Into a series of franchises are more or less influenced by the inspirational ideology of al qaeda. But in the control of their local commanders. For example, you have one franchise in north africa, one in mali, one in the northern arabian peninsula. You have al qaeda in iraq. You have al qaeda in syria. Then of course, you have al qaeda sleeper cells that we have seen pop up in europe, australia, and god forgive in n god for bid in canada and United States. The residual legacy of bin laden still seems to be able to attract these young arabs who want to be a member of al qaeda, aattracted to what is essentially this death cult of al qaeda. We have not a great deal of success to turn that off. Host we have this map of the middle east that we want to put back up. Ambassador ginsberg, what kind of military presence does the United States have in this area . Guest if you go to iraq after the Islamic State was able to take the city of mosul, the second largest city of iraq and seize territor
Support for hezbollah or hamas, or the assad regime. Now being confronted by our strongest adversaries in the region that are being strengthened on the back of sunnis who are afraid of the shiite ascendancy. Host lets take some calls. We will begin with dennis in arkansas on our democrats line. Caller you know, they say that you cannot go to war with g5 unless god tells you to or you are not a muslim at all. That kind of eliminates an awful lot of these guys. Those tribes have been fighting for a long time centuries trying to get a leg up on the other guide. Isis is being run out of yemen and libya primarily. Firsthand knowledge from people who escape their is different from the political point of view. Are we going to be the police force for the entire world . Obama kind of said im going to get as out of the war, those are campaign promises. He is a man of his word. He also killed osama bin laden. You can say bush did it host there is a lot better. A lot of connections being made by d
The wall street journal today. Is this company failing to police its site and protect its customers, especially its young customers, from predators . Plus, a high tech way to steal your car. Police in chicago have their hands full with someone who has found a way to do it with some sort of mysterious black box that enables them to get the codes in those Keyless Entry systems. And weather of course is going to be a big problem from the west coast to the east coast. There you see a storm moving in out there. East coast west coast rain, east coast snow, ice. Middle of the country, maybe up to a foot. The forecast three minutes away. Lets go down to sue at the nyse. We start this hour with the stock picking prowess at the s. E. C. A new report is out showing how well employees at the securities and Exchange Commission can do while regulating everybody else. There are some nuances here and eamon javers is in washington with more on that. But we are posing the question whether really, the s.
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