rose: welcome to the programment we begin this evening looking at hostage taking in algeria, and the conflict in mali. we begin with margaret brennan, state department correspondent for cbs news. he was very interesting to hear hillary clinton there put mali, algeria and al qaeda quickly in that same paragraph. linking those concepts. because the state department has been concerned as she has been in shing algeria to take a more active role in trying to control al qaeda. because they have been building out what is feared to be a command and control center. within northern mali. that is to say there are weapons coming from libya, through algeria, down into mali and there is a worry that this could become another afghanistan. rose: and for analysis of algeria and mali we turn to max boot, jennifer cook, and peter pham. the ramification of what happened in algeria and the strikegain the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and in
in the rest of africa, there are some allegations of connections with bokaharam in northern nigeria. perhaps potential supporters in moratani, any ger, senegal, and even from further a field, again as mr. boot said, you do see fighters now coming from further a field where they are getting pushed out of other places and coming into this area of least resistance. and what will it take to stop them? anybody? first you have to have security and second you have to have legitimacy. and both of those are soarly lacking in the case of mali. now in terms of security, you know the french have sent a few hundred troops against thousands of insurgents and it was just pointed out by peter they are able to swing around the french, they are able to melt away from the french captioning sponsored by rose communications forces this is truly in keeping with kind of gor ba gorilla warfare where from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. mas say tung says the enemy advance we
through algeria, down into mali and there is a worry that this could become another afghanistan. rose: and for analysis of algeria and mali we turn to max boot, jennifer cook, and peter pham. the ramification of what happened in algeria and the strike against the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and internationalizes it with a number of year mean citizens taking u.s. citizens and japanese as well. so the events of this last week, the french incursion, the islamists move south and the taking of the gas installation in algeria really puts a whole dramatic new spin on this and adds momentum to the whole problem. rose: we conclude this evening with jeff bridges the actor and bernie glassman, their new book is called the dude and the zen master well, one day bernie says to me, by the way, you know that in the buddhist circles the dude is considered a zen master. i said what are you talking about, man. he said oh yeah. i said
algeria and mali we turn to max boot, jennifer cook, and peter pham. the ramification of what happened in algeria and the strike against the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and internationalizes it with a number of year mean citizens taking u.s. citizens and japanese as well. so the events of this last week, the french incursion, the islamists move south and the taking of the gas installation in algeria really puts a whole dramatic new spin on this and adds momentum to the whole problem. rose: we conclude this evening with jeff bridges the actor and bernie glassman, their new book is called the dude and the zen master well, one day bernie says to me, by the way, you know that in the buddhist circles the dude is considered a zen master. i said what are you talking about, man. he said oh yeah. i said come on, you know. you know, the cohen brothers never mentioned anything about you know, any kind of spirituality or zen or a
algeria and mali we turn to max boot, jennifer cook, and peter pham. the ramification of what happened in algeria and the strike against the gas installation there and the hostages being taken there really opens this up and internationalizes it with a number of year mean citizens taking u.s. citizens and japanese as well. so the events of this last week, the french incursion, the islamists move south and the taking of the gas installation in algeria really puts a whole dramatic new spin on this and adds momentum to the whole problem. rose: we conclude this evening with jeff bridges the actor and bernie glassman, their new book is called the dude and the zen master well, one day bernie says to me, by the way, you know that in the buddhist circles the dude is considered a zen master. i said what are you talking about, man. he said oh yeah. i said come on, you know. you know, the cohen brothers never mentioned anything about you know, any kind of spirituality or zen or a