Counterterrorism Issue News Today

At the start of this event as thousands of people remember those caught up in saturdays tach. There will be speeches and people coming through because of the day with flowers, their own tributes and whilst we wait for the first of the speakers, it is worth returning to the breaking news that the bbc understands that khuram butt from barking was involved in the terrorist attack. The police have said they know the identity of all three, but the investigation is in rates have continued into the ear...

Theres no sense theyre competent to do that, but thats what they bought and now they got it. >> theres a couple of issues, joy. theres the counterterrorism issue and the future of afghanistan with the taliban. the one thing the president has been quite clear on for months in addition to getting out is this idea that you repeated today that is there is a counterterrorism challenge inside afghanistan, that we can deal with those over the horizon capacity. the capacity to take a missile strike. the...

Security forces. i dont think there are any illusions nor should there be any illusions that the taliban is a partner. i think right now what you have is a circumstance where the taliban -- look, they have been an insurgency and ideological movement. they dont know how to govern afghanistan. they dont even know how to provide security in the situation of kabul. this is not a city they have been governing for a very long time. they have a lot to work out. theyre in discussions right now with form...

>> wow. >> so, theres that element as well. he announced it on vladimir putins birthday. but the real issue here is that our government has no strategy vis-a-vis the middle east. and this is the problem. number one, you have the counterterrorism issue. so, this is only making it more dangerous now for the united states and our allies in europe, right? because these isis fighters -- the kurds are not going to be able to hang on. they have to defend themselves, their families, their villages. they...

Where well actually engage, fight and withdraw at a weird point in time that makes no sense whatsoever? you actually should be withdrawing our forces, mr. president, as part of a peace deal, as part of an agreement where we use the leverage we have from the forces we have on the ground. and by the way, you know, larry is right, this is we still have forces there nearby. we should be using our leverage to get all of the sides to the table and come up with an agreement, because theres a civil war ...

Former ambassador and chairman of the gatestone institute. were hearing a lot about jared kushner and the prince who has made the meeting possible. iran radical terrorism at the top of the list. >> its an important meeting. i think its a follow-up from president trumps first overseas visit where he went to riyadh and rallied the sunni arab states on the counterterrorism issue. i think with the may data approaching by which everyone think the president will make a decision one way or the other wh...

Nato countries actually meet that benchmark. those are the issues he wants to be focused on. instead today he will be facing tough questions and a tough conversation when he meets with the prime minister of the uk. stef? >> thanks, kristen. i want to bring in terrorism analyst malcolm nance. malcolm, what is your take on this? how big of a deal is it with regard to uk/u.s. relations and is it just a counterterrorism issue? >> its not just a counterterrorism issue. this is a vote of no confidence...

Terrorism. yemen, for example, has responded in the last 24 hours saying theyre not going to so cooperative anymore and not allow us to do ground missions. the other is to think about the terrorism threat today. the terrorism threat today is not aligned with a country. it is aligned with individuals. and they can have french passports, they can have german passports, or they can have u.s. passports. one of the reasons why, as a counterterrorism issue, not a legal one, we have always avoided thes...

And i think we might want to dial that down a little and try to, you know, look at some of the major issues and not try to, you know, socially re-engineer the country. >> embassy, it strike me what the president is say he needs to do in afghanistan, keep a significant number of troops to deal with counterterrorism, you know, i look at it and say, why afghanistan and not doing the same thing in syria? i understand why not syria, maybe its a quagmire that you cant ever get out of. but were sort of...

These refugees are not going home to syria and not to jordan. they need enormous help. can i come back to one thing that chuck was talking about? he used the phrase yemenization of iraq and i think that is a big idea but the administration has to make a fundamental choice. its one thing to send military advisers to iraq that is essentially there to carry out a counterterrorism mission and something else to send military advisers to iraq to work organically with the iraqi government which means t...