ground was to further understand how how real and significant a threat al qaeda and the islamic iqim poses to mali and the countries in the region. three americans were killed in algeria just a few weeks ago in a terrorist-led kidnapping and attack on a gas facility in the desert and the same folk who is led the attack on the benghazi component linked remotely to the folks taking action in northern mali and just this week, the french military seized i think 35,000 tons of libyan arms that had been relocated to the deserts in the north of mali. this is an area the size of texas and al qaeda affiliates seeking to use it as a new base from which to launch attacks on french, american interests and regional african allies. yes, facing the sequester, facing record deficits we have financial challenges of our own in this country but in this particular situation where our allies are doing the fighting,
has that works. i was very disappointed in brennan s politically correct statement yesterday because he knows it s not true. he doesn t mean it. the obama administration s policy and it s a wise one, is kill terrorists. don t try to capture them because capturing them just gives us another unfunded liability. what do you do with them? we ve got prissy rules that won t let us interrogate them seriously. they laughed at us. they re on the taxpayers dime for the rest of our lives even if we don t try them. but killing terrorists works. gretchen, the bottom line on this is you ve heard all the lefties saying, oh, if you kill a terrorist, you ll make him a martyr. no. osama bin laden is dead and nobody is protesting, nobody is saying this one is for osama when they throw a bomb. when the terrorists recently took over the gas facility in algeria, what did they want? they wanted the release of the blind sheik.
diplomacy at harvard, and he said that who would have predicted two years ago egypt would still have a strong work relationship with the u.s., would have stood by the camp david peace accord so perhaps there s room for optimism. there is, i think, a ray of hope this keystone country, this very important country in the middle of the arab world, might be able to move forward, hasp in a very problematic way but not terribly destabilizing. listen to the caution in that as well. not tremendously destabilizing for the region. nobody knows the future. shepard: we don t have much strategy and the rest of the region is a disaster. of course, it is not just egypt we re concerned about right now. the events recently, the taking of hostages at the gas facility in al jeer a, set alarm bells ringing about the work of islamic extremists, and you look
welcome back. it is 44 after the top of the hour. let s span the globe to see what s happening overseas. we begin in algeria with this brand new video that is believed to show hostages taken during last week s raid on a gas facility by a terror group. the amateur video shows men lined up along the fence nearly 40 hostages were killed including three americans. new overnight north korea vowing to aim nuclear tests at the united states. the top military body sending a stern warning plans to conduct more rocket launches and missiles are capable of reaching the u.s. this following new sanctions from the u.n. bad weather blowing up the search for three american men whose plane is believed govern down somewhere in ant
qaeda to gain credibility with local people and beyond. we have to take seriously all of terrorists groups whatever they call themselves. they do not necessarily at the moment have either the interests or the ability to attack our homeland but we have a lot of facilities. we have a lot of assets in north africa. we saw americans killed and held hostage at a gas facility because we do business all over that count innocent. over that continent so we have to up our military intelligence and diplomatic assets. we passed last year the best value contract language that you are speaking of in the house-passed appropriations measure and we will try to get our colleagues in the senate to take that measure up.