qaeda and various branches you have the al qaeda central of osama bin laden, and al zawahiri. you have the so-called aqap they have al nusra front. also you re asking me about france. you have about between 3,000 and 5,000 europeans who are fighting in iraq and syria. this tells you about the complexity of the crisis now and how the various al qaeda branches have expanded in particular in zone conflicts. al qaeda and its branchs are social parasites that are nourished in conflict zones in iraq and syria and yemen, libya. and obviously and unfortunately and sadly the propaganda of al qaeda in general has found a receptive home in the heart of western countries, including in london where i am and in paris as well.
the only hope is that al qaeda in general since the beginning of the iraq war has not been in the practice that isis has in executing any people on camera. killing any people on camera. the major threat is that it s a hollow one. there is deep concern for the well being of luke summers. jim miklaszewski from the pentagon, thank you so much. hillary clinton is not ready to make a public announcement, but she did take a question last night in massachusetts on what s important for a president. you need people starting in your family, but going to your friends beyond a larger circle who will be there for you and continue to treat you like a human being. you can easily lose touch with
power move on his part to be so brazen in releasing this. now, speaking on this video, what does it reveal in terms of what their motivations are? their motivations have not changed one bit. they want to dominate muslim land and the world, and ideological movement with huge ambitions. the objective has always been the same, to drive the united states out of the region to dominate it. this group is very vocal about attacking the united states. they have said that time and time again, there are certainly a threat to the region, a threat for the united states. what is alarming is we have pulled back from attacking this group as well as al qaeda in general with military drone tactics. martha: the president has said al qaeda is on the run, what do you think the message is ms. video to our president if
the sunni insurgent groups, really terrorist groups. we have a lot of sunni insurgents but there are a couple of defined core terrorist groups as we remember al qaeda in general to be. that s what these elements are. senator mccain is dead on the money. they have been waiting for the u.s. to withdraw. they have been waiting for opportunity to get out and strike. we might remember the u.s. was responsible for much of the intelligence that helped pinpoint these radical groups. that helped suppress them and kill or capture members of them with the iraqi forces. once the u.s. intelligence apparatus pulled out they have a more free hand to do what they want to do. these bombings are an example. claim of responsibility, it made no mention, of my understanding of the u.s. with drawl. instead it focus the its rage on the country s shiite-dominated leadership. where do you see this going from here? it is important to remember to frame the picture. 20% of iraq is sunni. saddam hassoun any.
not trust pakistan to share the information about the impending mission to go and kill osama bin laden outside islamabad. so the bottom line is that the president in his comments made clear that he wants pakistan to be investigating exactly what ties there may have been with bin laden, who may have been providing him with safe harbor, just as the u.s. also investigates. but the president also had something very interesting to say about how he thinks that killing bin laden may now open the door to dealing a death blow to al qaeda in general. take a listen. we re not done yet, but we ve got the opportunity, i think, to really, finally, defeat, at least al qaeda in that border region between pakistan and afghanistan. but it does mean we ve got a chance to, i think, really delivery a fatal blow to this organization. when you combine that with the fact that defense secretary robert gates on friday said that killing bin laden could be a game changer in terms of the