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On the pictures, the apparently secular life she lived, that also is a very common thing for supporters of the islamic state and people who fight for it. a lot of them, they seem to have lived, shall we say, sinful lives in the eye of conservative muslims, and then have come around and repented. and you know, i've spoken to islamic state supporters about this, and i've asked them, do you think this discredits your people? and they say no. they say the companions of the prophet muhammad himself were sinful people and they turned around. so, i think a lot of people who join the group, including ...

Eighteenth draggth dragged out for hours, people hiding in the hotel, the terrorists going for ransom. and that's a pattern we've seen from groups based in the north, this pattern of hostage-taking, of asking for ransom. certainly, you'll hear the name of the group ansar dine. i think we'll be saying that a lot more in the next 24 hours. so, this fits in with what we've been seeing unfolding in mali in the past sort of three to six months, certainly a ramping up. this, as you just laid out, chris, really a target of opportunity, a target where lots of diplomats are, a gathering place for weste...

Now. they have been involved there but we have seen a rise in suicide attacks. even just this year, the situation is is far from under criminal. as you point out, now it's not just al qaeda affiliated groups, but groups with isis. in terms of who was there this morning, the employee telling me that they were dressed casually. so he said jeans, checkered shirts, baseball caps. now again, he saw two of the shooters. we know there were more. the two shooters he saw is how he described what they were doing. i have one more thing. he had an ak isn't from the north. >> the north of mali? >> which wo...

We are many hours into this crisis in mali, an ongoing hostage situation where attackers went in, guns firing, by one estimate ten of them, but it's still unclear exactly how many people are being held inside. three people reported dead. let me bring in sean hennry who served as an executive assistant director of the fbi, now president and chief security officer of crowd strike services. thanks very much. as we've been talking, there's been a report that an al qaeda-affiliated group is claiming responsibility for the attack on twitter. we have no confirmation of that, but does that tell you an...

Malaysia is a large muslim country. so this is not about wednesday versus islam. this is about the world and a group of terrorists and terrorist ideology that is spreading a lot of copycat, a lot of cells connected to each other. this is why this is a network we have to go after. no one incidents including secretary clinton yesterday who laid out a broad strategy to deal with this. we all have to think in those terms. >> obviously this has changed the entire tenor of the presidential cam pan and certainly has changed the priorities of american voters. there are critics who have said that what ...