In syria an american citizen reportedly blew himself up in a suicide attack. A truck allegedly packed with 17 tonnes of explosives. If confirmed its the first time an american has been a suicide bomber. This mans deadly rampage revives the campaign over gun chrome. California has some of the strict lawyers, it didnt help. Mental Health Issues played a role. Google is developing a fleet of stars without steering wheels. 100 expected to hit the market. Its a nerdy vehicle. I love this. Pbs series launched a Kick Starter Campaign to revamp the series for the web. It raised a Million Dollars in under a day. We are changing the world one Childrens Book at a time. The carnage in syria costing more than so,000 lives will it come home to america. For the first time, three years ago, an american citizen has been identified as having fought as a suicide bomber for the al nusra front. N. B. C. News was told theyd identified the bomber known in social media as abu harer. They would not reveal his home town. His attack in the north is said to have been one of the four suicide assaults that day killing dozens. As many as 100 americans are said to have joined thousands of foreign fighters taking part in training and contact with rebel groups. Its feared some of the americans may return home with combat training, bombmaking expertise and a commitment to wreak havoc here. Im joined in the studio with a group providing strategic intelligence. Hes a former chief for counterintelligence, a u. N. Coordinator for taliban issues and author of a report on foreign fighters in syria. Thanks for being here. Thank you. What does your report say about the role of foreign fighters in syria, and hundreds of americans that joined their forces. Theres a lot of them. Up to 12,000. That is mainly made up of people from the arab world. Nonetheless, 2,500 from western countries. Where are the people coming from . The americans that are recruited, how are they going found and indoctrinated. A lot are finding their own way. By whatever means it is to get to turkey, and crossing the border to syria and joining the nearest group, or else making for their friends or, you know, people they made contact with in other ways before going there. Do you find that a lot of these people radicalized ideologies before leaving u. S. Soil, or does that evolve. Its a difficult question to answer. In many ways they know what they are getting into. Everywhere knows what is happening in syria and the al nusra front and other groups that are operating. They probably go more because they want to do something in syria, than elsewhere. They go they have radical ideologies, they may stay there, go home what is the risk once they get home, that theyll recruit people or launch an attack here. There is a risk. The al qaeda groups and other extremist groups are interested in doing more than fighting in syria. These guys will be radicalized and traumatized by their experiences, and part of a network which can pick them up wherever they end up. Are they just as likely to ally themselves with groups that have u. S. Backing . Well, i doubt it. You know, there are foreign fighters supporting the regime. They are mainly from lebanon, hezbollah fighters from iraq, militias from there and iran. They are more organised. They are not going op in an individual basis like they are to support the opposition. One american was convicted when he returned from this country. He was released after a plea deal, and later, apparently died from an overdose. He doesnt seem to have been involved in violent activities here. Generally how dangerous are these people. When they go, most dont have an intention of being terrorists, theres a difference between going, being a foreign fighter or coming back and being a terrorist. Radical affects are real. The problem is you dont know what happens to them once they are there. The challenge for the authorities is to explore that. Okay, why did this guy go. Maybe perfectly reasonable reasons. Humanitarian concerns. And what happened to him while he was there. Who was talking to him, who influenced him, and did he come back because he was disillusioned or he thought he would do something elsewhere. There are a whole lot of variables that can happen once they get there. What tracking exists. Do we know the scope of the issue in terms of the people going there and coming back. Are they falling through the cracks when they arrive home. Potentially they are, nobody knows theyve been there until they get back or die. You see the picture of the american who was in the suicide bombing. Maybe his friends didnt know he was there until he saw the picture. Theres the aspect to it. Lets talk about that fact. U. S. Intelligence officials have not released the identity or home town or confirmed that that is a picture of him. Whether or not it is him probably doesnt matter as much as the fact that these groups can use a globally disseminated image as soon as propaganda. How dangerous is the propa demand e in terms of propaganda in terms of enabling others. Other people may feel the guy looks happy, hes involved with a good group, had a sense of purpose, maybe i wouldnt blow myself up, but maybe id join the guys. Its a strong image, the guy is looking ordinary, isnt he . Very much so. Its not just mens, there are others said to be fighting for the rebels. What threats do they pose. Is there a global concern among officials. Certainly a global concern because the people can move around. Perhaps you are in a country with a visa, an exempt regime. Tracking them is a global concern. I think the problems for the europeans are greater than for the americans, because the resources are large. Theres only so far about six or 12 people that have come back. They can be monitored. In europe you have hundreds and the resources are stretched to breaking point now. We have 30 seconds, we have the justice department, the fbi. Where do things go federally to better protect americans . Its about leveraging the authoritys relationships with the community. If you have good policing, and policemen who go to the local mosque and families of fighters saying, okay, what is going on, can you help us . You dont want your child to die in syria or be committing terror attacks in the united states. Lets Work Together and build support to monitor the threat and deal with it. Thank you. Switching topics, as lawmakers debate, what can be done to protect tragedies like in southern california. The parents of the 22yearold who killed six others before taking his life are speaking out for the first time saying . Joining us now to discuss the latest is dr wendy moyall a psychiatrist at a college in new york, treating psychiatric disorders in children and adults. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me. When things like this happen, they are visible and gets attention. It calls for gun control and people saying we have to put more money in the Mental Health system. If you do that, it fixes everything. One of your colleagues wrote a piece saying do you agree with that . I agree. Id like to qualify it by saying Mental Health changes in the Mental Health care system alone wont prevent the tragedies, i doubt we could prevent them over all, but we could twork reduce the could work to reduce the frequency. Theres more we could do. He calls for stopping people with a history of serious psychiatric illness or. Substance abups, from open abuse, from owning firearms, is that the solution . Its a first step. I would agree with that. I would add that people with a history of violence, those people should have limited access to firearms. And that is not in place at this time. How do we, as a society, and how does Law Enforcement identify people that are to that point with an acute Mental Illness that could be dangerous or violent. As a doctor, its patientclient privilege. You cant talk about those things publicly. Not publicly. We have to start by asking, and part of our training is to become comfortable with asking do you have thought to hurt yourself or thoughts to hurt anyone else . Do you have a gun in the home . We have to ask, and then after that we assess a persons thoughts, their intent and their plan. And if theres an intent or plan, we can take action. We can have that person brought to an emergency room for further evaluation. The other thing we can do is people can reach out to therapists and psychiatrists. We want to hear from teachers and parents what are you seeing, what are you concerned about . As a community we have to improve our communication and, you know, the stigma of Mental Illness prevents that, theres a lot of opportunity to share our observations about a patient. Its just actually doctors are more restricted than anyone. You said that you can take action, but legally if a person has not been involuntary hospitalized or institutionalized theres nothing on the record that prevent them buying a firearm. Without that knowledge in the system, im assuming theres a lot of people who are mentally ill, who havent had the diagnosis on been hospitalized. Where is the gap in the system. How do you identify people that need help, havent been to a dr wendy, so we can protect them and society. We need to improve access to Mental Health care. Initially there may be subtle signs of someone struggling. They might stop taking care of themselves. If parents notice that they might want their child seen or adult child seen by a psychiatrist. Many times they cant access care. The parents of james holmes, the colorado movie theatre shooter and usb. The families of both of those people said we knew there was something wrong, but there was no mechanism for us to tell authorities something was wrong and have something done. Yes. I think the ideal situation is if we had more Mental Health crisis teams. Which would be a collaboration between Mental Health practitioners, Law Enforcement, people that sell guns. New york state though has taken substance steps, now if anyone is a credible threat. We now have a state registry that we report threats of harm to oneself or others. This is it moving in the direction, and that goes for several levels of evaluation, and then its determined whether the authorities are supposed to step in and take away a persons gun. We have about 30 seconds left. As a psychiatrist is it laws like those that will create the biggest deter eps from the tragedies, if not, what is the one thing we can do to help prevent them . I think its laws like this. We have to have a link between Mental Health and gun sales, and Law Enforcement, and i think thats a good example of paying that connection. Dr wendy moyle thank you for being with us. The world continues to witness genosides. Coming up, is there a way to predict them. Plus. Have you to love charlton history. What may replace food intake what do you think . Join the conversation. Al Jazeera America presents the system with Joe Burlinger the dna testing shows that these are not his hairs unreliable forensics the problem the bureaus got is they fail, its a big, big deal. Convicted of unspeakable crimes did flawed lab work take away their freedom . I was 18 when i went in. When i came out i was 50. You dont get it back. Shocking truths revealed the system with Joe Burlinger only on al Jazeera America can the place and timing of the next genocide be predicted. Work is underway at the new York Holocaust Museum center for genae side for an Online System that would forecast mass atrocities. In the six months it predicted violence in south sudan, where thousands have died, and forecasted the fighting in the Central African republic, where an untold number have been killed and more than a million displaced in a brutal religious conflict. We are joined from washington d. C. By cameron hudson, director of the center for genocide. Think you for being on the show. Its fascinating that this is coming into existence in terms of technology, im curious how it works. What are the elements and key indicators that you look for to create the genocide forecast . Thank you and thank you for devoting time. One of the things that enabled this is new advances in the Data Collection that we are able to tap into, and the Statistical Methodology underpiping the system that we have in place. We are looking at a variety of variables, everything from inequality in society to the percentage of g. D. P. Spent on the military. Ethnic divisions, birth rates things that you may not consider and factor in, certainly not an individual analyst may not factor in to an overall scenario for which countries might be affected by these kinds of op set of mass onset of mass killing. Using three models, aggregating the results and coming up with a forecast score for each country in the world, and parallel to that we have established what we call on opinion poll or an expert survey, and so we recognise that there are a lot of people out there that might be turned off by a data driven analysis of political events. What we are trying to do is injelent a human inject a human element, tapping in to the wisdom of expert crowd, tapping into experts from around the world, people in affected countries and regions that we are talking about, and give them a chance to weigh in and tell us what the likelihood is if it comes to pass. The combination of the human element, and statistical element provide us with a tool that weve been able to develop. Why is a system like this necessary, because the people that you are talking about are the one that is are tuned in. They are on the ground. They are the observers, on the front lines warning the world of what is coming. What does your system do . We are trying to elevate the discussion around prevention. We are at a point now where Effective Response is only enabled through a better understanding of what is driving the violence. I think when you look back at cases like rwanda, and the balkans. Darfur is an example, where we failed to respond and prevent the actions. We didnt know, we didnt understand the warning signs, we didnt see the contellation of factors at play in society for us to take preventive action. What we are trying to do is analyse and collect those indicators that are out there, that are measurable and to aggregate them in a way through statistical modelling that allows policy makers, analysts, concerned citizen to make sense of the information and process it in a way that allows us to rank and prioritise countries that may be at great risk. Its human nature that we dont react in advance. We react to a crisis. If we are not reacting to a crisis in syria or darfur or berma, what is your system going to do, beyond giving information that will move people to action and do something that will help pt folks on the the folks on the ground in the daner zone. In government and policy sector, the thinking is Early Warning doesnt necessarily mean response. The president alluded to it requires an understanding to factors drive the violence. The field of genocide prevention advanced in the last 20 years, really owe toing the failures owing to the failures of policy responses from rwanda, to the balkans and darfur. There has been not just soul searching on the part of the policy makers, but intro expectation on the part of the public about why are we drawn into conflicts once they have started. Once they start, the range of options that we have, both for stopping and arresting the violence, but also responding to it are narrower than they would be if we were to take action prior to the onset of new killing. What we are trying to do is move the curve out a little further. Give policy makers and the public time to understand what might be going on in the countries and give them an opportunity to reaction not in a military way that may be ab option. But the range of options for intervention, and i use that not again in the military sense, but in a broad sense, the range of options before the killing starts is vast, and the cost, the political and the financial cost to american taxpayers and others is greatly reduced. You worked as a special envoy for sudan and the National Security council and african affairs. Do you think a system like this could have helped you in that work . Absolutely. I think when you are in those jobs and you have responsibility for a region of the world, and you are scanning the horizon, its easy to be taken in by your inbox. Working the crisis of the day and responding to the countries on fire, and any policy maker that served in the jobs, if you ask them if you could go back to syria four, five years ago, before the first shot was fired in syria, and you had 12 months to take action, that might have staved off the violence we see now, what would you have done . They probably would come up with a list of things that they would do. The reason they were not looking at syria is they were looking at the country in crisis. We are trying to give them the county, the window of time before the killing starts to think about what can we do. Africa is a great case. You went are many countries that may be at risk. How do we pry otherize and hank them . How do we choose which countries will receive scarce resources for prevention. A tool like this helps to rack and stack the countries. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. The american diet is considered extreme. We have a reputation for offering outrageour portions, but are sed used by a juicefast for trendy change. A new product heralded as the end of food may trump anything you consider. Its soyland, a meal replacement drink developed by a tech entre preppure, tired of the hassles of food. It claims to contain the nutrients for a healthy diet. At 3 a serving, its affordable. 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