for more now, thank you for speaking to us, what do you think is the scale of involvement from chechnya and the caulk a.c.c.ous in the ranks of the islamic state group? >> it's very difficult to say how many people from any one country have draffled -- traveled to side with daesh but we're quite confident russia is one of the main contributors. this has to do with the conflict in tchetchia, which basically fizzled out a number of years ago after the caulk emerate caucasus organization there was denuded of followers. faced with this ininsurgency on their own territory and a fight in syria that was attracting many foreign fighters, essentially said to islamist militants, here's an opportunity for you, you can stay and fight here and we'll kill you or go to syria and fight in a different conflict. the chechen conflict has been going on for years without much in the way of resolution and there is a little bit of cynicism on behalf of the russian security services here. >> so you are basically saying the -- russia is dealing with its own problem of jihadist terrorists by exporting the terror

uzbekistan, kurdistan, chechnya.here is intelligence that indicates that one of the key members of the islamic state was a chechen who took over some responsibilities after we whacked another chechen about a year ago. this fellow akhmed chatayev has taken over some of the responsibilities of managing the chechen and russian-speaking rebels for foreign fighters. kennedy: how is he involved in the turkish bombing? >> he has a long history at this point. he's been with them almost since their inception. long time foreign fighter. he was in chechen conflicts. kennedy: why did the russians let him go? >> they were looking to cool down the conflict with chechnya. so he has been with the islamic state for quite some time. again with the responsibility for the chechen and rugs-speaking fighters. dna picked off the bombers literally off the ground -- kennedy: they had a hard time reconstructing the soft tissue. >> you are looking for three key thing. but if we keep it simple. we are looking for explosive material, what kind o

officials say this man was the organizer of the massacre akhmed chatayev an isis commander from chechnya. turkey is allegedly not doing enough to stop terrorists in their country from joining isis in syria. it seems that some of those foreign fighters may have targeted turkey and its biggest airport. >>> still ahead, millions of americans hitting the road for the holiday weekend. so how do you avoid the traffic headaches? we'll have the 4th of july getaway. >> plus fireworks thrilling for people but nerve-racking for some dogs. the new drug that could help your furry friend cope with all the noise. >> we do enter the weekend on a sunny note but we have changes for the 4th of july forecast. the details coming up as the news continues. backed. we'll be right back. ,, ,,,,,,,,,, wannwith sodastream®er? you turn plain water into sparkling water in seconds. and because it's so delicious, you'll drink 43% more water every day. sodastream®. love your water. arlington, texas... following a comput >>> new at noon, tense moments on board this roller coaster at six flags in arlington, texas followi

either way, chechnya has become a hotbed region for a reason, it's because the russians have brutalized and they have allowed it to resist. >> yeah, but the chechnyan fighters, it's not exactly like they've been put upon and they're just rebels fighting for freedom. julie: no question. no question. but much like the afghanistan invasion in the '70s bred what is now al-qaeda in the same way that putin is now breeding all these extremists. so the reason i say -- you're right, we don't pay enough attention to what the russians are doing and their involvement. we focus on syria, on the sinai, on libya, we don't focus on the former soviet states, and as you said, it is so crucial to be aware of. when we're talking about vans of people coming from different countries, look at the russians, look at what they've done in the former soviet union. dagen: this soviet extremist, chechnyan extreme list, chatayev, this get toss the point of the frustration we feel in this country. it's the language that the administration uses. when we were hearing john kerry talk about the islamic state is getting de

russia and chechnya trying to suppress.had a problem, putin's had a problem with muslim extremism for quite some time. it created a large cadre of very battle-hardened individuals. they hate russia, they hate the west. and they've been prized recruits for the islamic state because of their military experience. we took out a little over a year ago we took out a fellow who was a very senior military commander for the islamic state from chechnya. this individual that we're talking about now that looks like he was responsible or partly responsible for the planning of the ataturk airport bombing, akhmed chatayev took some responsibility. he was responsible in part for the chechnyan and russian-speaking fighters in the islamic state. stuart: now, as i recall, this was some years ago, the chechnyan republic, the russians flattened it. there was a muslim revolt or a local revolt towards independence. the russians came and just creamed it. there was torture on both sides, it was a dreadful incident. >> yeah. stuart: and that created

official says an isis commander from chechnya organized the massacre.ome are accuse the turkish government of not doing enough to stop foreign fighters from passing through its territory and then joining isis in syria. >>> bill cosby's attorneys are bringing a new argument into the courtroom and the actors sex assault case they've asked a judge to force andrea constand to give back the money cosby gave her to settle a lawsuit. con stand accused cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004. now, cosby says she violated their confidential agreement by speaking to police about the case. cosby is due back in a montgomery county courtroom next week to try to get the criminal charges thrown out. >>> governor tom wolf has set a date for special election to fill former congressman chaka fattah's seat that vote will happen on election day notify eighth. the winner holds the position until the start of the new term in january. voters will also select fattah's permanent replacement on that day. the congressman resign last week after his conviction on fede

official says an isis commander from chechnya organized the massacre.ome are accuse the turkish government of not doing enough to stop foreign fighters from passing through its territory and then joining isis in syria. >>> bill cosby's attorneys are bringing a new argument into the courtroom and the actors sex assault case they've asked a judge to force andrea constand to give back the money cosby gave her to settle a lawsuit. con stand accused cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004. now, cosby says she violated their confidential agreement by speaking to police about the case. cosby is due back in a montgomery county courtroom next week to try to get the criminal charges thrown out. >>> governor tom wolf has set a date for special election to fill former congressman chaka fattah's seat that vote will happen on election day notify eighth. the winner holds the position until the start of the new term in january. voters will also select fattah's permanent replacement on that day. the congressman resign last week after his conviction on fede

it's estimated that several thousand fighters from russia and former soviet republics, including chechnya, have joined isis. the three attackers are believed to have rented this apartment in a working-class istanbul neighborhood last month. turkish police raided it yesterday morning. erdal simsek is the local plumber, and told us that when one of the men asked him to fix a leaking tap two days ago, he noticed a strange odor in the apartment. "i asked the man what it was," he told us, "but he just waved me away." explosives experts believe it might have been a chemical precursor used in suicide vests. more raids today rounded up 22 individuals suspected of providing financial and logistical help to isis. turkey's been accused in the past of not doing enough to stop foreign fighters from passing through its territory to reach isis in syria. josh, it now seems that some of those foreign fighters may have targeted turkey and its biggest airport. >> elliott: holly williams in istanbul for us tonight. thank you. attorney general loretta lynch is coming under fire for an impromptu discussion wit

opposition to the local governments, to the ooze beck government, etcetera, and then, of course, chechnya and gagastan. then as terrorists ma taz ta sized and spreading around the world, they became part of the bigger picture and that appears to be what's happening now, that these groups, these men apparently became part of isis and kind of thing big fish in the pond, identifying themselves with that and then going to syria to fight. that's the focus in all of this. fighting in syria, of course, on the side of isis. >> yeah. and talk to us about numbers here potentially. do we know more or less in terms of these ex soviet republics how many recruits isis is able to attract from that part of the world? >> there are about 3,000 fighters who have come from russia. 3,000 from russia and then there's an establishmented another maybe 4,000 who have come from the center of asia. so you're looking at probably a total of about 7,000, give or take. nobody really knows. and don't forget, you know, after the -- or around the period of the russian olympics in sew chee, they also really cracked down on

the head of the house committee on security says that a terrorist from chechnya planned the attack in istanbul. a manhunt is underway to bring him. the death rate has risen to 44 now in turkey. and a memorial was held to remember the victims. authorities are releasing more images of the attack. look at this. the is your vialance surveillance footage shows that before they detonated their vests, two of the terrorists opened fire. >> evidence corroborates that this attack was carried out by isis. this will be declared officially once this investigation is completed. >> in istanbul, some people are avoiding parts of the city that attract big crowds. they are worried about another terror attack. but other turkish people say they have become numb by all the violence and they feel helpless. almost 300 people have died in turkey and more than a thousand more hurt. >>> 5:11 is the time right now. a young boy was hit and killed while walking with his family last night in the south bay. coming up at 5:30, we'll have a report from the scene as investigators try to figure out how it happened. >>>

that is really close to understand chechnya and central asian republican. this funny alliance between russia and iran we have to understand why? we dealt with russia on the uranian nuclear deal. i ask why. we have to be tough, we have to be demanding, we have to be very precise, we have to acknowledge that there are times in our own history and certainly going forward, we have to pick and choose certain things we have to do. with others around the world. it comes from acknowledging our own selfish self-interest as an american. that is important because guess what? russia has a national security strategy. you ought to read it. you can find elements of an online. it doesn't have anything to do with us other than anti-west, anti-us. go look at the partnership china and russia just signed, shanghai cooperation organization, go look at it, fascinating. so anti-west, so anti-american, military and economic. .. i'm taken by your comment about when totally general flynn and i'm also a historian, second world war, my father fought in the second world war on a russia

officials tell cnn that an isis lieutenant from chechnya is likely behind that plot. let's get the latest from bangladesh first though. what have you learned? >> reporter: we now know that of the 20 victims, nine were italian, one was an indian student from berkeley university, all 20 bodies have been taken to a military hospital for autopsy. according to the military there, most of them were found with slit throats. also some new information it happened around 7:30 in the morning and it was sanctioned by the prime minister around the time. that's when the commanders stormed into the restaurant and within 13 minutes they had killed six of those terrorists and were able to capture one. now, this military intervention, of course, happened about 11 hours after the gunmen stormed into the restaurant. we've heard from eyewitnesses, witnesses, a cafe worker who said they came in with guns, they were shooting in the air. they weren't shooting at any people at the time. they weren't hitting anyone. really trying to instill fear. here's what the cafe owner or cafe worker had t

the suspected is identified as a man from chechnya. swedish authorities say he served more than a year in prison for smuggling weapons in 2008. he's accused of organizing the suicide bombings on tuesday that killed 44 people and injured hundreds of others. authorities don't know where he is. >>> happening right now. we're getting a briefing on holiday weekend security at philadelphia international airport. here's a live view of the airport where delaware center carver toured the terminal and checkpoints. thousands of visitors are expected to move through the airport this weekend. the democratic national convention later this month. >>> day after new jersey failed to raise its gas tax to fund road work, there's new fallout today. governor chris christie ordered all state transportation projects shut down this weekend. christie issued an executive order calling on projects to stop by 11:59 p.m. tomorrow. that's about 32 hours from now. it's in response to the state senate refusing to take action on a proposed gas tax thursday. earlier th

first of allish the attackers we know now came from chechnya and central asian countries like kurdistan, they were after a particular to inflict as much collateral damage and terror and fear as possible. now, why did an isis central became responsibility for istanbul is perhaps they yesterdayton want to have the full wrath of the turkish government unleashed upon them. perhaps as you know, the istanbul ataturk airport, the very airport they attacked has been a major hub from jihadis coming from central europe to asia going from turkey to fight against syria and assad. isis would love to take credits for acts -- spectacular acts of terror, what you saw in belgium, what you saw in france and now what you're seeing in bangladesh. that is exactly what isis would like to take credit for. >> real quick, ramadan, why this month? it's a holy month? >> it a holy month. the vast majority of the muslim world would just fast after they break their fast, spend time with families and partake in festivities. for isis this is a month of blood shed. if it's a holy month this means their suicide bombings

he's from chechnya, a part of russia. the bombers blew themselves up at istanbul airport on tuesday. 44 people were killed. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but government officials have said it looks like the work of isis. chatia served as a top lieutenant in the past. >>> we should learn how many civilians were killed in u.s. military and cia drone strikes. president obama is set to release the number of those killed by drone strikes in pakistan, he took office. he's also expected to issue an executive order that makes protecting civilians a bigger part of the planning in u.s. military ongss. >>> if you want to stay up late tonight, why not do it at the smithsonian. the air and space museum is staying open all night tonight in honor of its 40th anniversary. it has several special events on the program starting with the reopening of the newly renovated boeing milestone flight hall. that takes place at 8:30. after that, you can enjoy a little stargazing, a film festival and scavenger hunt. that's after mi

>> dara, his name is act head chetaya, a known separatist from chechnya, believed to have held a top position in the war ministry for islamic state. he also also known to be a recruiter for islamist state and put on the u.s. terrorist list a year ago when he started popping up in some of the i.s. propaganda videos. he fought in the wars against russian forces. then fled to europe somewhere around 2006, 2007. he was granted refugee status there. russia tried to extradite him the past 10 years or so but was blocked by european courts because of the risk of torture. what we know in his more recent past, 2008 we believe he was arrested in and convicted in sweden for arms smuggling. spent about a year in prison. was then released. he was picked up in ukraine in 2010. then sort of disappeared in the caucusas region. we believe he is tied to islamic state. the turkish police, they think man, one-armed ahmed is the planner behind this airport attack in istanbul. and they're looking for him. all of this widery reported in turkish media. >> i'm just curious, if he's been arrested so many times

a lot of the forces that were aligned with the fighting in chechnya have migrated to -- into isis.e left russia. they've gone to syria, to iraq. the same can be said for the uzbeks. the u.s. gzbeks were primarily associated with al qaeda. they have moved also into isis' arms. so you've got this, really, this drawing point, this drawing card of different -- for different groups that have come from russia. the former soviet republics and they have become some of the key fighting elements isis has and isis can leverage into the attacks such as the one we saw in istanbul. >> but recruitment from these areas has been heavy for some time now. does it seem that counterintelligence officials were caught off guard by this one? >> that's a very interesting question because it has been well known for quite some time that russia and especially the dagestan region. so these are well known pipelines for fighters. the problem nat you have is once these people actually get into a battle zone such as northern syria, northern iraq, it becomes very, very hard to then figure out what their movements a

the elder brother returned to chechnya and met with chechen terror related groups. he posted on youtube a public call to jihad. and yet the administration had stopped watching him at that time did not see public call to jihad. and that ended up culminating in the two brothers setting off pressure cooker bombs at the boston marathon that murdered three people and injured approximately 180 others. are those once again significant red flags that ought to be met with a serious law enforcement and national security response to prevent acts of terrorism. >> i believe they are. i think they underscore the problem with treating ideology as if it were not a trigger to violence. >> and the final example i'll focus on is omar mateen. mateen was interviewed by the fbi not once, not twice, but three times. omar mateen told his co-workers that he was involved with both al qaeda and hezbollah. omar mateen had watched videos of the radical cleric anwar al awlaki, a connecting theme of a number of terrorists. omar mateen was interviewed one time because of his relationship with moha

officials tell cnn akhmed chatayev, an isis lieutenant from chechnya is likely behind the plot. >> he travelled to syria on many occasions and then became one of the top lieutenants in the minister for war isis operations. >> chatayev is notorious with terror networks going by the nickname ahmed one-arm. >> he was missing one arm, used that, reportedly used that fact to argue when he went to europe to get refugee status. he said i have been tortured by the russians. the u.s. placed him on the terrorist list just last year. but he has been around for a long time. >> reporter: investigators are digging in. trying to find out more about the men seen running through the terminals brandishing weapons and detonating suicide bombs. turkey's president today condemning their actions and vowing to fight. ooh >> translator: terror and terrorists do not have religion, a nation, a motherland. we are going to fight them with our soldiers, with our police, and with our village guards. >> reporter: 24 people, including 15 foreigners have now been detained according to turkish state media. police are

and vladimir putin had a free hand in chechnya. and putin is expert in trying to expose weaknesses, especially in u.s. leader where is he thinks he can get some advantage. >> very quickly, has it been, as donald trump said in the statement, 230 days since hillary clinton did what he did, had a full blown news conference? >> it was actually at the end of the last year with a full blown news conference. almost never takes her questions. he is right about that. her campaign said, look, we do interviews all the time with other outlets. in truth of a sit-down news conference, it's been a very long time. several seasons. it was winter last time. certainly not winter in philadelphia. >> certainly very hot out there. in many respects. all right. stand by -- coming up, party heavyweights, including the president of the united states, president obama, set to address the democrats tonight. we're going to talk to one of tonight's speakers, connecticut senator chris murphy. that's coming up next as well. i work 'round the clock. i want my blood

these people have a lot of experience fighting russia in places like chechnya and have done so for severalwilling to fight. they have a lot of pressure on them in russia and in their homelands so the next thing they, do of course, is find a cause. and one of those causes is isis. >> it seems perhaps a tactical win for isis but maybe a huge strategic mistake. they're losing ground at home. they are seemingly ramping up operation across the middle east, africa and southeast asia now. what are we to draw from this particular blow against turkey, a place that they had used as a transit point, a grocery store basically for so many years now. >> one of the things is they are biting a hand that fed them. they got a lot of logistical support through turkey. one of the big markets for their oil was turkey. but they find it more important to go in and cause damage to turkey because they see turkey now as more on the side of the west of the u.s.-led coalition against isis. and they believe that turkey is a grand facilitator in this, and they feel it's incumbent upon them to go after the turks and pun

it means the fighters, the prolific and dangerous of which, many coming from russia, chechnya will eventuallytart going home. in terms of the security aspect, whether you're in the united kingdom, whether you're in europe or russia, there's going to have to be cohesion in how they deal with this. it was interesting, i asked also the nato ministers, i asked them what's happening in your country with response to nato, how worried are you? take a listen. >> it's not about hard line against russia. it's realistic line securing eastern frank of nato and including our region. >> our sanctions policy is one that nobody likes because it hurts others. but i think it works. never approve of that. but i think it is important to show that after all the rules of the game, after the second world war on territorial integrity and rules of violence have been violated. we have to do it and it will lead to productive reactions from the russian side. >> on the border with russia, is 1,340 kilometers. it is more than the eu and nato countries have together. that is very important. russia is a big issue. >> even t

subsequently, we have seen in crimea and other areas and not to speak about the war in chechnya in theand decade ago, moscow has cracked down repeatedly on these areas but it hasn't been able to calm them. it relies on local strong men. there's a strong islamic flavor there and influence from saudi arabia and elsewhere. it is another breeding ground for terror as we've seen. there are a lot of recruits active with isis and syria from that region. >> isis recruits. it's frequent that we hear about them coming in and out of syria or iraq, a lot of them passing through turkish airports, recently you had turkey stepping up the airport monitoring. do you think this attack w retribution for that? >> it certainly was. extending forces out of turkey in particular against isis, turkey itself partially closed the border to isis. it's a much more active turkish role against isis. turkey has other fish to fry. kurdish pkk and assad regime, the attention has not been fully on isis, that's going to change after istanbul. >> it's interesting, some people in foreign service, the foreign service commun

trained fighters, most of them, from as far as chechnya and libya and tunisia and saudi arabia, of courseand so on. and they were all, as "the new york times" and seymour hersh and many other reliable sources have revealed that the cia court mated a lot of this from turkey -- coordinated a lot of this from turkey. so to sit down and listen to tony blair trying to dissociate himself and george bush and the policymakers then of the proliferation of terrorist groups -- the murders in iraq -- people will tell you we are still at war. the 2003 invasion, occupation of the country has not ended. this terrorism is a continuation of that war. they see these terrorist organizations are an arm of the same invasion and occupation of the country. they're still dividing and ruining. they're still trying to dominate iraq because the iraqi people have a great history of fighting for independence, for progress -- amy: sami ramadani -- >> they cannot control the country that terrorism is serving them. amy: i want to play a clip of donald trump yesterday in raleigh, north carolina, talking about saddam huss

as for the man who directed the operation, an isis lieutenant from chechnya is likely behind with then many occasions and became one of the top lieutenants in the minister of war for voice operations. >> chatayev is notorious in terror networks going by the anymore name akhmed "one arm." >> used that fact to argue when he went to europe to get refugee status. he said i had been tortured by the russians. the u.s. placed him on the terrorist list just last year. but he's been around for a long time. >> investigators are digging in trying to find out more about the men brandsishing farms through the airport. turkey's president condemning their actions. >> terror and terrorists do not have.region, do not have nations, do not have a motherland. we are going to fight them with our soldiers, with our police and with our village guards. >> 24 people, including 15 foreigners have now been detained according to state media. police are asking about the security image, showing the three men believed to be suspects. turkey authorities believe the three attackers holed.up for a month in an apartmen

mastermind of the plot, who remains at large, is described as an extremist from the russian province of chechnyaanwhile, security was heightened at the airport today, and officials from foreign consulates paid their respects to the 44 people who died in the attacks. a warning today from the leader of al-qaeda, ayman al-zawahri. in an online video message, he threatens "the gravest consequences" if the surviving boston marathon bomber is executed. dzhokhar tsarnaev was sentenced last year to death by lethal injection. the 2013 bombing killed three people. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch voiced regret today about a meeting earlier this week with former president bill clinton. they spoke monday, for about 30 minutes, after his private plane landed near her government aircraft at the phoenix airport. it stoked criticism because the f.b.i. is investigating hillary clinton's e-mail practices as secretary of state. today, in aspen, colorado, lynch repeated that she and the former president never discussed the investigation, but she understands the criticism. >> i may have viewed it in a certain lig

attack, which is way beyond what we've seen -- >> we've seen the boston marathon, two brothers from chechnyaheir own lone wolf imperatives to do what they did. and san bernardino, the husband and wife team. we had ft. hood. we've had these cases where it's people who have been inspired to do something, but we haven't seen direction, have we? >> right. but these individuals are inspired through online contact with these groups. and isis now is claiming these attacks even when there's not operational support. isis claimed the orlando attack. >> we're in it, i worry about july. we have the fourth of july -- >> and the olympics and soccer games in europe. with the end of ramadan, july 4th weekend, probably see heightened security alerts, olympics, sporting events traditionally a target and political conventions. you're right. lots of soft targets. >> i think the trump people have a right to be worried. i hope they don't have everybody armed up, but i do think it's a magnetic target. thank you for coming on. >> i wish i could come on for a good news story. >> we'll have to have you on just for th

it's estimated that several thousand fighters from russia and former soviet republics, including chechnyaee attackers are believed to have rented this apartment in a working-class nb neighborhood last month. turkish police raided it yesterday morning. erdal simsek is the local plumber, and told us that when one of the men asked him to fix a leaking tap two days ago, he noticed a strange odor in the apartment. "i asked the man what it was," he told us, "but he just waved me away." explosives experts believe it might have been a chemical precursor used in suicide vests. more raids today rounded up 22 individuals suspected of providing financial and logistical help to isis. turkey's been accused in the past of not doing enough to stop foreign fighters from passing through its territory to reach isis in syria. josh, it now seems that some of those foreign fighters may have targeted turkey and its biggest airport. >> elliott: holly williams in istanbul for us tonight. thank you. >>> attorney general loretta lynch is coming under fire for an impromptu discussion with former president bill clint

both in chechnya, where he comes from, the late '90s, during the chechen wars, he joins isis in 2015.i think that would illustrate that you have people who are homegrown, let's call it, in russia and in that kind of war torn previously war torn and still, destabilized area in the south of russia, then when there is a bigger organization like isis, oftentimes they hitch their wagon to that. and this man, very notable, because he was missing one arm, used that, reportedly used that fact to argue when he went to europe to get refugee status. he said i have been tortured by the russians. and because the west, you know, sometimes looked at the chechen war not necessarily as terrorism, but kind of russia's problem, it may have, this is my opinion, it may have kind of down-played his significant and did not extradite him back to russia. so i think the message here, the question would be, how serious will the west get, and you know, vis-a-vis russia, in terms of people defined as terrorists but don't meet the criteria, until it gets a lot later. remember, the u.s. placed him on the terrorist

this man's name was ahmed chetaya, from chechnya. he cut his teeth as a fighter, perhaps even as an extremist in the late '90s and 2000s. we know he was placed on the sanctions lisbie last year by not only the u.s. treasury but united nation is security council. more information emerging from those announcements. he was born in 1980. a very young man. he was a top leader in isis. he commanded at the time being on the sanctions list in october of last year. he commanded 130 militants. also more details about the man himself. not only did he have just one arm, he had also just one leg. we have been hearing the nickname ahmed one-arm. he gained status in austria and has believed to move around a fair bit. the russian ministry are saying he had georgian citizenship but left to go to syria in 2015. so that's where we last heard him. and his alleged involvement in the istanbul attack. >> and authorities continuing to learn more from people in this. we'll stay in touch with you. for the families of those who lost loved ones, as they continu

akhmed chatayev, from chechnya. and joining isis in syria. it now seems that some of those foreign fighters may have targeted turkey and its biggest airport. gayle. >> thank you, holly williams reporting from istanbul. >>> an 8-year-old by is in critical condition this morning after being found unresponsive in a pool on one of the world's largest cruise ships. royal caribbean was heading to port in new jersey for the emergency. don shows us what efforts were made. >> the cruise liner was only a few miles into the trip when the child was found in one of the four pools. but it was the ship's proximity to shore and the rapid access to emergency crews that gave the boy a chance at survival. new york city rescue crews quickly unloaded the 8-year-old from a helicopter and into the back of a waiting a.mbulance which then rushed him to a hospital. the boy from hawamaryland was f anthem of the seas. according to officials, he was without oxygen for about 18 minutes. this video shot on board the ship shows new york fire and police boats swarming the an

officials tell cnn ahmed chatayev, an aisis operative from chechnya is likely to have carried out the plot. >> he travelled to syria. >> reporter: he is going by the nickname akhmed one-arm. >> he's missing one arm. used that, reportedly used that fact to argue when he went to europe to get refugee state tuesday. he said, i have been tortured by the russians. the u.s. placed him on the terrorist list just last year but he's been around for a long time. >> reporter: investigators are digging in, trying to find out more about the men running through the terminals, ravishing weapons and detonating bombs. >> translator: terror and terrorists do not have religion, do not have nations do not have a motherland. we are going to fight them with our soldiers, with our police and with our village guards. >> reporter: 24 people including 15 foreigners have now been detained according to turkish state media. police are also asking local residents about the security image showing the three men believed to be suspects. authorities told us they believe the three holed up for months in an apartment in