Alert issued after communications among senior alqaeda operatives intercepted indicating plans for a major attack were underway and calling into the question in the narrative the group is on the run. Columnist Brett Stephens and Matt Cominski join me with more. On friday the u. S. Closed the consulate in pakistan which ive been to which is the safest part of pakistan. Are we watching the comeback of alqaeda . We have been watching it for a month but now we have noticed. This last week is one, the alqaeda core, central pakistan led by ayman alzawahri and he is active. Number two, we have seen that the alqaeda affiliates, after alqaeda in pakistan they moved to yemen and moved to north africa and moved to syria. But syria and yemen has been the most dangerous one. Paul this is the source . Exactly. He named this afal yacht as number two that prompted the alert over the week. Paul what makes them dangerous. A lot of people say dont worry about this, these are local franchises. They are re
Of health care. Gov. So let me say directly to these americans, you deserve better, i apologize. Welcome to the journal editorial report. An apology from health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius who acknowledged the rollout of the Affordable Care act was, in fact, a debacle. Despite the website woes and growing outrage over millions of dropped policies, president obama says its full steam ahead. Yes, this is hard. Because the Health Care Systems a big system. And its complicated. And if it was hard doing it just in one state, its harder to do it in all 50 states. We are just going to keep working at it. Were going to grind it up. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal assistant Editorial Panel editor James Freeman. Editorial board member joe raggio and Economics Writer joe moore. What have we learned from sebelius appearance this week . Not very much. She indicated the website and the larger architecture of the system are in much deeper trouble than we thought. H
otherwise known as quantitative easing in october. there s no word yet on what they plan to do about the quadrupling of the balance sheet before this crazy thing started. but at least it s a step in the right direction. okay. matt? germany thrashed brazil 7-1 in the world cup semifinals. stunning defeat. here s a hit to fans of both teams. the brazilians, even if they were crying, they started to applaud because they know more than anyone, when they see beautiful soccer, they call it football, being played, to the germans quite reserved in their applause, germany scored so many goals, as one journal as a story in the journal said, one fan said 4-0 would have been enough. who are you picking in the final? i have money riding on germany. and you? i want germany to win.
some point reoccupy a wide corridor, to separate each from gaza to prevent that kind of smuggling. these rockets are getting increasingly sophisticated. is it possible to eliminate hamas as a military and political force with that kind of ground incursion? tony blair said it is not possible. i think that s a silly proposition. israel has been in the gaza strip before. now it would be do you think they can amass a political military? absolutely. hamas is not a major military threat to israel in the sense it s no match to the israeli defense forces. but it would require a sustained operation in gaza that would have political costs to israel that would certainly amount to palestinian casualties and some israeli casualties as well. matt, what do you think about the u.s. response so far, that we ll be an intermediary between the two? we have very little leverage there, as so many other parts of
of rockets fired on its city. israel is no exception. prime minister benjamin netanyahu announcing israel is stepping up its gaza offensive in response to a rain of rockets fired from the region by the terror group hamas. israeli warplanes this weekend, hundreds were suspected militant sites, the government authorized the callup of some 40,000 army reservists, mobilizing for a possible ground invasion of the territory it withdrew from in 2005. wall street journal affairs columnist brett stevens and matt cominski joins me now. their people are bearing the brunt of the retaliatory response from israel. they were strategically backfooted, both by the pressure on assad. they lost their patron in syria, and the fact that mohamed morsi, sympathetic to hamas, was