they have launched attacks in the northern part of the country. this by far, though, if it is linked to any of these groups and we do have a claim of responsibility and we ll get to that in just a second but if it is linked to any of these groups, it would be the most brazen and substantial attack carried out, because first, it was carried out on a western target in the capital of bamako, one that is highly symbolic, given the fact that it s frequented by a lot of businessmen, diplomats, government officials, and it is in the heart of the seat of power of the malian government. so, a highly symbolic, highly strategic, if you will, soft target. we are talking about the claim of responsibility. that claim of responsibility has been made by a group known as al mourabitoun, part of the composition of that country. many of them had in the past close links to al qaeda, close links to al qaeda-affiliated groups, but since then have been operating on their own. now, they ve put out that cl
while there is this understandable negativity and trauma and horror that would of happened in paris the silver lining it may give an impe tus to finally resolve conflict in syria and drain that swamp that isis lives and thrives in. thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you. coming up, increased security in the u.s. what s done to protect americans from soft target attacks here at home.
while there is this understandable negativity and trauma and horror that would of happened in paris the silver lining it may give an impe tus to finally resolve conflict in syria and drain that swamp that isis lives and thrives in. thank you so much for joining us tonight. thank you. coming up, increased security in the u.s. what s done to protect americans from soft target attacks here at home.
fourth terror threat. joining us senator james langford a republican of oklahoma a member of the senate homeland security committee and senate nelgd committee, thanks for joining us. what do you make of these developments? are you more concerned potentially? start with some sort of small-scale, lone-wolf attack going after some so-called soft target? or is your greater concern something more complex, a larger more coordinated terror attack that could kill potentially a whole lot more people? the greatest concern is actually the lone wolf. it s the individual that just decides to be inspired by isis what they ve done. isis is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as americans. july fourth is one of those natural dates, while we re celebrating freedom, for them to find some way to poke us in the eye. basically during that process, isis has not typically done a lot of coordinated attacks. what they did in egypt in the sinai peninsula is a novelty in
airports say moving toward full employee screening would simply be too costly and too time consuming for airport workers to wait in line like you and i. but some members of congress just aren t buying that demanding the department of homeland security review employee screening policies to make sure airports aren t leaving a door open to a possible disaster. drew griffin, cnn, los angeles. pretty telling. let s talk about it. former cia operative bob baer back with me. and robert mcfadden, special agent in charge of ncis with the suppan group. when you look at this physically in the areas of airports physically ahead of the tsa check points, are those sort of ideal soft target where is you have huge lines of people waiting and no protection? it does represent a soft target. as we know in terrorism going back decades, for example