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As one cnn senior counter terrorism official told me it s difficult to distinguish who is going to turkey for a beach vacation and who is going there to wage jihad in syria. let me ask phil to weigh in on that. explain what goes into identifying potentially stopping these young people from going into turkey and then sneaking cross the border into syria. well i agree with paul. this has gotten a lot more difficult. simple reason. back ten years ago, for example, you could look at a central node of recruitment, focus your sxwrenls intelligence on that recruitment, relatively small number of people. now when you talk about thousands in iraq and syria you don t have a central node so you have to look at the central media sites. that s a huge effort imperfect and increasingly really interesting, you are seeing security services, police services in places like australia, establish dedicated units in airports saying where s the 15 or 16-year-old with the one way cash ticket. let s talk to ....
Transfer power responsibly. the more damage you do in hanging on. that was three years ago, february 7, 2012. he is still hanging on. yes, he is. unfortunately, there have been an influx of outside support and outside help. we have been talking about foreign fighters. there s been the help of iran hezbollah. that has impacted and boosted up the support. i spent a lot of time with secretary kerry. he feels the same way. there s no place for assad in the future of syria. he is a brutal dictator who killed tens of thousands of his people people. just to be clear, it made it sound like he was willing to negotiate. i think it s important for people to understand what we believe a political negotiation that would require both sides at the table is the way to bring an end to the suffering. it s not a military solution. that s consistently been our position. the israeli elections are tomorrow. ....
Them? well there s growing concern about this, wolf. our viewers of course have seen that video of those british school girls going across over into syria and the worry is this has become the new normal according to western officials, more than 500 western women have traveled to join the jihad in syria and iraq. over there, up to about a fifth of all foreign jihadis are now women. women are traveling with their husbands there, they are traveling to find husbands there. they want to be the mothers of a new generation of jihadis over there. growing concern about this. amidst all of this the u.s. embassy in riyadh saudi arabia has now canceled all consular services they did yesterday, a normal working day, in saudi arabia today as well due to what they are calling heightened security concerns. this is in riyadh saudi arabia. what s going on? you know wolf people often forget it was years ago that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, ....
Has always been the plan that members of the opposition would talk to members of the regime. sure he was shorthanding but it was representatives of the regime. it would be be mutual consent. both 150id both sides would agree who is at the table. that s consistently been our position. the opposition could talk to themselves and that wouldn t produce an outcome that would bring an end to the suffering of the syrian people. as you know in syria, the last few years, more than 200,000 syrians have been killed in this brutal civil war that s been going on. let me play a clip. this is two years ago, susan rice the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. she s now the president s national security adviser, she was on my show. we spoke about her message, what she would say. your days are numbered and it is time and pastime for you to ....
A radio and tv ad campaign targeting mothers in immigrant communities, pleading with them to talk to their children especially their daughters, about the dangers of traveling to syria. the dangers are enormous. they may get there, they may never leave. that s one of the big problems. thanks very much brian, for that. he was certainly tortured tortured by jihadi john and threatened over the time he was being tortured with beheading but a former isis hostage lived to tell the world all about it. he is now giving the inside story of his nightmare. let s go to our justice correspondent pamela brown, for more. this is the first time we are hearing from a former isis hostage about these gruesome details of daily physical and psychological torture at the hands of the man known as jihadi john. this former hostage is just now giving his bone-chilling account of his six months in captivity after being released by isis a year ago. reunited with his son in spain, javier espinosa finally saw ....