So the comebination of intelligence and law enforcemented is a big deal. We have to make sure that there are good mechanisms in place. If we know somebody is getting on a plane out of liguardia or dulles to fly over to ankora we need to recognize we know who they are, theyre being tracked and have the right visas. And turkey needs to know what theyre doing over there. Weve got to know why are you going there . Are you part of a Nongovernmental Organization . Are you part of a private organization . Or are you going e going there for some other ill gotten game. Let me ask this. Weve seen whats happening in yemen. Its collapsing before our eyes. Our u. S. Marines, the embassy staph. You see the chaos thats going on there. It was not long ago that this was one of our Foreign Policy successes in how we dealt want terrorism that we were in support of the government there, that our Counter Terrorism efforts was e were successful. A couple questions of the yoo u. S. Foreign policy. From my pe
Traveled to syria or attempted to travel there and who will return home. At least 3400 of them are from western europe. And that includes visa waiver countries, where theyre a plane ticket away from the United States. What we dont know is how many people are inside the United States following isil, and who are becoming inspired to carry out their own attacks. Separately al qaeda remains focused on conducting attacks against or homeland while aq in the ungoverned areas of pakistan may bes weak as it has been in many years, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or aqap still poses a clear threat. The group is enjoying a safe haven in yemen, with the huiti the group has already attempted to sense nonmetallic and essentially undetectible bombs into our country on four occasions, beginning with the Christmas Day 2009 bomb. Aq has published stepbystep directions for building that bomb in the latest inspire magazine. Our efforts to confront aqap are significantly diminished with the removal of t
And pakistan. Do we have any sense how the public and afghanistan and pakistan views isil . I think it depends on where they are and how much they read or hear about it. If youre inside of kabul and you have access to the communications and newspapers, radios a tv, theyre starting to get that media blast of that. In some areas they may not know thats going on. But, again, it has come up quite a bit here in the last 45 to 60 days. President beganny has talked to the Afghan People about it. Hes talked to the Afghan Security forces about it. Ive made it what i socalled a p. R. I. , Party Information requirement, for my forces, so well continue to work hard with our afghan partners here to make sure we understand this network. A final question. Most of the discussion has been about how the national Security Forces are doing. But can you comment on whats happening with local Police Efforts and to what extent they are professionalizing their operations . Yes. I can talk more about kabul and
Certainly since the last settlement or the last cease fire along the lines of the september principles was signed, and then broken that russias territorial control in the disputed Eastern Province has grown very considerably. Do that every three or four months pretty soon the amount of territory effectively under russian control will be p much more substantial. I think the worrisome aspects about the deal in mensk are the political questions below the level of the cease fire. When is means for autonomy and the Eastern Provinces. The two Eastern Provinces and what it might serve as a precedent from putins perspective for increased you tommy from kiev for other provinces that he considers in the russian sphere of influence. So i think this is an effort to gain a breather on the part of russia. I think it is satisfy to france and germany. They want a breather too, they have to figure out what to do with greece and the crisis in the euro and they dont see the United States playing a roll a
That the Laboratory System is strengthened, the capacity of our liberian military guys to do a job. So you feel confident that today you have, through the incident with the oversight of the Incident Management System you have access to sufficient ambulances and laboratories . You have the isolation and containment. You have the Case Investigation Contact Tracing teams, and the data coordination that that infrastructure is in place. It needs to be sustained and strengthened, and as you say within liberia itself, the biggest immediate challenge is montserrat county and monrovia proper, right . Thats correct. The capacity is there. Our response has reached optimum that we can respond effectively at any time. We can, every county has a wellbuilt Isolation Unit with the u. S. General and myself were in the last etu, second to the last etu where the results are. Every county is having its own ebola treatment unit. Thats the Case Management components out of it. So if there were any resurgenc