kobani victory, arthel, was clearly a matter of syrian kurds and u.s. air strikes and some iraqi kurds were allowed in by way of the turks but these are really two distinct wars two distinct battles so to speak. isis is spread across the whole battlefield but we are not, the iraqi army isn t, the syrian kurds aren t the iraqi kurds aren t and the problem is we still do not have a comprehensive strategy for going against isis the greater isis. we are looking at pieces of it but we are not going against the whole animal. i want to move on because i just reported and we showed the picture of so-called jihadi john. first time we are getting to see his face. he is born in went to school, well-bred, went to school in london, and so i ask you the significance of the u.s. knowing who this guy is and how does his resume, if you will, impact the strategy? the computer sciences as i said educated. for the aspect of u.s.
people who need jobs and people who are disenfranchised. he and many of the people like him are anything but. they are well-to-do people, come from good backgrounds, have good educations and want to be engaged in the fight. all of that, interestingly enough, plays very well to isis because it tells other people with similar backgrounds that you may have a job, but you can have a better one with us. why can t we get the borders there in turkey syria everybody is flying through turkey to go to syria. why can t we have turkey cut the bothereds borders, block it? that s one of the finest questions i have been asked for awhile on tv because the issue is really the turkish border. we see three british school girls who just left britain traveled to turkey and are now believed to be inside syria already with isis. that s because people flying into turkey with a one-way ticket, that s your first indicator something s up and making their way down to the border through a series of safe houses
to really have any kind of gains against isis. speaking of the coalition partners, which military there in the region is best suited to fight on the ground? well, look there is an important aspect here when we talk about fighting isis. we have to remember that isis is in two countries, iraq and syria, and all the talk that s going on right now is about the fight against the isis people in iraq. that s the iraqi troops we are going to get, the kurdish troops. the kurds you just mentioned are syrian kurds. the iraqi kurds being totally different. we don t even have all these forces together yet to go after isis inside iraq and we don t have anything really going on other than some syrian kurds to go after the isis people in syria. why is it that it appears at least that the syrian part of this equation seems to have been i m sure it s not overlooked. obviously they are watching what s happening there. but there s no movement there. kobani, i m sorry, i just had somebody jump in
it was a brazen assassination in the shadow of the kremlin. the victim, a top critic of russian president vladimir putin. shot dead, his body left in the street and why his family was so worried about his safety. coming up the former president of georgia will be here with his reaction to the killing and what this means. plus, iran offering to protect iraq s cultural heritage from destruction by isis but the night of chaos on capitol hill in a last minute vote on homeland security, so what options are on the table now to keep money from that department from running out? mr. speaker, this has been a day of confusion both here in this house and for the men and women of the department of homeland security. do you want to know how hard it can be to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled
syrian christian militias. other towns have been major major battlegrounds because also, the names may sound familiar because over the past week, this is where isis militants early monday morning abducted more than 250 at this point, that number could be much higher, syrian christians. we are talking about men, women and children. according to sources, at least one source of mine, and witnesses on the ground those people have been divided up, men taken to a mountainous region the women and children divided among the cluster of towns and villages in the northeast part of syria. at this point, there has been no contact with or communication from all of those people. so their fate remains unknown. really, the concern and the threat at this point is whether isis will release another video threatening their lives or possibly even worse. john the radical islamic terrorism continues. it is so sad. thank you so much.