necessarily politically correct. that was obvious here today. wolf? all those negative comments he was making about the south carolina senator there, lindsey graham in south carolina where there syrias? was there criticism? was there anybody complaining about it or were they applauding it? i didn t hear yearsjeers and i was listening. i did hear a few atta boys. graham has been a divisive figure in the republican party because he has been very much against most of the republican base especially on the issue that has helped trump skyrocket, which is illegal immigration. he was a part of creating the bipartisan immigration deal that includes a path to citizenship and he has not backed down from that. that makes him not very popular in a lot of corners of the republican party. he s got himself reelected several times in south carolina.
threat condition bravo. it s always like that in europe and sometimes that up that to charlie just to exercise the system but there s a continuous stream of intelligence that says jihadis or disenfranchised with the u.s. government will go after members stationed throughout europe. let s talk about that suicide attack that we all saw yesterday in turkey. a horrendous attack killing a lot of people it s raised new questions about the ability of the west to keep isis in check. as you know, the new york times has been reporting that the radical group is essentially decentralizing power so it can stay intact even if a senior member any of the leaders abu bakr al baghdadi were to be killed. what s going on? in the turkish incident what you re going to see, wolf, is the continual pressure by the turkish government to close the ports going into syria. that s number one.
they re constantly evaluating threat streams. i m sure the base commander said that he had indicators or was going to be a terrorist attack. at least there was increase chatter. it s the kind of things the garrison and base commanders get paid to do. they have to assess this. this isn t the first time this has happened that kind of operation that was being planned. a possible hit-and-run or a suicide vest has happened before and they ve been thwarted by european forces against u.s. military forces throughout europe. not just in the uk. it shouldn t be surprising because isis on social media publicly said to their sympathizers their supporters if you can t come over to syria or iraq and fight there, do some fighting where you are, go out there and attack u.s. military personnel or law enforcement for that matter as well right? exactly right. and remember just recently bases in the united states have gone to threat con bravo.
number two, the kurdish forces in that particular the ypk in that particular region between the border of syria and turkey have been extremely effective. they ve retaken kobani, they so they re closing down ports where isis gets their flow of foreign jihadists from turkey into syria. so this is important. i think this was certainly to send a message to the turkish government hey, we can conduct terrorist operations inside your country, too, if you continue to pressure those border outposts and continue to stop our flow of foreign fighters coming through your borders. one final question general hertling before i let you go. these new revelations about the killer in chattanooga killed four marines, one sailor. we re learning today that he had, actually according to his social media contacts searching out religious teachings on martyrdom, on jihad. it looks increasingly like at a minimum he was inspired by a terror group, maybe not necessarily isis maybe aqap al
planning to attack u.s. military personnel in the united kingdom. the man was arrested along with his uncle. both were attempting to join isis in syria. let s go to our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joining us from london. what do we know about these charges, fred? it isn t much but we know some interesting and scary details, if you will, they appeared in front of the westminster court earlier today and the man in question is 24-year-old junead kahn. it s alleged he was platting attacks on u.s. military members in britain. there were some details. apparently he was planning what they call a hit-and-run or car accident style attack, that means hitting a u.s. service member with a car and killing the u.s. service member with a knife. apparently there was also talk about possibly using a suicide vest as well and also some talk by him saying possibly he could kill a british service member but he preferred to kill