in terms of the makeup of this particular group of terrorists that carried out the operation, there is a suggestion, which is unconfirmed yet, that there may be two, maybe three americans amongst those ranks. plus a brit, plus other europeans. if that turns out to be true, what does that tell us about al shabaab but also al qaeda now in terms of how far it spreads. this is very interesting. i m not surprised there s americans involved with the shabaab. there s probably about 50 americans that actually left the united states and went to join a shabaab in somalia. a few of them died. would they all be from somalian origin originally? it s a combination. there are few from somalian origin but a few who converted to islam and went to somalia to fight having this romantic vision about, you know, jihad and about joining a rebel group. anti-establishment-type of group. but also on the same time, a shabaab is probably one of the only affiliates of al qaeda that
if you look at the way they created this, it is created for maximum attack and exposure. that is why they are prolonging the attack as long as they can, because the more the attack goes on, they hope they get more recruits and more funding. and of course, we have the general assembly which is maximum publicity for them and the world leaders. in terms of the makeup of this particular group of terrorists that carried out this operation, there is a suggestion, unconfirmed yet, that there could be two, maybe three americans, plus other brits and europeans. if that turns out to be true, what does that tell us as far as al-qaeda and al-shabaab, as far as it spreads? i am not surprised there are americans involved with shabaab. there are actually 50 americans that left the united states and went to join the shabaab a few of them died. would they be of somali
the commoner background is this is probably the most working class family associated with the royal family, and they re very much going to work to keep this baby s feet on the ground to have a close-knit family where there s a lot of support and a lot of love. he ll be having to learn the dishwasher so he appreciates well, we ve seen so far in this early relationship and marriage of kit and william that they really do things in their own way. coming up next on enough day, much more from here in london, including what kate can learn from princessia. plus other big headlines we re watching. the death of a woman on the
in san francisco. and you can see the emergency apparatus going onto the tarmac now to try to help with the situation here. these are ground shots from san francisco international airport. and you are getting this you are seeing this just as i am seeing it. the crash happened just a little bit over an hour ago, but still much to clean up. tons of investigating to do. and probably some people to tend to, the people who were on board that plane. and you can see, again, the ambulance is going out towards the tarmac there. emergency vehicles going out towards the tarmac, and you heard from mary schiavo who is formerly with the faa saying, again, that they re going to have recordings that will help them out with this particular situation. i am counting ten emergency vehicles so far at least going out there, ten ambulances, plus other vehicles including fire trucks, hook and ladder and i m sure all of the resources there in san francisco are available and they are on top of it.
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