ibrahim and salah abdeslam.e bombers and salah being perhaps one of the most wanted men in europe right now, at large. and the vehicle he had been traveling in after the paris attacks actually ended up back in his home neighborhood of molenbeek. belgian authorities have gone on to say that there are some long-standing ties between abaaoud, the suspected isis ringmaster here, and the brothers, in particular salah abdeslam, who is still a fugitive right now. both of them were arrested and convicted on the same charge of theft in 2011 and spent a month in prison. and it just goes to show that abaaoud seems to have used people from his earlier years here in brussels as well as perhaps relatives like his female cousin, who was said to have been in the apartment in saint-denis as part of this deadly conspiracy. hala. >> ivan watson for us in brussels right now. ivan's at the parliament. it's so interesting you see that discussion going on in brussels right now. the parliament there. right here in france there's a deba

they include abdeslam's brother ibrahim who gunned down restaurant customers in central paris then blew himself off. akbaq abdul hamad attacked the football stadium, 25, a syrian who slipped into europe on what may have been a false passport last month, among the thousands of asylum-seekers who have come ashore in greece. omar ismail most 77 fy, on a police watch list after being radicalized in 2010. and he led the attack in the concert hall. here's the result. a distressing photo of the crime scene shows the bodies of music fans executed on the spot. today family members got as close as they could to the place still under police guard and their shock dissolved inn anguish. a rabbi and two imams came to light candles and speak to the crowd. "now is the time," said one of the imams" for french citizens to take a clear stand against any form of terrorism." but for 129 innocents, it's too late. this is the second major terrorist attack in paris in less than a year, jeff. and the world climate change summit is coming up in two weeks. to say that french politicians and security services are

among his friends with ibrahim and salah abdeslam. salah abdeslam is still on the run. abdel hamid abaaoud was thought to travel to syria in 2014 where he embraced i.s.i.l. and calling on muslims to rise up. he bragged on line about the ease with which he was able to travel between europe and syria. that appears to be a major security lapse by the intelligence services. accounts of abdel hamid abaaoud suggest a man not just with personal passion for i.s.i.l.'s ideology but something of great value to the group, friends in a brussels suburb, restless drop-outs searching for meaning. it seems he was able to offer him some >>> there are raids in the suburb of mollenbee are k. these are raids related to friday's attacks in paris. some of the suspects in those attacks had linkss to belgium. security is to be stepped up. 400 million euros will go to fight itting groups like i.s.i.l. in the belgian capital. of course, so many links aren't there between what happened in paris and brussels and the p.m. has been at pains to try to make amends, if you like, by unveiling a program

his brother ibrahim blew himself up. done? no. my family and i do not. the victims are innocent. we are deeply shocked. reporter: across europe, terror continues to take hold. stadium inoculated before kickoff. loudspeakers ordering people to go home. police shut down the whole found. overnight, the emergency anti-terror crackdown around paris. 128 raids, 115,000 extra troops. police pounding on doors, going through homes. searching, and in some cases, arresting those inside. country was at war with isis. tonight, the air force continues to pound the terror group in syria. spending the night in a massachusetts jail, accused of trying to open an airplane door midair. mary is at logan. let' s be clear. this is blamed on alcohol and not terrorism? reporter: she was merely intoxicated but could not have picked a worse week to act up. 213 never noticed a problem would be boarding the plane. vapor cigarette and was going into the bathroom to use it. i think they said she could not and she got violent. reporter: those who witnessed the drama unfold 734-year-old -- said 34-year-old camil

his brother, ibrahim, blew himself up during the attacks. their family tells cnn, they had no idea the two had become radicalized. >>:my brother who has participated in this terrorist attack was probably psychologically ready to commit such an attack >> pam :french police also want to know who this man was. they say he was a suicide bomber who attacked the stade de france. police found documents with an i-d -- but they now say those documents were fake. we will continue to bring you updates on this raid once more information becomes available. the f-b-i is now investigating graffiti found at a school playground in san francisco. vandals sprayed this image on a wall at the french american school early this morning. the image is used by five percent nation. which is an off- shoot of the nation of islam. it shows a seven, a star and a crescent moon surrounded by an eight pointed star. this comes amid heightened concerns over terror in this country following the attacks in paris. the executive director with the council on american-islamic relati

his brother ibrahim blew himself up during the attacks that left 129 dead. they families telling cnn they had no idea the two had become at cannized. o. >> french liss also want to know who this man was. who attacked the thought of weakening the french and receiving the whole world and we're a proud country that accepts all cultures. >> reporting in paris, i'm erin mclaughlin. >> governor charlie baker continues to say he does not want syrian refugees in massachusetts for now. the president has committed to resettling at least ten,000 refugees here in the united states. but in the wake of the paris attacks, baker says he is opposed to opening up the state until he has more information about how they're being vetted. >> syria's a very complicated place. and what i'm looking for is some guidance from the feds about how they plan to incorporate that into the decision making process that they sur sue. >> boston mayor marty walsh also saying that he wants to know more about how those refugees are screened but added he's willing to work with the federal government

ibrahim has it in yemen. many have joined the islamic state. same technology.ould come as no surprise. and i don't think it should come as a surprise if at some point the islamic state could bring this technology to europe and bring down an airplane there and i know this sounds terribly alarmists but having been around these explosives for a long time, as david would tell you, they are treacherous and able to slip by security. >> david, the thing s. the white house is saying, we told planes not to fly over sinai. this had nothing to do with planes being flown over sinai. the president famously called isis the jv squad. if they did this, this is something that al qaeda has failed to do and something transformational and not the jv quad. >> it doesn't become a game changer. it becomes a catalyst to look at our strategy to see what we are doing and how we are doing it. we have a lot of end states but not how to get there. the strategy is the how to get to those end states and they are very broad. we need to take a hard look at our allies, who are we working with a

amini ibrahim, soldier from sinjar, told us he fled with his baby daughter when isis overran the city 15 months ago. >> this is very dangerous. what are you afraid of as you continue through this village? "i'm afraid of the ieds, homemade bops they left behind and the booby troops in the houses." yet we didn't see any specialist checking for bombs or booby traps today. it was clear isis had disappeared, either driven out or had escaped ahead of the assault assault. most of the gunfire we continued to hear was in celebration. as it came back down from sinjar mountain we ran inn a traffic jam of yazidis who heard isis had been pushed out of their city and they are desperate to get back home. with all the destruction, bombs and risk of counterattack, that could be several weeks away. mohammad emwazi is best known as the man behind the black mask believed responsible for the beheading of at least seven host ans, including american journalist james foley and steven sotloff and american aid worker keet peter cassic in syria in 2014. his brutality and anonymity earned him the name jihadi joh

ibrahim abeslam was one who blew himself up. opened fire in revelers inside the bataclan facility.nd ahmed, matched those of a refugee who passed through grease last month. >>> police have described on the run suspects salah abeslam as dangerous. police carried out a raid on a residence in brussels in hope of stopping him. paul brennan reports. >> police swooped in with overwhelming armed strength and taking no chances. their focus was number 47, rowe de la noir in the brussels neighborhood of mollenbeck. their suspect, salah abeslam. the so-called 8th attacker. >> translator: i saw the police rushing in they put the barriers in place. i was wondering what's going on. then they pushed everyone away, they asked us not to go outside. >> reporter: this is the phrase of the most wanted man in europe right now, and police believe he is hiding in the mollenbeck district. officers barked orders through loud speakers, specialist units took up positions on rooftops overlooking the targeted address. explosive charges were also used to clear the premises but it was a false lead. news spread t

they include ab an des slam brother ibrahim who gunned down restaurant customers in central paris and blew himself up. ahmad al mo ham ad was another bomber who tried to attack the football stadium. he was 25 and a syrian who slipped into europe on what may have been a false passport last month, among the thousands of asylum seekers who had come ashore in greece. and omar ismail mostefai was a french citizen and petty criminal. he was on a police watch list after being radicalized in 2010. and he lead the attack in the concert hall. here is the result. a distressing photo of the crime scene shows the bodies of music fans e cuted-- executed on the spot. today family members got as close as they could to the place, still under police guard. and their shock di solved into anguish. nearby where floral tributes are piling up, a rabbi and two imams came to light candles and speak to the crowd. >> now is the time said one of the imams for french muslims to take a clear stand against any form of terrorism. but for 129 innocents, it's too late. this is the second major terrorist attack in pari

certainly ibrahim is a petty criminal. that fits with the picture that isis is gathering. and what people talk about in this suburb of brussels, they talk about the fact this that this area, a center of crime. it is also a very poor area. one man told me he believes young people here are being brainwashed noord to join jihadism. they say that around -- they think around 500 people from this country have gone to syria to fight with extremist there's, more than 100, they think, have come back. it is the focus that what happened in this community led to the attack in paris but a number of attacks in parts of europe including the attack on that magazine earlier. >> that leads us to the larger question that you can't blame people for asking which is what is it about belgium that has led to this? >> yeah, it's a very, very good question. people who you talk to here say that one of the issues they think is that rather than tackle the problem here, the local politicians have closed their eyes to it. tried to ignore it. hoped it would go away, brian. perhaps in some small community

salah, suspected of being a lynch pin of the operation, ibrahim the other brother blew himself up withcide vest outside the cafe. for more let's go to msnbc's thomas roberts who joins me here. that was the headline looking at the interview. he doesn't think his brother was radicalized. >> the time line he characterizes as last seeing his brothers two to three days before all of this happened on friday the 13th. so chris, they asked when and if they thought that the brother were radicalized. he said "specipersonally i woul use that term. many young people are influenced. i don't believe my brothers were radicalized, that is why we did not see anything. my impression is rather that my brothers were manipulated." the other really point out of this interview that i think you'll find fascinating, too, how the brother talked about salah's intelligence, how he considers him very intelligent. so he was asked, because ibrahim blew himself up, he used the suicide vest or belt and the question is, salah disappeared from the radar and the investigators are wondering if he changed his mind at the l

he had been questioned earlier this year along with his brother ibrahim the other suicide bomber. they had been arrested, suspected of wanting to go join jihad, isis in syria. they were questioned earlier this year and then released. the fact that the brother who is a fugitive right now was stopped by french authorities after the paris attacks, questioned and then released, that he did not set off any red flacks for being a suspected jihadi among the french authorities. >> that is one of the concerns right now. >> that some intelligence sharing was not being shared properly between the bellups and the french. one final detail that's important, when he was traveling in a vehicle headed towards belgium and questioned by the french, that vehicle was later found here in this very neighborhood. though he, himself, is still missing. john and hala. >> all right. our ivan watson in brussels. so many threads from brus els where ivan is. the hunt is on there. in sontene, north of paris, raids overnight of huge significance. >> this is really a story that's unfolded and expanded over two cou

amini ibrahim, soldier from sinjar, told us he fled with his the city 15 months ago. >> this is very dangerous. what are you afraid of as you continue through this village? "i'm afraid of the ieds, homemade bombs they left behind and the booby troops in the houses." yet we didn't see any specialist checking for bombs or booby traps today. by the end of the morning, it was clear isis had disappeared, either driven out or had escaped ahead of the assault. most of the gunfire we continued to hear was in celebration. as we came back down from sinjar mountain we ran into a traffic jam of yazidis who heard isis had been pushed out of their city and they are desperate to get back home. with all the destruction, bombs and risk of counterattack, that could be several weeks away. mohammad emwazi is best known as believed responsible for the beheading of at least seven hostages, including american journalist james foley and steven sotloff and american aid worker peter kassig in syria in 2014. his brutality and anonymity earned him the name jihadi john. the gruesome videos presented the world wi

hamid abaaoud was not among the people arrested on wednesday nor was salah abdeslam, the brother of ibrahim, also believed possibly to have been in that apartment, but there is an element of doubt here because he has also said that they cannot identify the people who were killed or, indeed, the exactly number of the-- exact number of the people killed. so whether he was encountered and killed, but the possibility that he still is on the run. at the same time, a ament s intelligence report has been published indicating that u.s. officials warned european security agencies last may that there was a group operating in belgium of so-called plotters, the ring leader none other than abdel hamid abaaoud. the belgians questioned the two abselam brothers. it got very close to identifying some of those involved in friday's attacks, perhaps even identifying that they were about to happen, but, of course, not getting close enough >>> that will be very disturbing to very many people. meanwhile the country is in a heightened state of alert and parliament prepares to discuss the possibility of extending t

morning in st denis believing, hoping that he was there and, indeed also salah abdeslam the brother of ibrahim one of the brothers of the suicide bombers last friday. they launched that raid based on telephone intercepts and we witness accounts that this man abdel hamid abaaoud was in the vicinity or in that apartment. they met resistance and they believe they had interrupted a cell that may have been planning another attack here in paris in that apartment. we know from the prosecutor that abdel hamid abaaoud and salah abdeslam were not among the eight people arrested. what he cannot say with absolute certainty is whether they were among the dead because all he could say at the moment is that they can't identify the dead. they can't even be absolutely sure of the number at least two at this moment who were killed because of the state of the remains. all we can say is that there remains a possibility that these men, one or both were killed in that apartment and i will tell you in france experts, believe that that possibility may be true but we obviously can't say that yet >>> meanwhile the fren

. >> the imprisonment of former makes apposition later an war ibrahim was politically motivated and illegal. that is a body which reviewed the case says. it calls for his immediate release. he was convicted of sod my for the sect time in just over 10 years. he started serving a five year prison term in february. malaysia says it is a criminal case brought by a private individual. >> a controversial plan to introduce state offered history textbooks in schools, conservative party protests. >> to hold a protest outside a government believe in seoul, you call it a press conference. there are several going on at the moment. these are people opposed to the government's plans to bring in its own history textbook to correct the way in the government's words that history is taught to young people in this country. it announced its intention three weeks ago. there has been the requisite period for judging public opinion. the protest has got bigger, but the government says it's going ahead as planned. >> we should not teach our precious children with this dirty and biased history textbooks anymore. we

among his friends were ibrahim & al he em, one of the suicide attackers saleem still on the run. >> hes thought to have first traveled to syria in 2014 where he quickly embraced isil's propapa began a. he also bragged on liet lying about the easy with which he was able to travel to europe and syria. >> appears to be a major security lapse by the intelligence services. accounts of him suggest a man not just with personal passion for isil's ideology but something else of great value to the group: friends in a brussels suburb, restless drop outs searching for meaning. it seems he was able to offer them some. jonah hull, al jazeera, paris. >> in nigeria, at least 15 people have been killed by two suicide bombers. the attack happened in the northern city of kano. police say two women blew themselves up in a mobile phone margaret near the center of the city. it bears the heart attacks of a boko haram attaching. this latest attack comes less than 24 hours after 32 people were killed in a similar bombing in yolo. a report. >> reporter: these are the latest victims of a six-year circle of viole

ibrahim went to a hospital to meet survivors. 41 people were killed in the siege at the radisson blue two of the attackers. a state of emergency still in force as police are looking for suspects. >> one of the fastest growing economies in, if anything, the government says it is determined to reforms ethiopia into am. when it comes to media freedom, it has one of the worst reputations of all. >> reporter: hilu and his fellow blogger and journalist say they live in fear. the terrorism charges against them and seven other bloggers and journalists were dropped after they spent a year in jail. kardu describes what he says was 75 days of often violent interrogation in a windowless cell with only a mattress on the floor. >> i was forced to do sit-ups. i was slapped a lot of times. i sometimes think that my leg was going to be from the government to allow me freely express myself. >> an ethiopia state broadcaster, reporters without board evers says the ethiopian government has forced many media companies to close in recently years according to the new york committee for the protection of jour

as we were filming he received a text message on his phone. we killed ibrahim to break your heart, he said. >> he said i did it and we're coming for you. >> he said just wait, your turn is coming in a matter of days, he said. he showed me the window to the rented apartment across the alley. he says he covered the windows with cardboard and blankets right before the murders and invited over two suspected accomplices. if they think this will stop me, they are wrong. just the opposite. i'm more determined. we will keep going until we are finished with isis. this is a promise for all the victims, he says. richard engle, nbc news, turkey. >>> and a programming note, lester holt will be sitting down with president obama for an exclusive two-part interview on what he still wants to accomplish at his final year in office approaches. that's starting tomorrow right here on "nbc nightly news." still ahead tonight, a crisis facing our veterans. some wait months for care are supposed to help them don't have enough help themselves. tens of thousands of va i use what' s already inside me to reach my

. >> reporter: ibrahim tells me he feels as though some local businesses are trading off their sufferinge refugees we spoke with now sleeping here in this parking lot told us that for them, prices aren't an issue, they don't have enough money to go buy food at a grocery store or eat at a restaurant. many say the money they brought with them is now perillessly close to running out. still even at this hour, surely one of their darkest, they choose to see some light. >> we find difficulty in the island, but we find kindness in the people. that's what makes us feel happy. because we cannot find this kindness in our countries. i don't know what to say. >> reporter: as the economy on lesbos changes, people change with it. the only thing you can see clearly is a surplus of despair. >>> that's despite a government policy that formally grants them access to public schools. they want to insurance schooling for edge children warning a lack of education could have dangerous consequences for an entire generation, the report says there are more than 700,000 school-going age children in turkey but only

his brother ibrahim blew himself up during the attacks that left 129 dead.heir family tells cnn they had no idea the two had become radicalized. [ non-english language ] >> but my brother, who has participated in this terrorist attack, was probably psychologically ready to commit such an act. >> reporter: the worldwide search for salah abdeslam continues as coalition fighters intensify air strikes against isis in syria and iraq. french president francois hollande tells the world france won't back down. >> in short of weakening the french passion for receiving the whole world, i have already lost that fight. >> reporter: russia is also increasing its military response doubling the number of air strikes in syria. it's part of the stern message putin has for isis after confirming it was a bomb that brought down a russian jetliner over egypt october 31. isis has taken credit. in the u.s., a political battle is brewing over president obama's plan to increase the number of refugees allowed in america. the majority of the governors across the country say they don't

a suicide bomber belt found in trash it was similar to the attacks. abdi ibrahim more arrests in several aggressive raids. as they search for the fugitive. the man who a police say helped carry carry out attacks he remains on run tonight. tonight on 7, a family happy to be home in hamilton after now a babysitter is called to court. accused of a vicious toddler attack. tonight that babysitter is being held without bail. and the judge ordered her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. tim can pew is to live in newburyport with why judge think she may not be mentally fit to stand trial. initially when that court psychologist tried to interviewed her in courthouse the 21-year-old form babysitter just sat on the ground, nodded to questions yes or no. what is essentially immoo un. police say when it fist tried to inter have u that first babysitter she told them she didn't even know the family. >> the 21-year-old former babysitter was helped into court two bailiff held abigail hanna charged with assault ask & kidnapping girl. friday morning between who-year-old lyndon's parents in back door of ha

two of them being the abdul salem brothers ibrahim and salah.the subject of a international man hunt right now and is now at large. the belgian federal prosecutor says ibrahim first caught the attention of belgian authorities the beginning of this year after he apparently tryied to go to syria and was returned by turkish officials. he was then brought in for questioning in february of this year and eventually released when told -- when he said that he did not any longer want to go to syria. and the missing brother salah was also questioned at that time and eventually released. now the federal prosecutor says they do not have the manpower here in belgian to monitor all of the hundreds of people who want to go and fight and join the jihad in syria. that they have their hands full just following around 130 belgians who have actually gone to syria and then returned back to here that they are the highest priority to be monitored right now. now, a third brother muhammed abdul was brought in for questioning this weekend and released. there are no crimi

ibrahim detonated an explosive suicide vest in front of one of the cafes here. it's the other brother muhammad who also made that point talking about that salah holds a lot of answers. not just answers for their own family but answers for the families of all the 130 victims here. he's pivotal because there is intelligence concern that he is capable of trying to do this somewhere else. >> and there's another -- the only other link to these attackers right now in custody is this man in turkey. this is the man in his 20s, 26 years old, ahmad dahmani, he was arrested yesterday. and was scoping out some of these sites. he's the only other person with direct contact to these attackers other than abdeslam. so the direction of this is obvious. they need to get him in custody and find out else who he may be associated with and whether this is the end of the cell or whether it's bigger. >> we have new reaction from president obama on the u.s. strategy to defeat terrorism. kristen welker joins me from the white house. what are some of the other thing as we find the preside

however, her brother, ibrahim, whwas only 17 years at the timee mains behind bars. >> i just can't understandore than 40,000 remain behind bars i am able to talk about my brother today others are not. >> reporter: she is amongst hundreds of protesters who gathered outside downing street on the eve of sisi' visit to london saying david cameron should never have invited the former general. >> knowing that the u.k. has always cared for hugh human rights, but yet the man who arrested my brother and put him in to jail for over two and a half years he's invited to the u.k. >> reporter: drop don isn't sisi's first state visit to europe, he's already enjoyed visits to france and more yes recently to determine any. european governments may say they don't approve of much what have press sisi does at home but feel he provides a degree of what they called stability in a doubled region. and as paris and berlin think, so does london. >> we should not have any illusions about governments' priorities which are usually in decenting order security both domestic lick and internationally and economically. and we