so it may be that they got training and then you know went into operation after just a few months. there seems to be some significant planning here. there was a lookout at the museum who alerted the gunmen when these buses were going to arrive so they could start attacking the buses that morning. so some organization here. this suggests a more kind of sophisticated attack perhaps linked to a more established terrorist outfit. isis isn t the only candidate here. there s also sharir in tunisia. they have 40,000 followers in the country. there s a north african al qaeda affiliate which has a presence in the mountainous region near the algerian border which has been the most active terror group. al qaeda in north africa also have a presence in libya. not impossible that they could have trained with another group, not isis, in libya. the investigations i think will uncover more as we move forward. let s talk about yemen now.
i mean, more than 200, you know now on the list just in a couple days. it s astounding. unfortunately some of them will be killed. the women and some of the girls will be sold off into slavery. weave should not have this type of savage barberrism in the 24th century but we are sitting back and watching it happen. you say some will be. look at the opposite. what is their motive to keep them? they haven t asked for ransom for any of them. they haven t asked for that. this is genocidal. they re not going to sit and feed them. isis isn t going to spend all their money on them. they are not going to baby-sit them. what possible reason could they have to get these christians except for the fact that they re christians and they intend to kill them. that s the bottom line to all of this. this is another episode of genocide against christians in that part of the world. sir yarns face the same genocide from empire in 1914. here we are allowing history, a very dark history to repeat its
combination of terrifying tactics before they come in and actually being competent in militarily. how important is it that the top military commander, isis isn t known to have more strategic thinkers beyond this person? well, what we ve seen in the past with isis is it tends to operate on two levels. one is a kind of macro level, which is certainly an important role that was held by, and that s going to emerge in the coming days following this strike, which is as an organization, the acquisition of, for example, military hardware and weapons that isis took over from the iraqi army and elsewhere, those tend to go into the big picture elements of isis. to be able to disperse those equipments and those weapons on a large scale. and that s probably the role he played. how to use those weapons, what to attack, what strategic areas to go after. but there s also another element of isis, which is the kind of low level fear factor that isis thrives off of. and in areas where they control, it
we have eyes and we can see the growing threat of isis and the president s strategy of dealing with isis isn t exactly working. the american people have a good sense of history. most of us lived through 9/11. we saw what they were capable of. keeping this prison sat guantanamo bay open is common sense. these are high-value targets. if they were somehow matriculated into the federal prison system or released to saudi arabia or yemen. the recidivism rate is one-third of the terrorists go back to the fight. martha: i m struck when you look at the discussion of interrogation techniques. michael hayden said this yesterday in his discussion with bill. god bid. this is the reaction. 81% when things are happening
they left their home countries to fight for isis. some of them now, many, we re told, are regretting their decision. apparently life with isis isn t quite what they thought it would be. how much money do you have in your pocket right now? i have $40, $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don t think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all.