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Ancient sites shocked the world and led a government who had a strong we rationship. it happened to be a french kolmy and immediately launched air strikes to try to regain control of the northern part of the country and bring it under control of the northern part of the country. they managed to launch control in the northern part of the country. but it is by no means stable. those groups have been carrying out attacks mostly in the northern parts and its growing concern thai going to start pledg...

>> absolutely. theres actually a very robust french presence in mali. a lot of it political and military. mali used to be a french colony, but more recently, the french military was very active in leading the airstrikes that forced out militant groups in the northern part of the country. you may recall that back in 2012, mali carried out the mali military carried out a coup and that led to the split of the country. al qaeda affiliated groups took control of the northern part of the country, and ...

With impacts for the past several years. they have been struggling wi. dealing with groups in the north part of the country. now, the storm sort of came together in 2012 because it was around that time that the military in mali carried out a cue against the civilian president against the country at that time and shortly after doing so, the country split. you have some rebel groups in the north but you also had al qaeda affiliated groups and islam militant groups suddenly arise in prominence star...

Decimated means rapidly spreading throughout the region. you is a situation where obviously during the election the presidents position was i am keeping america safe and i have osama bin laden so the problem is over and he said it repeatedly. what we know now from the osama bin laden documents, for example, that have come out through court cases although they need to release more, that absolutely wasnt the case. you have iran with a 50 percent increase in al-qaeda affiliated groups since 2009 an...

People were killed in an explosion in nigeria as they planned to wap their team play in the world cup. thats the same country that 300 school girls were snatched last month. retired air force general mcinerney is a fox correspondent. thats the question where were seeing contrary to the representations on a campaign trail during the last presidential race from our commander in chief, a dramatic rise in terrorism in al-qaeda affiliated groups. >> absolutely. there has been a dramatic rise in radic...

>> the new head and osama bin laden is apt for every reason that make said is that basically isis is resurrected from the dead because of the void that we left in 2011 in iraq and because syria is now a training ground and recruitment ground and if we learned anything from 9/11, we know all you need san american passport, access to within our boarders to carry out an attack. were seeing now, americans, american citizens, european citizens, canada citizens are being recruited to train along isis ...

Laden is apt for every reason that make said is that basically isis is resurrected from the dead because of the void that we left in 2011 in iraq and because syria is now a training ground and recruitment ground and if we learned anything from 9/11, we know all you need san american passport, access to within our boarders to carry out an attack. were seeing now, americans, american citizens, european citizens, canada citizens are being recruited to train along isis and al qaeda affiliated groups...

This chart, from 2007 to 2013, the number of terrorist incidents went up by nine fold. now obviously most of these havent been against us. many have been generated out of syria. some of them have occurred in europe. but whether you look at these figures or look at the number -- >> so theyve increased nine times. >> nine times. >> since. >> the number of terrorist groups has gone -- al qaeda affiliated groups has gone from 20 to 49. the number of al qaeda or jihadist fighters has gone up to 100,0...

Suspect in the benghazi attack and recently bin qumu is one of the suspects with historic ties to al qaeda senior leadership. were on page 10 in the report, this cites specifically, and this is news, in july of 2012, a few months before the attack the cia produced a report that was called, libya, al qaeda establishing sanctuary. and it went on to describe how al qaeda affiliated groups and associates are exploiting the environment in libya to enhance their capabilities and that they are seeing s...

Which clearly identified it as a terrorist attack. which number one wouldnt necessarily lead to be al qaeda but we knew there were al qaeda affiliated groups. then you look at all of those cables that we viewed leading up to it where the intelligence folks on the ground saying place is getting dangerous and there are al qaeda groups and al qaeda affiliated groups operating in the area who have expressed an interest in committing an act it was on 9/11. its pretty hard to pass the smell test. >> w...