declaring last thursday that isis was contained and his broader policy of keeping american troops out of the conflict. contentious news conference, mr. obama take aim at the critics. typically, the things they suggest need to be done are things we re already doing. the one exception is that there had been a few who suggested that we should put large numbers of u.s. troops on the ground and let s assume that we were to send 50,000 troops into syria what happens when there is a terrorist attack generated from yemen? do we send more troops into there or libya perhaps or if there is a terrorist network operating anywhere else in north africa or southeast asia. a strategy has to be one that can be sustained.
terrorists that kill so many on friday. of the eight young men that carried out killings, one is still alive and on the loose. here is a look of the two photos of the wanted suspect just released by belgium authorities. clarisa ward is here with the latest. in terms of not just the manhunt but why is it so difficult to track these guys? we re learning more and more in the days since the attack but why is it so difficult for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to keep a beat on them? for the last year or so i ve been communicating with different jihads in syria and iraq. these guys are technology savvy and street smart and use encryption and now how to do secret chats and many have crime until records. they know how to dodge the police. they know how to buy weapons.
that could be gathered to go in and local forces reporter: hasn t the u.s. tried reporter: yes but haven t done it right. they tied her hands. they said we will article am an you. the local forces trying to fight assad that is much more awful, assad is ablit rated syria and sent millions of people outside syria. the u.s. conditions were impossible and say it didn t happen, couldn t happen. the whole thing is wrongly handled from the beginning if you talk to the strategists in the region and leaders around the region and all base on a high risk by the united states and people are saying as much as general hurtling says, other military strategists including cnn military strategists say it s time to re-examine because it not working and they are bringing the fight to our cities. reporter: general, are there
how closely they are linked a grown up of brothers together and the alleged mastermind of this believed to be in syria, his younger brother has gone to syria. it doesn t surprise me. i ve been talking about how jihads have become a brand. what i mean explain what you mean by itemized. where it used to be state backed, it s terrorists higher ak ark kis to the stage it s at now where mere conviction in the ideology and determination to do something means people can self-start in different pockets of activity. that s what i mean by itemize. when you get to that stage, invariably you re working with people you trust. your uncle, people you grew up with. what is happening is they are bonding on a human level and seeing their friends move in the same direction because it s become a brand that people want to be associated with if they want to become anti
did today and i listened closely to try to figure out where he was going and i think he doubled down on his strategy which in my view, anderson, frankly is a good thing. we ve said from the very begin thing is going to be a very long conflict, a very long conflict. we ve been in it for about a year now. there have been some effects i think attrition, the sunni militia are regaining ground from isis. they are taking it back and at the same time isis is imploding. there are some indicators that part of the reason they have taken their fight outside syria and iraq, their so-called caliphate is because they are in fact, losing ground there. they want to take it to other places. some of the other organizations they teamed with have been there previously, they are just taking on the brand of isis. sinai in the sinai peninsula,