Mauro: After Paris, Russian Airliner, ISIS Now Boasting It’s ‘Stronger than Ever’
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PRANN: "This is a Fox News alert. We're following the story coming out of Paris 24 hours removed from the Paris attacks upon that city. Do the Paris attacks indicate that ISIS has entered a deadly new phase? Project security analysis Ryan morrow and director of the Margaret thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us. Ryan, I want to start with you. This is obviously a new chapter. What can you tell us from a social media standpoint? What is the reaction like from pro-isis groups? Are they themselves craving reaction from Muslim groups?
MAURO: "There's a few different reactions. They are very enthusiastic over the fact there's an increase in the quality of the attacks between the Russian airliner being blown up and then this attack. ISIS can argue now one year after U.S. Military operations have begun, they are stronger than ever. And then the second thing that they're focusing on is they're telling muslims in Europe, get ready for an anti-muslim backlash. Barricade yourself in your homes because infidels hate you. They want Muslims to lose between the west or ISIS. Two camps."
PRANN: "Do you agree with that? Do you feel like these terrorists are getting momentum after this?"
GARDINER: "Well, there's no doubt about it. This was a huge operation by ISIS. Arguably, the most advanced, sophisticated terrorist operation since the 9/11 attacks. And the skies are being dramatically raised here. Without a doubt, ISIS posed a huge threat. Also, across Europe and Britain, for example. There are several thousand islamist militants. And several hundred return from the battleground of Iraq and Syria. On the str of London, Paris as well, so the scale of the threat is absolutely huge. Let's be very clear here. We're now facing a truly global war against ISIS. This is a war that we have to take to the enemy. We have to fight them on the streets of Europe in the middle East, in north Africa. Wherever ISIS is found, we have to defeat them."
PRANN: "Ryan, I think you would agree when we say this is a global war. What kind of copy cat threat could we all be faced with? Relative speaking, this was a small group of terrorists who did an unbelievable amount of damage."
MAURO: "It's a small group, but it's still larger than what we had seen. ISIS has moved beyond to inspire a couple of guys to carry out an attack on their own initiative from orchestrating plots. There's a few different dangers here. The first, individuals who actually are part of coordinating plots say they want their name to be part of the story, and they want to raise the stakes even further. So they're going to try to attack on their own initiative. There are also those who say I might be on the radar, arrested before and come into contact with someone I thought was an intelligence agency for an enemy government. So I should strike and earn my ticket into paradise by dying before the feds come knocking on my door and arresting me and stopping me from doing so."
PRANN: "Only about 30 seconds left. I want to give you the last word, nile. The Iron Lady, what would her reaction to be to this attack?"
GARDINER: "Margaret thatcher would have been of tremendous resolve. Her central message was you cannot negotiate with terrorists. You cannot appease them. To have to destroy them. We have to see an end to the kind of leading from behind mentality that the White House is currently projecting, the kind of strong leadership that Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan projected on the world stage and the emphatic destruction of those who are fighting at the moment. Those who seek out destruction, emphatically destroy them."
PRANN: "Very strong language from a very strong leader. Nile, Ryan, thank you both for joining us today. We appreciate."
