cause on behalf of one of these jihadi groups. caller: right. it s certainly outside the standard demographic in terms of age, but the full range of sort of terrorists are much younger and much older than, you know, might say the 18 to 35-year-old. there were some australians who were found to be much younger than 18. you see people older helping out. we don t want to derive too much from the fact that he s in his 40s. i want to ask you this last question. what has struck you as watching this unfold for the last several hours as the most unusual thing about this particular hostage situation? caller: anything unusual about it? mm-hm. what has struck you as being the most unusual as far as the guy that we re seeing on the screen here? caller: i would say that what s unusual about it is that, you know, typically, we, you
monitoring this situation, we re on top of it, what does that really mean? with getting out what would be americans that are caught in the crossfire of that situation? well, there is a bit of sensitivity here. the government have got rn burned in the past when they ve worked with the european governments, gone in and paid very large ransom payments in order to get their hostages freed and as a result they ve gotten tons of money and perpetuated itself over and over. so the algerians are reluctant to allow direct involvement and reluctant to let too much information out. i think the reality is, though, the algerians are facing a difficult situation. i think there s going to be very disturbing details that are going to come out. it s a matter of time. but in the meantime, algerians are struggling with the remaining kidnappers. supposedly the leader of the kidnappers is dead. a number of prominent members of jihadi groups with them are dead. it s not clear how many of these
discuss all this. then we go overseas to egypt s election of muhammad morsi. what can we expect from an islamist president? two of the top egypt experts tell us. next, how do you count and catalog 1.2 billion people? i ll ask the man creating a revolutionary biometric i.d. for every one of india s citizens. also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will the coming housing boom finally power this anemic recovery? first, here s my take. what to do about syria. western military intervention looks fraught with difficulties, but the situation on the ground is a humanitarian nightmare and is producing greater instability by the week. i was recently in turkey and russia, and i ve been persuaded that there might be a path forward. the pressures on bashir al assad s regime are mounting. it is running out of cash, and it now faces a real military threat from turkey. these pressures could be combined with smart diplomacy to push assad out of power. but it would mean trying to w
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