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Its precursor to hezbollah took an active hand in the killing of the marines in the barracks in beirut . Or had a participation in support of. I think thats true, mr. Chairman, but i dont have the personal knowledge to give that answer to you with knowledge. I chose those questions and ill summarize, mr. Chairman because 308 years ago, they iran clearly was promoting activities on the streets of beirut, including kidnapping and so on. This is when they were a fiveyearold government. 20 years ago americans died for sure, no small part because of irans hand. Ten years ago, americans were dying. ...

One of the first things thats evident in any coalition that while states have come together usually sharing a desire to achieve a common purpose, achieving common values and common interest. Seldom will those states in that process subordinate their personal or their National Interest. So National Interests will continue to be important to the individual members of the state. Of the coalition. We have achieved i think, in a relatively short time a remarkable consensus within the coalition. Ultimately for the defeat of daesh. That really that really was a very impressive effort i think on the p...

The second session will begin and we will introduce the second panel. As alpas chief executive and administrati officer, the captain presides over the body and oversees daily operations. The chair recognizes the captain to testify. Good morning, mr. Chairman and congressman payne. I am president of the Airline Pilots association international, and we represent more than 52,000 pilots that fly for 31 passenger and all cargo flights in the United States and canada. Thank you for inviting me here today. For several decades pilots have had a strong relationship with the federal air Marshal Service...

Worked very hard to manage those alignments so it doesnt create too great a tension. As time goes on, ive seen greater congruence in our views, not less. If i could follow one piece, you did mention that youre just back from ankara, the role and the relationship with turkey has been complicated, its been vital, its been seen as quite tense at times. It seems youre quite optimistic right now. So, one of my questions there, you see, for example, the kurdish being an effective force fighting within syria, but again, this is sort of just to get to one area where there are differences potentially d...

And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a co...