From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer.?President Obama says there is a strong message from?the?bipartisan senate voted to arm and train Syrian rebels in the fight against?the?militant group, the Islamic State.Mr. Obama saying while the group may think it can intimidate US?will be?headed to terrorist?acts.In fact, it's achieving the opposite goal.?With their barbaric murder of two Americans, these terrorists thought they could frighten usor intimidate us or cause us to shrink from the world,but today they are learning the same hard lesson of petty tyrants and terrorists who have gone before,as Americans we do not give in to fear,and when you harm our citizens, when you threaten the United States, when you threaten our allies,it doesn't frighten us; it unites us.Speaking in the White House after today's vote, Obama said airstrikes against the militants would continue in both Iraq and Syria.He again said US forces will not have a combat role on the ground.?UN Security Council is expressing alarm about the spread of Ebola,urging all countries to provide health experts in western Africa to combat the virus.NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on a rare Security Council meeting on?a?health issue.?The US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, says the resolution that passed unanimously in the Security Council is a call to action.?We've called on all nations to take swift and decisive action to contain the further threat of Ebolaand we've declared the current outbreak?a threat to international peace and security.The head of the World Health Organization just described the Ebola outbreak as the greatest?peace time challenge that the UN and its agencies have ever faced.
