seeing themselves as liberators. no no not that it s in our pacific you see the path is peaceful our goal is religion so we don t need to conquer anything islam condemns while it s jihad aims at the extinction expulsion of those who oppose the spread of islam. it is not our goal to kill people or cause bloodshed. jihad aims at cleansing the country of those who defy shari a and oppose the spread of islam. to secure so it was a love of the flesh are you know what up with us in the recent. they came from the desert and islamist militia some of them with links to al qaida in the islamic magreb they had taken advantage of a military coup in mali s capital bamako and conquered the north of mali together with the separatists toerag later they drove away their twilight fighters and
scholarship during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in more than one hundred fifty quranic schools affiliated with the mosques the most distinguished islamic scholars of the magreb talk more than twenty thousand students they studied the koran and the prophet s life conducted scientific research and wrote down their findings in manuscripts to this day a moderate form of islam is practiced here strongly influenced by sufism and african religions. up to a man ben s.l.u.t. leads friday prayers a ginger baron last. the loans to a centuries old dynasty of scholars he watches over his family s library. moved
part of the capital. but there are indeed a lot of suspicions about who may have been behind this. it happened without warning. gunmen attacking parliament and museum buildings in tunisia s capital. people desperately escaping led to safety by security forces. at least 19 people most of them tourists, killed and 22 hurt. two attackers were also killed. concern this attack is at the hands of isis adherents, opening a new front for their violence in africa. tunisian militants have pledged loyalty to isis and threatened attacks. it appears likely that this was an attack by the islamic state but we have to remember that there are also other possibilities. it could have been a local group. it could have been al qaeda in the islamic magreb. reporter: the u.s. at one time held up tunisia as a place
translator: everything happened rapidly. they grabbed him and shoved him in the car. i saw them doing this and saying get in, but wasn t sure that was my husband. the cars then sped off like a rocket. reporter: al libi, a senior al qaeda operative wanted for the 1998 embassy bombings in africa, is now on a u.s. navy ship in the mediterranean. ikrima, the target of the somalia raid, remains at large. the operations show america s increasing focus on the growing terror threat emanating from africa. in mali and algeria, al qaeda and the islamic magreb and just across the gulf of yemen, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. unlike in iraq and afghanistan, now the u.s. is relying on smaller, swifter operations. james liddy is a former navy s.e.a.l. commando. the united states is showing once again that it s not going to let terrorists dictate the war on terror. a surgical strike makes a lot of sense to try to minimize the
siege of the gas facility in southern algeria. so he was prestaging something that then we all knew about several months later. and i ve interviewed many of the libyan officials, prime ministers that said the justice minister and they all agree on one point, and that is they do not have the security inside their country right now, that it is becoming a place where these foreign jihadists are gathering as they re being pushed out of other areas and this security vacuum and the political vacuum in libya is expanding. and libyan intelligence sources are saying they are quickly becoming the new base for al qaeda in the islamic magreb. so this is a very serious issue and a serious problem going forward. it certainly is. it s really, really critical right now what s happening in libya and throughout north africa and the middle east.