war going on oh no wait actually there's not just wind but there are six iraq afghanistan libya pakistan yemen and now we have somalia that's right it's being reported the u.s. has already launched drone strikes in somalia is another sign of this creeping shadow wars not that means sorry to break if you go war ultimately leads to destruction and death so instead of incessantly covering a case where one little girl died as her will is that is maybe you can find it in you to just think of all the soldiers that have died or gotten wounded in our wars already how about the civilians maybe you could think of why increasing shadow wars even if the teams are smaller the supposed risk to soldiers is much smaller pop at me maybe you could ask why the hell are we still have so many troops in iraq and afghanistan if your own warfare is because the pentagon's go to hell today three u.s. service members were killed in iraq that means fourteen troops have now died this month in out war bars that supposedly over and that makes this month the deadliest for troops in iraq since two thousand and eight and you w

himself as the first of this to nation weighs in now and his new vision is nowhere in between pakistan yemen and somalia. callus take a look at some other stories from around the world then gunfire as again iraq pakistan's largest city of karachi as the authorities there strive to contain an outbreak of violence that's claimed at least ninety three lives in just five days unrest is not uncommon in the port city with a population of eighteen million and is often provoked by asyik religious or political tension the latest outburst was sparked by the decision of the city's most powerful political party to leave the federal ruling coalition and join position. police and the prison uprising in venezuela has ended after the national guard here ceded control of the facility back from inmates standoff and jail began after thousands of troops stormed the prison unit and a weapon surged days after a bloody right reactions are gun fights between troops and any mates leaving one prisoner and dead as well as twenty one that twitter message present in the child is congratulated authorities for bringing a

to the troika of the multiple challenges to the united states national security emanating from pakistan yemen and somalia he is clear cut vision deserves full support both within and outside the united states it was just a pity that some of the u.s. media commissariat try to spoiled his new vision where after the meeting with kind of the own pioneer the misspelt them number off residual forces that are supposed to stay you know afghanistan after the deadline instead of ankle biting be a u.s. secretary of defense they would better pay attention to the subtle discrepancy going to be in the new pentagon vision so clearly outlined by lone pine manor on the one side and poland that odd they're going to rule which was priscilla active provided by now to himself as the first place to nation place to announce his new vision is nowhere in between pakistan yemen and somalia. well time now for a business of date with me to stay with us. welcome to business ratings agencies like standard and poor's and moody's have become the subject of vicious attacks from politicians across europe they are being accuse

like america's shadow wars have now increased i want drone strikes have long been reported in pakistan in yemen but now there's news that a week ago u.s. drone aircraft fired on two leaders of the somali organization al shabaab who according to military officials are now expanding their mission outside of somalia and working more closely with al qaeda was new leadership in place and a new counterterrorism strategy we have to ask if today somalia tomorrow where else joining me to discuss this is jack rice former cia officer and criminal defense attorney jack thanks so much for joining us tonight for starters ok so now we find out that as early or i guess as late as a week ago could have even come earlier there were drone strikes in somalia carried out by the u.s. i know it's not really shocking news but what would you call it. well again shocking is absolutely not the word in fact this was really expected we've seen mr expansion been going on now for some time this is not the first set of strikes we've seen from special ops units using predator drones i think part of the problem what really make

has identified key al qaeda leaders in pakistan, yemen, somalia. one of those leaders is the designated successor to osama bin ladin urge a senior member of iran's revolutionary guards threatened u.s. carriers would be targeted if iran comes under threat from the u.s. or the west. the latest comments from the general following ten days of war games, the exercises included the unveiling of missile shelters, that iran says are capable of multiple launches. iran has stated its missiles can reach israel and u.s. military bases in that region. >>> in an effort to get guns off the streets of east palo alto. people who turned in their guns received an american express card. the program provides community members a safe venue and incentive to remove unwanted guns from their homes. >> most people are just excited or happy that there's an avenue, they have been wanting to get rid of the weapons in the past, now that they can actually get funding for it, with no questions asked -- >> city councilman reports 45 weapons were turned in, including 7 assault weapo

he also revealed that up to 20 top al qaeda leaders from pakistan, yemen, and somalia were identifiedn's compound and are now on america's target list. topping that list, american-born clericÑi anwar al awlaki, leade of al qaeda in yemen, considered the greatest terrorist threat to the united states, the so-called christmas day bomber, was trained and equipped by al qaeda in yemen. panetta confirmed today that the cia has joined the u.s. military in launching air strikes aimed at taking out the leadership of al qaeda in yemen and warned the u.s. must remain relentless in pursuit of al qaeda. >> i think now is the moment, now is the moment, following what happened with bin laden to put maximum pressure on them because i do believe that if we continue this effort that we can really cripple al qaeda. >> reporter: despite the progress, panetta warns that al qaeda still remains a serious threat, and even after his success at the cia in bringing down bin laden, panetta says that al qaeda itself will still be a top priority of his in his new job at the pentagon. lester. >> jim miklaszewski i

global terrorist threat as the focus seems to shift to neighbors should be refocusing resources on pakistan yemen somalia parts of north africa and other locations i've always believed pakistan is more central to what happens in a better state a change in the guard of the department of defense with robert gates retiring and former cia chief leon panetta getting sworn in signals this change of course to critics i see no difference between between him and robert gates and for afghanistan we now hear a presidential pledge to pull thirty three thousand troops out by september two thousand and twelve fully we're covering the surge i have mounted at west point well it certainly sounds like what the american people would like to hear for the first time ever a majority want u.s. troops out about ghana stand as soon as possible fifty six percent well thirty nine percent want troops there until the situation is stable. as you can see the trend is really flip flopped but what is the reality of obama's plans for troop withdrawal that thirty three thousand he's calling for is a minority of the one hundred tho

involvement in libya along with covert operations at some point to war in places like pakistan yemen and somalia so here to talk about all of this going on and what we really need to be focusing on is blue in a sense she is foreign policy analyst at the cato institute thank you for being here thank you now i know that this is something that you focus on when you travel to pakistan and you travel to afghanistan as well i'm curious how you read the violence that we've seen recently against u.s. officials statements because today we have an attack by the taliban the u.n. put out numbers saying that violence and afghan casualties have increased in the first six months of this year to two very high levels to i think record highs there increased sharply and then this kind of seems to contradict what u.s. officials have said you have betray us before he went out saying that you know violence is on the decline and you had obama saying the taliban is broken is a situation getting better or worse there i think the problem in interestingly enough europe or or truce. we call these gains that we'

is attacking six countries with predator drones afghanistan iraq pakistan yemen somalia and of course libya here that would be one way to do it there's also perhaps the question of the united states attempted to foment rule of conflict between turkey and syria that might be a more likely way a kind of surreptitious way to do it remember if you attack syria you may get a trifecta you might then get not just syria but iran. into the blog site that's what we would be talking about something that would look much more like a world war some observers pointed out i agreed with them maybe in something like. fourteen we may be in the summer of one thousand and fourteen between the sarajevo assassinations and the moments when the gun began to shoot most of the world public opinion doesn't see that but i think this is probably the most dangerous world civil situation i've ever seen ok a very. extreme position their own. tension happened in that region i think and i guess the genesis of this whole thing i think few thoughts. thank you. came in with the war in libya a fake low point of internation

don't have to be fighting and fix conflicts around the world six just think afghanistan iraq pakistan yemen somalia libya it's too much time necessary it's not smart it's creating more damage and destruction and death around the world and i have to stop. trying to it's friday and it's time for happy hour and joining me tonight is our producer jenny churchill and mike riggs as the editor at reason magazine and reason dot com so obviously we have been covering some of the murdoch scandal for you asked me if this could be the end of the empire but the funny thing is that everyone has been covering this expression for fox news for the most part and here's them trying to explain why it's really not that big of a deal. and the company has come forward and they've said look this happened a long time ago at a tabloid in london somebody did something really bad and the company reacted they close that newspaper all those people got fired even though ninety nine percent of them absolutely had nothing to do with the for a mistake and. as apologized but for some reason the public media keeps going over