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According to the ap the police force for the region says five suspects shot and killed in cambrils were carrying bomb belts, detonated by the bomb squad. reports say that the suspects had hit civilians with a carr before being shot. today s attacks a sobering reminder about the difficulty in stamping out radicalism within the islamic faith. with more on that, we are joined by the founder and president of the islamic forum for democracy zuhdi jassar. joining us from phoenix. i just want to read from your talking points.oc you say that it is not about to stamping out to violent extremism, we have to focus on violent islamic system.. what do you mean by that? right now currently up in the total last eight years, focusedl on the symptom, terrorism, trying to predict when they will be violent. and unfortunately for the agents and global homeland security, very difficult to predict when ....
Barbaric attack. but whoever is responsible should know that the united states of america, together with our allies will find and punish those responsible and drive the evil of radical islamic terror from the face of the earth. so you see there the threat of radical islamic terror, something president trump andou vice president mike pence spoke a lot about. now something they deal with as they run the government. trace: ed henry, thank you, let s bring in walid phares, the foreign affairs analyst who serves as a advisor on these issues to donald trump durings, the 2016 campaign. good to see you. seems like if you re trying to rally the forces, if you are trying to give the country some comfort, i guess rehashing the story that has been debunked might not be the way to do it? your thoughts? yes, some would criticize. that s where the opposition ....
Today is trying to do, but let s put it in perspective. the president and the vice president put those statements of support to the spanish government and people against the terrorist, and they named the foes, the radical islamic terrorists. but the president tried to mobilize by giving a story. it was criticized. about what he has showed since last november.vila so we have in the past, president obama who would issue statements that would be academic, sounding well, butt then going in the wrong direction. now we have president trump who is going the right direction, but of course he has his own style in those tweets. we need to understand what is more important. the general direction or the style. that is the big question.at trace: you want president trump to say, these are terrorist? and president obama, clearly, reticent to do that in a lot of times. ....
In some cases he did not do it at all. do you think it is important that the president gets in front of these issues and right off the get-go, these are terrorist, this is evil, we need to paste what it is? of course, he is the leader of the free world. today, tonight i would say that the prime minister of spain is the most advanced in his statement. he said that this is jihadi terrorism. that s how we should define it. that s what it is exactly. but we refine and say the bestef words, we cannot say that this is terrorism in abstract. we need to do better than what we do in washington, not to go back in the direction of the last eight years. trace: the goal being what? if we go out and we say it is terrorism is kind of implied. we know, we knew back in 2009 or 2010 that it was terrorism. we knew it right off the get-go. we knew who the suspect was. what are we accomplishing by stating it upfront? ....
This whole story, there is one issue that is missing right now. jihadists terrorist, that is terrorism, we need to know what is the network that is basically inducting these people so that they become terrorists. trace: i have to go, but some of these countries that talk about vetting, yemen, these are failed states, we cannot get the information out of there, they do not have the information to give that are coming that way. it is a very difficult task. that is very true, but remember that the president addressed 50 arab and muslim leaders, a system of counterterrorism. and a lot of things that have been launched. we need to figure out how we are going to apply it in the world of reality. trace: dr. walid phares, always good to see you. and coming up today, the terror attack in barcelona is the latest in an ongoing wave of vehicle assaults in europe. why is the continent having so much trouble stopping them? ....