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Islamic militants grow over time, whether its boko haram, whether its al qaeda in the islamic ma greb and increasingly affiliates for isis. so we have been working steadily across the obama administration and now to this administration with the french whove been historically taking the lead in that area. and thats why you saw them have a much more significant presence and bring the support in. but also i took note of the reports that said the vehicle that these soldiers were traveling in was una...

At the end of the day what we all have it to remember is what president obama has talked about and hillary clinton talked about yesterday in her speech, which is this is a network of terrorism that we are discussing. if isil disappeared tomorrow and if al qaeda, the original al qaeda sort of collapsed, we now have al qaeda in the ma greb. were going to have to continue to deal with this not only militarily, which is really the smallest response to this, but to deal with the financing infrastruct...

Its been battling extremism. give us a little perspective with regard to ties to the french. >> yeah, you got it on all those things. its also part of the group of nations where part of the country is under the thumb of an organization called al qaeda and the islamic ma greb. when i was commanding in europe, my counterpart in africa were focused specifically on the intelligence flowing out of this area because of the rising strength of aqim. . they were specifically focused on mali because that ...

And they call themselves al qaeda in iraq. they call themselves the taliban. they call themselves a bunch of different al shabaab, east africa al qaeda. it doesnt make any difference. al qaeda in the ma greb. all form of radical islamists that were very extreme and vicious. >> the president has said and many believe the country was war weary when he took over. ten years in afghanistan and iraq and so on and that we were in a mind to retreat and be more, not isolationists but not interventionists...

Is now al qaeda stand. as it did in libya, in iraq, in marx ali and the ma greb, exploits these areas of conflict where theres a power vacuum, no leadership. theyre there now building infrastructure, opening school, opening power plants, hiring people, recruiting. we would all agree that is a terrible, frightening scenario. what do we do about it? >> were very good at listing problems at this table. pi havent heard anyone list a solution yet. >> im asking you, our guest, for a solution. you work...

From libya, from the officials in libya starting with the president of the national congress, mohamed mogarif and the justice minister today and intelligence officials, they from the very beginning when asked said they believe this was a pre-planned terrorist attack on a competing network on cbs september 16th the president of libya was in new york for the general assembly meetings. and he said that dozens had been arrested since the attack five days previously and he believed theyd been plannin...