ok well let's set cross live now to former pentagon official michael maloof to get his take on this michael good to have you back on the program and just reading into the reports here no confirmation that this was deliberate it needs to be stressed but earlier i did speak to the chairman of the mosque and we also heard from the muslim council of britain they have called it an intentional attack on muslims tensions are running high in the u.k. after what we've seen over the last few months is there a fear that conclusions are being jumped to here do you think well not necessarily everything is a problem in the area with respect to this particular episode i've heard one report that the driver actually sped up before he plowed into the crowd of people that to me indicates deliberateness and and. it's a little strange that again we don't have any information on the perpetrator or perpetrators and consequently given that this is in a predominately muslim area outside of a mosque. again you cannot rule out certain possibilities so again i don't have the facts yet the police have not said so but.

ended the practice of making the number of troops on the ground public former pentagon official michael maloof says this sort of action is most certainly an indication of just that with the shoot down of the issue twenty two and now the latest drone and even prior to that u.s. . a text of. on syrian troops as well as hezbollah and iranian. proxies if you will in the ultimate off area that really reflects something much more. an escalation for the united states and something much more serious for the united states in terms of what it intends to do there and right now we still don't have a strategic plan. for syria on top of that the united states is in syria without permission without the congressional approval and. the russians are tolerating this because they don't want to direct conflict with the united states and as ed mentioned and iranian made arm drone was shot down the second drone the second such incident with a drone in less than two weeks and the pentagon has issued a statement in part saying quote the f. fifteen intercepted the armed u.a. these after it was observed advancing on coa

early on to from the former pentagon official michael maloof about this he was looking on he says the suspected attack follows a familiar pattern but a different target now in europe. given the fact that this was a vehicle using the cheap means in fact it's the identical method that isis called upon. terrorists in place to to use because it's cheap it doesn't you have no intelligence on any of this and this has been this is been the history of what we've been seeing recently particularly during ramadan the fact that this happened during ramadan is also curious. but isis did call for greater. attacks but again your fact that it happen in a muslim predominantly muslim area throws a little curveball here and that that's a little strange unless it was more radicalized individuals trying to go after more moderate. muslims so waking up again to see another tragic night for london it wasn't so long ago that this particular mosque was making plenty of headlines in the u.k. it's minus is about that the finsbury park mosque opened back in the late one nine hundred eighty s. as the muslim popula

syria's airspace and the situation on the ground we are joined now by former pentagon official michael maloof and a former cia officer ray mcgovern thank you gentlemen for joining us and mike i like to start with you you know we know the u.s. has shot down the second iranian made armed drone within the past twelve days what signal is the u.s. trying to send here well it's it's technically trying to send a signal that it's not going to allow forces namely iran to come into a certain area in the southern part of syria. first of all united states was never invited there into syria secondly it's. we're putting in more and. declaring for ourselves the confliction zones which nobody agrees with and it's leading to increased tensions and i think what it's paving the way for and this is just my supposition and analysis at this point we're laying the groundwork not only to impede the flow of a rainy and flow of. supplies through from from. from tehran to. beirut but also to establish positioning for a base in a post-war. stabilization some cold stabilization effort but it may get out of hand before th