Courtesy of an image being circulated online but thats too gruesome to show you. This is secretary of state john kerry talking about it at a press conference with australias foreign minister julie bishop today. This image, perhaps even an iconic photograph that julie has just referred to, is really one of the most disturbing, stomachturning, grotesque photographs ever displayed of a 7yearold Child Holding a severed head up with pride and with the support and encouragement of a parent, with brothers there. This is utterly disgraceful. It underscores the degree to which isil is so far beyond the pale with respect to any standard by which we judge even terrorist groups that al qaeda shunted them aside. Thats why they represent the threat that they represent. Chief chuck hagel is calling isis a threat to the civilized world. Today more u. S. Air strikes bringing the total to at least 17 over the past four days. Nbc news is reporting that the u. S. Is sending more than 120 additional milita
Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in new york. Brian williams exclosively and the threat the group poses to the uk and u. S. What is the threat to the uk and what have you learned further about the isis threat to our country . I think the threat is very clear that you got here, not a terrorist organization as it were leaching off another state as we had in afghanistan with al qaeda and the taliban state. A terrorist organization is controlling a state. It has money and territory and weapons. No doubt it has already undertaken and is planning further plots in europe and elsewhere, specifically in belgium and brussels. It was an isis plot that went into a Jewish Museum and killed entirely innocent people. Other plots they have been attempting including in my own country in order to kill and maim innocent people and the same applies to the United States of america. This is a fight you cannot opt out of. These people want to kill us. They have got us in their sights and we have to put together
This is not americas fight alone. It is a fight you cannot opt out of. Last nights strikes were only the beginning. Only the beginning. That is the word from the pentagon on last nights air strikes in syria. Today, military leaders presented documentary evidence of damage done to isis targets like this isis compound strike, part of 160 munitions that were fired. Briefing reporters on this expansive new action, Lieutenant General William Mayville said the mission is just getting started. You are seeing the beginnings of a sustained campaign, and strikes like this in the future can be expected. Asked about how long such a sustained campaign might take, mayville said to think in terms of years. The country also learned today that the mission overnight included eight u. S. Only air strikes. Ship launched tomahawk missiles fired against a little known group known as khorasan. Pentagon and white house Officials Say that was aimed as disrupt ago terror plot involving europe or the u. S. It wa
Villages. The u. S. Also stepping up humanitarian efforts deploying a team to distribute food, water an other supplies to the tens of thousands of iraqis now literally on the run. And political chaos in baghdad. The iraqi president nominating a new Prime Minister as calls for a whole new government now are growing. Chief White House Correspondent ed henry joining me now live from washington. All right, a lot to cover today, ed. So lets start with this call for a new government. What do you know . Whats happening right now is nuri al maliki, whos been in power for almost a decade in iraq, the writing is on the wall obviously that he needs to go and the new iraqi president saying weve got a new Prime Minister, youre going to be gone in the next few weeks. But maliki were told is assembling tanks and troops in baghdad as if hes staying for the long haul. So this could get quite messy for the u. S. Which doesnt want to look like its ousting maliki but also doesnt want to get behind him and
Foxs own Catherine Herridge is standing by in washington tonight. And she has all the details. Catherine. Sean, fox news obtaining this fivepage bulletin from the fbi and Homeland Security that warns the air campaign has diminished the likelihood of a successful attack if foreign terrorist groups. But at the same time it increases the risk from lone wolf sympathizers in the u. S. It reads in part we believe these strikes will contribute to home grown violent extriemists broader grievances about military intervention in predominantly muslim lands. A u. S. Official says its possible part of the khorasan leadership who also had a personal with Osama Bin Laden was killed in the strikes adding that the plot was far more complex than a single bomb on a jet. A series of attacks in close succession like in 2001 in new york, washington and shanksville, pennsylvania, is a trademark of bin ladens inner circle and more evidence khorasan is al qaeda, not a splinter group. The fact that they would s