right president obama just sent a letter to the congress because u.s. law says that. he makes the military moves and goes into a foreign country with the military he asked you before congress so we know that he told their friends in somalia abused them the letter he sent to congress after the event tapper they so much really to talk about sadly we're out of time thank you so much for coming in me a question the founder of the democracy and conflict research institute i think very

islam as militants say more attacks on westerners plan in response to the french intervention in mali the west past actions and they are increasingly blamed for the escalating north african crisis. barack obama kicks off his second term in office with promises to back democracy across the globe sparked concerns america's intervention policies are not likely to change during his coming years in office. that israel goes to the polls in parliamentary elections but a lack of viable competition and widespread feeling netanyahu is set for reelection has left mary voters disenchanted with the system. it is not i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshing. okada linked militants who claim to be behind the deadly hostage taking in algeria are promising more attacks on westerners in response to french intervention in mali at least thirty seven foreign nationals including french british and american were killed during the terrorist siege of the gas plant that was stormed by a jury and forces at the weekend appear in official say the militants used weapons gathered in an

we have to understand that mali is the home of historic islamic institutions of learning. timbuktu, and universities, oxford, cambridge, harvard are there in mali. it has a long tradition of extremism and supporting learning advances through religion and through political process these. we have to create a space where people who are pushing peace processes, that their voices can be heard. not only those who are backing military intervention that could lead to greater civilian chaos. >> thank you. drastically insufficient, that is how the international rescue committee this practical response to the situation in syria saying that the civil war has unleashed a staggering humanitarian crisis. hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee the violence. they are now making the refugee s' lives even harder. >> that has been the worst of winter is for people who fled the worst of wars. across a blanket of snow in the valley, you can see syrian families in the distance. they have taken refuge by a mosque. all of the roads in are blocked by snow. we can only reach them by foot. tw

islam is different. it's hard for us and for our own government to be effective in the struggle within that religion. i just also want to note, by the way, because charlie mentioned a novel, "middle of the journey," "witness" was a great bigraphical work, and "darkness at noon" was one of thee greatest novels bout it, and they have great political impact in part because they were great literary works, works of art. there are some islamic works breaking with extremism. the islamists, but i don't think, i don't read arabic, but i.coop think there's any such works that are great works of art seen from the point of view of literature. i believe we still await such a work. two brief final points. with the -- "witness" was written to awake us to the domestic threat we fake, something his case, obviously, demonstrated. the question is is that lesson still relevant? the threat of terrorism from al-qaeda or hezbollah is grave, but it comes from foreigners, not misguided americans, or does it? should we be more co

islamic militants in algeria. what's be >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> continuing crisis overseas. some hostages have escaped islamic militants in algeria. what's being done to secure the release of the rest. >> dangerous deficiencies. a new report showing levees around the country are failing. how some bay area cities may have to foot the bill. >> still freezing in some spots but milder weather is on the way. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and after a rough commute yesterday, the westbound 237 ride for silicon valley commuters off to a great start. much more "timesaver traffic" coming up. >>> good morning. it's thursday, january 17. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. new this morning 20 hostages have reportedly escape from their captors in algeria. islamic militants continue to hold dozens of foreigners at the natural gas facility. a security official in algeria says the escapees include americans and and europeans. militants attacked the complex south of algie

islam is different. it's hard for us and for our own government to be effected in the struggle within that religion. i just want to also note by the way, because charlie mentioned a novel, the middle of the journey. witness was one of the greatest autobiographic works. i guess would say darkness looms, perhaps one of the greatest or the greatest novel about. they have very political impact in part because they were great literary works, works of art. there are some islamic works about breaking with extremism. the islamists, radical. but i don't think, i mean i don't read arabic by don't think there are any such works better great works of art scene from the point of view of literature. i believe we still await such a work. too brief final points. "witness" was written partly to awaken us to the domestic threat that we faced, something that in this case odyssey demonstrate. so one question is, is that less and still relevant? the threat of terrorism from al qaeda or hezbollah may be great, but it comes fr

well in the mainstream media will tell you in the short term that the the islamic al qaeda in the islamic magreb is is to blame for this really with regards to the hostage situation the jury of what france and what your other news competitors are neglecting to tell the world is that the al qaeda in the islamic magreb is working closely with the libyan islamic fighting group for whom france itself intervened on behalf of a nato this intervention with the bombing in libya in their gallant raid of libya in two thousand and eleven so libya's becoming how kind of a playground and that is mostly down to western sponsored al-qaeda playground if you look back just in the last twelve months without any question without any really debate in foreign policy circles countries one of the united states the u.k. and france are now militarily active in the african theater what we're seeing is the world police here and what they're doing is protecting corporate interests in africa there's a british franco a gold mining industry in a country like mali and then he spoke to u.k. based political analysts downp