That theyre bombing in iraq, and they may want to bomb in syria as well. When the white house talks about that group, they call them isil. Lets be clear about isil. Isil speaks for no religion, they have no ideology of any value to human beings. We will be relentless against isil. Isil a lot of terms about isils vision. Isil. When the administration and the pentagon talk about who theyre bombing in iraq right now, and who they may want to bomb inside syria as well, they call the group isil. Everybody else calls the group isis. Why are there these two different names. The group in question speaks arabic, and what they would prefer to be called in english, the Islamic State, so that would be i. S. Frankly i think nobody cares what they would prefer to be called. There is this difference in how they are described in terms of english language acronyms. When they are called isis, that is sometimes translated as an acronym for the Islamic State in iraq and syria. Thats not where it came from
Hands and limbs. Doing mass executions. Basically ruling by terror. Declaring a fundamentalist terror state in the parts of somalia where they had control. And it was not long before they got aspirations beyond somalia. In 2010, al shabaab launched all those attacks in uganda against people who had committed the grave sin of getting together to watch world cup soccer matches. Those attacks killed more than 70 people. In 2012, al shabaab formally declared they were an affiliate of al qaeda central. Declared allegiance. Though they claimed credit for bombings and killings and mutilations and grenade attacks over and over and over again throughout this whole time, it was this time last year, was september 2013, when an al shabaab attack made frontpage headlines around the world and shocked the whole international community. That attack happened not in somalia, but in kenya in the cosmopolitan capital kenyan city of nairobi. Al shabaab militants over a period of three days mounted a coordi
Is not done yet, but day are done hearing testimony from witnesses. The Bob Mcdonnell jury is now ready to hear closing arguments in that federal corruption trial in richmond, virginia. That means we are on verdict watch very shortly in the Bob Mcdonnell trial. Well have more on that ahead. Also, theres some big news to report tonight on a story that we first brought you here last night. It involves a bribery scandal and a guilty plea and the man who would like to be the next Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. Federal prosecutors are now reportedly moving on to other new targets in toptier republican politics after securing a key guilty plea in that bribery scandal yesterday. We have an update on that for you. Thats all ahead. But first, in the 2008 elections, a man named nate silver became very, very famous by being very, very correct. Nate silver is a stats guy. He came up through the sports world but had an interest in politics. And in that election, he ended up do
Isil speaks for no religion, they have no ideology of any value to human beings. We will be relentless against isil. Isil a lot of terms about isils vision. Isil. When the administration and the pentagon talk about who theyre bombing in iraq right now, and who they may want to bomb inside syria as well, they call the group isil. Everybody else calls the group isis. Why are there these two different names. The group in question speaks arabic, and what they would prefer to be called in english, the Islamic State, so that would be i. S. Frankly i think nobody cares what they would prefer to be called. There is this difference in how they are described in terms of english language acronyms. When they are called isis, that is sometimes translated as an acronym for the Islamic State in iraq and syria. Thats not where it came from. Its a related term, it started off as an Islamic State of iraq and alsham. It means greater syria, what we think of as the nation of syria plus what they believe t
Watch very shortly in the Bob Mcdonnell trial. Well have more on that ahead. Also, theres some big news to report tonight on a story that we first brought you here last night. It involves a bribery scandal and a guilty plea and the man who would like to be the next Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. Federal prosecutors are now reportedly moving on to other new targets in toptier republican politics after securing a key guilty plea in that bribery scandal yesterday. We have an update on that for you. Thats all ahead. But first, in the 2008 elections, a man named nate silver became very, very famous by being very, very correct. Nate silver is a stats guy. He came up through the sports world but had an interest in politics. And in that election, he ended up doing deep data mining basically on polling, and on other predictors of electoral outcomes, and in 2008 when john mccain was running against barack obama for the white house, nate silver correctly predicted the outcom