Vic Eliason manned the microphone for this mid-week, news round-up edition of Crosstalk. Headlines brought up for listener discussion included:

--Sweden offers taxpayer funded benefits to lure alienated jihadists home.

--Australian prime minister closes the door to Muslims who join ISIS.

--The F.B.I. is 'handcuffed' from monitoring Muslim extremists in mosques as a

result of guidelines put out by the U.S. attorney general early this year.

--ISIS Muslims in Palmyra slaughter 9 children.

--Canadians arrest 10 youths suspected of wanting to join ISIS.

--This past year marked the worst level of persecution in modern times.

--Hillary Clinton now willing to let investigators see her e-mails.

--ISIS distributing disturbing photos of well known Roman sites claiming that they

are already present in the capital.

--After years of relative silence, the White House steps up warnings about

terrorists on U.S. soil.