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| Clinton and Sanders to address Isis threat in wake of Paris attacks – live | Clinton and Sanders to address Isis threat in wake of Paris attacks – live |
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| 3.54pm GMT15:54 | |
| Clinton moves on to disrupting international terror cells, saying that although there’s been a lot of conversation about Isis in the last week, al-Qaida remains the most sophisticated network. | |
| “Most urgent is stopping the flow of foreign fighters to and from the Middle East,” she says. “Their western passports make it easier for htem to cross borders and eventually to return home radicalized and battle-hardened.” | |
| She says information sharing is a high priority, as is getting Turkey to “finally lock down its border”. | |
| “We also have to be smart and target interventions that have the greatest impact,” using people smugglers and Isis transporters as an example. | |
| 3.52pm GMT15:52 | |
| “We cannot deal with Iran and Isis as two separate” questions, Clinton continues, saying that regional politics amount to US national security interests. | |
| Raising the cost to Iran for bad behavior will contribute to a more effective fight against Isis. | |
| She says the US needs to redouble its commitment to allies to send the message that “the time for delay is over, we should get this done” – a rebuke to Obama’s reluctance to intervene in Syria. | |
| 3.50pm GMT15:50 | |
| She says greater cooperation with the Turks, including arms and intelligence, is necessary to resolving the Syrian civil war and defeating Isis. | |
| Countries like Jordan have offered more and frankly we should take them up on it. Our efforts will only succeed if the Arabs and Turks step up. … | |
| So far Turkey has been more focused on the Kurds than countering Isis, and to be fair Turkey has a long and painful history [with the Kurds], | |
| We need to get Turkey to stop bombing Kurdish fighters in Syria who are battling Isis, and become a full partner in our coalition efforts against Isis. | |
| 3.49pm GMT15:49 | |
| Clinton moves on to Syria, saying that although she supports Obama’s line that the nation requires a political transition away from Assad, it also needs greater military intervention. | |
| “The viable Sunni opposition groups remain understandably preoccupied with fighting Assad, who let us remember has killed many more Syrians than the terrorists have,” she says. | |
| “We should retool and ramp up our efforts to sppotr and equip viable Syrian opposition units. Our increased support should go hand in hand with our increased support from our Sunni and Arab coalition forces. | |
| We should also work with the opposition and our allies to enforce no-fly zones. | |
| She adds that special forces could be involved in the war, and says that “Russia and Iran have to fess up” that supporting Assad is making things worse. | |
| “There is an important role for Russia to help,” she says, immediately after calling out Vladimir Putin by name. “There is no alternative to a political transition that allows Syrians to [continue under] Assad’s rule.” | |
| 3.46pm GMT15:46 | |
| Clinton says the US can and should support regional forces, even though “the Iraqi national army has struggled, and its going to take more work to get them up to shape.” | |
| She says American forces may need “Greater mobility and flexibility” including embedding with Iraqi unites. Even so, she continues, it will take Sunnis to come together to fight back, as they did during the Iraqi civil war. | |
| But those militias were “betrayed” by former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, she says. “Baghdad needs to accept, even embrace, arming Sunni and Kurdish forces in the war against Isis. But if Baghdad won’t do that, the coalition should do so directly.” | |
| 3.43pm GMT15:43 | |
| She says her strategy has three main points. | |
| The first prong of the streagy “Starts with a more effective coalition campaign”, involving more bombing and greater intelligence. “Arab speakers with deep expertise in the Middle East” and stronger partnerships. “Our goal should be to achieve the penetration” that the US managed “with al-Qaida in the past”. | |
| An air campaign is necessary but insufficient, she continues, but “like president Obama I do not believe we should again have 100,000 troops in combat in the Middle East. That is just not the smart” option. | |
| 3.41pm GMT15:41 | |
| “At the heart” of modern terrorism is Isis, Clinton continues. | |
| A physical enclave in Iraq and Syria, an international terrorist network that includes affiliates across the region and beyond, and an ideological movement of radical jihadism. We have to target and defeat all three.” | |
| She says “our goal is not to contain and deter Isis” but to defeat and destroy Isis, a backhand at remarks last week by Barack Obama. She says the US must also “pursue the long-game”, involving a “generational struggle against an ideology with deep roots.” | |
| “This is a worldwide fight and America must lead it.” | |
| 3.39pm GMT15:39 | |
| Hillary Clinton takes the podium, beginning her speech. | |
| “I wanted to come here to our city which has shown such resilience in the face of terrorism to talk about the events of the last week,” Clinton begins. | |
| “Our allies treated that attack against one as an attack against all. Now it’s our turn.” | |
| She says we face the same adversaries, and must show the same determination. | |
| “Every society faces a choice between fear and resolve. The world’s great democracies can’t turn our backs on those in need.” | |
| 3.34pm GMT15:34 | |
| Hillary Clinton is due any minute on stage in New York, where CNN’s Jeff Zeleny and my colleague Lauren Gambino (@lgamgam) are in the room waiting. | |
| The stage is set at Council on Foreign Relations on Upper East Side for @HillaryClinton to deliver #ISIS speech. pic.twitter.com/gUFEAm08Tc | |
| Updated at 3.34pm GMT | |
| 3.22pm GMT15:22 | |
| Donald Trump would not rule out tracking Muslim Americans in a database or giving them “a special form of identification that noted their religion”, Yahoo news reports in a long interview with the Republican presidential candidate. | |
| “We’re going to have to do things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago,” Trump said. “Some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule.” | |
| He said he would consider warrantless searches of Muslims and increased surveillance of mosques. “Certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy.” | |
| “We’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump said. “We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.” | |
| Earlier this week Trump suggested police surveillance of Mosques, and praised a controversial program by the NYPD to spy on Muslims as “great”. He said he would consider former NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly, who led that program, for a cabinet position. | |
| Updated at 3.28pm GMT | |
| 2.56pm GMT14:56 | 2.56pm GMT14:56 |
| Hello and welcome to a busy day in American politics. | Hello and welcome to a busy day in American politics. |
| Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and her biggest rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, are due to lay out competing plans to defeat Islamic State extremists in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. Sanders has also promised to explain to voters what he means by his self-declared philosophy of democratic socialism. | Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and her biggest rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, are due to lay out competing plans to defeat Islamic State extremists in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. Sanders has also promised to explain to voters what he means by his self-declared philosophy of democratic socialism. |
| The Republican frontrunners are rambling through key states trying to nudge each off the top of the polls. Ben Carson is in Alabama, meeting with voters before an afternoon event, and Donald Trump is holding a rally and town hall in Iowa. Among the 12 other candidates, ascendent senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have sparred over military spending, and former governor Jeb Bush is pressing hawkish opinions about war in the Middle East. | The Republican frontrunners are rambling through key states trying to nudge each off the top of the polls. Ben Carson is in Alabama, meeting with voters before an afternoon event, and Donald Trump is holding a rally and town hall in Iowa. Among the 12 other candidates, ascendent senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have sparred over military spending, and former governor Jeb Bush is pressing hawkish opinions about war in the Middle East. |
| The stump speeches and major policy announcements promise an eclectic day: the bickering of election season along with serious questions reflecting a troubled world. The Democrats will announce their foreign policy plans only hours after France confirmed that a ferocious police raid in Paris killed Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected organizer of last week’s horrific terrorist attack in the city. | The stump speeches and major policy announcements promise an eclectic day: the bickering of election season along with serious questions reflecting a troubled world. The Democrats will announce their foreign policy plans only hours after France confirmed that a ferocious police raid in Paris killed Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected organizer of last week’s horrific terrorist attack in the city. |
| And Republicans will argue about extremism and religion as governors around the US resist accepting Syrian refugees. Barack Obama has criticized the governors for their “offensive and hysterical” reactions to the refugee crisis, and promised to veto a bill that would increase screening on top of the year the US already requires. Here’s how the day is due to unfold: | And Republicans will argue about extremism and religion as governors around the US resist accepting Syrian refugees. Barack Obama has criticized the governors for their “offensive and hysterical” reactions to the refugee crisis, and promised to veto a bill that would increase screening on top of the year the US already requires. Here’s how the day is due to unfold: |
| Somewhere in there, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to approve a measure aimed to block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entry to the US without a strict background check. (Barack Obama has said he will veto it.) My colleagues Ben Jacobs and David Smith will be up on Capitol Hill with the latest. | Somewhere in there, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is expected to approve a measure aimed to block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entry to the US without a strict background check. (Barack Obama has said he will veto it.) My colleagues Ben Jacobs and David Smith will be up on Capitol Hill with the latest. |
| Meanwhile, follow along for all of that plus more from the other candidates on the trail. | Meanwhile, follow along for all of that plus more from the other candidates on the trail. |
| Updated at 3.26pm GMT |