the nato countries. so they should think twice before doing that, of course. we ve seen lots of threats from russia. some of them realized, some of them were just threats. but in this case, of course, there have been lots of warning including from nato s secretary general about the fact that this would be an engaging of some major country into the conflict if they do it, of course. and yet it would be dire, though, not just for the weapons the weapons pipeline, but just continually trying to get food, fuel, medicine into ukraine at all, even western ukraine. yeah, of course. but we will we ll do our best to ensure that it s secure. one of the discussions about the no-fly zone also could be applied to the security of the roads. indeed some of the roads are critical for for people and for having at least some sort of normal life, at least in some parts of the country. so yeah i want to get to that issue, though, of the no-fly zones. whether it s from ukrainian
the area of molenbeak. do you get a sense they are going to fundamentally crack down harder on the extremists they have in that country and the weapons pipeline that has been going through there? i think absolutely. this was a wake-up call. not just because of this this terrorist attack but so many ties to the neighborhood you spoke of molenbeek. it s been linked to a half a dozen terror attacks in europe. all coming here either terrorists coming to buy their weapons there or plotting there, or just simply being from there. molenbeek has a high concentration of young youth and the belgian foreign fighters
attacked. now, belgium appears to be the central, extremism, second of all, the weapons pipeline. when did belgium become a hot bed of weapons trafficking and second of all extremism? look, it s been a while that we have known about molenbeek as a hotbed of jaud jihadi terrorists. even last year you can see the proof was in the pudding they say when they attacked brussels and that already links to molenbeek. so it s been springing up. you also have the fact that belgium represents proportionally the highest number of foreign jihadists from europe into iraq. when it comes to weapons trafficking, also, it s in a hub and i think that belgium
the u.s. is headed back towards business as usual to large extent giving the new government in egypt that it will, the u.s. will resume full military aid, including apache helicopters. wolf. barbara starr at the pentagon with that. let me just say i know mohammed f hach fahmy. he s an excellent journalist and does not belong in jail. the others don t belong in jail either. we re learning more about iran s hidden hand in the fighting through a shadowy figure who does have american blood on his hands, according to u.s. officials. brian todd is looking into this part of the story for us. what do you see? reporter: one of the most 50al figures in iraq is from iran. he is a mysterious daring commander. there s barely a spy network, weapons pipeline or militant unit he s not aware of. right now he s using his dangerous talents to fight against isis, but u.s. officials know better than to completely trust him. he s a powerful player in the
people s defense. glenn: right. that s the part that really bothers me, because that s what we re supposed to bedefending. i want to pay for my defense. they can pay for their defense. we ll go with withdrawaling the troops in a second. but cut weapons spending. show me what you are talking about here. give me the gist. we spend $$100 billions a year buying weapons and it s wastal. the weapon manufacturers, ho lockheed martins of the world low-ball it for us. the cost end up soaring and end up being two or three times more than the originally promised. the pentagon kind of goes along with this. partly because the different services in the pentagon are competitive. each of the services want to get their weapons in the weapons pipeline. once the weapons are started and funded, the weapons manufacturers skillfully spread out the funding to dozens of different states and congressional districts, so once you get projects started, even if there does,