journey. they were putting the priority on getting them through medical checks and identified and processed for the start of their asylum applications to begin. nevertheless aide workers went inside the tents where they were being looked after and they came out and have told us first of all harrowing stories from egyptians, syrians, somalis who say they were at sea for up to 20s days in a fishing boat the first sailed from egypt then towards the coast of libya and then the migrants had to transfer to a different fishing boat even more unsea worthy than the previous one. this is a tactic that officials say is being used by people smugglers to try to keep the authorities off their tracks. but the migrants that were on those boats said they didn t have adequate food and water. the good news is, of course, that these ones all reached italy alive, escaping civil war in sir why as you can imagine
its affiliates throughout africa and the middle east. it s an alphabet soup of jihadi groups vying for providence. medieval references like repelling the crusaders, americans, that is, have not gone out of style. and the murderous muslim rabble is closer to worldwide jihad than ever before. they ve caught us when we re down. weary of war. tired of strange names that translate only into more war. worst of all, the machinery of government is stalled while they stalk soft targets. syria especially would make just a dandy step toward the ultimate goal of establishing the califate. a muslim state governed by sharia law. the last tis solved with the ot ottoman empire in 1924 or so we thought. this past week even as our veterans were fighting their way past barricades to see the world
war ii memorial, the house foreign affairs committee was hearing testimony about the rise of another modern menace. al shabaab. it was al shabaab, a child of al qaeda, that cut down more than 60 people peacefully shopping at a mall in nairobi. the committee heard testimony about the group s agenda to recruit young somali men to their cause in places like phoenix and minneapolis. according to the u.s. census, more than 32,000 people of somali ancestry live in minnesota. and local leaders say the true number is even higher. escaping civil war, many landed on our shores in the 1990s. over seas, jihad is thriving. if the arab spring accomplished anything for al qaeda and their franchises, it created a caverns now free fire zone where terrorists crossed borders with
david vitter, member of the senate armed services committee joins us from new orleans. it s a big win for us against them and the war on terror, isn t it? absolutely. very significant capture. both of these events, libya and somal somalia, remind us first of all of the great bravery of our special forces, other personnel on the front line. secondly, remind us that we are at war against a very dangerous enemy. sometimes over time i think we tend to forget. but this is a war. you know, that s a very good point. we have thankfully not had an attack. we had 9/11 and the boston bombings, of course. but the president of kenya, kenyatta, he said it s a, quote, international war. and they re just part of it. do you agree? yes, it is a world war against islamic jihad and fundamentalism and terrorism. and i think we, again, need to use these instances to remind ourselves of the danger and the threat and that this is a war, not just some criminal justice