with hands up, surrounded by heavily armed taliban what are heard urging them to surrender. [ sound of gunfire ] then gunned down in cold blood, amid cries of god is great. more than 20 of afghanistan s most capable warriors executed in seconds. their crumbled bodies still warm, pools of blood seeping into ground, the u.s. had abandoned. they believe that they can conquer and they believe their jihadist literature will prevail. lara: they believe they have won. they believe they are winning. lara: afghanistan vice president did not follow president ghani on his escape plan to a foreign land ubut he headed north to
with hands up, surrounded by heavily armed taliban what are heard urging them to surrender. [ sound of gunfire ] then gunned down in cold blood, amid cries of god is great. more than 20 of afghanistan s most capable warriors executed in seconds. their crumbled bodies still warm, pools of blood seeping into ground, the u.s. had abandoned. they believe that they can conquer and they believe their jihadist literature will prevail. lara: they believe they have won. they believe they are winning. lara: afghanistan vice president did not follow president ghani on his escape plan to a foreign land ubut he headed north to join his people and talk up
randomly chosen selection of 100 mosques, 80 of them were either preaching jihadist tactics or were distributing jihadist literature. that s outrageous. we have freedom of religion. we do not have freedom to hide behind religion and preach violence and extremism. exactly. so real quick what should we do to challenge those mosques to do the right thing and stop perhaps, fermenting this argument that it s okay to have a jihad going on? because that is not right. i mean, we do recognize freedom of speech and freedom of religion, but not that. well i think it needs to get past the muslim front groups like the muslim brotherhood and c.a.r.e. that call it islamic phobia to question what s happening in the mosques, questions literature and preaching going on. it is okay to challenge it when like the boston player thon bombers, a dozen jihadis were soeshded with the islamic society of boston.
the u.s. army special forces joins me now to weigh in on this. okay. so in that statement there we talked about the possibility of the u.s. becoming a sanctuary, and actually i think question should be has it become a recruiting area more so than a sanctuary? absolutely kelly. online websites asking people to come join them from muslim countries in europe and here in the united states and they ve also got an ally unfortunately, in that a lot of mosques in the united states are preaching extremism and distributing jihadist literature. there s a distinct problem with us helping the jihadists find their cannon fodder. another question we can pose getting back to that word sanctuary. a isis trying to establish a safe haven in which to operate attacks in places like syria and iraq and now trying to expand