was not part of the talks yesterday. >>> ali soufan is a supervisory special agent and investigated manyluding the attack on the "uss cole." he is a member of the soufan group. talk about how the investigation is unfolding. police say they don't have evidence to trace it back to isis. >> it's interesting the suspect is a tunisian. you know, tunisians represent the largest national contingency in isis from all of the foreign fighters, thousands of them come from tunisian becomes. also if you look into europe, there are beds of them around th most of these people come from north africa. many of them come from tunisia. what we see this attack is different than what we saw with the anice attack. it's a truck that killed people. but also at the same time, this is way more complicated. so somebody actually hijacked a truck, they killed the driver, first with a knife and then allegedly they shot him. they kept the body in the car. and then they used the truck as a weapon. that's a level complexity that we did not see before in different places. >> you think that reflects greater planning? >> th

coming up on "cbs this morning," we will speak with ali soufan about the berlin attack. >>> as they search for clues in the brazened assassination of russian's ambassador to turkey they are trying to determine if the gunman acted alone or had help. holly williams reports. >> reporter: by the way, andrey karlov body sent home to rush and his wife bowed over by grief. karlov was killed by a 22-year-old turkish police officer apparently in revenge for russian's intervention in the deadly conflict. several people have now reportedly been detained as the turk irk authorities investigate. it follows a string of deadly bombings in turkey, many of them connected with the syrian war. moscow's air strikes have helped the syrian regime win back the city of aleppo, but the cost has been counted in syrian lives. tens of thousands have been forced to flee. rusch and turkey are on opposite sides in the syrian even a warming between turkey and russia won't stop syria's bloodshed from spilling over its borders. a team of russian investigators has now arrived in turkey. they and the turks want to know wheth

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. >> ali good to see you, my friend. he's a ceo of the soufan group. president-elect trump spoke in the last hour. lets play more of his comments moments ago at margot largo. [ inaudible ] >> have you talked to president obama at all? >> two days ago. >> your comments about the town of berlin being against christian is, do you think that this may -- >> say it again, what? >> the attack in berlin attacking of christians. >> i believe you said it in a press release. >> i am still wondering how this may affect muslims? >> it is an attack on humanity. that's what it is. and, it is got to be stopped, thank you. >> halie jackson is back with us. the trump people put out a statement that it was an attack on christians. he did not know that he actually said that. >> now he's saying it is an attack on humanity. >> that was actually one of the even other headlines of that 30 seconds here. there are a couple of thing -- i know that was difficult to hear. we had a transcript of what he said. i want to highlight a couple of things. he was asked about his plan to cr

. >>> ali sufan investigated many terrorism cases including the east africa embassy bombings, the attack on the uss cole and the events before and after 9/11. he's now ceo of the soufan >> let's talk about how this investigation is unfolding. police say they don't have enough evidence to connect this back to isis, but the suspect was known. what do you make of that? >> first of all, it is interesting that the suspect is a tunisian. as you know, tunisians represent the largest national contingency in isis, from all the foreign fighters, 6,000 of them come from tunisian backgrounds. also, if you look into europe, there are hotbeds of extremism, especially in belgium and france and other places on the continent. most of the people come from north africa. many of them come from tunisia. now, what we see with this attack is something a little bit different than what we saw with the nice attack. it looks -- it is a truck. and killed people. but also in the same time, this is way more complicated. so somebody actually hijacked a truck, they killed the driver, first with a knife and then allegedly they shot him, they kept the body in the car, and then as they use the truck a