Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose al gerian forces launched a dramatic raid on a desert gas plant earlier today this came after militants reportedly linked to al qaeda took the facility hostage on wednesday. The charge released several hundred algerians but held dozens of Foreign Workers including United States citizens. There is conflicting information about the algerian raid and there is no confirmation on how many cappers and hostages were killed. The milton reportedly demanded an end to french him tear activities in mali in return for the hostages. The situation in mali is also critical. On friday last week france launched an area Bombing Campaign against rebels with ties to al qaedament since then a ground force has engaged in combat with rebels trying to stop their advance to malis capital. It remains unclear what support will be offered by the United States. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton addressed the s
Rose welcome to the programment we begin this evening looking at hostage taking in algeria, and the conflict in mali. We begin with Margaret Brennan, state Department Correspondent for cbs news. He was very interesting to hear Hillary Clinton there put mali, algeria and al qaeda quickly in that same paragraph. Linking those concepts. Because the state department has been concerned as she has been in shing algeria to take a more active role in trying to control al qaeda. Because they have been building out what is feared to be a command and control center. Within northern mali. That is to say there are weapons coming from libya, through algeria, down into mali and there is a worry that this could become another afghanistan. Rose and for analysis of algeria and mali we turn to max boot, Jennifer Cook, and peter pham. The ramification of what happened in algeria and the strikegain the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and internationalizes it w
Through algeria, down into mali and there is a worry that this could become another afghanistan. Rose and for analysis of algeria and mali we turn to max boot, Jennifer Cook, and peter pham. The ramification of what happened in algeria and the strike against the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and internationalizes it with a number of year mean citizens taking u. S. Citizens and japanese as well. So the events of this last week, the french incursion, the islamists move south and the taking of the gas installation in algeria really puts a whole dramatic new spin on this and adds momentum to the whole problem. Rose we conclude this evening with jeff bridges the actor and Bernie Glassman, their new book is called the dude and the zen master well, one day bernie says to me, by the way, you know that in the buddhist circles the dude is considered a zen master. I said what are you talking about, man. He said oh yeah. I said come on, you know. Yo
Algeria and mali we turn to max boot, Jennifer Cook, and peter pham. The ramification of what happened in algeria and the strike against the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and internationalizes it with a number of year mean citizens taking u. S. Citizens and japanese as well. So the events of this last week, the french incursion, the islamists move south and the taking of the gas installation in algeria really puts a whole dramatic new spin on this and adds momentum to the whole problem. Rose we conclude this evening with jeff bridges the actor and Bernie Glassman, their new book is called the dude and the zen master well, one day bernie says to me, by the way, you know that in the buddhist circles the dude is considered a zen master. I said what are you talking about, man. He said oh yeah. I said come on, you know. You know, the Cohen Brothers never mentioned anything about you know, any kind of spirituality or zen or anything. And he sa
Algeria and mali we turn to max boot, Jennifer Cook, and peter pham. The ramification of what happened in algeria and the strike against the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and internationalizes it with a number of year mean citizens taking u. S. Citizens and japanese as well. So the events of this last week, the french incursion, the islamists move south and the taking of the gas installation in algeria really puts a whole dramatic new spin on this and adds momentum to the whole problem. Rose we conclude this evening with jeff bridges the actor and Bernie Glassman, their new book is called the dude and the zen master well, one day bernie says to me, by the way, you know that in the buddhist circles the dude is considered a zen master. I said what are you talking about, man. He said oh yeah. I said come on, you know. You know, the Cohen Brothers never mentioned anything about you know, any kind of spirituality or zen or anything. And he sa