omar one of the brothers claim to have been funded by aqa. how credible are those claims? >> well, it came from his own mouth when he spoke to a french media saying he was financed by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and financed by anwar al alki. we have confirmation from one of the yemeni officials who believed the brother was in yemen in 2011, and an audiomessage from one of the senior members of the group he didn't claim directly the attack but he did praise what he called the battle of paris response of insults to afronts to islam and its prophet. >> aqa omar, has been subjected to pretty regular drone attacks hasn't it, american drone attacks and yet it seems to have dusted itself down and stage this attack which of course has registered far and beyond the location of the attacks in paris, and just outside of paris. >> that's absolutely right. let me give you some context to whole of this. now al qaeda was found it came to prominence in yemen in the year 2000 when they bombed the u.s.s. cole. then another oil tanker belonging to france. then in 2009, the forces of a

we know one of the brothers spent time in yemen training and claimed to have been financed by aqa. >>hink there's a number of things. for a lone boxwolf, we have to be careful what they mean. there are several involved. if anything we are dealing with a cluster that may be isolated from command and control. however, make it came in a loose direction of go back and do something. it could be something as bake as that, the connection to the outside. we don't know. i think to determine it as a lone wolf is risky. they weren't alone. there was four much them operating in coordination i don't think you can call them a lone wolf pack. i think it's to your - the first point you mentioned about the youth, that's the interesting thing about the group. these are men in their early 30s, and these are men involved in radical activity for some time. late teenagers that we have seen getting caught up in the excitement around syria and iraq. people involved in radical activities they are hardened individuals with worrying connections. generally on the radar for some time. it's different to the overex

. >> we have verified the video is authentic and likely came from a krksak aka's aka's -- aqa's media wing. >> police arrested a man they say was planning to carry out an attack in washington. they say christopher cornell sympathized with the islamist military group and planned to use a semi-automatic rifle and pipe bombs to kill people at the u.s. capitol building. it's yet another reminder of the threat around the world of people who support islamist state either the fight in syria or fighting the attacks in their own countries. not the terrorist attack in our country is highly likely and could occur without warning. three serious terrorist plots have been disrupted in recent months alone. >> reporter: the threat of more terror attacks prompted the french president to announce he's reconsidering military cuts that started last year. he spoke aboard an aircraft carrier that will join the coalition fight inging the islamist state in iraq. >> we need specific soldiers under these unusual circumstances. circumstances. >> the circumstances are indeed unusual. the survival of "charlie heb

in the arabian peninsula or aqa. a group that claimed responsibility for the "charlie hebdo" attack and claimed responsibility for attacks in the u.s. the fall of the country jeopardizes the government. now there are fears the situation could degenerate into a full-blown sunni/shia civil war which could draw in saudi arabia. let me bring in the panel here. helene, let's start with you this was your beat. the president said, we're still doing counterterrorism there. who's our partner there? >> we don't know yet. that was the prevailing view at the pentagon, at the state department, is you know we don't know what's going on at this point but we can't -- we can't pull out of yemen. the drone policy is still going on. the united states has to continue to conduct these counterterrorism strikes. across the board in yemen. you're seeing now administration officials quietly talking about whether or not it may be possible for the united states to deal with those who seem at this point to have -- >> they're not aspirational. t

public reporting, one of the witnesses claimed that one of the assailants said he was associated with aqaorrect it represents a very serious diversification of the tactics used by aqap. they put a lot of focus, for example, on bomb making on trying to develop new ways to smuggle explosives on aircraft. this will be a very different kind of attack. obviously we like to find out whether there is an aqap association and if so whether they were instructed to undertake the attack in this way or something they decided to do really because they were inspired by aqap. or sp other -- some other organization. >> aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, that's the branch in yemen right now. and you say there's no previous experience of aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, actually recruiting individuals to go back to their home countries and commit a terror attack as the one we saw yesterday? >> no, no no. quite the opposite. they have tried to recruit people and have encouraged people to go back to the countries of origin. most of the focus, the predominant risk to the united states and europe ha

don't think training with aqa. for a few months equates to that level of expertise. it doesn't. you've seen some of the pictures of al qaeda over the years running on the jungle gym and shooting rifles. yes, they have some training. yes, they have some small unit tactics, but it's not going to be a training that's going to be able to defeat the french police tactical teams in a hostage barricade situation. they're going to be limited more by the physics, the gravity, the humanity and their position against the police. they don't have as much arms now as the police. >> absolutely. >> so it's very different. >> in sheer numbers they are absolutely outnumbered. we heard at least 200 police on the scene, i'm sure more are arriving as well and we're also hearing, too, though that this coming from wire reports that the french interior ministry spokesperson says that he is almost certain, these are in quotes "almost certain that the hostage-takers are the two "charlie hebdo" suspects." that's confirming what we've been talking about this morning that these two suspects are believed to