Internet and find themself spart, you see people who have had no training, no association with it, including americans, who go on the internet and find themself s themselves enthralled because of whatever lost souls they are or because of the violence with isil and selfradicalize and unfortunately undertake to do violence. So you see that spectrum there. You do see some effort by isil, meaning isil in syria and iraq to command and control, but its not exclusively that way. I say all this because thats very distinctly different from the al qaeda model. The al qaeda model was a very hierarchical, very clear command and control type terrorist enemy. And that meant they had discipline and it meant they could take on big things like 9 11, but it also meant that when we started to go after them they were vulnerable to attacks on the command and control structure and on their logistics structure. Isils more resilient because it is more decentralized and informal in that kind of sense. Takes a
Discuss the future of television technology. A Government Accountability Office Report has found that construction of a new u. S. Embassy in kabul afghanistan, has gone 27 overbudget. Gao and state Department Officials testified about the project at a House Oversight committee hearing. Republican Jason Chaffetz chairs this three and a half hour hearing. Committee on oversight and government reform will come to order. I appreciate you being here as we have a hearing today regarding the Construction Costs and delays of the United States embassy in kabul, afghanistan. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I appreciate you being here. This is an important topic. We have so Many Americans who have given their lives in afghanistan, who have sacrificed away from their families to serve the United States of america and our interests there. We have a duty and a obligation to make sure that they are well housed, that they are safe, that they are secure, that theyre able to do
Decades or more and the policy has failed. We ought to try Something Else not just continue applying that same model to new substances. Thats just me. Mr. Wooldridge. In talking about alcohol in the period of alcohol prohibition, bootleg dhol was adulterated with methyl alcohol and other compounds and drinkers were blinded and people were paralyzed and there was a term called jake leg which was a kind of paralysis in which people were perm nentsly injured from their use of alcohol and that, of course, we know is the function of prohibition and not of the legal control. Are these drugs harmful . The evidence is of people who present themselves to the police and so on yes, these seem to be quite harmful. They are harmful as a consequence of the market distortions that Law Enforcement creates for the drugs that people want to get and there was an article in the New York Times magazine this sunday, i didnt want to use these drugs, but theyre easier to get and theyre being represented as be
Trying to develop new variety is of this important crop to try to feed able creasingly populated planet. Hello. Everyone, we start with break news coming out of the battle against isil and it appears, reports of a new video from isil showing the beheading of an american aid worker. His name is peter. 26 years old. We have seen him in previous in this shot in previous videos as well hes actually been held captive for a year an iraq war veteran at the age of 26 years olds the news is that he has been beheaded in a knewize ill video. Lets go to imran kahn, hes in baghdad and can tell us more about what we know at this stage, imran. Reporter well, in the last few minutes a video was released through credible isil Associates Media accounts, people that used accounts to send out videos in the past that have been confirmed it allegedly shows peter, he had convert today islam, being beheaded as well as several syrian soldiers. Once again, there is a man wearing black on the video, doing the be
Demonstration sites. New video posted online appears to show the beheading of a group of isil hostages including american peter kassig. In it what appears to be members of the Islamic State of iraq and levant are killing the u. S. Aid worker as well as several syrian soldiers. 26yearold kassig was captured last year in syria on a mission to help wounded refugees. He converted to islam. We have the story from baghdad. What are you hearing about this and the authenticity of this video. Reporter well, let me tell you ive spoken to several iraqis throughout the day here on sunday about what they make of this video. For a lot of people it reminds them of the bad old days of violence here in iraq during 2006, 07 and 08 when the beheadings were quite comm commonplace. Al qaeda in iraq that became isil, this was a common tactic they used to use, and many people here are just shaking their heads and worrying about a return to those days. As regards the authenticity of this video, it was release