. >> slahi was arrested in november 2001 in his native mauritania. he came to the attention of the cia because of what the agency considered to be a series of suspicious connections. he had fought against the sophie yets isophiesoviets. it was alleged he crossed the path with a 9 9/1 9/11 planner. >> so i said, i was working for al qaeda and radio telecom. he seemed happier with the lie. >> but slahi maintains that although he was in afghanistan he gave up the fight long before al qaeda took up arms against the united states. prosecutors at guantanamo never brought charges against him. >> what have i done? i don't know, you tell me. look, you kidnapped me from my home in mauritania, not from a battlefield in afghanistan. so what's the next charge? it looks to me as if you want to pull any (bleep) on me. >> i put my clothes on and washed my face. my heart started to pound. i hated interrogation. i had gotten tired of being terrified all the time. living in constant fear day in and day out for the last 13 months. >> the process of bringing to diary to

they have about 5000 men, not just in mali, but stretched from mauritania, all the way over to niger. quite a lot of the men are in chad, in the capital of chad there. to clampstruggling down. simply a dozen or so individuals are thought to be involved in this current hostage crisis, so they are also overstretched because of the number of groups. we mentioned the new groups, one links to al qaeda. attack that left 12 dead. a couple of different groups have claimed responsibility. a newer group we had not heard of much before this year, the front for the liberation of messina. that is a new islamist group claiming to want to install sharia around the country. but not the tuaregs. pro-ethnic group, much closer to the capital than the northern groups are in some have made comparisons between this new group and boko haram, whether they are capable or willing to go to the violence of boko haram. clearly that is the worry. they also have links to mooch out -- to mujao. that is the third groups, perhaps one of the most well-known. its leader just in the past couple of weeks broadcast a messa

>> it is the different groups that operate in mauritania and algeria. some supervisors islamic state, operate on their own, but there is no doubt this is in sympathy to the attacks on friday. the president of nigeria indicates he will destroy boko haram militants in the region are upping their attacks. tom: i will try to phrase this as best i can. with the poverty and the lack of hope, is there a distinction algeriae french between or the south africans or algeria and other arabs? what is that new in those impoverished parts of paris? ties -- there is a very clear distinction between what you might call the establishment and younger people . the establishment islamic organizations, many of whom -- the elders are descended from algerian and moroccan immigrants , the immigrants themselves. they have roundly condemned the attacks, obviously, of last week, and the charlie hebdo attacks earlier this year. with younger people, it is a whole different situation. for a lot of young people, their rhetoric is extreme. even pro-palestinian demonstrations, for whic

. >> this 16-year-old from mauritania will not let us use her name.ees ago she was forced into a marriage with an older man. her family told her it would all be for the best. >> after a year i really hated him. we slept in separate rooms for the first year and his mother forced me to be with him. >> the african union has put the focus on their campaign to stop holland -- childhood marriage. it is one of 10 countries taking part in a program to accelerate the end of child marriage and africa. >> once the girl is very she's out of school, she's out of employment. she is more likely to be sick. it really has an a negative affect on the health system, on the gdp. >> another u.n. survey shows that 35% of african women married before the age of 18. they have condemned forced marriage as a violation of human rights. a harmful rectus that must come to an end. sarah: moving over to some business news now. we are here. the end of a working week. but it was not your typical friday. >> black friday brady know how it works. here in america, the turkey the night be

offshoot groups, as you know, are not only in east africa and plates like somalia but all -- from mauritania on the atlantic coast, nigeria, boko haram, so it's a real fight for many years, and the french have been centrally engaged in this, of course, because historically they once had colonies in the part of west africa and very close to these countries and the suh has been trying to help train the armies to deal exactly with situations like occurred today with the terrible terrorist attack. >> are we to believe these couple of al qaeda relateds are looking at paris and saying isis is getting the recruiting here? >> it's hard to know it's hard know what exactly motivated today's attack. but sometimes these groups are in competition. sometimes they're aligned. boko haram, vicious terrorist group in nigeria, says it's aligned with the islamic state. what we know about the al qaeda offshoot groups they're vicious, they're creating havoc in law-abiding societies and particularly in mali, where a group -- you referred to this group -- took control of parts of northern mali two years ago. it's g

groups from the north that have been fighting it for four years have kinder spots ability three mauritaniaspaper. we are starting to get more about the details that are the most brazen ones in mali since the warranty doesn't solve happen. in 2013ch help the mali to repel the islamists. it is one of the most brazen. the u.n. soldiers from france and other countries that have targeted now, this is 170 civilians in a popular hotel in the capital that is frequented by businessmen all over the world. courtney: put this into context for as. there have been attacks. we recently saw that in august. we have not seen anything on this scale. cracks definitely not. that leads some to whether whether this is an escalation, whether this is group trying to outdo themselves after what they saw in paris last week. whether it is people showing sympathy to the islamic state or making sure that people know they are still on the radar and that they are powerful in ma li. horny: andres martinez in london right now. france says europe needs to pull himself together when it comes to fighting terrorism. the french

currently there are about 3,000 french soldiers spread out across five countries in africa, mali, mauritania per keen that fast sew, niger and chad. roesch the french pushed u.s. for involvement to out of qaddafi in libya as well. gregg. gregg: let's turn to ryan more row, national security analyst for the clarion project. mr. more row, thank you for being with us. we began getting reports 10 or 15 minutes ago or al qaeda or al qaeda-linked group is claiming responsibility for this terrorist attack in mali. two hours ago it said looked to you like in fact it was work of al qaeda, though you couldn't rule out isis. what made you think that? >> stylistically seemed more like an al qaeda-type operation where they go in, not shouting about iraq and syria and allowing people they believe to be muslims to leave in order to say they're more humane toward muslims than isis. this is also an area that is considered an al qaeda stronghold, much more so than isis. i notice online, isis accounts i monitor weren't claiming responsibility. very same ones that claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks. t

given how things have changed with the proliferation withms, weapons, training islamists and libya, mauritania, iraq, syria, it would seem to follow. there is an escalation really. the last big attack in amako was in march. it was at a restaurant. it is a different stage, a different kind of thing. underscore teen us, thank you for joining us from london. we do have a quote from -- andres martinez, thank you for joining us from london. president hollande has said that we will do everything to free the hostages. let's go on to europe. mario draghi has been saying he will do what it takes to spur price gains. hans nichols is live in frankfurt. give me a sense -- because we have heard a fair amount from mario draghi now -- who is he having the conversation with? he needs to bring the germans along, but it looks like they are already on board for additional quantitative easing. he needs to convince banks to start lending. i am here at the frankfurt opera a wagnerianhis has approach to it. they need someone to move in and think about spending. he made his case by pointing out how bad things are. he