here to talk about these latest developments and the implications going forward i'm joined by robert naiman he's the policy director for just foreign policy robert thank you for joining me. good to be with you so rather in twenty thirteen there was a lot of buzz about the drone program switching from the jurisdiction of the cia to that of the defense department president obama himself said he wanted to see that happen yet here we are with an outright restriction on doing this what happened. well first of all as you said we don't exactly know what's in the restriction because it's classified reports on it there's some dispute about their report secondly there is a narrow issue a disagreement on the broader issues the new issue is that some people in congress goes out of congress to have legitimate concerns about claims that actually whatever you may think of the past you are all the cia has more recent experience actually conducting these drone strikes and is more precise than the military does that concern there was cited in the report in the recent reports members of congress are concerned

in the central power one province north of kabul but the teachers have only just been released robert naiman joins me now he's a foreign affairs analyst from the group just foreign policy hi robert evening to you so again it's kind of an awful ground all day isn't it we're seeing again disturbing details of innocent people including children being killed by accident in u.s. attacks that are going to be big ramifications from this again on their. well yes absolutely because this is a directly tied to what's in dispute between the afghan government and the u.s. government is they try to negotiate an agreement on what's going to happen to u.s. forces after twenty fourteen what they won't be allowed to do after a government doesn't want the u.s. to unilaterally engage in military operations in afghanistan and particularly want to end of night raids this is this if it is an example of why the afghan government is so adamant about this in advance like this make it less likely that the u.s. and the afghan government will be able to reach an agreement yet you're saying it's been a huge source of a r

and the army around a hundred people have been killed in the bloodshed a third of them civilians robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy things as government policies that have paved the way for al qaida success. doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate it is that what this is and in countries where there's a breakdown of central government authority and conditions of civil war with a large part of the population sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan reasons barked and this and yemen you know this isn't in somalia so and we're staying in iraq you know the the resort of the reason that al qaeda has a base in iraq is because a large part of the sunni arab population seeds melky governor as a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs and terror has also been unleashed in yemen where all qaeda affiliated assassins gunned down a senior yemeni intelligence officer he was murdered in broad daylight in a drive by shooting. government supported by u.s. drones has been

and the army around a hundred people have been killed in the bloodshed a third of them civilians robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy thanks as government policies that have paved the way for al qaeda success. doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate it is there but this isn't in countries where there's a breakdown of central government authority and conditions of civil war with a large part of the population that sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan was this back then in yemen this isn't in somalia so and we're staying in iraq you know the the reason part of the reason that al-qaeda has a base in iraq is because a large part of the sunni arab population sees melky governor as a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs. and it's not just iraq were strong enough to challenge the government in yemen the terrorist group has been waging a full scale guerrilla war for sixteen years despite every effort to portadown assassinations bombings and attacks on milit

thousand and three onwards back then american forces suffered a third of their total fatalities there robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy says the shiite government missteps have laid the groundwork for advances in iraq. al qaeda doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate established in countries where there's a breakdown of central government authority and conditions of civil war with a large part of the population sees the government as illegitimate you know we see this in. afghanistan was this pakistan yemen so this is in somalia so and we're seeing it in iraq you know the the real art of the reason that al qaeda has a base in iraq is because a large part of the sunni arab population sees melky governing as a discriminatory towards the sunni arabs. security forces are remaining vigilant in the southern russian city of volgograd following the two terrorist attacks that killed thirty four people there last weekend the death toll could have been even higher if it wasn't for the bystanders who

robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy told us he believes the u.s. is unwilling to target prominent al-qaeda sponsors by now it's a multinational corporation so it has funding sources from saudi arabia qatar but a huge gap in western also is the can i didn't with the funding that comes from the gulf countries something we don't look at the western sanctions on iraq and how tightly they're pours and then ask yourself where this agency on. earth financier's and then you realize they well you know with the financing that's going to. to discern e.g. harvest in syria this is with open collaboration the united states and arabia and french so how can they crack down on financing. further north in iraq al qaeda linked militants have declared an islamic state in the western city of fallujah government forces there have killed a jihad as commander a but have so far failed to regain control over the area. the militant advance came after days of fierce fighting in the region which is a hub for sunni extremists who vowed to topple the shii dominated government si

one province north of kabul but the details of only just been released foreign affairs analyst robert naiman told me the u.s. simply doesn't have afghanistan's interests in ending the bloodshed at heart he thinks. is directly tied to what's in dispute between the afghan government and the u.s. government is they try to negotiate an agreement on what's going to happen to u.s. forces after twenty fourteen what they won't be allowed to do the afghan government doesn't want the u.s. to unilaterally engage in military operations in afghanistan and particularly want to end all night raids this is this if it is an example of why the afghan government is so adamant about this in advance like this make it less likely that the u.s. and the afghan government will be able to reach an agreement yet you're saying is pretty huge source of a rift over the months over the years and they get the u.s. wants full immunity for its troops to. well sure who wouldn't if they could get it but as we know these are the kinds of issues that. prevented the negotiation between the u.s. government and the iraqi government