first, context of anwar al awlaki, the papers have had a big profile of anwar al awlaki and a lot ofat is being said about anwar al awlaki in the media is sort of what stephen colbert called truthiness. it is sort of true, but there are tremendous factual inaccuracies that are actually very relevant to understanding any pitcher to roll -- potential role played by anwar al awlaki. anwar al awlaki was an american citizen born in the u.s., his father was a very well respected -- is still alive -- respected yemeni diplomat and scholar who got his masters degree in the united states andd intended to live in the u.s. -- >> he was a fulbright scholar. >> yes. you remains a very dignified, respected member of yemeni society -- >> anwar al awlaki's father. >> yes. the families here for some years. anwar al awlaki goes back to yemen because is a water specialist engineer and helped tried to help with the lack of potable water. the family members go back. he goes to an elite school with the future head of yemen's intelligence agency who would be one of the main collaborators with u.s. in trying

and i was the only one, anwar, he trusted to deliver or give him anything. i even anwar a wife.id any of your agents manage to send him a wife? >> cnn has not authenticated the recordings. the meeting ends when michael leaves without saying good-bye. storm believes his spying career is over. >> that must have been an incredibly hard moment. >> yes, it was hard, because i like these people quite a lot. and what i did -- >> three years later, this is still hard? >> it's very hard. >> the blow-up here is a turning point. trust between martin and the cia, if it ever existed, will never be the same again. the very next day, a defiant martin storm pulls into this roadway restaurant near copenhagen. he is bitter and has arranged to meet newspaper reporter caston elguard at sunset. >> he said, we'll take a mobile phone and put it in your car. >> storm doesn't want to be recorded. he is still thinking like a spy, yet he is about to blow his cover. >> i showed him my passports. he looked at them. and i told him, this is what happened. >> storm wants elguard to tell the world that the cia

altalk anwar anwar anwar al-awlaki. what do we know about him and communications that may have transpired with him or anyone else in the group, or those abroad? >> well what we know is that there is confusion with regards to the kouachi brothers. were both of them in yemen, or one of them. we spoke to senior yemeni officials. two days after the attack a senior yemen... somewhere around july. now, we understand... the government a saying things that it meant. anwar al-awlaki was killed in strikes in september. but the brothers left then. we think with anwar al-awlaki he is described by the u.s. security sources that he is theman influence and propagandist for the group. and an online magazine calling on europeans to act - he was the person behind it. he is the pain inspiring force with the guide. however, as far as officials are concerned. linking anwar al-awlaki the suspicion of the two were influenced by anwar al-awlaki. >> all right. thank you very much for shedding more light opt claims as you say. he died in a c.i.a

assuming that kouachi met the anwar al awlaki who led aqap external operations. it would have been just months before awlaki was killed in a u.s. drone strike. the u.s. is also trying to determine if kouachi may have even met with ibrahim al aseery. kouachi may have received some bomb-making training. with a french passport and the ability to return to europe he was a prime aqap recruiting target. >> there are a thousand questions here that an intelligence professional is going to have to sift through in the coming weeks. we haven't even hit the tip of the iceberg yet. >> reporter: u.s. officials believe it was only said that went to yemen. but hours before he died his younger brother, cherif told french media, he too, traveled there. >> translator: i was sent me cherif kouachi, by al qaeda in yemen. anwar al awlaki financed my trip. >> reporter: cnn has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the recording. the details of said kouachi's connection to awlaki are critical because officials say it may give them hints if the al qaeda organization has other o

heed me with anwar awlaki who was killed in a u.s. drone strive that year.efore being killed by french security forces today, said's younger brother, cherif said he received financing from awlaki. a member of the branch in yemen says they directed the attack on "charlie hebdo." these reports have not been confirmed by nbc news. joining me now is the co director on 21st century security, michael o'hanlan. let's talk about the fact that al qaeda in yemen might be claiming responsibility for this attack. >> it's been a while since awlaki has been killed in yemen but it's is a cell that has been potent and the political turmoil in yemen has prevented us from having a strategy. so we tried to improve the government in yemen over the years and pushed out the previous leader hoping that his successor could be more effective in dealing with al qaeda. however there is a civil war superimposed on that mess meaning that the government or the u.s. or the shia based insurgent group have been able to suppress al qaeda. yemen is a sanctuary for al qaeda in the arabian peni

said anwar al awlaki was involved back in 2011 when one of them was in yemen.t how that group operates planning an attack? >> short answer is yes. that's how that group operates. anwar al awlaki was looking to recruit europeans for attacks back in europe the idea they would be trained in yemen and sent back to europe. we know that because this double agent told us about this. he was asked by al awlaki to try to do this while he was working for intelligence. al awlaki said when they went back to europe, they should camouflage camouflage. they were taken off the french surveillance list because they were judged no longer radical and after that it appears they put this plot into operation because perhaps they sensed they were no longer being followed. quite possible that this is a sleeper cell scenario here. we haven't seen those plots in the past of this duration it should be pointed out. mostly when westerners go and get training with al qaeda, it's been six months to a year after which they have launched an attack or a plot and we saw that with london bombings

nic robertson has more on that. >> reporter: anwar al awlaki. the radical american born yemen based preacher killed in a u.s. drone strike september 2011. an inspiration for some of the paris gunmen and rt spokers worldwide. >> reminds me of osama bin laden and also al zawahiri in terms of his soft-spoken, at the same time the knowledge that they have. >> reporter: reality was awlaki was sufficient a al qaeda rising star in 2011, bin laden was jealous of him. blowing off suggestions the cleric should run al qaeda in yemen. awlaki's father was a minister in the yemeni government. he had lived in the u.s. he was smart and privileged and preached at a mosque in virginia but was name in the 9/11 commission as knowing some of the 9/11 hijackers. soon after, he left for yemen. that is where this man, a danish biker turned jihadi who said he became a cia spy. >> his passion to obtain revenge on the west and spread global jihad was, it was his whole life. he sacrificed his life to achieve that. >> reporter: he also had a taste for western women. storm s

officials, a sort of shaikh known as anwar al awlaki. a u.s. citizen who was in yemen for some time killed by a drone strike in 2011. it is said that the arrangement for this operation were made by him. that's key because that's something we've been hearing from various officials, u.s. officials have intimated that french have intimated towards it in various media reports. but this is clearly by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, in the failing failed state of yemen to stamp their mark on this. and it does suggest, too, this was an operation with some lengthy planning. certainly if al awlaki died in 2010 and is said to have masterminded this in some way according to this video message, and we have no reason at this point to necessarily doubt its authenticity. it seems to come from the correct channels. that this may have been something that was -- that lay dormant for three years or so. they go on to talk about as well how france had committed crimes in mali. remember there was a substantial french intervention there against islamist extremists

i went over there and anwar al-aulaqi a financed me. he was the first american targeted for death by the cia in 2011. he is the leader of this digital jihad and was the head of external operations for al qaeda yemen up until the time of his death. we understand independently from our own reporting that the older brother, said kouachi went to yemen in 2011, and also trained at the al qaeda training camps there, and also sought to meet with the leadership of al qaeda in yemen. at that time the leadership included nassar, a long-time aide to osama bin laden as well as anwar al-awlaki the claireic i just mentioned in addition to another american who was eventually killed in a cia drone strike, samir khan the main driver behind "inspire magazine" the journal that in march of 2013 called for the execution of the editor and the cartoonists at the french magazine. so that is a lot of dat too -- data points taking to us al qaeda in yemen. u.s. intelligence officials have not reached any firm conclusion over whether al qaeda in yemen directed thi

i was sent me cherif kouachi, and anwar al awlaki financed my trip. >> reporter: the brothers reportedly said they wanted to die as martyrs. at 5:00 p.m. local time they moved out of the building and began shooting at police. as police stormed the building it was a dramatic scene of explosions and gunfire. at the same time a second police assault was launched on a kosher supermarket in paris where a close associate of the brothers had taken hostages. >> translator: the individual immediately entered the shop and fired his weapon. seems he may be the same one who yesterday killed our colleague

. >> we are the defenders of the prophet, i was sent by the prophet to yemen and anwar al aki financed me. >> hello and welcome to al jazeera. live from doha, i'm martine dennis, also coming up life on the program. alcohol ra incholera in haiti the u.n. can't be sued. >>> the french president floinld andfrancois hollande and key members of his parliament will meet soon. two seedges were brought to seedges were sieges, were brought to an end. tim friend reports from paris. >> these are the images that will stay locked in the french public's mind for days to come. one of the most violent in recent history. first the end of a siege northeast of the capital two hostage takers dead then a few moments later mayhem in the city center itself as police storm the building to release hostages. four hostages dead probably before police action. now, the questions begin. just before list death in a hail of bullets one of the magazine attackers boasted in a phone call with french television that he had received backing from al qaeda in yemen. >> translator: we are the defenders of the prophet i cheri

more than three years after the american muslim cleric anwar al awlaki was killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen, his comrades there are calling him the mastermind of the "charlie hebdo" massacre in paris. the yemeni branch of al qaeda is declaring in a video that cherif and said kouachi, quote, excepted and fulfilled, end quote, the orders they received from anwar al awlaki who threatens the west both in his life and after his martyrdom. a spokesman is calling it, quote, a blessing. and thus we can infer from that a coincidence that an associate of cherif kouachi killed a paris policewoman and four hostages in a kosher market. that man, amedy coulibaly, has pledged his allegiance to isis, not al qaeda. so there's that confusion. it's safe to say "charlie hebdo" is more popular than ever. parisian parisians lined up before dawn to get their issue of the magazine. a print run of 3 million up from the usual 60,000, is now expected to rise to 5 million copies over the next week. there is so much to talk about and so i bring in our senior international correspondent nick paton

he said he wanted to go forward with violent jihad citing anwar al awlaki. he was dealing with an undercover agent the entire time and was never in a position to carry out his plan. joining me now is jeremy. great to have you back. >> thank you. >> how much of this is the m.o. for how aqap claims credit for an attack, this kind of a video, is this what we've seen before? >> this is textbook aqap. what they would normally do is issue a statement through the media, which we've seen now this this video. either through a form of an audio recording, more recently through produced videos and full text translation in english and arabic and sometimes in other languages. this shows a transformation of the methodology, is that they first did this, sort of gave a hint of it on twitter. yes, we got the statement before any other news outlet published it. but if you follow what -- the sort of evolution of this, aqap is becoming much more social media savvy and are using twitter and other accounts a lot. they have their own verification system. it's not the blue checkmark

anwar al awlaki had a very important lecture called "never let the dust settle down." basically it was the idea that we'll never forgive any insults to the prophet mohammed. this got wide distribution amongst militants around the world so it would be very surprising in my view if he didn't have contact with these brothers during the time frame one of them was in yemen. >> and the more people involved in the cell from a law enforcement standpoint -- and there's applause here, some arguments going out around some french people nearby, we're very close to the charlie hebdo. it's a site where thousands of people have been coming over the last several days. traditionally it's been a somber place, we've noticed a number of debates taking place so that's maybe the sound you're hearing in the background. tom fuentes, how difficult is it. i guess the more people involved in the cell the easier it is for law enforcement to try to crack it. law enforcement to try to follow the pieces. to try to at least make associations between people. if it's a lone wolf style attack you're onl

anwar al awlaki is the late anwar alaki was one of their top recruiters, a u.s.trike in 2011. he seemed quite calm on the phone. he seemed like he wanted the world to know who he was and why they were doing it and that they were doing it in his explanation, to defend the prophet muhammad from being insulted by this magazine and he said he did not consider that an act of murder. >> richard engel, nbc news chief foreign correspondent in france tonight we thank you for your time. we'll be right back. good job! still running in the morning? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. >>> back with me now, jim arkedis, jim caff nowvanaugh and evan coleman. where do we go from here? >> it's a tough one. anwar al awlaki is not the proper target for a drone strike. he was killed four years ago. the question is why did it take so long for these folks to follow what apparently they were given the orders to do. we will continue to take out senior leaders of

so this is not just kind of a one campaign against anwar or to lock up anwar.s is effectively to lock up and lock off our resources as a state. i'm not going to sit for it. alaskans are not going to sit for it. >> senator, what do you say then to the secretary of the interior who came out in a statement and said designating vast areas in the arctic wild life reserve reflect the significance this landscape holds for america saying this land is too precious to let all of it be open for drilling for example. do you see that side of the argument? >> keep in mind alaska is already the host to more wilderness in this country than in all of the other 49 states combined. we are more than generous with insuring that there is open access and wilderness area but keep in mind we have people -- people alaskans native people inuit who live in these areas. what about them? we need to ensure that we care for the land and we need to have a responsibility and obligation for people that work live and raise their families there. what about them? >> let me ask you this i spent the

>> well of course anwar al al awlaki has played a role in radicalizing individual young people who have then ended up joining groups like either al qaeda or isis. and, you know, and i think the main thing is that first of all he's not a scholar. many islamic scholars have refuted what he believes. and his ph.d. is in human resource management. this is the kind of stuff he's been known to do bring people in send them off to trusted others especially in al qaeda proper. >> but i wonder why you think he has resonate sod much even after being killed by a u.s. drone strike. what does it tell us about possible other sleeper cells, possible other young extremists that could be planning to carry out an attack like the kouachi brothers? >> he's just a spiritual -- you know somebody who inspired a radicalizer, a charismatic preacher who puts people on the path. i share the views of your other guests. he's not an operator. you can kill the person but if the idea remains so would the threat that's generated from those ideas. >> very good point. bob, to you, we talked a lot about -- i mean for the p

and the american cleric anwar al-awlaki was a major player.ting prostitutes in san diego eventually went to yemen where he plotted against targets in western europe and the u.s. fox news independently confirming the 34-year-old suspect said kouachi met with awlaki in 2011 where he got training and money. and today new images from the "kosher grocery store" taken from the security cameras taken of the suspect amedy coulibaly who says he's from isis wearing a bullet proof vest, heavily armed and corralling the hostages into a back aisle. when pressed on the massacre of the french magazine "charlie hebdo" where the kouachi brothers said they were from the al qaeda yemen, seemed to go off message admitting al qaeda in afghanistan is not decimated or on the run as mr. obama claims. >> aq core also clearly remains a threat as we've talked about. isis is a different kind of threat, as we've also talked about which is why we're going after them in iraq and syria. >> and tonight the french ambassador told fox news the kouachi brothers got their weapons

did they meet with the master mind anwar al awlaki. cnn's nick paton walsh is there. >> reporter: what's key is for them to swiftly establish the links in reality between in yemen and the attacks in france. the 11-minute statement says a u.s. citizen killed in 2011 killed by anwar al awlaki was operationally running that attack they call the blessed battle of paris in their own sick terminology. what is vital for french investigators to work out is if there were continued conversations or resources passed from here yemen, to the kouachi brothers. we know that potentially one of them came here as early as 2009 and maybe cherif potentially traveling on his older brother's passport came here in 2011 and may have returned to france with tens of thousands of dollars. that's vital information because there are other cells around europe. do they have links to the al qaeda hot bed here of yemen? very key to put its branding on what it calls the blessed battle of paris troublingly. a quiet day after friday prayer. much anger on the streets at t

the leader or talent spotter for external operations was the cleric anwar alalaki. for the last 24 hours, fox news has been reporting on a series of tweets we have obtained that were sent shortly after the attack happened and seemed to tell of knowledge of the massacre. it came from a twitter handle that is associated with al qaeda in yemen and they took images from the massacre and superimposed over those images anwar alakai. we have thoroughly reported called in march 2013 for the assassination of the cartoonist and editor at the paper. that is a lot of data coming together leaning heavily towards the conclusion it was directed by al qaeda in yemen, at least in part. >> you have done an excellent job putting this all together. thank you. >>> chilling new warnings from another one of our closest allies and what that could mean for our safety here at home next. if you're running a business legalzoom has your back. over the last 10 years we've helped over one million business owners get started. visit us today for legal help you can count on to start and run your bus

who got inspiration from anwar awlaki of al qaeda in yemen. 50 cases from tampa, chicago, northern virginia wichita, kansas many busted in fbi stings. right now, there's an urgent threat of isis that group known for beheading. tonight, there's a loft worry about everything right here at home and the u.s. government has just set out a warning for americans traveling abroad to be on guard. >> thank you. >>> one more image on this tonight. that # jesuischarlie tweeted more than $5 million time. >>> much later on our broadcast, "nightline" and right here throughout the weekend. >>> we move on and to the deep freeze across the nation as we head into this weekend creating chaos on the highway. an explosion in the distance there, those are fireworks unleashed when two semis collided. setting off a 170-car pile-up. now, another punch of cold air on the way. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano reporting in tonight. tonight -- deadly driving a 170 vehicle pileup in michigan on major interstate 94 mangled cars and tractor trailers burning out of control. this one, carrying a load of fireworks. >>

he said that anwar al awlaki financed his trip to yemen in 2011. al awlaki of course the al qaeda mastermind killed but always vowed to attack the united states. second thing we know their cohort, the gunman at the grocery store, he gave an interview, and he said that he gave -- pardon me. in a video, he said that he gave the brothers money to finish buying what they needed to carry out their attacks. what you see here are the forensics being done. investigators are looking at the attack working their way backwards. what does it take to make this happen? what kind of money could have been involved what kind of planning organization, other perpetrators what does it take to make all of this happen in france working their way backwards? how did it happen? they clearly feel there are other perpetrators out there. >> they certainly do. they are learning a lot more as the hours go by. barbara, thanks very much. there are also new concerns about hidden bombs and they're leading to security boosts at u.s. airports. travelers are facing random searches in g

al awlaki, anwar al awlaki is the american cleric the first american targeted for death by the cia. and he was the talent spotter, if you will, for this group al qaeda in yemen. he operatives to carry out plots overseas. >> was he at one time talking to our defense department? is that the one talking to our defense department? >> this is a story we broke here at fox news channel anwar al-awlaki had very significant ties to the 9/11 hijackers, was inviolated to lunch at the pentagon after 9/11. this is. i mean it's tragic and fun at the same time because we were able to show through freedom of information act request that the menu at that lunch included ham and bacon sandwiches. i know that like i said, it's funny but tragic at the same time. >> catherine, thank you. >> you are welcome. >> one suspect, that woman is on the run. they don't know where she is. she got away. >> french police are attempt ing to leecket this woman. >> she is wanted as accomplice in the shooting of a police woman yesterday morning. >> training how to use firearms we know she is armed. >> she is still on the

drone strike anwar al awlaki was running that attack. what's vital for french investigators to work out is after that 2011 death there were continued conversations or resources passed from here yemen, to the kouachi brothers. we know potentially one of them came here as early as 2009 and maybe cherif traveling under his older brother's passport came here in 2011 and may have returned to france with tens of thousands of dollars. that's vital information because there are other cells around europe. do they have links to the al qaeda hotbed here in yemen. of course now a quiet day after friday prayer here in the capital but much anger on the streets at the image of prophet muhammad offensive to so many muslims being published again in "charlie hebdo" magazine in the latest issue. the government angry considers yemen being scapegoated but this is a failing state. a lot of questions still to be answered by yemen. when did the kouachi brothers come here? where did they train? who did they get resources from? a lot of answers still to come from

>> well we know anwar a awlaki had basically been the father of all the youth to get on social media.sically has been able to recruit, now that he is dead, he is still was able to motivate and inspire these young people to get radically involved and social media was the key to making this happen. when we sit back seem to think this isn't a threat or a jv team because of our withdrawals out of iraq we essentially enabled isis to take us by our throats. until the president is willing to say war on terror or this is jihad against americans an our security and our freedom, we are never going to win at this. melissa: nile, do you agree with that? do you agree there is more that we could be doing? >> i absolutely agree with the comments just now. we are engaged in a global war against islamist terrorism. these were not just lone wolves acting here. these individuals these terrorists in paris part of a broader network. the older brother had traveled to yemen in 2011. had received military training there. he was affiliated with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. we're fighting a global war ag

and anwar al awlaki before his martyrdom and others. we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the islamic state here. isis has been calling for lone wolf attacks. it's not clear the people who might be susceptible to that call make any distinction between those two groups, between isis and al qaeda. the fbi says they are tracking the suspect in ohio. they've been tracking him since the fall, since an informant first saw him posting online about his support for isis. the suspect is 20 years old. his name is christopher cornell. the fbi said he tweeted as raheel, ubida. it appears that someone using that handle did post isis propaganda. also stuff like calling ebola a man-made disease for population control. again, we have not confirmed that these are tweets from that same alias. the account seems to have been disabled. the fbi said christopher cornell chatted online, and later met with the fbi informant who was, quote, cooperating with the fbi in order to obtain favorable treatment in another criminal case. the suspect a

drone strike an anwr al anwar al awlaki was running that. the questions is if there were resources passed from yemen to the kouachi brothers. we know one of them came here as early as 2009 and maybe cherif potentially traveling under his brother said's passport in 2011 and may have returned to france with tens of thousands of dollars. there are other cells around europe. do they have links to the al qaeda hotbed here of yemen? keen to put branding on what it calls the blessed battle of paris troublingly and of course now a quiet day after friday prayer here in the capital but much anger on the streets at the image of the prophet muhammad. offensive to so many muslims being published again in the "charlie hebdo" satirical magazine in the latest issue. the government angry, what it considers yemen being scapegoated but in truth this is a failed all failing state. a lot of questions still to be answered by yemen when the kouachi brothers come here, where did they train, who did they get resources from? did they get commands from yemen to launch

who got inspiration from anwar awlaki of al qaeda in yemen. we have identified 50 cases from tampa, chicago, new york, northern virginia, wichita, kansas, many busted in fbi stings. plotting to attack banks, government buildings, airports, bridges, even the u.s. capitol. right now, there's an urgent threat of isis, that group known for beheading. the fbi caught 12 americans in the past year trying to go to syria or iraq to join isis. so, tonight, there's a lot of worry about everything right here at home and the u.s. government has just sent out a warning for americans traveling abroad to be on alert worldwide. david. >> that warning late today. thank you. >>> one more image on this tonight. that #jesuischarlie tweeted more than 5 million time. around the world. you can see that lit up on the screen. we'll have much later in our broadcast, on "nightline" and right here throughout the weekend. >>> but we move on and to the deep freeze across the nation as we head into this weekend creating chaos on the highway. this image from kalamazoo, michig

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anwar awlaki was not the top of that.ck jeremy scahill, broke the story aqap took responsibility for the charlie hebdo massacre. his latest book, "dirty wars: the world is a battlefield," is out in paperback. his film "dirty wars" was nominated for an academy award. when we come back, we go to guatemala for remarkable verdict that is just come down around crimes against humanity. stay with us. ♪ [music break] "spiritual." dr. martin luther king and malcolm x and ed mentor evers inspired the music. a big shout out to ruth hayden, the widow of charlie haden, who has joined us today at our studios just to come by and say hello. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> a major victory for human rights activists, a guatemalan court has returned a guilty verdict in the spanish embassy massacre of 1980. on monday, the court found former police chief pedro garcia arredondo responsible for ordering an attack on 37 peasant activists and student organizers who were occupy

anwar said this is my intent go kill these people.e tells the cell and they get funded and they do it. he turns it to the next cell and says the same thing. several balls up in the air and hopefully one comes down. that's how these cells work in the terrorism world. >> it's fascinating. thank you for being with us. just ahead, i talk to former mayor rudy giuliani the mayor when terror struck on 9/11. kouachi are far from the first brothers to carry out a terror attack. we look at other siblings who wage jae had together. i usually just go back home to see my parents so i can't exactly go globe-trotting. if i had friends to go with i'd go but i don't want to travel by myself. someday. male vo: there are no more excuses. find the hotel you want, and the flight you want, and we'll find the savings to get you there. introducing... a pm pain reliever that dares to work all the way until... the am. new aleve pm the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. i've always loved exploring and looking for something

that's exactly what this cleric anwar al awlaki was encouraging people to do. >> to blend in.im, what can the united states do to prevent something like the paris attacks from happening in the u.s.? every one of these cases, if you look once it happens, you can see that it would have happened. so how could you stop it? >> well you need to look closely at where these people are. unfortunately for the muslim communities communities, it would be beneficial if they themselves were looking to see where these problem people are because it's not the community as a whole but they are coming from the muslim communities. and so people like anwar al awlaki were identified by individuals who didn't like his radicalism when he was in a mosque here in northern virginia right around 9/11. that activity needs to be done throughout the country where muslims live peacefully use their information as an intelligence network to root out their own. >>> next massive protests from africa to middle east to russia. a an angry reaction to the latest attack on "charlie hebdo." >>> plus my guest, kareem a

so anwar al awlaki is the key leader and he haunts us from the grave. the fbi has identified 50 cases where americans were charged with various terrorism officials who had information about anwar al awlaki on their computers, in their writings haunting us from the grave. >> all right, american officials on the case this morning. pierre thomas, thank for joining us. dan. >> pierre, thank you. haunting us from the grave. >>> let's bring in abc's george stephanopoulos who will be hosting "this week" later this morning. george, good morning. >> good morning. >> the u.s. attorney general as you know eric holder is in paris for security meetings. you're going to be speaking to him coming up on "this week." from an american perspective, what are the national security concerns that we see when we watch these attacks in paris? >> it has been growing for months. in fact, the attorney general told pierre just a few months ago that this is the worst, most intense threat level he's seen since 9/11. a lot of concern that these attacks by isis, the offensive by isis,

top al qaeda person goes on to call the kouachi members heroes and that it was mastered by the late anwar al alaki before his death. this message from al qaeda comes as the latest edition of "charlie hebdo" hits news stands with people going through the streets of paris as thousands are trying to snap it up since the staff was gunned down. barbara starr joins us on more of these claims by al qaeda. good morning, barbara. >> reporter: good morning, carol. first we have new information at cnn. a u.s. official tells me they now believe their assessment if you will is when cherif kouachi, the younger brother, left in 2011 with a pile of cash. it may have been as much as $20,000 given to him by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to help finance future attacks. they're trying to nail do you know the specifics. that's where they are this morning, that he left yemen in 2011 after a short trip there with a pile of cash. this all goes to the point of what was al qaeda's role in either directing this attack all the way back to 2011 or at least inspiring the brothers to carry it out. now, al qaeda in

before the explosion in the region, 2011. 2011 is the year anwar al awlaki was killed.f there was face-to-face interaction. whatever training took place several years before this plot came to fruition. >> yes. remember anyone who has taken weapons training and so forth, these -- these capabilities and these skills really degrade over time. that's why people are constantly retraining. that's why police officers are constantly retraining and -- with their firearms and recertifying. you also have to remember sort of what evan talked about is that there was a really big scism between al qaeda affiliates and isis. so much so that al qaeda central, the head of al qaeda sent one of his top buddies to syria to make sure -- just to make sure there was not too much discord among the brothers. what did isis do? they blew him up in a suicide attack, which is quite a fitting end to this guy. so, there's a lot of bad blood between these organizations. what evan was saying f one group -- if one organization -- or these kouachi brothers said they were part of aqap and al awlaki sent hi

there are still training camps operating in yemen and clearly as we said, anwar al awlaki is viewed as a martyr by some in the group, and they use him to inspire others to carry out attacks, but still the u.s. very concerned about aqap and any kind of attack they could carry out, and they could do almost anything, george. >> thanks, martha. >>> we are joined now from paris by the u.s. attorney general, eric holder. mr. attorney general thanks for joining us this morning. we've heard about this concern, aqap still a lethal threat. >> good morning. >> good morning, and we also have this new video out this morning where coulibaly, one of the gunmen, appears to be pledging allegiance to isis. what more do we know about which group may have been behind this attack? >> well, at this point we don't have any credible information that would allow us to make a determination as to which organization was responsible. i think it's clear that both organizations pose a threat to the united states, as well as to its allies. >> is there any evidence that any other sleeper cells have actually been activ

anwar al-awlaki spoke english. the west is not used to these terror hits. i fear we'll go overboard with a problem that doesn't warrant cracking down on civil liberties, rounding up those that support the ideas of i.s.i.l. and al qaeda. we need a smarter policy. it begins with looking at at role in projecting a message to the world that we are at war with islam. >> there are concerns that what we are doing is not working. here you had guys that should have been on the radar, and were at one point, but they fell off. it. >> you had me on the show some time ago when we revealed the guidelines for a programme that the u.s. government has. what i heard from anti-terrorism people is that they are droining in inspiration. when everyone is on the list, no one is on the list. when you round up populations of people, how do you figure out who is the real threat. information. >> not wanting to be a part of fear. this is the kind offing we have been warned about since 9/11. that there could be sleeper cells in the united states and europe. assuming that everything tha