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The matter is, syria is not a homogenius population. about 70% is sunni arab, but you have kurds, christians, islamic groups, offshoots of shiaisms. but now a clique of alowese controls the security services, key positions in the military. and we have plenty of allies. many alowese have never benefitted from this regime and many urban sunnis have. so theres a coalition of interests here. and the demonstrations would have to get much, much larger and stretch the capacity of the regime security se...

Now you see them -- were looking at them right now, breaking statues of him, of his dad, actively calling for that. >> its tragic but the fact of the matter is, syria is not a homogenous population. about 07% of the country is sunni arab. but you have kurds, christians, islamic groups, offshoots of shiaism, like the alowese who were at one time the most downtrodden group in syria. but now a clique of alowese controls the security services, key positions in the military. and we have plenty of all...

Ease things economically, create a stock market, private banks, more license for business and the like. but he still wanted to keep an iron grip on the politics of syria. and thats the way things have played out over these 11 years. >> what would it take for protesters to be able to really make some sort of crack in the regime? because they have now, as you well know, when they started this they werent calling for, you know, the downfall of the regime, they werent calling for assad to be out of ...

Sunni arab. but you have kurds, christians, islamic groups, offshoots of shiaism, like the alowes who were at one time the most downtrodden group in syria. but now a clique of alowese controls the security services, key positions in the military. and we have plenty of allies. i dont mean to suggest its all alowese. many alowese have never benefitted from this regime and many urban sunnis have. so theres a coalition of interests here. and the demonstrations would have to get much, much larger and...

Many others, though, remain a mystery. >> we have to understand that in very fluid, revolutionary situations the bad guys often are at a great advantage over the good guys. >> and then there are the radical islamic groups, a study by the u.s. military academy west point found libya sent more islamic fighters per capita to iraq than any other muslim country. most came from eastern libya, where the current uprising began, an area once described by u.s. diplomats as a breeding ground for islamic ex...

Members of libyas government like the justice minister, now head of the opposition, interior minister abdel yunis is reading the offensive. many others, though, remain a mystery. >> we have to understand that in very fluid, revolutionary situations the bad guys often are at a great advantage over the good guys. >> and then there are the radical islamic groups, a study by the u.s. military academy found more islamic fighters per capita to, rack than any other muslim country. most came from easter...

Minister abdel younis is leading the offensive. many others, though, remain a mystery. >> we have to understand that in very fluid, revolutionary situations the bad guys often are at a great advantage over the good guys. >> and then there are the radical islamic groups, a study by the u.s. military academy west point found libya sent more islamic fighters per capita to iraq than any other muslim country. most came from eastern libya, where the current uprising began, an area once described by u....

Point. homegrown terrorism is a threat. were talking about parts of this country, groups, who are practicing every day for race wars, groups who are attacking minority men, women and children all in the name of some racial purification. they pose a greater threat statistically and more so than so-called islamic groups. homegrown terrorism is a threat. i think we have to look at the facts here. seven out of the last ten al qaeda attempts to disturb our internal security have been thwarted and dis...

This country as it relates to so-called muslims or people who identify themselves with the religion of islam. a small minority that has to be isolated, a small minority that has to be dealt with effectively and a small minority that must be monitored. now, having said that, we have right now where officers can get national security letters without a court order to monitor muslims and different groups. this is problematic in a free and civil society. i hope that these hearings expand, they become...

That they were really much more involved with regional issues, so if this is a change, what did change for them? >> if this is a change, and i think thats the important thing to keep in mind here, then i think frans right, its a very troubling development. it means that the pakistani taliban are just the latest of these so-called islamic groups, these nationalistic organizations, that have local grievances, and local agendas, who are making a transition to a much more global ideology. in other w...