cruickshank and cedric layton. paul, you ve seen videos of abaaoud, that he s a sadist. he speaks in the camera and says, i am joyed when i see the blood of infidels the westerners spilled. martyrism is what we all need to go after. the muslim who is are not coming to join us here, they are cowards, they are a disgrace, they all need to come and help us. they need to come back and they need to launch attacks against the west. so this is somebody with a deep animosity against anybody who doesn t share his barbarist world view. there s video of him driving the corpses of several deceased free syria army officers across the desert in syria and there s another video which frankly
activists in the city, main isis headquarters and jail buildings. last night they re saying about seven strikes, mostly to the south of the city and one other key isis parliament structure there saying a place known as the parking garage, yet another isis headquarters here. the significance of the charles de gaulle moving into the eastern mediterranean, it speeds up the ability of the french to refuel, to resupply their jets, to keep them in the sky longer, to have more of them there at one time. before that they have been flying out of jordan and the united arab emirates, three, four hours flight time away. this comes, the french second night of bombardments. the russians have launched a staggering number of cruise missiles. accurate, but there are been problems. the sheer volume of firepower focused toward raqqah are quite staggering, poppy. absolutely. we don t have any sense yet, do we, on the ground there, nick,
theocratic and political movement like radical islamism that promotes murdering anyone who doesn t share your extreme faith or forcibly converting them, then it would make perfect sense. but what about muslims who are victims of the radical islamic terrorists taking their religion and hijacking it? what about protecting those people? there is no doubt that millions are suffering from the rise of radical islamic terrorisms. christians are are you saying muslims shouldn t be allowed in the u.s. what i m saying is syrian muslim refugees should be resettled in the middle east bhabt american boots on the ground in syria? you know i think there are far too many politicians when it comes to boots on the ground that are eager just to commit to poots on the ground to show how tough they are. i think the objective should be destroying isis and the question of the military tactics and
cuba to the united states and the political leaders here said, nope, we don t think so because who knows, maybe you could be somebody who could, you know, commit crimes against americans? see, that s why it s important to define what it is we re fighting. my father were part of a critical movement like radical islamism that promoting murdering anyone who doesn t share your extreme faith or forcibly converting them, it would make perfect sense. one of the people who carried out this terrorist attack in paris was a syrian refugee who came in and the president is perfectly fine with bringing people into this country to carry out similar acts of terrorism. reporter: ben carson wrote house speaker paul ryan calling on congress to stop pay for programs to resettle refugees. congress, i think, should defund all the programs thatt l allow these people to be brought here immediately today. reporter: ohio governor john kasich who initially supported bringing syrian refugees to the
how many casualties, how many isis members have been taken out? reporter: well, activists there, they say there have been isis casualties but they can t tell the numbers because it s all dealt in great secrecy. they have been insistent, on their twitter account, there have been no civilian casualties. saying if there are some, they will let everybody know. the point they make in their anti-isis, in their outlook, is that there s some sense of relief among those who feel repressed and forced to stay in raqqah by isis when they hear those jets and bombs because they believe they will be targeting the militants instead of the citizens. the firepower has slightly increased, poppy. nick paton walsh, thank you, live in erbil, iraq, tonight. back to you. still to come in the newsroom, after the attacks over there, officials ramping up security over here.