military in the midst of that drop in a tweet that talks about a military target. and other tweets out there, bob bair in recent weeks, listing the names and addresses of about 100 u.s. military personnel who served in syria or iraq. i m sure that raised a lot of alarm bells? yeah. wolf i agree totally with phil. they re after the military. anybody in a uniform, because they want to characterize the war in iraq and ceia as a war against the united states government not a war against the american people. a war against combatants is important for them and they gelt a lot more propaganda value if they struck at a military target and of course went after the cartoons in texas. that was something else entirely but this is a threat i think we should take very seriously, because things are getting worst in the middle east are and bound to blow back to this country. and raising the threat level
giving a propaganda victory to isis already. your reaction to that? i don t see it that way, wolf but will add on to what bob and phil just said. yes, it s relatively easy to increase threat levels at military bases but there are no front lines in this. it s not isis against the military. it s isis against america. so i see it as somewhat ludicrous to attack a military base. i m more concerned with the softer targets, government institutions and police as some of the things that phil and bob were both just talking about. you agree, phil? they will portray this as a success. believe me they re reading the media, watching the media sitting in iraq maybe watching us but what they need is bang for the buck. they need events to happen for them to be able to say we ve succeeded. not an alert, event. waiting to let something launch. all of you stand by. we re not going away from the breaking news. other stories we re following right now including a fiery disaster. we now know who was
provided materiel support to terrorists. sheikh mohamud, u.s. citizen, trained to use firearms and explosives and returned home from syria planning to target a u.s. military facility. joining us now former congresswoman jane harmon served on the homeland security committees now president of the wilson center. cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd former cia official national security analyst peter bergen and cnn intelligence and security analyst bob bair former cia operative pap 23-year-old man, naturalized u.s. citizen. what s the appeal of these kinds of individuals to actually leave the united states of america, fly to turkey cross into syria, train with a terrorist group and come back to the united states with instructions to kill americans? we talked about the appeal being isis propaganda ideology. you can lead a simpleler life overseas allowing you to practice islam at its forms.
look at this case compared to others like the zrntsarnaev brothers involved in the boston marathon killings. each case human beings involved. a brother who convinced this kid, young man, to go over. also we had a religious figure evidently in isis who persuaded him to come back home. in almost all cases i saw, where a youth was involved with ideology that was this sort of heinous, there s a human being involved in telling him, look this ideology might look ugly but it s okay. not the first time. it almost happens, bob bair every week hearing about more americans who want to train with one of the terror groups whether isis or aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, al shabaab, whatever. it s happening seemingly more and more. isn t it? yeah. and i agree with phil, wolf. you have to spend a lot of time on the internet, the jihadi
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