Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. There is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. We really appreciate being able to, in addition to our inhouse work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. A couple words about the American Foreign policy counsel. Im the
Im going to say nothing of value. [laughter] thank you. All right, well, thank you, everyone, and welcome to im delighted that we have a packed house in particular because it is august, and while some of you are more free than you would be otherwise, which is great, some of you who would otherwise be here are not here because you are traveling. This is really a wonderful turnout for what promises to be a very timely event. Let me start by giving a couple words of introduction and the requisite thankyous. First of all, thank you to senator john hoeven for sponsoring the room, for his continued interest in our work on radical islam. There is a lot of offices that are involved with us on this work. We really appreciate being able to, in addition to our inhouse work that we do in terms of to beations and events, able to come on to the hill and be able to present the findings that we have, and also the findings of our friends. A couple words about the American Foreign policy counsel. Im the
Stacey a High School Basketball player who collapsed during practice last week has died. Mercy Medical Center officials confirm 16yearold drew jacobson died at the hospital this morning. Woodwardgranger superintendent Brad Anderson says jacobson fell and hit his head at practice wednesday night. He was flown by air ambulance to des moines. There is a go fund me account for drews medical and funeral expenses. Nearly 15,000 has been raised in five hours. If youd like to donate, theres a link on our website, kcci. Com. Mark flags across the metro flying at half staff today. Theyre marking 74 years since japanese war planes attacked pearl harbor. More than 2000 american sailors and soldiers died in that attack. More than 1000 more were wounded. At the pearl harbor memorial in des moines, people came together to remember. Kccis Marcus Mcintosh was there. He joins us with more from the emotional ceremony. Marcus mark, we met one of the last living iowans at pearl harbor during the attack. We
Without but the murderer of medgar evers, bobby frank cherry, involved in the Birmingham Church bombing, they were all ultimately brought to justice in a series of striking and horrifying trials in in cases 30 and 40 years after the crimes and not nearly everyone who was responsible for these outrages was brought to justice but there were many people who were brought to justice, and when you say the question about enforcement, one of the striking things that president johnson said on the weekend he signed the bill, he called his old friend, governor John Connellly of texas. He said you dont want to talk about enforcing this law. That gets a mans hackles up. You want to be talking about obeying it because thats the right thing to do, and i thought that was a fascinating distinction and one that probably he learned at a very early age. We have time for one last question. Thank you for taking the question. Mr. Williams, thank you for the Howard University reference, at alumnus, i definite
National Security Policy is inhibit the advancement of al qaeda. We will go now live over to the American Enterprise institute in washington. Frederick kagan. Coming inside to this windowless we have windows, but we have covered them. I want to thank you for coming happyr talking about our talk with. I am frederick kagan, the director of the American Enterprise institute critical threats project. We have been working on al qaeda and especially on the various Al Qaedaaffiliated movements around the world for a number of years now. Topicnfortunately is a that does not show any sign of diminishing in importance, and it is getting ever more complicated to understand, because what we are finding is a lot of these affiliates and inociates are ramifying their local areas, and both expanding and interacting with one another in new ways. Simply major undertakig ng simply to try to follow what is going on, let alone coming up with come up with a coherent recommendations for one instead. Just to