Program to him. And to honor his memory. I think his spirit will be with us for a long time. And i just wanted to mention him gratefully here as hes been part of our Virtual Events upo this point. Todays event as i said at the beginning is meant to celeate this a wonderful new book within amazing cover which is why it showed it. Theres so much going on in the cover we couldve just spent today talk about the cover. Like what are all the little post its. But we won. The author of t book that is with us today is shamus hues. He wrote this book with alexander and clifford. Shamus isne of the leader counterterrorism exper in the country. Hes been produci report after report for years both for congress and others. Before joining the program for extremism on george whington university which of the ncp National Counterterrorism center before that he was a senior counterterrorism advisor and Home Security Government Affairs committee. There is an awful lot shamus should be talking about today a
Attacks are in retaliation iran says for the killing of general qassam so the money who is finally being laid to rest these pictures from come on in iran about a 1000 kilometers south of the capital tehran. Room of the events of yesterday with upwards of 40 people were killed in a stampede at the funeral after a 3 day mourning period a 3 day funeral procession period and now. I would believe that is the cost get there that people are praying of and putting flowers on and this would be the final resting place eventually in come on the Early Morning its about 7 am a little bit after 7 am in iran at the moment just a reminder everything were seeing certainly in the iranians point of view is coming back to this the killing of general tsunami some more analysis now face a list about the who is a former iraqi ambassador to the United States who spoke to us earlier he says he fears iran and the u. S. Are unwilling at this stage and this is building a what candy was saying to engage in the dip
Killing more than 170. 00 people. Iran has struck back at the u. S. In retaliation for the assassination of one of its generals it fired more than a dozen missiles to iraqi bases hosting u. S. Forces tehran has warned of further strikes if washington responds but pointed out that it doesnt want war well we have a team of correspondents monitoring all the developments some of the fault is in iraqs capital baghdad gable is on there well have more on President Trumps reaction and i said big is standing by in the rainy and capital will be speaking to them in just a moment but 1st rob matheson begins our breaking news coverage. This is irans promised response to the u. S. Assassination of top iranian general seems on the money but lets stick missiles soaring into the night sky their targets to Iraqi Military bases housing thousands of u. S. Soldiers iranians are taking the crowd there to hit back directly they wouldnt even leave their proxies to deliver the message that their american. Kind
President what he wants to hear ok mr kimmitt for the moment thanks very much youre watching aljazeera and our continuing coverage of developing news out of iraq more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles have been fired at u. S. Facilities in iraq at least 2 iraqi air bases were targeted one bill and the other one at the. Base in the province of anbar iran state t. V. Says the revolutionary guards launched tens of surface to surface missiles the u. S. Assistant to the secretary of defense ensued a statement it confirms iran launched more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles against u. S. Military and Coalition Forces in iraq it is clear that these missiles were launched from iran and targeted at least 2 Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Military and coalition personnel. And bill the statement goes on to say we will take whole necessary measures to protect and defend u. S. Personnel partners and allies in the region were in conversation with mark kimmitt formerly an assistant secretary for Polit
Being anccused of abuse of power is, in my opinion, a policy disagreement on how the president should have approached the issues that are out light there. Goes, theforeign aid issue of the 391 million of foreign aid to ukraine, is practically every bit of foreign aid the United Statess purses following the congressional appropriation is contingent on something. Or another. Common trends, whether in the ornate enactment there, is whether or not is any type of corruption that is involved in that. I think we have conceded that ukraine has been a corrupt country and that president anensky was elected on anticorruption platform and we wish it well. The fact is, i think the president would have been derelict in his duties had he held off or just given the foreign aid without trying to check on corruption. That is what was going on. As far as obstruction of congress is concerned, earlier today i talked about the fact that this article is drafted so loosely and so weakly that it arns the congr