when i lived in egypt, i was physically followed by security agents. i had my phone line tapped and i could hear people listening to it on the other side. but if they have millions of people sending these quick, instant messages with symbols that state security apparatus, generally older people who have been employed there for a long time don t know how to read, then they are effectively untraceable. so we got them because they don t know what lol meant? that s funny. i was talking to a person who worked in the state security apparatus. and he told me, well, don t be too afraid of it. yes, they re monitoring their phones, but there s so many they re monitoring they can t possibly keep track of it all. so think about flooding the system with symbols and think about people who have had the job in this state security service for a decade or more, they couldn t keep track of this. real quick, last question.
jfk, checks bags loaded with bullets and .9 millimeters and stuff and flies to cairo, egypt, where he is detained. where in the world is the security? what s the whole point of checking the doggone bag and having them scan it? and you know what? when he got to egypt, he s being detained and questioned in the state security apparatus. do you think they read him his miranda rights? look we have to take these lone wolf whatever they re being called, these terrorists, this is where al qaeda and those who would wish us devastating harm are going to, these lone wolf acts. i m sure mr. obama, president obama will come out and say this is nothing but it s part of a bigger hold is where it s going. we have to be better at figuring this out. we don t really know what this guy was doing. we don t know anything in terms of his background. yes. but at the end of the day it speaks to the security, lack of security on our side when you
isis and propaganda had something to do with this. the fact he was quoting and praising anwar al-awlaki. everybody who commits an isis inspired attack,ala lauky is the gateway starter. i would classify it as almost an open and shut act of jihad or terrorism. however, juliette is quite right, isis directed, we don t know. the likelihood is small. isis inspired, probably greater. i mentioned this on cnn, on your show many months ago, the isis defector who i keep referring to who was part of isis s state security apparatus trained up foreign fighters and he has informants and people on the inside who feed him information, told me isis was looking to hypothesis in the united states, particularly minnesota and particularly drawing from the somali community there. then we saw the attack in st. cloud by a somali american. i asked do you know anything about this? and he said all i know is isis
isis state security apparatus trained up informants and people on the inside told me that isis is always looking to hit the united states. particularly minnesota and drawing from the somali community there. then we saw the attack in st. cloud, now we re seeing this, i asked today, do you know anything about this, isis is trying to set up recruitment centers in north america. not necessarily people who have been to syria and iraq, people who are remotely radicalized, who are agents of the califate who go around and recruit more people. if you ask me, and we does, i was on cnn six hours ago, i said not enough information. do you agree, julia? i do, and i think it s the investigation is going to be, are there foreign ties, were there conversations with people abroad oregon people here.
how does the state crack down on the protestors? we ve seen what looked like secret police or guys with batons. who are they? reporter: these are members of the besieged all of these security forces led by iran s revolutionary guard. one of the most glaring differences between what we saw in egypt and what we re seeing in iran over the past couple of years is the crackdown by the government. i don t think it even compares. you look at egypt, you have the military, you essentially stay on the sidelines and watch and the state security apparatus, the police in egypt was either outwhited or overwhelmed by the opposition movement. then you go to iran, the crackdown led by the revolutionary guard. the economy, its natural resources, politics, government. so when it s fighting the opposition movement, it s fighting for its hold on power.