how hard do you think that s going to be? not hard at all. we got rid of gadhafi. nothing else is hard. i like your attitude. the fluid situation in libya has been intensifying since our arrival, and we ve had to change our behavior, constantly moving. should i be wearing one of these cool, like, journalist safari jackets at this point? so it seemed a good time or maybe not saddle up to go to misrata. okay, guys, we can go. roger that. since the revolution, misrata has been the most secure city in libya, but over the last two weeks, in a hail of bullets and hand-thrown grenade attacks, an imam, security forces and a police officer have all been killed. i want you to move forward. you can come past me. all along the narrow,
metastasizes. we re going to have to do more in libya. 800 isis fighters have set up a shadow state in libya, shep, preparing, some say, in case isis gets pushed out of raqqah and syria. a shadow state. very interesting, jennifer griffin, thank you. christopher hill is a former u.s. ambassador to iraq and assistant secretary of state. he also served as senior director of the national security council and is an author, author of the book outpost, life on the front lines of american diplomacy. sir, it s great to see you again. thank you. pleasure. a number of points here. first jennifer s last on isis setting up a shadow state. what are we to make of that? well i think the problem is in libya, the task was seen as getting rid of gadhafi. we got rid of gadhafi and lo and behold the issues that had given rise to that uprising, tribalism, had very much set in and some of these tribes are allied with extremely radical elements of sunni islam. so, we do have a problem there. and i t
what s the situation now? it s fluid. it can swing any direction. well, look, what happened in benghazi a few months ago, i mean. what does this mean to the country? i think there is a dark, mysterious hand that doesn t like this country to prosper. they see system and organization as a big enemy to them. these concerns are slowly getting diminished. it s a matter of time before we can get rid of them. how hard do you think that s going to be? not hard at all. we got rid of gadhafi. nothing else is hard. i like your attitude. the fluid situation in libya has been intensifying since our arrival, and we ve had to change our behavior, constantly moving. should i be wearing one of these cool, like, journalist safari jackets at this point? so it seemed a good time or maybe not saddle up to go to misrata. okay, guys, we can go. roger that. since the revolution, misrata has been the most secure city in libya, but over the last two
night. right. but when i hit that point and got into misrata and stood on gadhafi s body, any dream will come true. what s the situation now? it s fluid. it can swing any direction. well, look, what happened in benghazi a few months ago, i mean. what does this mean to the country? i think there is a dark, mysterious hand that doesn t like this country to prosper. they see system and organization as a big enemy to them. these concerns are slowly getting diminished. it s a matter of time before we can get rid of them. how hard do you think that s going to be? not hard at all. we got rid of gadhafi. nothing else is hard. i like your attitude. the fluid situation in libya has been intensifying since our arrival, and we ve had to change our behavior, constantly moving. should i be wearing one of these cool, like, journalist safari jackets at this point? so it seemed a good time or
reminders of the terror threat in the region. we re joined by the fellow at the institute of policy stud disand a u.s. foreign policy expert. thanks so much for your time this weekend. we should say a peace deal was signed back in june between the new government in mali and insurgent group, but it didn t stop an attack in august where some 12 people were killed and obviously didn t prevent friday s attack. why is that? well, i think we have to go back to the root causes of this crisis. you have a real disaffected group in the northern part of mali that have been excluded from political participation, from economic development. so what you had, actually going back to 20 11 after the ouster of gadhafi and the flood of weapons in the region, you had people taking up arms and essentially declaring the