first, context of anwar al awlaki, the papers have had a big profile of anwar al awlaki and a lot of t 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 implying that the individuals who carried out this attack in paris were motivated by anwar al awlaki. you should remember and i know you know this jake in june of 2010 aqap published the first edition of its magazine english language magazine called "inspire" magazine. and in that magazine anwar al awlaki had an article in which he called on muslims around the world to target four a assassinations assassinations cartoonists who participated in the demeaning of the prophet muhammad. it was molly norris in seattle, washington who had to change her name and go underground and was urnlnder federal protection and still has not emerged believes there's a real threat against her. and something that was a little bit strange in the communications i had with aqap is they pointed me to the most recent issue of "inspire" magazine the 13th edition of it which was released just in december. and if you look in that magazine there is an image of a muslim man kneeling in prayer. and there's a caption underneath it and he is next to a pot that was said it's similar to the cooking pot used by the bosto

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. drone strike in 2011. we'll continue to stay across this and bring you more on the comments as we get information. across paris, meanwhile across the world people buying a special edition of "charlie hebdo" after last weeks attacks in which 12 died. a line above the cartoon reads all is finished. >> people were killed before down. they were sold out. copies were like gold dust. you can plead and argue. >> it's not even 7 o'clock. it's past five shots. it's all sold. >> we ordered 115 copies and had around 200 reservations. we don't have enough copies. with such overwhelming demand it is has now been increased to 5 million copies. the edition has been translated into several languages and is going on sale to the world. "charlie hebdo" never had a massive leadership. a lot was in bad taste. this week's edition is hotly anticipated. at a news conference on tuesday, this cartoonist was not in the office

said anwar al awlaki was involved back in 2011 when one of them was in yemen. 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 a

before he was kill, anwar al awlaki was a radical preacher at the center of al qaeda in yemen. 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

yemen. >> there was just the time when anwar awlaki became an interesting person for them. >> for the cia? >> for the cia. >> anwar awlaki, american educated cleric, alaeda leader. storm called him a personal friend from his days as a jihadist. awlaki has been inspiring terrorist attacks around the world. the 2005 suicide bombings on london trains and a double decker bus leaving 52 dead. two foiled 2006 plots. >> threat level to the uk has been raised to critical. >> one to blow up planes flying to the united states, the other to blow up buildings in canada. and in 2008, a deadly attack on the u.s. embassy in yemen. and storm says he can provide the cia something no one else can. access to awlaki himself. he tells us the cia sent him on this dangerous spy mission october 2008, a month after the embassy attack. to see awlaki, now hiding in a remote part of yemen. >> he's worried about security, but he's also worried about people following me. >> the mission, give awlaki a laptop, solar panels, night vision goggles he'd requested. some secretly implanted with spy software. then storm says he gives awlaki one more cia gift. $5,000 cash. >> he looked at

anwar al awlaki is waging a bloody war against american. ever, storm says, the cia is realizing they need him. >> america as a whole has turned into a nation of evil. >> awlaki must be eliminated. but storm says his bosses from american, british and danish intelligence agencies disagree about how to take out awlaki. controlling the plan means controlling storm. in a bizarre courtship, the spy agent has lavish attention on storm trying to win his loyalty. first up, the danish. wooing storm on behalf of the cia. >> we went to iceland, up to the blue lagoon, and we spent some time up there. >> you were kind of chilling out quite literally up there, right? >> yeah. >> danish agents break all the rules, taking happy snaps with him. not to be outdone, the british take storm to sweden. >> they booked four days. we had extraordinarily good team building. we went dog sledding. we went snow scootering. i stayed in a very expensive room inside the hotel. >> storm says he ultimately chooses to work with the cia, which supports his plan to locate and ass

citizen known as anwar al awlaki that he was, in fact behind operating -- running the operation that this particular bloody scenes in the streets of paris. now, what's key about this is that al awlaki was killed by a u.s. drone strike in 2011. this suggestion that he somehow masterminded this operation suggests that potentially the kouachi brothers who they refer to here as the men who were assigned and accepted and fulfilled their task and refers to them as heroes that the kouachi brothers in fact potentially lay dormant for over three years before they carried out this particular attack. but john the message goes on to refer to how france has committed crimes in mali and elsewhere in maghreb where the french military has been active against islamic radicals and effectively says that france is guilty of america's crimes as well. it is a lengthy justification. but above all, it is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, a group that has somewhat fallen out of the jihadi spotlight in the past year or so given the rice of isis the islamic state in iraq and syria, in northern syria and iraq.

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

that's the branch of al qaeda affiliated with the bombmaker anwar al-awlaki who was killed in a droneherif karachi gave an interview while holed up in the print shop and he said he and his brother were financed by al-awlaki. their also training inemem included marxsmenship if the precision of she shots fired at the police vehicles has any indication. this was not, quote, pray and spray, as one expert put it to me. >> what are we to make of the warning from the head of the british intelligence service mi5? >> well, these are very rare remarks by the head of britain's mi5, the british internal security headquarters in london yesterday. that's where he made the remarks. it's only the second public speech given by mi5's director general, andrew parker. he warned, quote, a group of core al qaeda terrorists in syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the west. their goal, we went on so say, cause large scale loss of life often by attacking transport systems or iconic tarrings in the u.s. senior u.s. intelligence officials said parker was referring to a group in northern syria, a form

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

peter, it's interesting to hear about anwar al awlaki in troelgs the kouachi brothers because he played a role at least with major nidal hasan, nidal hasan reaching out on the internet or at least watching sermons of anwar al awlaki. correct? >> again, it might be surprising for most americans to understand that a guy who was born in new mexico, anwar al awlaki, who spent most of his life in the united states, was studying for his ph.d. at george washington university in washington, d.c. became the operational commander of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula which is by far the most deadly organization threatening to american interests in the last several years. and, you know so here we have this ironic situation where an american is organizing large-scale attacks which luckily didn't pan out against american targets. i think it would be unlikely to find he wasn't the spiritual information. his writings appear he's the most important english speaking clerics in the world of militant islam. that's true even in death. so this person had -- and by the way, he also released anderson a -- duri

magazine in paris, their plan was three years in the making and they say their plans came from anwar al awlaki who has been dead for a few years. is it possible that al qaeda in yemen planned this and sent these troops out in europe? >> it's unlikely they would have planned it to the level of detail that we have seen. more than likely they would have said we want you to attack this target. figure out how to do it. here's the training. here's the money. that's crucial. we learn more as the french authorities go into yemen and extract information. we've known for years that this particular magazine "charlie hebdo" has been on al qaeda and the arabian peninsula's target. the editor in chief that was assassinated one of the men who was murdered had been on their most wanted list. so it's been known for years that they wanted to do damage to this magazine. it's possible that the kouachi brothers were told that's going to be your number one priority but i suspect that would also -- they would also be told you figure out the best timing then maybe there's coordination after that. once they've figured

spoke with a television network he said i was sent by al qaeda in yemen and i was financed by anwar 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 yeste

when you talk about anwar al al awlaki an american-born, muslim scholar and critic who acted as a spokesperson for aqap, a lot of people have been focusing on him and saying how effective he's being for his movement from the grave. do you believe that he is critical in what we saw play out in paris and potential future attacks from sleeper cells? >> 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 spiritua

that he was specifically sent on this mission, which was financed by -- these are his claims -- anwar al awlakiaki was one of their top recruiters, a u.s. citizen killed by an american drone strike 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

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

and then speak with your gastroenterologist. >>> the american-born muslim cleric anwar al awlaki was three years after his death he is still influencing terrorism. >> hi, don. in terms of the attack on the french magazine, we know that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, we know that with that group, you have to consider the influence of h this man, anwar al awlaki the american-born cleric. the speeches of al awlaki are believed to have inspired the boston marathon bombings, and police believe that the tsarnaev broer thers listened to him and the radical imam who killed one soldier in arkansas and also had written material by al alaw can ki and also the man who killed fellow soldiers at fort hood and now convicted of mudder and sentenced to death sent e-mail messages to al awlaki, and the man who hid explosives in his underwear and blow up a jet also had ties to al awlaki and the interesting part of this is that he has been dead for more than three years keled by a drone strike over yemen, so how does he have influence? through the writings and the speeches found on the internet, and

quote, i went there and anwar al awlaki financed me. an american citizen in a leading aqap cleric just before he was killed in a u.s. drone attack four years ago now, in 2011. it's important to note in this al qaeda video released today, the group specifically claims credit for just the charlie hebdo attacks. they are not claiming credit for the hostage siege at the kosher grocery store that was carried out by coulibaly. coulibaly declared his allegiance to al qaeda's group isis. it's important to note that while u.s. intelligence officials authenticated this video and said it did in fact come from al qaeda in yemen, intelligence officials say there is no evidence yet that the claims made in the video are actually true. al qaeda's taking credit for what happened in paris, but u.s. officials say there's no evidence, again, yet at least, to support that. if al qaeda did order the attack on "charlie hebdo", why did they do it now? why do this years after at least one of the kouachi brothers was in yemen training with al qaeda? how do intell

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

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

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

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, t

cherif kouachi saying he was financed by al qaeda in yemen, commissioned by anwar al awlaki now deceasedng he belonged to islamic state. they have been at each other's throats, isis and al qaeda. >> in february of 2014 al qaeda's central leadership essentially disowned isis, or what we call the islamic state today. when the islamic state announced it was expanding even further in places like yemen, libya and other places aqap specifically put out a document and a video condemning that decision and telling the islamic state to technically back off. so there have been at violent odds. of course, the islamic state and al qaeda's link in syria have been at violent odds for well over a year at this point. they have killed many of each other's fighters and commanders. so, at this point they are not in the same rank. >> so this raises the question evan right, whether -- which is something i think investigators and all want to tease out, all of us want to know in terms of the scope of the plot. the scope of the plot indicates in some ways the danger and the threat, right? >> right. >> which is w

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

operational attacks, something like we saw in boston where the tsarnaev brothers people that looked to anwar al-awlaki and his teachings. different than al qaeda planning an attack from pakistan, syria, or yemen sending people to stage attacks. you mentioned what intelligence fishes say they worry about. we do hear from intelligence officials in the united states and in europe that there is concern about these western fighters going to fight in syria and then going back. whether it be mostly now to western europe. that is what happened in belgium. some of these people believed to come to syria in staged attacks there. could that not happen in the united states as well? >> absolutely it could happen. it could happen tomorrow later today. there's no question about that. perspective is important. this represents the special case in the sense you have a perfect storm brewing there. you have antiimmigration and sentiment building large and grieved and alienated muslim community. you have proximity to the region and the ease and lack of restrictions on movement within the continent itself. we're a much hard

station, the young brother, charif, claimed he got money from the attack through al qaeda leader anwar al awlaki, the american radical clairic who was killed in yemen some three years ago. and they try to deal with the continued threat, tom. >> we are hearing about two different threats. one from isis calling for lone wolf attacks and al qaeda is trying for bigger attacks? >> al qaeda has tried to bringdown u.s. planes and bomb in a printer. now they have put online a step by step detailed set of instructions how people can build bombs to get past all airport securities except frp the body scanners. and people tell me, they extremely concerned that the information could be a threat to u.s. aircraft. >> that is why authorities are on alert. thank you. >>> the crash of air area flight 8501. authority rs have sound the area where the black boxes are. when they went to the bottom of the sea this evening, they were missing. navy divers believe they are buried about 100 feet below the water. >>> and an icy mess of freezing rain from arkansas to new england. and check this out. freezing rain turned to

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

he came to the attention of anwar al awlaki the american-born cleric who is the leader of al qaeda external operations back in 2011 there before he was killed. he might have even met al qaeda's master bomb-maker in europe, al aseery. what skills did he learn? when he came back to paris, he went underground essentially. people lost track of him. what was he doing between 2011 and this week when this attack was launched? right now, the u.s. is looking at that claim that al qaeda in yemen ordered the attack. but what were the kouachi brothers doing between 2011 and now, wolf? >> and the assumption is they were involved with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen, not necessarily with isis right? >> reporter: that's the working theory at the moment. the u.s. is well aware of all the rumors that were involved with isis. but u.s. officials tell me they can't confirm it. >> barbara, thank you. let's bring in the new chairman of the senate intelligence committee, republican senator richard burr of north carolina. senator, thanks very much for joining us. let me get right to some of the specific

what is interesting to note that lac lac, anwar al awlaki who was killed three years ago, so potentially kouachi brothers has been intimated by yemeni and u.s. and french officials, if awlaki did mastermind investigators trying to investigate the claims made in the video. the interesting part is they don't claim coulibaly, who gave allegiance to isis he attacked the kosher grocery store. intimations of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. perhaps trying to claim more of the spotlight of aqap. >> one question if the brothers if one of the brothers did use the other brother's passport was that possible just because they looked alike? >> they do look comparatively similar. obviously you have to ask yourself quite what level of scrutiny is given of border crossings, when someone does something like that the issue being that the younger brother may have used the older's passport. said had made multiple trips to yemen, starting in 2009. the underwear bomber who tried to blow himself up in christmas 2009 on a plane to detroit. said had been to yemen many times, perhaps potentially that made it ea

reports that one of "charlie hebdo"'s shooters says the attack was financed by al qaeda leader anwar al-awlakiif kouachi that is supposed to say, hostages in a printing house in france, authorities killed the terrorist and his brother in a -- a third terrorist. amedy coulibaly, killed in separate simultaneous raid in eastern paris. four hostages were killed in that one of the let's go to the panel. chris harmer, from the institute of study of war. christian widen, dc international advisory. thanks for joining us. catherine herridge was connecting a lot of the dots for us in the last segment and how the individual who are now dead went and south ought training in yemen. both french and american authorities were aware of them. could more have been done? christian, let me start with you? >> sure. both of them could have been in guantanamo being interrogated that is politically impossible today not only because of people like president obama and some republicans like john mccain. george w. bush was ridiculed. we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here. ultimately that is tr

that is the home of an al qaeda in the arabian peninsula once led by anwar al awlaki until he was killede strike there 2011. cherif the younger of the two attack suspects told a reporter by telephone shortly before he was killed on friday that al awlaki paid him to come for yemen. u.s. officials say it is likely that said kouachi, the older brother, also crossed paths with awlaki during a 2011 stint in yemen. cnn international correspondent nic robertson has more on the potentiallinks here in paris to the american awlaki. >> 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 supporters worldwide. >> he reminds me of for example, osama bin laden and also ayman al zawahiri in terms of he's soft-spoken, and at the same time the knowledge that they have. >> reporter: reality was, al awlaki was such a rising al qaeda star in 2011 bin laden was jealous of him, blowing off suggestions the cleric should run al qaeda in yemen. al awlaki's father was a minister in the yemeni governm

maybe officials are looking if they met with anwar al awlaki. you have followers presumably working together. have we seen anything like this before? >> no not before it. this shows that friendships are more stronger than any other allegiance to a group. we don't know yet if they were inspired by certain group or if they were directed to acts by a specific group. we see these people moving around in yemen and syria for some of them. this is a group of 15 individuals who went all over the world, including malaysia we learned from court documents. it is still the investigation pending and hard to get a clear picture of what happened and where the others if any others happened were coming from. >> we got word today that the french are putting 8,000 additional law enforcement personnel at secure locations around the country. half of them at jewish schools and synagogues. do you have a sense of a specific threat? do you think they could do that out of general concern? >> there are specific threats that we have seen elsewhere in the world against spec

the statement says that radical american cleric anwar al awlaki was the mastermind of the attack. both kouachi brothers may have met with awlaki in yemen. and this american-born cleric killed in an american drone strike in 2011. new pictures have emerged of the gunmen while they were on the run. the images published by a french online journal from surveillance video at a gas station. and you have the commander of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula saying the attack on the "charlie hebdo" offices was years in the making. why the claim of responsibility now? >> reporter: well the timing is interesting, clearly they want to claim responsibility they want to claim credit for this attack to happen on the day when another edition of "charlie hebdo" comes out. it's possible it's tied to that. although it is a week to the day from the attacks. with claims of responsibility like this i'm told you have to take them with something of a grain of salt it's not 100% established that this was commanded, controlled directed by aqap. that said there are substantial ties. we know the kouachi brothers

-born radical cleric anwar al awlaki. al awlaki was the inspiration behind nidal hassan's massacre at fort hood. al awlaki also led the failed attempts to hit the u.s. with bombs smuggled onto jetliners inside underwear and computer printers. it's in the clear if said had any direct dealings with al awlaki before returning to france in 2011. al awlaki was killed by a u.s. drone strike on september 30th the same year. investigators believe said returned home with the intention of using his training to carry out an attack on a target in france. but law enforcement officials are struggling to explain the three-year gap between said's homecoming and the mass shooting at "charlie hebdo." now, investigators don't know if the brothers carried out the massacre on direct orders from aqap. it's entirely possible the suspects selected their own target and timing. in either case, scott the attack is one of the deadliest linked to al qaeda in a decade. >> pelley: bob thanks very much. this evening president obama went to the french emb

as you may know 40-year-old anwar al-awlaki was killed by american drone in yemen. is he a u.s. a trader or was a traitor. actively working for al qaeda trying to kill americans. what's the beef? he is dead on the battlefield, good. joining us from baltimore judge andrew napolitano doesn't think it's so good. now, surely you know in previous warms enemy dlab operators were killed. no trial. deserter helping the enemy. ever since the revolutionary war that's happened. surely you know that why do you complain about this. >> historical examples you give bill are in no ways app. to this. deserters who ran to the other side on the battlefield literally in battle who can legally be shot by their own forces. this is an american citizen in yemen. i will concede that he is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. today we learn that the two paris murderers, the two primary ones were trained by him. had interactions with him. >> yes. >> and you still have a beef about us killing this man? >> yes, i do. and it's not my beef, bill o'reilly. it's the constitution's beef. >> oh, bull you hide beh