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ALJAZAM Consider This July 21, 2014

After facing heavy fighting. Iraqi forces are trying to recapture areas claimed by the Islamic State. Why isnt more money put into autism. Mother. Theres a huge autism tsunami hitting the stage budget. Cody calafiore is taking california is taking drastic measures to lift the state out of drought. Anyone hosing down driveways or keeping fountains running could be fined 500 a day. There are pockets of extreme depravation where they are out of water and jobs. Syrias president Bashar Alassad walked the red carpet receiving an enthusiastic reception an a swearing ceremo ceremony, marking the start of a third term. He refused to character es the conflict in his country has a civil war. Its killed tens of thousandsers displaced millions. And now recruiting foreign fighters. Iraq struggles to form a new government. The Islamic State formerly i. S. I. L. , continues to gain ground with a social media campaign. Brian joins me, counterintelligence research and former director of research at west point. Good to have you here. Syria urges western countries to end their support for the rebels and focus on defeating the Islamic State group. Obama and others sounded the alarm about how concerned they are about western recruitment. This is an example. I was like any other regular canadian. I watched hockey, went to the cottage in summer. Fished, hunted. I liked out doors, i had money, sports, family and good friends. I had colleagues. Its not like i was a social outcast, wasnt like i was an anarchist or somebody that wanted to destroy the world and kill anyone. I was a good person. People. Thats andre. He was a 24yearold canadian who left to fight in syria. He appeals to brothers saying moou handlinga dean are regular people. Is he appealing to the french or the main stream. When you look at terrorists, one of the shocking things about them is they seem like regular people, until they decide to do something violent. Its not just jihadis. They didnt join the Islamic State in syria and iraq. So you know, that framing is not all that surprising. Clearly that is a propaganda video designed to attract other westerners. Folks in western europe. English speakers. That might be tempted to go join, you know, i. S. I. L. Or the Islamic State as they calm themselves. What hes trying to do is basically say look, its okay, even if you dont have training are are not prepared for this environment, i made the leap and you can as well. Unfortunately that is going to hes going to have success with that. Just to be fair, the person on the tape, he wasnt a normal or nice guys, he was arrested twice making. This is something you see with other folks that have joined jihadi organizations, they dabble, looking at an arkists and others. Its not that surprising theres something surprising that when people are drawn to the violent groups, there are two people, one they are attracted to an ideology, they are rejecting the social norms that they are in. Sometimes you see them bounce from one counterculture ideology to another. Thats the case here. You have been following this since 9 11. How does it refer to al qaeda, they posted 40,000 troops as they took mosul. The secondlargest city. Are they more sophisticated. I think the general outlines of the way that these sorts of organizations use social media changed as technology changed. After the invasion of iraq, with the ability to upload large amounts of video, you saw video posted rather than tem online. From there theres a move to foreign websites, where they are back and forth between the organizations and their followers. And with the civil war in syria, it came at a time where twitter and facebook really this taken off. And that is what you see the Islamic State and other militant organizations in syria releasing material through the vectors. What happens there, and what is interesting is that that gives potential followers direct access to people that are on the ground. And, you know, whether its recruitment to any organization, whether its a you know, green peace or, you know, to be a red cross volunteer or to go to iraq to fight, the way you recruit people is to have someone that has been there, done it, stand up and say i was like you, you should join me. You mention on the ground in iraq. Islamic state Group Fighters control large areas in iraq and repelled efforts by the Iraqi Military to take back territory. They are trying to get the home town of tikrit back, and they failed. This goes on as iraq struggles to form a new government. Is i. S. I. L. Gaining power. Yes and no. On the one hand the coalition of sunni groups that has aligned with the Islamic State is entrenching nz the north and west of iraq. The longer that there is a stalemate, the more therell be tensions in the coalition that the Islamic State aligned with. And many groups, whether tribal or other militant networks formed out of military officers, they will not put up with the extreme understanding of sharia for long. The coalition will crack eventually. Both of us should feel honoured or scared. We have been controlled by the Islamic State group. They targeted me. After a show we did earlier, where we talked about glens latest report about the n. S. A. Surveying leaders, i tweeted about that, and they responded with a tweet saying one of your quotes was featured in an i. S. I. S. Congrats on that, i guess. They are paying attention to what is said about them. The question is for what purpose recruitment. Intimidation. At least they called me brother, so im probably coming out better than you. Crusader. You. I think what it shows in these cases is that these folks say they dont care about having an external validation. Its not true. They do want the external validation, and from folks with credentials like mine. The reason they quoted me and my coauthor is we basically said these guys are getting stronger, they are a power in the middle east and we have to deal with them. I. S. I. S. Is saying even the bad guys, reversing to me, believe we are powerful. And its that that they are trying to use to recruit. Its the spectre of them having success on the ground that i think is most dangerous here. The theo logical justifications are weak. Theyve been attacked on those by a huge spectrum of the Muslim Community around the world. What they rest on is that they are advancing on the ground. They have power. Brian, keep tweeting safely. Great talking to you. Good to talk to you. We turn to a threat between a link up between al qaeda and yemen and the Islamic State. They are collaborating with yemeni bombmakers to build explosive device that is can be placed on a laptop, cell phone and carried on a jet plane. Attorneygeneral told the news i think we are at an attention time. Its more frightening than anything i think we have seen. People with the technical know how and people that have a fervor to give their lives in support of a cause directed at the United States, and directed at its allies, and its sl that gives us something that gives us extreme concern. Tim joins me from washington d. C. , a former fbi agent, someone who has conducted counterterrorism investigations in the north and south american. Hes president of a mission. Attorney general eric holder says its a dangerous time. Do you agree. Absolutely, no question. It situation now al qaeda is in the arabian peninsula. There are several hundred since 2009. When you add in al qaeda in iraq, i. S. I. S. , Islamic State in iraq and syria. You have very, very well trained and hardened fighters with incredible hardware. To take the technology and know how and expand it around the western world with the capabilities that aqab is sadding to the picture, secretive bomb making, things secreted in bomb devices. One of the reasons we had the threat, so these this mixing of the smaller Ideological Group in the arabian peninsula, and this warfighting machine in iraq and syria is a terrible threat. The george w. Bush was criticised for failing to heed warnings, and the intelligence chief, of an impending attack two months before 9 11. Are attorney general eric holders warnings as concerning as that or should we not get into the hyperbollizing or fear mongering of. The attorneygeneral is saying what hes saying for a reason. Hes privy to a great deal of intelligence that streams through his office. For him to come out publicly and say what he sis, theres room for concern. The issue that i. S. I. S. Has is that they are prooccupied taking over territory in iraq. They want the region, and i believe theyll march on the border of jordan or saudi arabia next. They are preoccupied. They are not looking to push the influence outside that area. Longterm they would be. I dont know if that means a month or 10 years. The threat is real. What the timetable is i dont think anybody has that intelligence just yet. You mentioned syria. Attorneygeneral holder was having a meeting with european ministers and said the primary focus was 7,000 foreign fighters in syria and iraq and have e. U. And american passports and can travel with impunity. Do we need to track all these people to feel and stay secure . I think we have to. If theres a lesson, the 19 hijackers, coming under student visas and other programs violating videosa and rules and recommendation, staying behind the visas and immigration status that they had, if any, if we dont look at the people with passports that travel in the west. If we dont look at them, they are foreign fighters trained in a ses poll of fillisation. What is civilisation what is going on in i. S. I. S. , with the rapes and sexual jihad in mosul and torturing and killing people that disagree or dont join them. Thats not something we can mitigate. Its not something you can tolerate. This is an ideology that believes women should be subrogated and western regions is haram. We have 7,000 fighters going to syria, we have the Islamic State group in iraq, boko haram, the threat but do we have the it. We have the resources. Whether we want to delegate to this cause is a different story. People have seen the number of years that passed. We are back to a september 10th mentality. We need to realise that the threat never subsided. It has existed and slowly grown up again. The president a couple of years ago was saying al qaeda was on the run. But al qaeda is not the only islamist Extremist Group that the. Islamic state group acquired Nuclear Material from a science lab in mosul. Could material like that be used in a dirty bomb and could it be smuggled on board a plane . To answer the first part of that question. Absolutely. We are not talking about highly enriched uranium. It was a lower level, 2 35 or Something Else taken from a lab. It could have been medical isotopes. We dont know if they took over hospitals and theres radiation samples that they co is taken. The threat of a dirty bomb is ream. Its taking a raid logical element, an isotope and dispersing it with a conventional explosive. Whether they get it on to a plane, im not sure. There are detectors in most we were airports, and the level of explosive, you need a large quantity. But, the last story you discussed about the border if we have that open a border, where tens of thousands of people cross every week, what is to prevent these individuals taking a dirty bomb or the elements cross the border. Airports and governments have been alerted to the possibility of an airborne attack. How much more difficult does it make for alqaeda are and the arabian opinio arabian off. It doesnt harden their intention. It may reroute their plans. If they wanted to come in and attack using an airline, its difficult. If theres ipp tell or word init will or word leaked for assets or signals intelligence, we react like t. S. A. Did, where they asked counterparts around the world to monitor closely Electronic Devices coming in, making sure they were operational and not dummied up, filled with explosives. If we shut down that avenue, it doesnt mean the intentions epd. The bad guys maybe will go to a thirdworld airword where security is not as good or try some other means to quote inside the United States or find another airline. Thank you for your time. Consider this will be right back. Israels invasion of gaza continues tonight. 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Stories that impact the world, affect the nation and touch your life. Im back. Im not going anywhere this time. Only on Al Jazeera America. Are social media stocks another bubble. Fed chief janet yellen gave an ear yes warning, coming in the fed annual monetary report . Not to friendly to facebook and twitter. They felt the effects after her comment. Lets bring in polly. And we are joined by social media producer harmeli aregawi. Lets go to the money. What has been the impact on the market comments. Everything went into the red. Y, lp fell. Everything was going into the red, and stocks closed for the day. This was an immediate impasse, it wasnt close to anything we have seen in the pass. It had a distinct impact. Stocks go up, stocks go down. Facebook is doing better than initially when it came out. Twitter is getting there. Why is she saying they are stretched. Overvalued . We need to look at privately Held Companies that the Public Companies are purchasing. Facebook may not be overvalued. It has fallen from 69. They purchased whats up for 19 billion and are yet to return the profit. Thats where we look at the ov overstretching. The privately Held Companies, that Public Companies are investing in. Harmeli aregawi, what have you seen. Wednesday treasury secretary jack lew asked if it was appropriate for the head of the fed if it was appropriate for her to comment on the stocks. I think it is appropriate for us to comment on policy and friends, not on individual market movements. Polly, how do you interpret lieus comments. What hes getting to is the 1996 comment which we heard. In that he said irrational exuberance. That was a quote. With that shes doing something similar, not putting out facebook and twitter. Shes looking at the market as a whole. For her, in her position, social Media Companies are broad. She may a company with sn intense presence in with the facebook and the twitters, companies on social media. Shes speaking about a trend, not a specific country. That would be appropriate. What about the fact that social media is a relatively new industry, according to estimates from a research firm. Social media and revenue will triple. Participation. It does act for a participation. And for a lot of people they are looking at the ad dollars, the new customers, for her she has to look at profits in real time. Whim people might join, they may fall off. If you look at my space, they adjusted for profits. They were booming and great. They have to look at Market Trends in the past, and how it will change over time. We have seen a lot of spin from social media confinements. A lot are refineded of Alan Greenspans quote that many thought was about the. Com bloom. It was tweeted what are the social media giants saying . Its a good argument that they are making saying look, we are going to change and adapt, and well be as big as banks. Right now we are small. They are growing more rapidly than the tweet shows. They say we are not the banks and tech, but they are growing rapidly. Last year we had 39 biotech companies, the year before, 12. While she said small, its not that small and its boom k, its the biggest growth spurt. You said booming, do we fear a social media burst, the bubble hiperbally. Its hype eshally. We are not seeing anything on the cusp. Five years passed before the. Com bubble went into effect. Its something to remember. Shes not saying pull out your stock. She is saying this is something for us to be aware of and the

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