Ordered, planned and funded attacks in paris. Al qaeda in yemen is considering the most lethal terrorist organization. Yemen is almost a failed state. The new afghanistan. Radicalization was nothing like in france. The United States does not have a large disgruntled radicalized Muslim Community. Changes to find individuals on the fridge gs of the communicate fringes of the communicate i why. A court ruled a teenager must under go chemotherapy. Efforts to rebuild in haiti are hampered by corruption. The political situation is as it was yesterday chaos. Glen close and her sister tell their story about the struggle with Mental Illness. The fact that shes here is a testament of her strength we begin with allegations of a threat to the u. S. Home lpd as al qaeda claims responsibility for attacks on the Charlie Hebdo in paris. 20yearold Christopher Lee cornell has been accused of planning to attack the u. S. Capital with fight bombs and then fleeing the scene. Fbi contacted Christopher Lee cornell after he posted messages on facebook and posted messages on twitter. He wrote meanwhile a leader of al qaeda in the arabian a. Q. A. P. A. Q. A. P. , took credit for the Charlie Hebdo attacks. He said . An americanborn cleric was said to have made the arrangements to carry out the attack, anwar alawlaki, who was killed by a drone attack. A. Q. A. P. Is a dangerous affiliate in terms of external noting outside of a region where they are located. A french newspaper is reporting that a search is under way for a fourth suspect believed to have been connected with the Kosher Grocery attack. Im joined by jeremy scai hill, reporter for the intercept, good to have you on the show. You spent a lot of time in yemen. You reported before the claim that al qaeda a source of yours in a. Q. A. P. Told you that they were claiming responsibility. We know the brothers, as they killed all these people claimed to be doing it on a. Q. A. P. s orders. It. We have a definitive claim that they were behind the attack. They directed the attack. We dont have evidence to support that they played that significant of a role. One of the brothers had training. We know that a. Q. A. P. Did this. We know that one of them told the french journalist that they were doing this op behalf of a. Q. A. P. And they received financing. If we look at history, and how a. Q. A. P. Would take responsibility for an attack of this nature. We are in the first phase of a multi phased process. What happens is theyd release a martyr video as in relation to the underwear bomber. Until we have that, all we can prove is theres a lot of spoke around the idea of a. Q. A. P. , but not fire. We have i. S. I. L. Claiming responsibility, and we know that Amedy Coulibaly, the man that carried out the attacks at the kosher supermarket said he was working on i. S. I. L. s behalf and claimed to coordinate with the kouachi brothers, with home he had a longstanding relationship. What do you make of i. S. I. L. s claim. We need to separate these into two plots. And realise Something Interesting happened when a. Q. A. P. Put out this statement. He said that we were not behind the kosher market attack. It was a coincidence, but we support that. Theres internal politics. A. Q. A. P. And i. S. I. S. Are fighting over prem si, who is the premiere jihadist. I. S. I. L. Is a bigger deal. Part of what the sheikh was doing is saying we like this attack, we dont want to give the message to followers that we are in league with i. S. I. S. I. S. I. S. Is more willing to let people use their brand to commit acts of terrorism. Aq a. P. Doesnt lend out its name and will own. Coordinate. Im not convinced they didnt coordinate. We have to look at this differently. We know they knew each other. I do not believe that they did. This is a combination of i. S. I. S. Letting the guy go to the bank with this, it will mep their imaging, a. Q. A. P. Has some involvement. These guys knew each other, and theres home grown aspect. Coulis bali appears to have purchased his weapons from a man, some used in the attack on charles consider. Charlie hebdo. Theres a lot of speculation. You have to be careful on what you can or cant prove. Theres a lot indicating that a. Q. A. P. Had some involvement. And the pact that Amedy Coulibaly pledged allegiance to the amir, abu bakr albaghdadi. We see evidence of revving up of a fear machine. Listening to what you say, does the tension raise concerns, this they are trying to oneup each west. I dont mean to dismiss the idea that terrorism represents a threat, and more so inside of yemen. Most victims are arabs, muslims, not puppets of the west. What alshabab does in somali. What is happening in iraq, in yemen, in nigeria, with boko haram. Its not that theres no threat. We are afraid of the power of nightmares, inspire magazine is english. Anwar alawlaki spoke english. The west is not used to these terror hits. I fear well go overboard with a problem that doesnt warrant cracking down on Civil Liberties, rounding up those that support the ideas of i. S. I. L. And al qaeda. We need a smarter policy. It begins with looking at at role in projecting a message to the world that we are at war with islam. There are concerns that what we are doing is not working. Here you had guys that should have been on the radar, and were at one point, but they fell off. It. You had me on the show some time ago when we revealed the guidelines for a programme that the u. S. Government has. What i heard from antiterrorism people is that they are droining in inspiration. When everyone is on the list, no one is on the list. When you round up populations of people, how do you figure out who is the real threat. Information. Not wanting to be a part of fear. This is the kind offing we have been warned about since 9 11. That there could be sleeper cells in the United States and europe. Assuming that everything that we have so far believed to have learnt about the guys being involved. They seem to fit the definition of a sleeper cell. I think you are right. Given your experience, and your contacts across the world in a shadowy world. I think well see more of this, smallscale attacks. These organizations are not flush with cash. They dont have militaries. The way they strike at western society is to conduct the operations garnering huge headlines, and force the United States and others to overreact. Go to an airport. Post 9 11. Some things make sense. Some things are crazy. I think that al qaeda and these groups win when we allow Civil Liberties to be eroded. Its a matter of time before we are hit like this. Why . We are fighting an asymmetric war. We embrace strategies to defeat them. Its backfiring on us. Because of the drone attacks. Im not making equivalence. We have chosen to declare war against groups that dont operate under the nation state flag. We have engaged in torture and rendition. We are fighting an asymmetric war that is not necessarily of the u. S. s choosing, but they embraced it. The reality is the same way palestinians have limited ability to fight back, and they have suicide bombings, rock throwing, al qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula will try to hit vulnerable targets and maximise the impact. If we overreact, giving them authority to say we have you guys imprisoned in your own minds. The ideas we lose out on. The chaos in yemen will give more power to a. Q. A. P. Its not that they are in control of clarmg swathe are of yemen, no one is. A. Q. A. P. Is settled where they are. Its amazing how the u. S. Kills a tremendous amount of people in yemen, but not the leadership. A lot say yemen is the new afghanistan. Good to see you we turn to report claiming the attacks in paris may have been planned as long as three years ago and financed with 20,000 from al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The killers were Second Generation muslim immigrants to france, leaving many to ask if communities in the u. S. Face similar pressures, and if the same thing could happen here. Im joined by baltimore, the National President of the muslim mens association. In 2009 he was awarded the president ial Service Award by president obama for work with muslim youth. Im joined by berkeley by stooep fish, author of are muslims distinctive, a look at the evidence. I want to play you something that the member of the Homeland Security committee said, and get your reaction. Our Muslim Community, except for a small percentage patriotic americans, part of the mainstream. I take it that you think that is a fair description. If a miniscule percentage of the 7 million muslims in the u. S. Pose a danger, how concerned should we be . Exactly. I agree with the statement. In the Muslim Community we work with the muslim youth from the aim of 70 to 40. Our youth were meeting the french giving condolences wearing muslim for peace shirts. Thats where we stand and where the maiming juniority of communities is. The problems exist. The children are sandwiched between two strong rhetorics. They see a strong antiislam rhetoric in the muslim, a bashing of their faith, and they come home and here antiamerican rhetoric from their immigrant parents who are really detesting the wars. And American Foreign policy. That is is the danger. Creating unstableness for the teenager and they become vulnerable. You found they are similar to the population as a whole and theres differences to the way muslim immigrants are treated in the United States and accepted here and the experience in france and other organizations. In general, yes, its easier to be a muslim in the United States than some european countries. Generally speaking muslims view the United States as more congenial to live than in some countries of europe. America, being a nation of immigrants, embraces multiculturalism. One can be ara paying speaking, chinese, mandarin and other languages, and still be american. Germany has an ethnic notion of citizenship and belonging. In france theres a push to asame late immigrants populations rather than embrace multiculturalism. Theres differences as well. The netherlands tends to embrace multiculturalism like the United States. Conditions differ across countries. In general, the United States embraces multiculturalism that makes life easier for immigrant europe. The muslim communicate ci is varied from 77 countries. Its more closer knit in european countries. Theres an article in the national review, arguing that as the numbers increase in america, so does the possibilities that some american muslims will join terrorist groups. The number of muslims living in america doubled from 50,000 to 100,000 a year. Dr eunice, does that growing Muslim Community in america increase the terrorist threat . Yes. I think i disagree with that. That implies that theres inherent problems with islam, and, therefore, we should be worried about the trend. I disagree. Its an ideaologicalelement. There are people that condone blasphemy and apost offy laws and say you can not be loyal. The ideologies, viruses have to be eliminated, and once you do that numbers will not matter. You can expand and go to any sale. Within the community we have seen that. A group is established in a number of countries, we dont see it, we address it earlier on. The question about numbers is what people raise. Look at deer born michigan, 40 is muslim. They have more people on the federal terrorism watch list that any city besides new york. Professor fish, do you think that that does suggest that numbers matter . Not necessarily. I actually dont believe that numbers matter all that much. I suppose strictly in mathematical terms one could say if the number of immigrants from france were to double, the danger of crimes committed by french people or people of french extraction in the United States would go up. It doesnt make sense to me. We wouldnt expect french people to commit crimes disproportionately. Similarly we have a large Muslim Population in the United States, and fortunately had little terrorism. Very little islamist terrorism in the United States. 9 11 was not committed for the most part by american citizens who were born and raised in the United States. We had a terrorist incident, the Boston Marathon bombing committed by people who lived in the United States for some time. But, you know, again, this is one accident. We go back several decades and theres little islamist terrorism in the United States. Its remarkable when you consider how easy it is to commit acts of terrorism. Throwing a handmade bomb into a storar Shopping Mall is easy. The professor raises an issue of what generation the extremists could come from. In france the latest text came from second general agency, brothers blamed for the Boston Marathon bombings, as are the alona 6 and others. Is it terrorists who seem to be parents . Its the chipping of immigrants that have the challenge of forging that identity. Its their challenge to be muslims or americans. The ground reality, root causes have to be looked at. Muslims in america faces more discriminations between blacks and l. G. B. T. Groups. When you compound the trend with the Foreign Policy and war, you add an internet sanctioner. Some radical. About. Large scale terrorism is mostly an islamist issue worldwide. You found that muslim countries as a whole are less violent than the world average. Thats right, i broke violence into several categories. One is murder rates, looking at common crime, murder. We have good Cross National data, and i found murder rates are lower in predominantly muslim countries than else where. I looked at mass political violence, finding theres no difference between muslims and nonmuslims. When it comes to terrorism, over the last couple of decades, groups that speak for islam are crossley disproportionate. Its important to remember that often terror acts committed in the west are not committed by muslims. The boston bombings were committed by young mean that could not the first sera of the koran. Thats commonly the case with terrorists. We identify terrorists with longbearded pious muslims, but it you look at them, often they are people that know nest to nothing about their faith. Learning something about islam does not appear to be a problem. People that know more might be less likely to commit acts of terrorism. Thats important keep in mind. Thank you both for joining us. Its good to have your consider this will be right back. Theres more to finical news than the ups and downs of the dow. For instance, could striking workers in greece delay your retirement . Im here to make the connections to your money real. A 17yearold kek girl has been forced to receive chemotherapy to fight a form of cancer. Its against her mother will and her own. Cassandra refused chemotherapy and fled the state after take twoing treatments ordered taking two treatments ordered by a lower court. She came back after her mother was threatened with arrest. She told the hart ford newspaper for more, im joined from hartford by an assistant public defender and cassandra cs attorney. I want to start by asking how kaz apped ra is doing cassandra is doing. She complained that shes locked in the hospital, her mother has limited visiting. I cant give details, its a juvenile case, but its accurate. She has less freedom of movement detention. She has hodgkins lymphoma, a form of cancer with a cure rate of 80 . Her mother hearing. My daughter made a decision that she does not want chemicals, poisons, put into her body, does that mean she wants to die . Absolutely not. Does that mean im going to let her die . Absolutely not. Given the curate of hodgkins lymphoma, why reject the treatment . I mean, the point as far as i see it and the legal issue is not why, but can anyone. If she was 8. 5 months older, kazzant ra could. You could, i could. That was really the question, was not why, but more the idea that everyone has the freedom to decide about their open body connecticut assistant attorneygeneral john kentucky said do cassandra and her mother have a ladies and gentlemen mate alternative to chemotherapy . Well, they have talked about exploring alternative treatments, and while you or i or anyone might think its foolish in that circumstance, and maybe it is. But the point is if she was an adult she would. I could explore alternative treatments, i could do no treatment. Thats the point im pushing. Maybe its a bad decision, but its hers to make. You argued that the court should give control. 17 states not including connecticut allows minors to make their own decisions, but cole cassels fled after swearing to take the chemo, and this is what the chief justice of the court in connecticut had to say. Cassandra either intentionally misrepresented her wishes to the trial court or changed her mind op life and death. Her conduct supports junk equips finding that the respondents failed to prove that cassandra was a mature minor under any standards. Do you think you would have had a case if fled. It would have been a difficult case. We were dealing with a new legal theory. We didnt have good evidence or present the case as well as we might have if we had foreseen all of this. We didnt bring in other testimony. We ask the Supreme Court to give us the chance. To spend the case back to present more evidence. Can you pursue them. It is open. I think we can. I dont think the Supreme Court foreclosed that as a question of connecticut law. It focused on the evidence before them and ba