bobby ghosh, should have competition a factor here?e competing for regroups for attention. do they say i have to show my relevance here and they try to start their own terrorist violence? >> well there is competition at a high level and there is competition for recruitment for money at the foot soldier level of people like that kouachis and coulibaly, the distinction between isis and al qaeda in yemen are not that great. it's important to remember that al qaeda in yemen, i know of at least two instances when it congratulated isis or sort of recognized isis the isis leaders claim to being the caliph of islam. so relationships are fuzzy. they may compete on some aspects but the ideology is almost identical and for people in europe or here in the u.s. who might be attracted by the ideology, which group they choose to claim allegiance >> ideology and the m.o. samuel laurent, we spoke ideayesterday about a warning going out to french police about the possibility of sleeper cells activated for more attacks on police around france. have we le

general hertling christiane amanpour bobby ghosh, thanks for your expertise. the attack in france is raising serious concerns here in the united states. still ahead, we're taking a closer look at how u.s. counterterrorism agencies are responding. much more on the breaking news right after this. sir, we're loaded and getting ready to go... ...we're going to need you on the runway. (vo) don't let a severe cold hold you back. sir? (vo) theraflu starts to get to work in your body in just 5 minutes. (vo) theraflu breaks you free from your worst cold and flu symptoms. (vo) theraflu. serious power. >>> we're following the paris terror attack. the breaking news coming out of france. today here in washington president obama strongly condemned this terror attack in paris calling it evil and cowardly. he also vowed to help france bring those gunmen, the terrorists, to justice. the secretary of state of the united states john kerry who met with the president in the oval office earlier in the day reiterated that message in a statement he made at the state department. >> i

i'm joined now by cnn global affairs analyst bobby ghosh to talk more about this. e will be a backlash of all muslims from nonmuslims who feel isolated from the, quote-unquote, mainstream of french society. >> i think that's less likely. maybe you'll go through days and weeks where there's tension and fear and antagonism but i think in the long run that will begin to fade. 10% of the population of france is muslim. what that means is almost every french person who is not a muslim knows somebody who is a muslim. you encounter muslims all the time in france. if you do, if you see them in your grocery store, if you see them in your office your kids are going to school with other kids who are muslim if that's the case then you know that most muslims are not like this. it's hard to paint muslims as the other if you're constantly interacting with them. and the analog for this the example for this is what happened in britain after the 77 attacks in london. there was a similar fear that the non-muslim brits would turn against muslims. it did not happen for similar reasons.

bobby ghosh, great to have you as well. >>> in the wake of these attacks in france the group isis makingll have more on that right after this. hiring new employees can be tough. but it doesn't have to be. because now you can post to over 50 of the top job boards with just one click- with ziprecruiter. find candidates in any industry, nationwide. just post once and watch your qualified candidates roll in to ziprecruiter's easy to use interface. find out today why ziprecruiter has been used by over 250,000 businesses. they even offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. and right now, you can try ziprecruiter, for free. go to ziprecruiter.com/free50 >>> we just learned hackers are taking claim in response to the massacre at "charlie hebdo" magazine. members of the group anonymous say they targeted a french jihad jihadist website and redirected it to a search engine called duck duck go. they revealed dozens of twitter accounts they say belong to jihadists. let's get back to paris where jim sciutto is after a very historic day there. jim? >> no question, blee brianna. crowds marking through the st

. >> so let's talk more about this with cnn global affairs analyst bobby ghosh. the suspects in these latest anti-terror raids appear to be part of a larger network, bobby. first of all, welcome. >> hi. >> it's part of a larger network. that's much different than the lone wolf attacks that we've been talking about. has something changed? >> what's changed is syria. we've been worrying about this for several years, since isis began to rise in syria and then subsequently in iraq. all these young european men going over there, becoming fully immersed in this perverse ideology and then coming back home bringing with them a desire to do harm. the fact that there are many cells is not entirely surprising. the nature of cells vary. no two cells are necessarily alike. not all cells are equally dangerous, for instance but their presence is something that we should be alarmed about. the other alarming thing is the geographic spread obviously. not just in one country, one city but in multiple countries. finally, the range of different targets. the kouachi brothers went after

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i want to bring in bobby ghosh, our global affairs analyst, the managing editor of the online news site quartz. bobby, this is shocking but hindsight should not necessarily be all that surprising given the animosity and the hatred towards this particular publication by these islamic extremists. >> they've tried this before they firebombed this magazine in 2011 and the editor you talked about and the editor was on al qaeda's most-wanted list a couple years ago. this magazine had been under -- there have been on al qaeda and other extremist watch lists for quite a while. >> did you know him, the editor-in-chief of charlie hebdo? >> i'm afraid not. i regret i do not know him. he was a very brave man and widely known and beloved in french media circles. probably the most well known french satirist. france takes pride nitze icon clachl of media. there are no sacred cows in france and that's something worth preserving and this's what the editor and charlie hebdo stood for. >> and at least three well-known cartoonists with the magazine are among the dead. they went under the pen names kabu wal

national security analyst peter bergen cnn global affairs analyst and managing editor of courts bobby ghosh. peter, why did it take so long for aqap to say, this was us? >> al qaeda didn't fess up to 9/11 until years later. claims of responsibility including, by the way, for failed attacks, aqap the group that's claimed responsibility for paris, about three days after the failed christmas day 2009 attempt to bring down northwest flight 253 over detroit claimed that. there's often a lag. i think we're making more of it than it's meaning. >> we shouldn't read too much into it. >> we shouldn't. >> you have this video, there are claims that are linking this attack to ayman al zawahiri to osama bin laden. what do we read into that? >> as jim said, this is a claim. there's not doubt that there were connections between the kouachis and aqap. how much they ordered, conceived and carried out this attack on instruction from yemen, that we don't know yet. it might be an opportunistic claim that well, this is something that happened, and our name has already been mentioned, let's take as much credit fo

. >> bobby ghosh, briefly, a lot of people have been tweeting me asking where the name charlie hebdo is a sort of derivation of the term weekly? >> daily, periodical. charlie actually comes from another magazine that was called charlie weekly that used to be a comic weekly and ran charlie brown. so it was inspired by charlie brown. there took its inspiration indirectly from charlie brown. >> thank you for joining us in this hour. i'm anderson cooper, the next hour of "newsroom" starts right after a break and our coverage continues throughout the day. ♪ ♪ [ radio chatter ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] andrew. rita. sandy. ♪ ♪ meet chris jackie joe. minor damage or major disaster, when you need us most, we're there. state farm. we're a force of nature, too. ♪ ♪ >>> good morning, i'm wolf blitzer. we want to welcome viewers from the united states and around the world. thanks for joining us. we're following breaking news out of france. the country on its highest security alert after a deadly and brazen terror attack right in the heart of paris. french police are hunting for three terrorists at

we've also heard earlier, i think bobby ghosh was talking to us about the fact that often times you hearshow who you are, stand for your convictions." these men are hooded as you mentioned, heavily armed, but they are hooded. >> that's right. and i heard barbara starr make the point earlier that isis had been encouraging its fighters to show their faces. so that's an interesting fact here as well as the fact that they were not suicidal. they had an escape route and got away. a lot of these attacks are carried out where they expect to die and, in fact maybe want to die as they go in and whether they set off their suicide vests or engajs with police. so two things that counterterror officials are noting very closely. >> barbara, jim noted the groups that the united states is focused on right now. it's basically almost the entire list of the worst of the worst of the bad guys and the terrorism arena right now. what is u.s. intelligence doing right now to assist? >> well i think what this really underscores is that it's taken them aback. there may well be information and classified channels

also analyst bobby ghosh, one-time jihadist expert as well. in austin, texas, i'm curious what you saw as the operation unfolded, standoffs concluded. as a former hostage negotiator, what do you make out and what are the questions you want answered about how all of this went down? >> it appears quite clearly, frankly, that they had two coordinated standoff locations, two crisis sites, if you will. and there was a well orchestrated plan that was circumvented by the two brothers. when they initiated their action, there had to be a contingency plan in place where the second crisis site had to be addressed immediately, because, as you mentioned earlier, there had been a primary demand of the state police of those two brothers. they took that off the table. therefore, the negotiators were in a very difficult position. their primary role shifted to support the tactical teams, which is a very viable purpose of the negotiation process as well. >> so essentially you're saying cause -- and what we're hearing now, because the to two terror specks themsel

let's bring in bobby ghosh, managing editor of "quartz."e doing nothing but speaking out against it. if you went on twitter, if you went on facebook people all across the muslim world, but especially in france have been speaking out. sometimes they speak in a language you don't understand it might be french or arabic. but speaking out is what they're doing. >> you hear all sorts of public officials saying they're not going far enough. here's a tweet from rupert murdoch that received a lot of attention. maybe most muslims peaceful. but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be helped responsible. do they bear some responsibility for eradicating that cancer. >> i think the most charitable thing i did say about rupert murdoch's tweet is he mistyped something. how to keep an eye out on their angry young people. how to get better at then reporting any sign of radicalization to the right authorities. there's concern, though that if at a very early stage, if they report to the authorities, the authorities may over

let's bring in cnn managing affairs editor bobby ghosh.another man's hate speech. where is the line? >> it's impossible to draw the line for that reason. what many see as inoffensive or thought-provoking, to other people feels almost abusive. it's notoriously difficult do navigate this sideline. but as "charlie hebdo" their philosophy was that there are no cows that are sacred all religions, all, anything that even remotely reeks of establishment is ripe for satire ripe every balloon must be punctured. >> they knew they were a target. >> absolutely. >> and the editor stephane charbonnier, who was killed yesterday, refused to be cowed. here is what he said in an interview with abc news. >> our job is not to defend freedom of speech. but without freedom of speech we are dead. we can't live in a country without freedom of speech. i prefer to die than live like a rat. >> of course all of his words now seem prophetic. he thought it was more than satire he didn't think it was just a joke he thought it was about freedom of speech. >> and it was s

joining us is bobby ghosh, cnn global affairs analyst and managing editor of "quartz" let's remind people map. it is down at the bottom of this peninsula. bobby, why is yemen so significant to the u.s.? >> well it's significant because aqap the group that took credit for what happened in france most recently but has a long history of trying to attack the rest is based in yemen. and it's eastern parts of the country, where it has almost free run. it's a pretty wild part of the country. desert. difficult to patrol difficult to police. and yemen is deeply poor and can't afford to police and patrol all of its territory. so that's why it's crucial and it is where the u.s. has called the attack one of the early successes, if you like of al qaeda. so yemen has been in important to the united states for a long time. >> we're looking at the map of its neighbors and why this is such a critical region. you see it is bordered by saudi arabia then iraq syria. iran afghanistan. and colonel reece, the reason that it's important to figure out what's going on in yemen, is because if no one's in charge the

let's bring in bobby ghosh, he understands the situation very well a cnn global affairs analyst. the managing editor of "quartz." you've been to yemen, you know the cultural dynamic. yemen, do i care? yes, you should care and why? >> you should care because the beasts that are being, the monsters that are being unleashed in yemen are going to come out and have already in some cases, come out and hurt all of us. and taken a bite out of all of us most recently in paris. millennium sn home to aqapl qaeda in the arabian peninsula, probably the most dangerous franchise of al qaeda anywhere in the world. it's a deeply poor country. the poorest by far in the arab world, one of the poorest in the world at large. >> the government -- >> a very corrupt government a very weak government. the south and east of the country is sort of a playing ground for al qaeda. the north where the shiite rebels have elerjmerged from is very close to saudi arabia. these rubbles are called the houthis, named after their leader. you have a shiite with a sunni dimension. >> who is paying for the houthis? >> th

. >> we have peter binert and bobby ghosh, let's set the scene for people.rise that this happens wildfire it happened. in paris, two this magazine. now that we hear that the shooters supposedly said we have avenged the prophet, bobby, let's bring you in here what is the dynamic that's being revealed in this violence. it's a satirical magazine. often the target is religion or religious people. a lot of the controversy around it has centered on cartoons depicting the prophet mohammed. >> very recently. >> let's talk about this. let's bring this up for people and show you on the screen this was the cover of their magazine in october and it does show the prophet mohammed. it says if mohammed came back and then you see, it is the prophet mohammed who is down on his knees and a isis fighter about to behead him and you have the prophet saying i'm the prophet, you idiot. and you have the fighter saying -- shut your trap infidel. >> yes, and so that's the point. it's satire it's not against religion per se. >> why is it offensive? >> well to these people the people w