We have several. Several questions here first and then second, i will go to the last. I have to apologize. Hopefully after the panel there will be time to indirect with the panel here. My question is the integration of these efforts in the knowledge to come out of the story with the ongoing activities in iraq right now. Have mosul. We underlying is clearing the terrain of hostile actors, holding that terrain with security and building it with the institutions that have some permanence to them. The efforts being done by the Iraqi Government in Civil Society, the focus on these highpriority areas that are in the radar screen. I wanted to followup on the comment you made about having a holistic approach to the issues that young people face. Especially the psychosocial aspects of dealing with them. I think all the issues we have discussed, the lack of opportunities, injustice, poverty, are not issues that are going to not going to go away overnight. The people that will be doing with them if they are offered certain highly researched and evidencebased techniques to handle negative emotions that are part of that region, frustration, anger, feelings of high stress. Perhaps they can do with those issues, it can be better and they are not so ready to resort to violence. I am just wondering although this is a very useful and informative research. Are there any studies or interest in doing research on programs that have offering these kinds of tools and techniques especially to young people so that violence is not a first option in the region. Thank you. This came up a little bit about the importance of longterm research but also the importance of longterm programs. Until 2014 u. S. Funding for Civil Society in iraq and peace building was precipitously declining. Concentrateped to the mind. Close toth ramadi being cleared, there is 50,000 for stabilization and more funding. The focus is on rebuilding infrastructure. There is tremendous damage. They will be tremendous need of peace building, healing the divides that isis leaves behind. I am curious how this report has been received by usaid, state department, policy makers, does this seem to be more interest in longerterm funding for Civil Society and also for use which make up a majority of iraq in the longerterm. Thank you. I have to and here and give the panel the opportunity to respond. Diving into a comment you made on corruption within the Police Sector i wonder if you could dive into security and defense corruption a little bit more. Is that the unique pillar of the government that is causing perceptions of corruption or marginalization and his Civil Society looking into Corruption Police in the defense sector. Are they having issues with those sectors in iraq . Ask each one of you will have the a minute and a half to address all these questions and make any closing remarks. The has been one very good trial that i am aware of. The basic finding is that there be alone does not work. Therapy combined with fairly large amounts of cash to reinforce good behavior. It does seem to work. That is one study in liberia. So maybe not applicable in iraq. On your question about the available tools. As i said, very little is being done to the best of my knowledge. I am not aware of any extensive programs that are providing such tools to young people. I want to end on a positive note. On then our experience issue or what we did in Northern Syria, hes building at the local level is possible. It can be successful. You can prevent further violence from interrupting. This is why we are continuing our programming in the region and we call on other agencies to do so. To try and take off things on in order. It question on Effective Program models. It is imperative that you get stabilization policy right. In these areas like ramadi or to that have beent retaken. I think a lot of that is thinking through how you do that most effectively. Most conversations are flavored cotter influence stabilization approach. What this report tries to help in eliminating is how you might address that weakness. Through looking at several people haveveral talked about making large investments in peace building and conflict mitigation. The institutional donors to recognize the importance of those approaches and programs and areas of conflict and stabilization. Maybe we are not investing enough to make them truly effective. I think it is a question of volume. It is a question of getting that voice into conversation area conversation. Whether it is the development flavored program, all of that work we do conflict mitigation work, by duke peace building work, we work with iraqi Civil Society groups. Of engagement in iraq which has been through a period characterized i largescale conflict and fragility is that the has been effective approach and has not been given the prominence in terms of the strategies, Government Strategies or strategies by key institutional and national [indiscernible] its ability to build effective stabilization. Holistic approach is to use programming, i will not speak to that. Three priorityr areas of research. Basic answer the question, what works, what does not work. A Research Agenda and we hope to continue building that research in terms of a what you have been talking about. For peace building and Civil Society. Do you want to comment . No. Ok. It looks back to the previous comment. Thatessage is appropriate levels of investment in iraq it peace building and capacity is an imperative if you want to have effective stabilization. Of a very fragile state. I do not think the survey itself does not look that specifically into perceptions of corruption among particular improve as well. About that. Talk you so much. I like the title of the report to my investing in iraqs piece. From the last questions, it is not only an investment in iraqs pace as it relates to countering and stabilizing after isis but also in an investment in preventing violence down the road. I think it is a worthwhile investment. And stabilization probably a year ago may not have been part of the it was incorporated more recently. We can see more efforts going into supporting dialogue efforts and that is definitely the right trend. I hope that will increase. Ourse join me in thanking panelists and the researchers on the great work they have done with a round of applause. [applause] the chair of the House Oversight and Reform CommitteeJason Chaffetz will talk about the role of his committee and talk about some of the ongoing investigations. 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Before i get started i wanted to let you know something that today is iraqi army day. The anniversary of the founding of the iraqi army in 1921 on the state. We commend the iraqi army for their accomplishments thus far and in the past. We look ahead to their future victories. A few battlefield updates for you before we move on to questions so let me get through it. I,terbody in ramad counterterrorist forces continue eastward into the inner core of the city. Enemyave encountered contact, machine gun fire, rpgs, and sniper fire. Coalition airstrikes continue to enable their dance area it is no secret that i sold is not care one bit for the safety and the lives of the iraqi people. As iraqi week, Security Forces have been clearing the city, they discovered civilians ,ivilians were injured by iuds and being used as human shields and being shot for attempting to run. In sharp contrast, over the same timeframe, Security Forces have helped hundreds of civilians. ,heyve cleared our children and were given food, water, and medical attention. Is conducted a synchronized isil conducted a synchronized attack. What is important to note this of the isf are able to either put the attackers back immediately, or regroup and counterattack. Moving over to syria over the the Democratic Forces of killed about 140 extremist while liberating dozens of villages and squareing more than 310 kilometers of terrain. Groupinent arab fighting are currently holding the west side of that, demonstrating continued integration between arabs and kurds. As a reminder, this force consisted of syrian kurds, arab s, and other ethnic groups in Northern Syria that are all determined to defeat isil. Battalion holds the dam, other forces are advancing to the south. These troops have experienced some counterattacks to the west. In the north, the Democratic Forces are also receiving mortar fire. In each case, they have repelled all attempts to regain any territory or stronghold. We are receiving reports of isil fighters are shaving their beards and trying to hide in the civilian population. Ground. Tinue to lose i will mention our airstrikes for a minute. We continued to increase both the pace and the intensity of airstrikes in iraq and syria. When coupled with local ground operations we see isil reacting and moving around the battlefield. In turn, that makes it easier for us to strike. In december, we estimated 2500 enemy fighters were killed in Coalition Airstrikes across iraq and syria. Finally, i want to give you an update on operation title wave 2. sis operation targets isil illicit oil structures. On january 2, Coalition Aircraft struck six and Oil Separation points. And to isil collection points collection points was upset he began, they conducted 65 strikes against oil targets. This has reduced their revenue by about 30 . We estimate that isil produced 45,000 barrels of oil per day before title wave 2. It has been reduced to about 34,000 Barrels Per Day now. To close out, in addition to chipping away at their socalled we are also fitted them in the pocketbook. That includes that concludes my opening remarks. I guess bob burns is on duty. What is your question . Ramadi andntioned the Iraqi Government has declared victory. I wonder if you could give us an idea of the way of the province. And as to the focus going forward. Therein Northern Iraq seems to been an increase in the number of u. S. Airstrikes in the mosul area. Falluja . S happening in col. Steve martin sure. Words, tell you iraqthing happening in right now . These are the areas the Security Forces have control of. There are still more work to be done as i mentioned. They are clearing from the west to the east and getting into these smaller neighborhoods. It is very tightly constructed there. The roads are restrictive. Some are deserted now. The Security Forces are now very methodical, very deliberately moving through these neighborhoods. Rescue anyying to civilians that remain in hiding. Of course, they move house by house. This operation will continue for some time. s go to the other map what this map is as it is a comes up. Reference, upt of his north, down a south, you can see the lake as the main geographical feature. In the lower righthand corner you see falluja. Moving upstream we passed through a couple of towns that had ramadi. That is about a third of the way across the map at the very bottom. Continuing up river, you eventually get to about two thirds of the way across the screen. Furthertinuing upstream you get to the upper lefthand corner of the map. That is kind of the central Euphrates River valley. Central and lower, falluja is fairly low. Next, falluja we start with that. It is currently in the process of being isolated. By the iraqi Security Forces. As we saw in ramadi, they will then constricty, it and eventually clear it. No timeline yet for how long that will take. Thes another area where enemy is fairly well dug in. Falluja is another tally really dont want to give up. Moving to the river valley, wwe undereen hit is still enemy control. That has to be cleared. Really from north of ramadi all the way up, all of that area and cut the area between the river and the lake is still enemy controlled. This is kind of what is next for anbar. All of this area needs to be cleared out. The attacks that we saw over the weekend really up into yesterday , really they originated from forces moving around in that kind of ungoverned and largely open space between the river and lake. That is where i sold is able to generate its force and is ablete into isil to generate its force and infiltrate into the areas heading southwest. The iraqis have a campaign plan, obviously it is their decision. They will decide for the next main effort will be. I wont tell you what it will be until they announce it. We are here to support them. Whatever they decide is there next focus, this coalition will be there to support them. That that answer your question . Does, i ask you about mosul as well. Is the airstrike increase real there . Mosulteve martin yeah, we have been conducting shaping operations around there for almost a year now. Everything from individual , to highvalue individual target strikes, these are examples of shaping operations. As is the operation to seize the city of sinjar which is shaping our operations. There have been quite a number of strikes in the last six months. Weve got about 760 strikes in that time. 305last 30 day to this been. It has been a fair number. There is nothing significant to report, this is mostly opportunity, dynamic strikes that have found enemy forces. Some of this because of the pressure that is being put on them. Our operational objective here is to place pressure across the entire breadth and depth of this battlefield. On this enemy is wherever he is. As we do that, and as replaced this pressure on them, it forces them to want to move. To try to get away from that pressure. Movement creates targets. As we see, we will strike them. Mosul will be an area where it will try to gravitate to. It will try to reposition around that in an effort to stave off the inevitable. That will be in assault on mosul. They have been under Islamic State control is that increasing any difficulty in retaking part of that area . Still hold toyou the estimate you provided two weeks ago that there was about a dozen or so Islamic State fighter still in ramadi . Or is it bigger than you first thought . Col. Steve martin i will left a check. I think i have to check on them. I think we have control of that wil. This enemy does not control the dam. That answers that. Muddy, numbers are tough you on ramadi, the numbers are tough. Group, maybe five or seven maybe as many as a dozen fighters in these groups. This group may be centered around a machine gun or maybe centered around rocket propelled grenades. Theyre called squad sized elements. We see these elements still able to operate in some of the neighborhoods that are not yet been cleared. We still see that. Fighters almost 60 inside ramadi in the last 24 hours. They are there. As we see them, we strike them. It is difficult to get a total number of enemies inside given turnover the last two weeks. The way we get those numbers is through watching for long periods of time. Itn the enemy was in ramadi was relatively static. There was no fighting going on. We were able to observe through various observation techniques, using the information be gained from that, we were able to get a good estimate of what the enemys strength was. Given the fighting, some are probably trying to come in, the resolve this motion. It is more difficult to get a good number on what is there. There were stories earlier this week that tunnels under ramadi might make it more difficult to round up the remaining Islamic State fighters. Is that what you are seeing . Col. Steve martin sure, yeah, there are tunnels. We saw that in sinjar, as well. It is one of their techniques. We also see things like holes in housesor two separate sharing a little space in between. So they can move from house to house undetected. These are the types of defense is that this enemy has in place inside of ramadi. This is why Security Forces the to be very deliberate, very methodical, and very carefully moved to these neighborhoods. I would like to ask to give me the best estimate you have on the size of the isis fighting and syria. S iraq also, is there a distinction to be drawn between the sort of localed isis fighters and forces. Those of a may be allied with either paid or share their sympathies. To what extent do you see big operations in ramadi moving forward hoping to peel off those groups . Col. Steve martin we estimate there is between 2030,000 i members of members of isil operating inside iraq and syria. There are two flavors, if you will. There are the foreign fighters, the more hardcore and fanatical members of this outfit. Recruits. Is local in some cases, conscripts. The way that isil organizes is using the local forces, as their grunts. They are not treated very well, they are paid less. They are given less interesting assignments. Their foreign fighters are more even. They are generally better trained, better equipped, better paid. Cases, they will abuse entire unit of foreign fighters is a Quick Reaction force. They will still position those foreign fighter battalions in areas where they can move between iraq and syria. Cases, the foreign fighters will kind of be the strength of the unit. Than the conscripts will be filling in the rest of that unit. Them off, im not a hundred percent sure what you mean by that. Ongoinge some operations to do things like psychological operations. Dropping leaflets and trying to to or encourage fighters to throw down their arms. Is difficult to get an idea of the effectiveness of those. It could and your fighting career abruptly. That is kind of what it looks like. I have two questions. Give us an update about the ninth arrayed that the coalition is conducting and if this type is being coordinated with the Iraqi Government. My second question is, what is being done to secure the city and the iraqi buildings. Do you think this is something essential in the fight against isil . We have saidrtin that raids are part of the strategy. He also said we will not get into the details of these raids. I can tell you there is been a lot of reporting in the iraqi , 100 that it is wrong. On the borders, certainly securing the border between the rack and syria is of great interest iraq and syria is of great interest to this coalition. I know when the secretary of that would beced in Expeditionary Targeting force that would partner with the special operation forces, one of the goals of that organization is to help strengthen that border. Or to help plug up some of the coarseness of that border. Throughved that whatever we can. Getting back to ramadi, have any of the sunni tribal fighters moved in yet . Ramadi,e residents of where are they . Had they gone into baghdad or refugee camps . Col. Steve martin the travel fighters have been part of the mix as we begin to transition to stabilization operations. Forces,raqi security the army antiterrorist services clears the neighborhood they will control turn it over to police or probably fighters to serve as destabilizing force in the neighborhood. That is ongoing. Yes, the tribal fighters have been moving into downtown ramadi and taking over stabilization duties. Rest . What was the residentsilians, the of ramadi, where they gone . Where have they gone . Col. Steve martin a majority have fled. Upre are some stations set inside of ramadi so as the forces find families or individuals they can get which isediate needs food, water, health care if needed. Then they will be transported, there are several camps set up around the primary spot where the ramadi citizens have gone. Many will move in with family members and relatives if they have been in baghdad or other places. But there is a main location for these refugees know else to go. Do you have any final death toll for how many iraqi forces were lost in the fight for ramadi . Can you give us an update on what the figures are in terms of the area in iraq that has been lost to isis . Determining that come is a Populated Areas, territory, and finally is there a final figure as to how many isis fighters were actually in ramadi. Or is it i understand it is fluid, which is a there are still fighters really flowing into ramadi . So, iraqi martin casualties we think total casualties would be in the ballpark of 1000. Of those, i think the deaths are the vicinity of 100. This is something for the iraqis to speak to. We are not always 100 sure on that. On territory loss, what we think between 20000ost and 22,000 square kilometers and iraq, roughly 40 of the territory. In syria maybe about 2000 square kilometers maybe more than that. A ballpark of 10 of what they control. They probably have a presence and some freedom of movement. In the unPopulated Areas. Whether theymine are dominant actor in some of these areas. Theome is where they lost majority of their territory that they once held. Raqqa has other provinces in syria. This is really unPopulated Areas, were looking at mostly Populated Areas to get those numbers. Hopefully that helps. Ramadi, there are no significant numbers moving in, but there will be some flow as the isf continued to clear these remaining pockets. They will brush out these little nests of fighters. We certainly expect, or plan for the possibility that there are some trying to infiltrate back in. Particularly to help their fellow terrorists. But it is not a significant factor. Were not seeing the numbers of troops that will make any difference. He said that you killed 60 isis fighters in the last 24 hours, theres that guy you to reassess how money with there to begin with . Yeah, wee martin . Avent gotten to that yet that will be one for the history books, i think. The iraqis have it now. They have some estimates that they have to clear. We will have to sort out the story. Happy new year, i saw a report of an ice is called a proceeded unmolested to a camp last week. I was wondering what of the rules of engagement regarding isis columns and particularly and were generally whether isis forces are always an actual target or do they have hostile intent. The u. S. Forces have the initiative or are all attacks on ice at the command and control of the iraqis. Col. Steve warren if you are a part of isil, we will kill you. That is our role. Believe weow we are now in a defensive crouch. In may, thatbably is when they reached their culminating point offense of operation. Since then, all that they really managed to do is lose ground. It in several places bit already listed. So, the iraqi Security Forces really at this point do have the initiative. That doesnt mean that this enemy is unable to strike in spots, they are. It is unable to conduct raids and ambushes. And ied attacks, they can. They also still control large areas. What this means is that the iraqi Security Forces are now on the offensive. The iraqi Security Forces will significante next battle is. The iraqi Security Forces are now pressing isil. And isil is now reacting to the iraqi Security Forces. F that makes sense what else that you ask . That was pretty much it. The idea that they will make the decision that the iraqis or the American Forces but they will attack, basically. Rules of engagement. The iraqi warren forces make those decisions. This is their fight. We are here to enable them. We assist them and provide airpower, but it is their country. This is their plan, and this is their decision. Accorded some according to do youporters today have any details, does that campaign toilitary take control of the area . Col. Steve warren i couldnt hear a word you said. Can you ask that again a little bit slower . According to some reporters, the Democratic Forces crossed the riva which has been objected by turkey. Military indicate stance in the area . Sdf steve warren the crossed the Euphrates River. The syrian Democratic Forces have seized the dam. They have established a perimeter on the west side of that dam deep enough and far enough west to prevent enemy mortar fire. That is it. This is a minute has been work this is something that has been worked out. Dam go east entire to west. Enough territory on the west side to prevent enemy mortar fire from coming in. That is it. My question was about the russian airstrikes inside syria. Are they backing opposition forces, has there been any change in the airstrikes in terms of their targets . We haveve warren observed the russians continuing their operations in support of primarily and western syria. A majority of their strikes are regimeort of the assad who in western syria are primarily fighting against opposition forces. Not against isil. In some cases, they have struck isil, yes. They conducted one or two strikes several weeks ago. But a majority of their strikes syrianused on opposition. You weathering out some metrics today, one of those was body count the 2500 in december and the 60 in the last 24 hours. I was curious, where are these numbers coming from . Since we dont have boots on the ground, how are they being verified . Col. Steve warren great question, very fair. Reporters come into baghdad and can see exactly how we do it. Before any strike, we have isr, intelligent surveillance and reconnaissance. Usually a drone, or some other type observing that target. Efore the weapon impacts we can just count. When you look at these video screens, you can see exactly how many are there. You watch for a couple more minutes, nobody is moving, scratch six. Just wanted to check is on the, the iraqi Security Forces yesterday said they killed what they termed to be isis airstrikes. Im curious if had anything on that. On that subject, if you had any updates on any additional highvalue targets that have been killed since we last spoke. Just a followup on russia and syria, im curious if youve seen any expansion of Russian Movement beyond the western mediterranean coast into other syria, namely along the Turkish Border in the last week or so. Col. Steve warren we have seen he hasess reporting that been killed, but we cannot confirm it. No significant targets to announce today. We do strike on average one every two days of mid to upper level leaders. But i didnt bring it up your today. The russian expansion is not something we have seen some noement, but really expansion of note that causes any type of concern. We havent heard much lately about any shia militia. Of a still active, if so where and exactly what are they doing . Does the u. S. Coordinate or communicate in any way with any of the shia militia . Lets pull upren the map for me. Jim, good question, there are thativer valleys in iraq you can see on your map. One of them is the Euphrates River valley which runs from blue circle and purple circle number three and purple circle number two. That is the Euphrates River valley. The other one is off to the right of that and starts on this map near baghdad. You can see going up through star, goldstar number two. That is the tigris river valley. The Popular Mobilization force of the shia portion operating primarily in the tigris river valley. That is where they have been operating recently, most recently end we have seen them connecting operations in some cases clearing operations. Whererse, that is kind of the shia pmf are located. Some of the Iraqi Government officials who have associations bute shia militia that are others. We do have communications with them. We do have to engage with them. Shia militia forces of operating in that region . Theseteve warren definitions get very tough, it is hard to find a word sometimes were one thing starts and the other one ends. As for as pure iranian militia made up of iranians, im not aware of much activity there. Primarily, who we deal with of the larger more wellknown organizations. Thanks for doing this. Will quick, clarification, you mentioned there were more than 300 square kilometers reclaimed in syria. I was curious if you had anything like that in iraq. Did you have any reclaim territory in last 710 days . We. Steve warren in iraq believe we have claimed the total of between 20000 and 22,000 square kilometers. I dont have any numbers for the last week, i just havent crunched them. We can get those for you if you need. But that is overall during the course of this fight. We havent done the math on ramadi because it is easy to see, i think. Obviously come all of the suburbs around ramadi, around the Glass Factory and the checkpoint area, these are all areas that have been liberated. Of isil influence. I can believe the government followup question, can you give us an update on how Many Iraqi Army a Security Forces they have trained in the sunni tribal fighters . We havent had those stats and a a while. While. Col. Steve warren i know we have trained about 16,000 total you act the breakout with me of f, but that is in him a we have readily available i just didnt bring it with me. Hold on, it is on twitter, we will tweet it out. Anyone else . Happened tow what the official forces that were supposed to be sent to syria to help with the kurds and syrian Democratic Forces . We announcedrren over a month ago that we would be sending some special forces some special Operations Forces into syria. That is all we will say about it. Last call. We wrap it up a little early today, thank you for your time. We will see you next week. Col. Steve warren thanks guys. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. 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Our exhibits online and in person, we hope, in form remind all of us of the importance and the fragility of those basic human rights. Explorethat we help you the freedom and the meaning of freedom in an age of continuing technological innovation. Openbracing the role of discussion, we hope we engage in the central debates of our time. We gather today to recall one year ago on january 7, terrorists invaded the offices of Charlie Hebdo. In the name of, as i believe the terrorists said, punishing the staff for perceived blasphemy of publishing satirical cartoons of the muslim prophet mohammed, 12 people died, were murdered. In that process, the concept of Free Expression worldwide was challenged. After that initial attack, there were many reactions. Most immediately, millions in france and around the world adopted the slogan we see on the , as anere, i am charlie expression of support for the journalists and others who died in the attack, but also for the concept of Free Expression and perhaps the right to offend. Deaths werehose seen as the inevitable outcome if not the appropriate punishment to a perceived blasphemy. In this past year, those responses have all continued. There have been increased calls for support of Free Expression, but also restrictions on muslims in france and around the world on how they practice their faith, new laws on freedom of expression and immigration, and at times, in the u. S. , a call to reexamine an old standard that has kept the government from restraining free speech. Is there a need to revisit that in a time when terrorists can reach out via the web . Before we move into our discussion, we should also note that this is the 75th anniversary of another event, one that marked a more hopeful moment for freedom and Free Expression. That is u. S. President Franklin Roosevelts four freedoms speech. Four freedomshose that roosevelt enumerated, speech, worship, freedom form want, and freedom from fear, were voiced at a time when the world stood on the brink of what would become world war i. The battle had already begun in europe. A littleould enter less than 12 months later. Those four freedoms symbolized what the goal of the United States and the allies and what was to become the United Nations stood for in that fight. They were incorporated in the early version of human rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948. A former colleague of ours heads the fdr museum in hyde park, new york. This morning, he wrote, as tyrannical leaders achieve their goals, as democracy and journalism are under attack from extremists around the globe, and as surveillance and technology threaten liberties and expression, fdrs bold vision is as vital as it was 75 years ago. Those five freedoms of the first notedent, as our ceo after the terror attacks in paris, for a nation and a city intrinsically tied to liberty, those cowardly acts still seek to diminish our democratic rights and freedom of expression. Pleased to is present this program today, and we hope to discuss the issues raised by this terrible incident. One day short of a year ago, it is for me the embodiment of the best response to these attacks. The marketplace of ideas still exists and we can have a robust discussion worldwide about the very basic rights and freedoms of humanity that held true in 1791, 1941, and again in 2016. Let me present our moderator, Delphine Halgand from Reporters Without Borders. Delphine thank you for all your amazing work and all the amazing work of your colleagues at the institute to champion the First Amendment freedoms. Thank you for hosting us. It withu for organizing Reporters Without Borders to come, rick perry, the first hebdorsary of charlie possus tragedy. We report on press Freedom Violation all around the world. A network of local journalists report for us in 130 countries to monitor press Freedom Violations. One year ago, i was working at our paris office on january 7. One year after, i still dont have the right words to express that shock. Newsroom, with automatic weapons, it was something we could hardly imagine. And actually, paris was attacked again. We were even more hurt just a few months ago. We observed that these last years have been marked by an extreme level of violence targeting journalists. We all have in mind the carefully staged beheadings of journalists, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the increase of kidnappings. 110 journalists have been killed in 2015. 110. The deadliest countries were syria, iraq, and france. I look forward to our discussion today. I want to thank Caroline Fourest for being with us from paris. I will start with her today, to year from her. I want to thank robert beauchard, renaud gene policinski, and had us gold. Thank you for being here. In a sense, we want to discuss what has changed for freedom of expression, freedom of the press, and liberty of religion in france, in the u. S. , and around the world. Betweenthe difference freedom of expression in france, in the u. S. . What are the red lines . Law or blasphemy National Security law impacted that freedom . How should we respond to the information war launched by groups such as isis on social media . Those are some of the questions i look forward to discussing with you all. To start, i want to introduce you to Caroline Fourest. Shes a very well renowned journalist. Magazinee editor of and a former contributor of Charlie Hebdo. You just released nsa, in praise of blasphemy, why charlie bic. O is not islamopho the book is available in english on ebook. I invite you to read it, because its vitally important to read it