barrels, this market fuels the world. so long as at that time oil prices were extremely high, close to $100 a barrel. and there is a market for it. there are middlemen who are willing to buy oil from anywhere. and saddam hussein used that same market all those years ago. i remember being in iraq and seeing the convoys of trucks that were going from the country on a most magnificent highway in the country into black market areas where they could sell this stuff. that s right. highway 8. you re absolutely correct. and we are just making inroads into attacking that financial network. and for the most part, people say, well, why haven t we struck these trucks? we ve been striking oil refineries but it is more important for the military to degrade the combat capacity of isis then get around to destroying their oil refineries and logistics chains for these trucks. we re doing that now, taking away each little building block that hold up this pseudo state,
the challenges we facing now is a global challenge, a holistic one. so its nation must feel concerned, deeply concerned, what happened to mali. reporter: one of the frightening aspects of this, harry, is that the attack here has been claimed by a local affiliate of al qaeda. we talked about yesterday that just raising the specter of isis and al qaeda competing to carry out the worst possible massacre. one other point, harry. the american who was killed in there, there are tributes pouring in to her, including from hillary clinton. she worked for usaid and she is described as somebody who just dedicated herself to west africa and to the poor. a terrible, terrible loss for people here and for her family, harry. keir simmons in mali this morning live, thank you very much. now to for the latest on the hunt for one of the terror
them are terrorists or that the vetting process isn t appropriate, but because they re muslims. that s part of it, too. i think correcting donald trump can t even be seen as reasonable as this point. he has used the most inflammatory rhetoric in the past week. that s dangerous. that s not the environment in which to handle. i think where we need to hear from republicans in terms of policy, just as we have to hear from the administration, is how do you handle this kind of three-way battle in syria with isis, assad and allies insurgents supported by the west, how do you deal with be counterintelligence, not in terms of a. national registry but debates we had been having about the nsa. and i do think republicans are going to have to offer where they stand on this and not simply criticize the administration. that is a debate we can have in a healthy way in an election season. that would be fine. but some of this rhetoric i think
about the refugee hysteria sweeping the u.s. as domestic politics turns ugly. we begin with two reports tonight. to the cairo for the russian announcement that it was isis that is brought down their airliner and the news from germany today. claudio, good evening. reporter: good evening, chris. the manhunt for the most wanted man. europe continues, of course, salah abdeslam was born and raised here in belgium. belgium and brussels which was more known as the home base of international organizations like the european union and nato. now it is becoming clear it is the hot bed of islamic extremism here in europe where there are the most the highest number of foreign fighters per capita in any county in the europe left here to go and fight with sisal in syria and as many as 130 are known to have come back. now one of those radicalized is salah abdeslam.
if you talk to the ysatiss they say in no way a victory. they have no money to rebuild the city from the ground up and say what s going to stop isis from attacking in a few weeks and a few months and committing another massacre like happened last august in which hundreds of ysatis men, women and children were killed when they were taken into custody. children were taken as child soldiers and i spoke to some of the survivors this week who say they are terrified it will happen again. sophia jones with amazing report out of sinjar from erbil, iraq, right now. joining me, editor to the atlantic, graem wood is now working on a book about the group s ideology. graem, your article got a lot of