every time. now you ve got, everybody is excited about the wrong stuff, megyn. everybody in the journalistic community is excited about scuds because they remember them from the gulf war. scuds are raty old weapons. if you fired from fox in midtown manhattan and tried to hit independence hall in philly you might hit camden. unless there is chemical or nuclear warhead on a scud it is useless. it is a terror weapon. what it tells me the assad regime no longer has many pilots it can trust not to defect to turkey or jordan and who are still willing to fly against the new air defense weapons the opposition had. so the meaning here isn t, oh, scuds are terrible. the meaning is, assad is getting increasingly desperate and even though the chemical weapons seem to be on the back burner now i would still watch that space. megyn: we don t want to address that problem when they re on the front burner, ralph peters. no.
it will not get any easier as we go on. the rebels are making significant gains especially in the northern part of the country. the regime is on the defensive. they are fighting in damascus and the suburbs and we are hearing of the scud missiles and it seems this is taking a new turn but we are not sure where it is going. shepard: you wonder how much influence, how much a part the outside world can play. nothing has been effective. guest: the regime is dug in. they have a lot at stake and they will use everything they have to fight for their survival. it is hard to have influence on the ground with so many different rebel groups fighting against the regime with different rebel groups with different backers with different agendas and extremist element here linked with al qaeda and it is very difficult to actually understand what is going on, on the ground. what the administration is doing
needing to make that. it is linked as an affiliate of al qaeda that the president feels are a representation of the syrian people. about a month ago, they got the rebels together and said listen. they had lots of political differences and the united states essentially said you have to get your act together. come to an agreement and a month later that is happening in morocco. the u.s. and the obama administration feels comfortable saying we are with you guys. what about the news we just got that the officials have confirmed for the first time and the military using scud missiles directed at the rebel fighters. is this the last act of desperation? it feels that way. he started by using ground troops and tanks and helicopters and jets. now scud missiles. that s the last weapon. short of chemical weapons, we we hope he doesn t go there. he is feeling the news come
analyst and retired army major general bob scales. general, we are told that these sarin delivery systems have been prepared. apparently, you know more about this than i do, but apparently sarin is a powder, you mix it with alcohol, then it becomes live and deadly, but it s only good for about two months. yeah, that s right, jon. that s why it s kept in what s called binary form. the chemical and alcohol mixed together, you have a very, very deadly gas. sarin is, essentially, nerve gas, and it is supplied by the soviet union, it s intended to be delivered principally by soviet-style scud rockets. and, essentially, when you fire explode over the target, they set up a cloud, if you will, of deadly gas. and in the middle east iraq has used it twice, once against their own people and once against the iranians, and so
years ago today. while we remember the victims today we d be remiss to not calling attention to who called this. who murdered our fellow americans, most of the 9/11 hijackers, terrorists, whatever you want to call them, 15 out of the 19 were all from saudi arabia. how many of you think about saudi arabia? that s why we wanted to talk about it, eleven years later, what about the saudis and the warn on terror. johnathon joins us, he has scud deed this very deeply. why were they saudis and why is that significant? jenna, you know i think you node to take a step back and take a look at the saudi system developed over the years. it is based in islam which is a radical offshoot sect of islam. so for many years the saudis were teaching hatred, in their