isis since they knocked down that airliner. the russian really have shifted a lot of their focus. they re very concerned that isis is spreading into the caucuses area. hundreds of fighters we see in syria are chech anyians. when they go back home, they ll pose a threat to the russians. they want to gather information anywhere they can on isis. why is the taliban denying it? these relationships are generally considered to be quite sensitive, quite secret, and i m sure the taliban doesn t want to see themselves cooperating with the russians. why not? why wouldn t the taliban want to cooperate with the russians? because well, the taliban, as they said, they don t want to portrait themselves as needing anybody s help and taking on e isis in their own country. i think the taliban is trying to downplay anything they re getting from the russians. all right. lieutenant colonel rick francona, merry christmas, and huh thank you for being here with me this day.
u.s. citizen and gets those rights no matter what he did or didn t do. stein says he is should be treated as enemy because the bombing was act of terrorism against the u.s. and civilians. and william agrees he earned the title enemy combatant. tweet us your answers. we ll read more later this hour. when word emerged that the boston bombing suspects were from chechnya, it brought up a region that lot of people haven t seen in headline since bloody civil war a decade ago. we covered the area and offer insight on what the chech anyians lived through. supposed to be an easy war. the russian it was minister said the forces could take the chechen capital in two hours. instead, it took two wars and a decade. russians capturing grozni only after reducing it to rubble. in 1994, many chechen fighters were ordinary school teachers