room. the turkish government condemned this fact expressing deep sorrow for those killed. turkey all too familiar with isis attacks. 2017 began with a deadly shooting in a nightclub on new year s day. police have conducted missions to bust i discells. here they are going along on one of the dangerous raids. if we are ready, we are moving. the offers to radio calls to his men. it s just past midnight a few days before new year s eve. the police forces getting ready for a massive raid. the cell they want to bust is larger than most of the previous isis targets and we are briefed. they are deemed to have the capacity to carry out an attack. turks it are wary and anxious this holiday season following the pain and shock of last year s new year s eve terror attack when a gunman opened fire at the random nightclub in
security policy jim hanson. welcome to all three of you. rob, let me start with you how big that impact is conventional wisdom as it helps the far right candidate marine la pen. france has been living under a state of emergency now for 18 months. it s been a very constant string of terrorist attacks, terrorist plots. dozens of them in recent years. attacks like that in the charlie hebdo magazine in paris. accord nateed isis attacks in 2015. nice last summer. if this has an impact, i think it will be because it s essentially the straw breaking the camel s back and french voters deciding that the status quo cannot go on. we have to remember it s not normal the amount of attacks taking place in france and understandably french people are very concerned about it. connell: to rob s point, jim, this has happened before not only the most recent attacks but in the election in 2012 terror attack in the final weeks of that election. impact didn t go the way the conventional wisdom was predic
it seems like old policy of not necessarily live and let live, but where isis didn t want to upset the place where it was using so conveniently as a transit point that policy seems to be over, and perhaps there is an open war now between turkey and isis. and would it be pretty easy for this guy to escape the dragnet? there was more than one person involved though also, correct? well, they believe there was one shooter, ogunman, this suspect, who is at large. the question is, did he have help, and if you look back at all the isis attacks from the b bataclan attack to brussels there was a large network of people involved, after the bataclan attack in france where police shut down part of that network there were other militants that went on to attack in belgium. so if it was in fact isis, then it is unlikely that he acted
part of istanbul, the urbane, modern, western. the fact that there s 12 or 13 nationals who were victims of this attack, that s what this was an effort against. and using the word christian is just a way i think of isis to up the ante on the religious war they re fighting. as you state, all these isis attacks in these arab countries, the victims tend to be muslims as well. because they re majority muslim countries, right? right, exactly. going back to the christian part, the religious war, this really is isis s goal, to create this religious war between the west and the middle east. that s exactly right. and that s why, you know, you ve seen caution amongst the present administration of trying not to sort of cater to that narrative by isis for a thousand reasons, including that you don t want to radicalize muslims that aren t
the focus will be on isis, the pentagon is concerned that as the turks approach the town of al bob, they fight kurds instead of isis and may turn towards manbij, a hard fought victory for the u.s. backed forces. it is raqqah to the south that the u.s. wants everyone to head for. the turks want u.s. support, even air strikes. the u.s. ground forces could call those strikes in for turkish president erdogan. one u.s. official tells cnn the u.s. troops will not initiate combat but may well find themselves in a combat situation. the pentagon believes the risk is vital to stop future isis attacks in the west. we know that central to external operations plotting is the city of raqqah.