whereas in 19 in 2006, 2007, there may have been as many as 50 u.s. passport holders, today that number is down to about 20. and bobby back to the complexity of this attack, the coordinated effort and the world reaction at a time that the u.n. general assembly is happening as i mentioned, the latest remarks from the president secretary kerry saying this is a world issue. what is your assessment of the timing as well as the way this all played out and continued to play out here? i would be surprised if they were aiming this at the u.n. general assembly. i think although it is clear that this was well planned out, you don t get to get into a mall like that with this sort of an attack. this also comes as one other timing element, also comes at a moment when al shabaab is actually weakened over the last couple of years, a consolation of troops, many from kenya have driven al shabaab out of their
mind where you really start to understand your environment. i brought an inflatable paddle board. i brought it purely as a conversation piece. i inflated the board and got on it, and i was falling all over the place. it was very challenging for like the first four days. and i never got off it. i was determined, and 17 days and 187 miles later, you know, i did the whole thing. the journey was really all about water rights and native rights to the use of water. what we really found out was it s not only a native issue, but it s a world issue. he s very much of the earth and cares about people. we asked him about his religion, and he said my religion is ina, which is the earth in hawaiian. lifeguards have a lot of wisdom, intimate knowledge of the shoreline, what s down there, what s under the water,
detectives how he lured young etan from the school bus stop at west broadway and prince street, with the promise of a soda. he then led him into the basement of the bodega, choked him there, and disposed of the body by putting it into a plastic bag and placing it into the trash. we re going to be joined in just a moment by lisa cohen, after etan the 2009 book is considered the definitive work on this case and it s 33 years to the day, this is a day, may 25th, that is the national missing children s day, it was named this day by president ronald reagan, the first day really that a national movement of awareness about missing children began, and it s 33 years ago to the day that this little boy disappeared, presumed killed, and now finally an arrest in this case, a case that honestly, obsessed the nation and when you think about it, this is a little boy, 6 years old, who walked to school, for the first time allowed to walk to the bus stop. because of this case, another case
we have seen this before. at the moment and the last ten years and what happened in iraq, nation-building has become a bad word or bad phrase around town. but we don t want libya to become a grooming station for terrorists and we don t want iran to find out they have new allies with the fraction that now will become prominent as a government, budding government begins to take shape in libya. the problem is this is a world issue. this is a world issue. i hope nato folk goes in there. if it s matter of u.s. direction, i can t tolerate. the idea of spending more u.s. troops in? i don t think the american people would tolerate that. bret: next up, the political strategy of blaming the tea party.
could develop. we have seen this before. at the moment and the last ten years and what happened in iraq, nation-building has become a bad word or bad phrase around town. but we don t want libya to become a grooming station for terrorists and we don t want iran to find out they have new allies with the fraction that now will become prominent as a government, budding government begins to take shape in libya. the problem is this is a world issue. this is a world issue. i hope nato folk goes in there. if it s matter of u.s. direction, i can t tolerate. the idea of spending more u.s. troops in? i don t think the american people would tolerate that. bret: next up, the political strategy of blaming the tea party.