There will be civil unrest and americans reacting in anticipation and with anxiousness hoarding food going to the Grocery Store much as they would prepare for a Tropical Storm for example ivory coast president Alassane Ouattara has been declared the winner of the president ial election in the Electoral Commission says he secured 94 percent of the vote for the opposition has rejected the result. At least 3 people have been killed and 15 others injured in the austrian capital of vienna the interior ministry has called us a terrorist attack several men known with rifles opened fire starting at the citys main synagogue. Is huge damage making claims against the game the identified perpetrator was heavily armed with an Assault Rifle and a suicide belt which turned out to be fake the attacker was a supporter of the terrorist group i saw right now intensive investigation that measures are underway where the attack happened mckernan dad said at the moment we cant rule out that there are still o
Quote american intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian Military Intelligence Unit secretly offered bounties to taliban linked militants for killing Coalition Forces in afghanistan listen to the certainty of those words right there see that american intelligence concluded secret bounties taliban linked was the important words theres no equivocation there which may be why as soon as the t. V. News networks here in america read that story in the New York Times they began reporting it breathlessly almost as if their hair was on fire they wanted to get this story out for them it was the perfect story and they ran with it every which way that they possibly could but most of all with pretty much this narrative you heard it putin is paying to kill american soldiers and trump is helping him do it. It sounds like a great story right yeah all of it based on the New York Times story that was on that front page ok. Since then the New York Times has written another story that interestin
Quote american intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian Military Intelligence Unit secretly offered bounties to taliban linked militants for killing Coalition Forces in afghanistan listen to the certainty of those words right there see that american intelligence concluded secret bounties taliban linked those are important words theres no equivocation there which may be why as soon as the t. V. News networks here in america read that story in the New York Times they began reporting it breathlessly almost as if their hair was on fire they wanted to get this story out for them it was the perfect story and they ran with it every which way that they possibly could but most of all with pretty much this narrative you heard it. Putin is paying to kill american soldiers and trump is helping him do it. Sounds like a great story right yeah all of it based on the New York Times story that was on that front page ok since then the New York Times has written another story that interesting
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You want to send in at any point you will see a q a box down at the bottom right of your screen. You can send us a question in the latter part of this event, alex will answer some of them. So to start us off, as im sure many of you know is a Research Director of the Great Program of extremism at George Washington university which has become the go to resource for many people studying this topic. And so why dont we start by asking how you came to take an interest in Anwar Alawlaki and maybe you can fill us in a little bit on the background as you explain that. Guest thank you scott thanks for doing this we had the shared interest of the New York Times in particular the back in the two thousands in the last decade were incredibly helpful for me and that is the book objective choice and my pleasure to do this. So this came across my radar in around 2007. I just started as a junior researcher, looking at activism and jihad in the uk in particular. As a look at the individuals and networks