Informants may receive $24 million. that s way more money than these guys can pay. he fell out when isis killed his brother. these guys are not in this for money. there are easier ways to make larger sum of money. these guys are true believers, he had a moment when he stop believing. that s when he turned. was the 25 million bucks an incentive? i am sure it was. i saw this happening a dozen times with people i knew in iraq. people who joined of what s called al-qaida in iraq because they felt like they had other grievances and felt close to this group. there is a break in trust and then they turned around and they came to the u.s. if you remember in 2006 or 2007 when the surge happen
The special op has to do this over and over again. the less we say about the operational details, the better. i am uncomfortable about this but it is what it is. i reminded me when i was on the service arm service staff, and the bush administration took off the head of al-qaida in iraq. i am going back in history. that guy was replaced by abu bakr al-baghdadi. it is not the first time we gone after a big guy in the terrorism world, beheader and taken him out to only see him replaced. the most important thing and the colonel got into this before. the situation in the middle east is messier because of president trump s withdrawal. this operation may have taken place anyway, we have more enemies. the kurds are angry because they
Are in fact helping to sustain president bashar al-assad and his regime. the most recent video out of syria which cannot be independently verified purports to shot interim prime minister of the coalition on a tour in aleppo and you see fighting there, this is one of the hardest hit areas. take a close look at the map and you can see the physical and geographic connections that i m talking b israel, jordan and turkey, then there are the connections to groups such as hezbollah, hamas and the al-qaida affiliate in iraq. in recent testimony on capitol hill the nation s top intelligence officer explained how islamists groups are gaining grounds. the bad news is the presence of the al-qaida in iraq offshoot that has gained strength both numerically and otherwise in
Stropb strongholds. also they need those air space toes get supplies in especially ammunition, men, equipment. they are relatively soft targets. it s easy i for the rebels to move in and attack the air bases around them. if successful this would be a major change for the rebels who over the past couple of weeks we had seen move into more organized battle groups and launch for coordinated attacks especially indicated by this one which was on at least three separate air bases in the north. concerning, perhaps though is who these fighters are. they are from an al-qaida syndicate group. they are the best warriors in syria but at the same time they tend to be al-qaida loyalists, trained by al-qaida in iraq and strongly in support of a radical form of islam and jihad. the question is how many civilian deaths will continue as
Peninsula and al shabob and al-qaida in iraq it is a mutating cancerous type move still very, very dangerous. im running out of time. we still don t know who told susan rice to put out that fictitious story about the span tanous demonstration of the anti-muslim video. that remains a central question does it not. ambassador rice heard it from the intelligence community and report to the state department. did she ask what happened on the ground. if she had asked them and intelligence to ask them they would have told her there was a no demonstration and it a coordinated terrorist attack. thank you, peter king . we ll continue to bring you on the program to update us, appreciate it uma, thank you. we weren t told they wanted