one of them is from dagestan and the russian federation and another from uzbekistan and kyrgyzstan. i wonder if any of them served in their militaries before they moved over to syria to join isis. this would not be uncommon. the isis war minister who was killed in a coalition air strike. >> right. >> the chechen as he was called. the georgian national was part of georgia's special forces, trained by the united states, fought against russia in the 2008 summer war between georgia and russia and it is no wonder he was one of the most sophisticated commanders isis ever had. >> the more you are learning how it played out, one explosion was diversion. the second were the attacks to kill. what's your take from that? is this a new level of sophistication that we're seeing in these attacks? >> so what we've seen in the middle east in particular is that you can have secondary attacks that you use the initial explosion to draw people out and what you have is tremendous planning and they knew when the planes were coming in and when they can maximize a number of individuals that are coming in fr

dagestan is in the neighboring chechnya. islamic revolt against the russian government there. just last year they pledged allegiance to isis. also the uzbeks around the same time a couple of months later pledged allegiance to isis. kyrgyzstan now just a couple of months ago authorities there cracked down and arrested a man who was claiming to sort of support isis and calling for people from kyrgyzstan to support isis and go and fight in syria. but to the point about dagestan, this is a place that the russian government regularly runs in to gun battles, attacks on checkpoints by small islamic groups who are hiding out in the forests and the woods around there. they've been chased out of the towns. but the russian authorities face a growing problem with them there. they've been recruiting heavily from there to send people to syria and iraq. and indeed there's been a leader of a whole battalion of so-called sort of chechen fighters, fighters from this w caucasus region of russia and syria. but they have a real pull because of t

the dagestan region.miliar to people in the u.s., that's where the boston bombers, the scerniva family. kyrgystan, how this plot, this triple suicide attack might have been directed. cnn is in touch with a turkish, senior turkish source, telling us there was strong evidence here, strong evidence that the bombers came specifically from the isis, the de facto capital raqqah. they had entered turkey about a month ago and that they were specifically directed by isis leadership. in addition to that, according to the senior turkish source, we are learning that one of the men here, one of the bombers, the russian left his passport in his apartment here in a neighborhood in istanbul, and they have recovered his passport from dagestan specifically. we also, this morning, have new video here, showing just outside in the periphery of the airport, a local tv channel, showing this video, reportedly of the attacker shooting one of the security guards outside of the airport here in istanbul as this bomber was asked to s

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kyrgyzstan, uzbekistan, and dagestan, in russia, all rich recruiting grounds for isis. we went to the istanbul neighborhood where the attackers rented an apartment and plotted for 33 days. this is where the attackers were living, up on the second floor here. it's a working class neighborhood, religiously conservative. they kept a very low profile. but inside, neighbors were suspicious about what wasoi door. one of the neighbors told us that on sunday nigh, just two days before the attack, the chemical smell from there, like paint thinner, she said, was so strong that she and other neighbors called their landlord to come play. out back, we met salih elsan, who told us the men wore baseball caps whenever they went out, avoiding eye contact in this tight-knit neighborhood. "i saw them looking out from behind the curtains," he says, "but they never showed their faces." so, you think they were professionals? "yes, absolutely," he said. today, there were funerals across istanbul. the death toll now at 44. turkish security forces launching 16 raids, 13 terror suspects arrested

the region have with islamic militant, thousands of russian citizens, dagestan, regions like that have already left russia to join the ranks of isis. it is possible that wuchb these attackers could have indeed been a russian citizen, carol. >> all right, matthew, reporting live from moscow this morning. >>> let's turn to this morning's terror raids, detaining 22 people, as investigators scramble to identify who was behind the airport attack and whether mortar or attacks are planned. outside of the airport with more, hi alexandra. >> reporter: these are counterterrorism raids. right behind me, we know police have taken nine people into custody and another 13 people who they have detained from istanbul. they've brought them in for questioning. it isn't clear what kind of links they believe the people may have. we do understand from officials in intelligence sources, they've told cnn that three of the bomber whose had traveled from raqqah had spent about a month in istanbul prior to this attack. they have located the flat that these men have rented, so certainly that will be a focus of th

a different newspaper reporting the russian attacker was from dagestan, next door to chesneya. the islamic attacker came from raqqa. and the organizers of the attack is from chesney ya. an islamic state leader who is responsible for training russian speaking militants, also a wanted man in russian. turkish officials say they're working, clothe, round the clock to confirm the i'ds identities of all the bombers. turk eu media report another victim died, raising the death toll to 44. more 200 others were injured. john huddy is live in istanbul. what else are we learning about the attackers? >> reporter: well, we're learning about their nationalities and possibly the background here and the connection that they had with the rebel groups, as you talked about,; we're also seeing haunting new surveillance video and images from the attack at that the airport. you see people scrambling for their lives in what turn out to be a blood bath. and then another surveillance shot you ski a -- see a gunman shooting at point-blank range a security officer. and then you see images from the attack

these were the apartment bombings in russia that took place in the region of dagestan in moscow and inthe city of volcker to ask. the apartment bombings cost 300 lives. they terrorized the country and they created the conditions for a new war in chechnya. that war was very convenient and very gratuitous. because on the eve of that war the popularity rating of yeltsin was 2%. now, sociologists understand that in any public opinion poll, 6% of the respondents don't understand the question. so it was really debatable whether anyone in russia supported yeltsin at that time. his chosen successor, vladimir putin, a little-known former head of the fsb, the sake of the police, the successor organization to the kgb, was similarly supported like 2% of the russian population. it seemed impossible that anyone associated with yeltsin could win in the 2000 elections that were scheduled. and it was for that reason it was widely believed in moscow at the time that some type of massive provocation was going to take place to make it possible for yeltsin and his entourage to declare martial law. and canc

administration knew that russia had pointed out that the tsarnaev brothers had traveled to muslim chechen and dagestan provinces. he was interviewed by the fbi, the older brother. russian authorities a second time notified the administration that they believed them to be religious extremists. 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 and did not see the public call to jihad and that ended up culminating in the two brothers setting off pressure cooker bombs at the boston marathon and 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, and 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. omar mateen was interviewed by the fbi, not once, not twice but three times. omar