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Radicalization of westerners firsthand, you yourself traveled down that road. how concerned are you about what you're seeing here on the ground and the potential for foreign fighters to go back to europe and the united states? >> well, anderson, i agree with fran, i am very concerned. i think everyone here in europe in terms of security services are very concerned. we have everything up to 400 british born and raised citizens fighting abroad in syria and the surrounding area at this moment in time. we have official estimates about 700 from france, you know and those numbers reach into the thou...

Nevertheless, the syrian government is saying that it wants the united nations to look at these incidents, as well, and possibly stay in the country longer. of course, delaying any sort of report that would come out, anderson. >> fred, is it known how much longer the u.n. team plans to be on the ground? >> reporter: well, the word that we're getting is about another four days. there are still apparently sites they want to look at. we have to keep in mind on tuesday they weren't able to go out because of security concerns. they did apparently get a lot done today in the northeastern part of dam...

>> it's hard to see what the u.s. can do. the question historians will look at is would it have made a difference at the coup and a possibility of restoring morsi or forcing the military not to go down the path. if the u.s. said we're cutting off aid, taking a really blunt unequivocal stance instead of what the obama administration did trying to have it both ways saying we won't cut off aid and accept morsi won't come back but try to be restrained -- >> you used the word coup. administration didn't -- >> they didn't want to use it because it would require cutting off aid in retrospect, hindsig...

Divisions exactly, although i think the question is very, very concerning one. but i do think you have the possibility of the most powerful country in the middle east now being essentially an open battle field in which you could imagine people starting to arm eloquent lm -- elements of the brotherhood and that's frightening -- >> fran, you say that as well? >> i think the sodi's want stabilitily. there are these regional actors playing through their own agendas and i think that fuel as further conflict. >> dangerous days. thank you so much peter, fran, iv ivan, arwa, arwa stay safe. his depa...