all of them has a past of being jihadi activists. one has been training to yemen. the other has been convicted into a network that was transferring fighters in 2008. the third one has been involved in jihadi activities. >> it appears as though the three men knew each other. had a relationship with each other. whether it was operation or simply social is unclear. they did know each other they knew each other. they share the same ideology. basically what i mean is that it is very disturbing to see those people thought of them. at least two were in the no fly authorization from the u.s. and they should be monitored by the french but still they have been able to travel to yemen, to basically prepare this operation. it was very sophisticated. to gain some war weapons. and wondering if the french intelligence service is less able to monitor jihadi threats in france than tuesday intelligence service. >> and the younger of the two brothers suspected of having taken part in the massacre, according to this phone conversation that they said they conducted with him, signaled t

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but that is not what most jihadi groups want from women. can't miss the irony of women going to join this organization, this ideology that is really so hostile to women. >> right. >> they do it for the same reasons that men join jihad. they want to be part of the something big, part of something that seems very meaningful. like most people especially young people they want to change the world. they want to be part of something greater than themselves. but when women participate in this the irony is so sharp because this is a group that has horrific ideas about women. >> well i can think of much better ways to change the world, frida. on your point, this is what peter bergen recently wrote. he wrote, it's a strange kind of jihadist equal opportunity. you, too, can be a part of the holy war that seeks to install a taliban-style utopia that will ensure you can never have a job or get an education. when you hear about these jihad brides brides if they're not actively working in combat what are they doing? >> well in some of the isis-held territ

there were reports that jihadi john was injured in a bombing attack. the video suggests that if it's him, he's alive and well enough to make a death threat accompanied on a demand for money, $200 million from japan, equalling the amount prime minister shinzo abe recently offered in humanitarian aid to countries affected by isis. >> just as your government has made the foolish decision to pay 200 million to fight islam, you now have 72 hours to pressure your government in making a wise decision by paying the 200 million to vafsave the lives of your citizens. >> reporter: all of the isis videos are propaganda used to raise money and recruit followers. this video seeks to project strength while extorting money. >> it shows them resilient, that they're able to film this video with these japanese hostages outside in broad daylight somewhere presumably in syria. >> it's anyone's guess what japan will do about the hos tanls. military contractor and journalist goto though immense international pressure will prevent them from paying the ransom. intelligence ana

and it's exactly the preconceived notions we have of who's going to be a jihadi and the jihadi organizationo use against us. when they go against civilians, it's someone to blend right in with civilians which are women and increasingly children. >> and maajid what's interesting to me also about a lot of these groups is that how much of a learning enemy they are. that, you know people discover the shoe bomber so they change the tactic. i'm wondering if the role of women, the rising role of women seems to be a reaction to try to stay one step ahead of law enforcement and others. >> well this is in fact you've touched on a point that opens up a conversation about profiling. it's exactly why profiling for ethnicity or for certain features features gender in this case doesn't work in crossing borders and getting through airports. if we announced that we're looking for men of middle eastern appearance which is often what we say in the west of course al qaeda and other jihadi groups will switch. it's not a race it's a religion. white muslims, brown muslims, all sorts of muslims. so when you announ

and i wanted to take our viewers at home back to that image of jihadi john. the brazen videos we mentioned. so many of them taped in broad daylight. people at home are going to be asking why can't we get this guy? >> reporter: it's incredible david. we have so much equipment over there. we just don't have people on the ground. and that's what it takes, intelligence on the ground to figure this out. plus jihadi john as he is called he knows not to communicate on cell phones and other things the u.s. would be able to pick up. but the president tonight is going to say, "we will defeat and degrade these terrorists in isis." >> we'll hear that a short time from now. meanwhile, yemen. you've been there several times. the presidential palace surrounded for a time. what's the latest on that and what's the status of the u.s. embassy there? >> reporter: the presidential pal lals over there, still surround d. the president of yemen is not inside that. he's inside his house, but he's also surrounded there. the embassy, they believe, is safe at this time. they are not pla

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>> i want to get the unique perspective, former jihadi reformed worked with intelligence in canada to try to help fight this you've written a book about this. when you talk about anwar al al awlaki an american-born, muslim scholar and critic who acted as a spokesperson for aqap, a lot of people have been focusing on him and saying how effective he's being for his movement from the grave. do you believe that he is critical in what we saw play out in paris and potential future attacks from sleeper cells? >> well of course anwar al al awlaki has played a role in radicalizing individual young people who have then ended up joining groups like either al qaeda or isis. and, you know, and i think the main thing is that first of all he's not a scholar. many islamic scholars have refuted what he believes. and his ph.d. is in human resource management. this is the kind of stuff he's been known to do bring people in send them off to trusted others especially in al qaeda proper. >> but i wonder why you think he has resonate sod much even after being killed by a u.s. drone strike. what does it tell

>> well this is rhetoric that jihadis going back to osama bin laden have used to describe the west. they think they've lost a period of muslim power in the world when a caliphate spanned a large portion of the globe that's now gone. >> this goes way back. >> yeah yeah. so that's been gone for over a century. this is what isis is say saying they're trying to rebuild, to recapture that sense of power and authority that's been lost. the reason why these jihadis attack for example the magazine "charlie hebdo" which depicted the prophet mohammed in ways is a symbol to them of humiliation that jihadis argue muslims have suffered at the hands of the west. "charlie hebdo" becomes a symbol of the west for jihadis to rally more people to their cause and make this argument about humiliation. >> then with "charlie hebdo" in the wake of that you have these ct counter terrorism measures in france specifically numbers we're seeing today, to show 3,000 people. how is that even possible brian? >> yeah i think at the end of the day it's probably not possible. ultimately the counter terrorism official

belgium per capita is believed to have more jihadis, more suspected jihadis that have gone to syria thanny other country in europe. it's a problem they have had to crackdown on a radical group called sharia for belgium. that is believed to be a recruiting ground for these jihadis. paula? >> i'm curious how this is being greeted on the streets there. is there a measure of relief they feel there is protection from both police and soldiers or is there more fear? they have had an attack in belgium, quite a difficult one. are they wondering what's next? >> reporter: you know one man i talked to yesterday, right next to some belgian soldiers who just been deployed to protect the grand mosque of europe here in brussels he said this is just cinema. this is just a show. and if you do consider the numbers of soldiers from the armed forces that are planned to be deployed by tuesday, according to the ministry of defense, it's only 300 soldiers. granted, it's the first time in more than 30 years that belgium has deployed troops on the streets. but the number is dwarfed by 10,000 soldiers that have be

they're recruiting women to come into the territory, build their state, become jihadi brides, become religious police. this is their way of showing other potential women that want to join them here we are standing up for our female sisters. in one hand it also is a way of reaching out to the potential women in the area. and also potentially to become even suicide bombers because let's not forget that this female that we want released was wearing a belt, a suicide vest and belt and tried to detonate and kill people in a suicide operation. so it's yes we support women. >> the payment of that ransom, a nonstarter for japan and likely this hostage exchange also a nonstarter. haras rafiq, thank you. >>> they've raised the wreckage but a major hurdle brings this operation to a stop. up next, we're going to show you new photos of the search as divers scramble to recover the plane nearly a month after it fell from the sky. [ male announcer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you're underwater? try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... s

but he said we want to segregate jihadis in prison. can you imagine anyone in the obama administration even mentioning the word jihadis, saying yes, this is the specific action we are going to take. >> what about earnest's point it isn't accurate? because these people do not -- >> paul, there's one answer to this. it is a kind of social, clinical insanity that we are representing to the world this is -- >> obviously false is that what you mean? >> yes. it's not nothing, we may say, yes it's important to fight it. it's very important that we are presenting the spectacle to the world. let's just say this. you have boko haram -- >> in africa. >> that murdered hundreds and hundreds of children, women. what were they saying during this slaughter? we are killing you because you are not the right muslims because you are infidels. they do not conceal this list of things. you are not allowed to vote according to the interpretations given by these groups to islam. that is why the taliban is slaughtering people. >> but it doesn't matter to the wa

now, is this jihadi femme fatale somewhere that police can't go? the national lead. the u.s. military branch coordinating the war against isis centcom watching their twitter feed get taken over. hackers posting isis propaganda and what looks like pentagon documents. then they threatened american soldiers. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper live in paris, france. we begin today with breaking news on the world lead. france still under its highest alert level monday. now news that last week's terror may, may have only been the beginning. according to the associated press, two french police officials telling the a.p. that as many as six more terrorist cell members are on the loose. this after, over the weekend, when french authorities told cnn that a terror cell in france had been activated. today as citizens here in paris are trying to get back to normal or at least the new normal going back to school and work there are painful reminders of friday's sieges. families burying their loved ones jewish victims killed by amedy coulibaly. investigators are looking into a video

i've interviewed former jihadis and current jihadis before.hat they are very right, no questioning about their justification. i wonder if you could explain that motivation and that mind-set. >> it's a good catch with that. this is part of the ideology this ideology declaring others as infidels or not believers. this is probably the same guy who believes that voting is considered associating partners to god, because only god can legislate, and humans can't legislate, so if you do that, you're making yourself like god. so very similar thinking. this is how they justify attacking civilians. civilians are not considered to be separate from the political class or military class or they're considered just to be everyone. there's no distinction between civilian and noncombatant and everyone becomes combatant, as far as they're concerned. >> incredible to hear that testimonial right from inside there as -- as this hostage-taking is under way. colonel jim reese, i wonder if i could ask you -- you have this audio from inside that store. for the security

again, the notion that many jihadis these days they have mixed loyalties. there may be blended threats out there. everybody may need to think about all of this in a much different fashion, anderson. >> we do know, however, that the younger brother was sentenced and convicted in a french court of attempting to travel ultimately to iraq through syria. but that is separate than the idea of a possible trip to syria more recently so a lot we're still trying to figure out. barbara starr, thank you. pamela brown and what she has been learning now. these brothers were on the radar of u.s. intelligence agencies correct? >> that's right, anderson. u.s. law enforcement sources say french intelligence shared information about the brothers said they had been on the u.s. radar and in the thai database which lists known or, you know international terrorists. in fact we've learned from sources, anderson that the brothers had actually been on the u.s. no-fly list for years. it's unclear, exactly, what prompted that but of course you know logic would tell you that it could h

you see a man, four dressed in black in the center understood to be jihadi john. he apparently speak with a british accent. standing next to two men in orange jumpsuits who are kneeled on the ground. the man criticized what he called the japanese government's support for an effort to stop the islamic state. japan's foreign ministry says it's working to verify the authenticity of the video and says it is "strongly furious at the threat using the life of people as shields." >> the government says it will make every effort to free the japanese nationals. we do expect to hear soon from japan's prime minister shinzo abe, who will hold a news conference from jerusalem. we're looking at that live shot now and waiting for him to speak and fine out what he's going to say. looks like we've got some people coming out here. we will keep an eye on that. we'll bring it to you when it happens. >>> all right. we are waiting for north korean reaction to a new report the u.s. national security agency has broken into the same computer networks north korea uses to launch cyber-attack

isis is targeting young mother to groom these so-called jihadi babies. analysts say analysts say it's more evident isis is taking the long view and understands it will take at least a generation to reach their goals. >> it encourages the use of violent imagery to desensitize children to this jihad and opens them up to the idea of playing with guns and going after the nonbeliever as a valid target for the jihad. >> according to the middle east media research institute or memory, a manual recommends that martial arts. isis outreach to women goes well beyond child rearing to hair and beauty tips, even recipes to make the perverse way of life seem normal. they're being very public about the indoctrination of the young and whatever happens in iraq and syria in 2015, one analyst says that the grandchildren of osama bin laden are already being taught to hate the west. >> thank you so much. >>> and isis spent time stories and beauty tips from mothers raising jihadi baby pps how can the u.s. fight that. lieutenant colonel al very north joins us. good evening. >>

they are home grown suspected jihadis. as you mentioned, belgium has had more of its citizens per capita than any other country in europe travel from here to join isis to join other militant groups in syria and the big challenge this country is dealing with is what to do with those who decide to come home and what to do about that potential threat that they pose to this society. carol. >> all right. ivan watson reporting live from belgium this morning. >>> as the trail heats up for the ring leader of that belgian terror cell we're learning more about the trip hayat boumeddiene may have taken to disappear in syria. the domestic partner of amedy coulibaly is desperately wanted to shed light on the attack and the shooting of a french policewoman days before. she was last seen january 8th moving from turkey to syria. she may have been smuggled in by professionals for the equivalent of $42. in a cnn exclusive, arwa damon spoke to the smugglers. >> reporter: highayat boumeddiene a among the most wanted. boumeddiene and a male co

it was to get their fellow jihadis. it was extortion. to get them released from jail. so now we've got petraeus who's under alleged charges -- >> but i think we know there was the fall your of security that led up to it -- the failure of security that led up to it, the cover up after wards, the scrubbing of the talking points we know that. the question is why were our men left to hang out there to dry? our men and women in the military have never left anybody behind. who did not call for that -- >> yeah. and why. >> wasn't the ground -- >> considering how many active bases and allies we have in the middle east and how easy it would have been, you know? to scramble somebody. >> this is an inconvenient truth, right? >> if they did call for it and they were told stand down, so there are two different lines of questions there because those are both potentially very dangerous situations but they're two different situations. >> for the people who died and their families -- >> it wasn't a guy in tripoli let's put it that way. somebody in washington -- >> oh, sure. >> -- had t

al qaeda's branch in yemen telling jihadis in the west the u.s. france britain, canada don't waste your time coming to fight for us in syria. stay at home. attack there. >>> plus the politics lead. speaker john boehner defiant. last night president obama was all swagger warning congress he would veto any action meddling with the iran nuclear talks. this morning, the speaker asks israel's benjamin netanyahu to come talk to congress tell them what he thinks the u.s. should do. >>> plus the sports lead. they have already won super bowls but now there is proof that the patriots might have cheated again. to get back to super sunday. does this take the air out of the big game? >>> good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we will begin with some breaking news in our world lead. al qaeda in yemen known as aqap is telling its army of would-be terrorists don't come to syria, stay where you are, in the u.s. britain, france canada and elsewhere, and plan attacks there. in this new video, the al qaeda terror branch that claimed responsibility fo

you often find the profiles of these suspected jihadis are complicated. he was also a rapper described by his lawyer in defending him in his trial in 2008 as someone who liked to smoke pot, who liked to drink, to say that he was not a radical muslim he was, in fact just another 20-something kid in paris. a complicated profile but one that u.s. and french authorities were very aware of for years before this attack took place. >> jim, at the time of this terror attack they were not under any surveillance by french authorities because clearly they were moving around at will. >> reporter: that's true. they had been under surveillance. they were no longer under surveillance before this attack took place. i spoke today with the former head of france's counterterror service, and he said this, and i'm quoting him here. he said "there are too many of them, too few of us." too many jihadi suspects that is too few security personnel to follow them. he explained to me the mathematics. he said it takes anywhere from three to as many as ten agents to keep just one jiha

but for opinion and funding and recruits within the global jihadi community maybe this radicalizes it to do that. >> brian todd reporting for us there. jamie detmar is a contributor for the daily beast and foreign correspondent, also joining me lieutenant mark hertlein cnn military analyst and retired commanding general in europe. jamie, you wrote this fascinating article in "the daily beast" called "superbad isis and al qaeda joining forces." we just heard from brian todd about the one upping one another. but at the same time you say you believe we have seen much more of a convergence of these two terror organizations, even in the past few weeks. >> i think there's a mood shift. and i think washington is behind the curve a little bit on this. look there's been tremendous competition and a bitter feud between these two jihadist groups. isis ace breakaway from al qaeda. it was disowned by the al qaeda leadership. but there's a fascinateing meeting in november was spearheaded really brokered by al qaeda veterans who are linked with aqap. and they brokered a meeting between isis and the

only someone uneducated in the school of jihadi would say something that foolish. they weren't directly connected to either one. it's important to understand just because they say we did it or we did it with them or we got orders from them take that with a grain of salt. they have reason to say that. >> i would add another grain of salt of course, this is coming through the french broadcaster bfn. there is presumably audio of this. >> i think we should draw the distinction right now what isis is about, which is establishing a caliphate. it's about gaining and holding territory. aqap is about raining chaos down on the west and about an ideology. the two are very different, and as we teased out here they are not inclusion, they are not collaborating. they are very separate entities. what we can do understanding what isis is about, we have to have a look inwardly as well. we talk about the extremists and what's gone on how terrible it is, but we have to look at our foreign policy. we have to look at creating vacuums. libya is an example. now we see isis training camps

jihadi brides from europe as well. the estimates are 1,000 foreign fighters a month since the caliphate was announced in the summer have been traveling into syria. >> let me ask mike rogers why doesn't turkey do more. you heard jamie describe the border relatively open. >> this has been a point of contention for months. one of the problems they have is the kurdish operations on the border. they've had problems with some of the kurdish organization units there being affiliated with what happened in turkey. there's a huge psychology border they have to get over in order to engage on that side of the border. >> gloria, you've been doing a lot of reporting on why the president didn't go vice president didn't go secretary of state didn't go. no high level u.s. official went to paris for that rally eric holder was there and didn't attend. the president ignored a question shouted to him as he was leaving the east room of the white house. you've been checking with your sources over there. why did that happen? the white house a

out their brutal shootings, it would suggest aqap is trying to push itself back perhaps into the jihadight. curious and perhaps sick rivalry between these two groups for attention and potentially recruits from the jihadi world here. but a very clear message from this aqap spokesman that it was aqap that financed this organized this and then of course the kouachi brothers who sat dormant potentially in france in paris, a number of years before they actually carried it out. john? >> reporter: fascinating details there. chilling. and just to be clear, nick only claiming credit. aqap only claiming credit in this video for the attacks at "charlie hebdo," the offices of the satirical magazine not claiming any connection to amedy coulibaly who attacked the kosher supermarket? >> reporter: well that is actually what's fascinating, john really is they refer to coulibaly who attacked the kosher supermarket, but they say his attack was a coincidence in many ways and it was simply good fortune that these things happened at the same time. now, that potentially feeds into the rivalry between these ra

it's a manhunt for one of belgium's most notorious jihadis.ording to a senior counterterrorism official he's believed to be the middle eastermind of a suspected jihadi plot homegrown here in belgium that was aiming to target not only police officers but also had weapons and explosives and much more ambitious plans. the belgian authorities have succeeded in arresting five suspects here in belgium. two men killed in a shootout with police last week. two more suspects arrested in france. as well as a suspect believed to be of algerian nationality, who was arrested by police in greece. but be a dell hamid al aboud is famous because he's believed to have taken his younger brother, only 13 to syria to join the ranks of isis. he's described the boy, youness. he's also filmed driving a pickup truck dragging corpses through a field. now he's linked to a jihadi cell two of the members died in a gun battle with belgian police last week. >>> a key role that yemen plays in all of this. the capital of yemen is teetering on the brink this morning. a fragile

those are the people that it's a calderon of jihadi training that's going on. the west point of extremism and that's the concern. so yes, the answer is it's got to be of concern here. self-radicalization is also a problem. it's a complex issue that involves communication within the community, law enforcement, counterintelligence counterintelligence. but i wish i could sit here and look at you and say nothing like this is going to happen here i don't think i can make that guarantee. >> senator king i appreciate you joining us on what is a very fast-moving and fast-developing story. i want to go to jim sciutto who is is standing by outside the kosher supermarket right now. we haven't heard from jim over the last few minutes and i want to get an update on the situation. jim what are you hearing is the latest? ! >> well anderson since the last time we spoke less than an hour ago they have moved us back two or three times from a safer distance from the kosher shop. you can see two of the tactical police doing crowd control and constantly widening the security cordon

raiding these terror cells, capturing suspected jihadis. today, 13 properties in total were raided in germany. at the same time in france, four suspected terrorists were in court, now being kept behind bars as investigators are probing their links to the attacks in paris. despite all of these arrests, for people in europe the hunt is just beginning. two prime suspects are still on the run. you have this man believed to be the ring leader of the isis-linked belgian terror cell. then there's the world's most wanted woman, the widow of that paris kosher market gunman hayat boumeddiene. cnn is now tracking how boumeddiene may have escaped into syria. these men believed to have helped smuggle her out of turkey. let's go first to paris where there have been some huge huge developments today. joining me now, cnn's pamela brown. these four men were in court today over the "charlie hebdo" attacks. their links to the kosher store gunman. tell me about these four men. have they been officially charged? >> well those charges are still being prepared br

it is unclear just what kind of terrorists these supposed jihadis were allegedly planning but belgian officials say they were armed with kalashnikovs. a spokesperson for the belgian federal prosecutor said police in verviers had this group under surveillance for the last several weeks, they had tracked its members to and from syria. that country of course the operational home for the terrorist group isis the group sworn to wreak havoc in europe and the united states. we now see evidence of those attempts to do so. let's go to a journalist for euro news on the phone from belgium. what can you tell us about this raid? >> reporter: hello, jake. the police are rather tight-lipped about exactly the details, but what we are getting from belgian media is that the police have been surveilling these suspects for some time after they came back from syria and that the police moved in just hours after there was a leak connected to what had happened in paris a week ago, the attack there that some of the weapons in those attacks were actually bought here in belgium. police stepped up their operatio

passport that says they have cross booed syria to fight alongside isis to fight alongside various jihadi groups. when they come back across into turkey and do blend in, they're incredibly difficult to track. that is one aspect of the problem that turkey is trying to deal with because it is now a massive hub, a transit hub for anyone with the intention to go into syria, and fight loonside -- but turkey is also dealing with the other side of is the problem form people who might have gone into syria, haven't necessarily been tracked and now may be going bam home with the intent of carrying out attacks in europe. >> and turkey being so critical to the united states to the west in this fight against terror. arwa damon joining us on the phone from southeastern turkey. arwa thank you for that this evening. >>> during this time of heightened alert, the u.s. has quietly released this man, charged and jailed in the u.s. as an enemy combatant. they have returned him to qatar. he was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for providing material support to al qaeda. let's talk about this case with o

more and more potential jihadis want to join isis.ple who give money to these causes are much more likely to give money now to isis. >> that means al qaeda is under pressure to show they're still relevant in the perverse logic of terrorism that day two, we're still here people so they're reaching out to communities in you're in the u.s. saying we want you to launch an attack. come to us we have come to yemen for training not to syria and iraq. come to yemen for weapons, gains. >> with the brothers. >> the u.s. narrative, well we the know we hollowed out yemen. not true. hollowed out al qaeda, not true. they're reorganizeing. there is new blood, new momentum. >> far from it. there is so much more confusion in yemen because you have a shiite militia that is essentially running the north and west of the countries, which makes al qaeda more relevant against. they've got a lot more happening there than we -- and because we have been distracted by isis no one is paying attention. >> what can we tell in the face of these two men? >> al zahir

it is the jihadi number. they feel is at war with everybody else and vice versa. secondly the theological justification of not only does god want you to do this, but god will reward you. we really need to do that. if we want to win this battle we can't do it purely through legislation or through criminality. we must as europe and the rest of the west as well get a grips with the battle of ideas. if we don't do that, we will never win this long term. >> what causes the attraction to the jihadi narrative. thank you so much. nice to see you. >>> president obama gives his annual state of the union address and he wants to make sure middle income earners to benefit. he wants the cuts paid for with the fee increases. we will have more on that right after the break. >>> president obama gives annual state of the union address to congress and markquee proposal is the tax cuts for the middle class. michelle kosinski has the latest from the white house. >> reporter: let's talk about that. he wants to cut rates right now. the rate is 20%. he wants to raise it to 28%. he wants

. >>> plus a jihadi group claiming responsibility for the "charlie hebdo" slaughter. one week after the bloody attacks, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap says they are behind the terror plot and this american-born cleric who is now dead had a role in planning it they say. >>> and the politics lead. an alleged murder plot against the man second in line to the presidency. did house speaker john boehner's bartender at his posh country club actually plan to poison his wine? >>> good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we will begin today with breaking news in our money lead. the dow taking a bad tumble today, finishing the day down nearly 200 points. at one point the average had hemorrhaged more than 300 points but then the bleeding slowed a little bit. cnn is live in new york. this is the fourth day in a row if my counting is correct that the dow has finished in the red. what's going on? >> reporter: that's right. rough ride in the markets today. we started off in the morning getting the read on the american consumer and that read was pretty bleak. r

a jihadi with a european passport.t awlaki was after. >> he asked me specifically to recruit brothers from europe who had clean passports, and send them to yemen so they can receive the training and then return back again to the european countries. and become sleeping cells. that's exactly what happened in france. it's what he wanted to do. >> now the question for investigators is if that deadly plan for paris was launched by awlaki himself. could the now dead terrorist mastermind have set the course for an attack that would be carried out more than three years after his own death. or was it much more in-depth and up to the minute. did they continue to get resources from yemen until the moment which they launched those attacks. because if there is still a network between yemen and europe there could be other cells assisting, and that's something they want to try and certainly prevent. >> by 2014 both kouachi brothers were back in france. cherif using his wife as cover to keep up his connection to his old prison pal. al

information with arab and muslim nations stressing that they're the first to suffer from what's called jihadirism. many ministers have already made it clear on monday that they don't see the ultimate solution in bringing in tougher legislation across the eu but rather, in trying to deal with so-called jihadis that go to places like iraq and syria and then return. the eu's antiterror coordinator stressing people who do come back should be jailed unless they have blood on their hands otherwise they should be put into some kind of program for deradicallization. at the same time, many ministers are stressing the real solution is also to be found on the internet trying to crack down on hate speech and people who try to recruit fighters through social media and the internet. now all of the measures that are being discussed here in brussels will go forward to a summit meeting held in three and a half weeks from now. the general message we ought to share a lot more information before we start to bring in much tougher laws. >> an argentine prosecutor has been found dead in his apartment apartment. inv

just days ago, a french jihadi in syria issued a chilling order. blow up france and tear it down to pieces, he said. do it with a stone or a knife or whatever you can get your hands on. there is no evidence i.s.i.s. is blind today's massacre but it is a message that clearly has been embraced. in the past month there have been three attacks here by islamic radicals including two where militants drove cars into crowds of people shouting allahu al akbar and wounding at least 20. hundreds of military officers were sent to patrol streets and beef up security. there's concern that the spike in attacks may be a response to france's support of the u.s.-led air strikes against i.s.i.s. hundreds of french citizens have traveled to syria and iraq to join the jihad. france has a long history of dealing with islamic extremism. in toulouse, there was a shooting with a long stand off with police, revenge for french military action overseas. in 2012, it was france that spearheaded operations against al quaida fighters threatening to overrun the capital. another i.

goes through with its threats, that will be seven hostages killed by the alleged executioner called jihady jo british accent. >> you now have 72 hours to pressure your government in sion. >> that same masked man is believed to have been the executioner in the murders of americans james foley, steve sotloff and brits hayes and als say they know the identity of jihadi john but they're not making it public as they look for ways to capture or kill him. karen traverse abc 7 news. >> a little bit of political news now. senator marco rubio is preparing for a possible 2016 presidential run. rubio plans to meet with advisors this weekend to discuss his future plans. one of rubio's staffers tells abc news they've been told to "proceed as if he's running for president." the florida republican also hired a new finance director who will initially work for his political action committee. >> ok. well turning to the weather now. what's the latest? we've got so much going on. >> there really is. let me first start off with our live stormwatch 7 doppler to show you what's going on in our immediate area at t

they have been known for a long time to be on the fringes of jihadi groups. passing me another convoy of it looks like fire service vehicles. this situation may be over but the follow-up operation is going on. the questions will be asked, why did french intelligence not keep track of these people who ten years ago were on the fringes of jihadi groups? they have matured ten years later into assassins. what went wrong in the tracking of these people? if these sieges are over that's the next step as well as tracing that woman who was an associate of the gunmen who took the host anl hostages at the supermarket. >> a lot of soul searching as we go forward. thank you very much. i want to recap for everybody what has been going on in and around paris this morning. the two brothers accused in the massacre at the newspaper were cornered into a printing press on the outskirts of paris not far from the airport there. according to multiple media outlets in france they have now been killed. the hostage they were holding freed. that's one piece of the puzzle. we have also

>> it's always been the case at least in the jihadi sphere.ing from al qaeda, to al qaeda and the arabic peninsula to al qaeda in the islamic and to the islamic state. so yes, it has always been the case and also with france we had rooted radical islam for years. we have more in france than in any other country in europe. so we knew that the threat was there. it existed, we're actually expecting such an attack due to the national context and the radicalization of most of these networks. >> as nic robertson pointed out in his piece the number one victim of radical islam is muslims. moderate muslims, innocent muslims. it's interesting because there were different reasons, radical reasons all, given for each attack, whether in paris or pakistan, you have boko haram in nigeria, afghanistan, australia. different groups, different rationales. is there any way to organize officials around one way to attack these groups, these radical islamic groups if they are all disparate in terms of their aims and their reasons for doing what they do? >> these gro

france has some 5,000 suspected jihadis on terror watch list. they don't have the man pouer to track everyone all the time. i assume we face a similar situation here in the u.s. >> we do but we do take it very seriously. we have the nsa, cia, fbi, joint terrorism task force, and in new york, for instance we have a thousand police doing nothing but working on counterterrorism. that's their entire job. >> let me ask you about that because you're quoted today telling news max that the attack proves that the nypd program, the surveillance of mosques that took place, was appropriate and justified. congressman, that surveillance program as i understand it as was reported by the associated press, didn't produce a single lead. and beyond that to some of your critics, it might sound as though you're suggesting the correct response to this attack on freedom, the terrorist attack, is to attack a different freedom, religious freedom. how do you respondsome. >> first of all, the associated press and "the new york times" were totally disgrace informal the way

that is where this man, a danish biker turned jihadi who said he became a cia spy. >> his passion to obtain revenge on the west and spread global jihad was, it was his whole life. he sacrificed his life to achieve that. >> reporter: he also had a taste for western women. storm said he asked him to fix him up with a white blond european wife. they met on video. >> this recording is done specifically for sister alena. the brother who is carrying this is a trust worthy brother. >> i hope he will be pleased. >> she could not be reached by cnn. storm says the cia used him to track awlaki who had become reclusive fearing u.s. attack but he was also becoming more dangerous. asking storm and others to recruit western radicals for training. >> once they have trained, he will request of the leadership of al qaeda, he will ask that he will return to the west and the way forward. >> reporter: the tally of hits and near misses was growing. inspired the' hood shooter who had gunned down 14 servicemen at the base in 2009. and the london subway bombers in 2005 who killed 52 people. also inspiring tw

they seem to view the world differently, cameron and obama, when it comes to how the would be jihadiss self-radicalized terrorists come to that point in their lives. i want you to take a listen. here is president obama talking about why he think this is problem is more stark in europe than it is now in the united states. >> our muslim populations, they feel themselves to be americans. there is this incredible process of immigration and assimilation that is part of our tradition that a is probably our greatest strength. it doesn't mean we aren't subject to kinds of tragedies we saw at the boston marathon. that i think has been helpful. there are parts of europe in which that's not the case. that's probably the greatest danger that europe faces. >> no doubt what president obama is describing in terms of assimilation issues is accurate but people in the uk. tony blare when i interviewed him yesterday and current prime minister david cameron when he spoke today, they seem to be cautioning the united states not to view this problem of self-radicalized islamist terrorists strictly through l

>> reporter: well, scott, i've spoken to several jihadis in syria tonight. all of them told me they are not surprised by today's attack. one of them said he knows of many i.s.i.s. fighters who have come back to europe and that he expects to see more attacks like this one. another one told me simply for insulting our beoved prophet those people deserve to die. >> pelley: clarissa ward in paris. thank you. condemnation of the attack came from, among others, the arab league and the council on american-islamic relations, a muslim civil rights group. president obama called the attack cowardly and evil. he telephoned french president hollande to offer american condolences and help. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the families who have been lost in france and for those who carried out the attacks, ultimately they will be forgotten and we will stand with the people of france. >> pelley: michael morell is a former number two at the c.i.a., now our senior security contributor at cbs news. in recent weeks we had the islamic extremists shoot up a shop in sydney, au

. >> reporter: meanwhile, the manhunt continues, john for suspected jihadi cell. home grown here in belgium. there have been a number of arrests over the course of the last week. a senior belgium counter terrorism professional tells cnn the suspected ringleader is a belgium moroccan man. he was last tracked somewhere in greece. over the course of the last weekend, greek police arrested an individual there it. belgium has requested his extradition. he is not believed to be abaoud. it is an algerian man. about whether or not he is extradited depends on whether he is in greece. in the meantime we are also hearing more and more about the suspects arrested here. many of them belgium citizens born here of north african descent and one particular neighborhood in brussels. the capital of belgium and europe. a recruiting ground for terrorists. john. >> ivan watson in brussels. thanks. >>> new this morning, protests turning deadly. demonstrators in the nation of niger is furious with the magazine of "charlie hebdo." four dozen churches have been set on fire and hotels and b

some believe they know jihadi john's identity. they haven't disclosed it. why not?icly tell everybody his real identity maybe he'll go underground and disappear. >> in the meantime jihadi john has now made at least six videos insulting the co-litigation, overseeing beheadings. while isis may be suffering set backs on the battlefield -- >> isis is capturing the pr war, at least using this individual. all these months later, he certainly is the boogeyman that scares the west. he's articulate, scary looking. you can't see anything about him besides the knife and his eyes. >> and he says his appearance in the videos amplifies the coalition's limitations on the battlefield. five months and about 2,000 air strikes after the beheading of american hostage james foley, why hasn't jihadi john been captured or killed? we asked u.s. and many british military officials. they won't comment. tony schaefer says it's because the coalition can't insert commandos into syria to get him. >> because of certain events which happened that the administration is worried about, the attempt to

there are a lot of jihadi cartoons mocking them. for example, a cartoon where two jihadis arrive in syria, they have college degrees. they're asked what do they do. they're told just go start cleaning the toilets. it's that sort of humor that many people might not quite get. but the point is they are trying to say that they can say anything they are all about freedom of expression, freedom of religion. this is their country, their heritage. it's also a tribute to the survivors and the victims of the attack. "charlie hebdo" saying they will continue to be what they have been going forward. this morning on the investigation there's a new videotape surfaced from al qaeda in yemen claiming responsibility for the attacks of last week not a big surprise because some of the gunmen have been linked to that group. also in paris, security still at its highest alert, 10,000 military on the streets at sensitive sites like religious centers, mosques, synagogues also tourist sites. it's not unusual to see now on any given day, tourists to see mil

isis jihadi are popping up every day.o 5,000 fighters from syria and iraq. those people are very difficult to track because the profile is very different. we have 14-year-old jihadi girls and it's very difficult. they are there. we're talking about a very established and very old structure that was depending straight on al qaeda and so those people have been imprisoned in 2008. therefore we're not talking about something new. >> correct. >> i think it's the biggest issue this evening. >> go ahead. >> yes. i think what we are witnessing is indeed something that's not new. we know the influence of al qaeda and the ideology among muslims in the west and particularly in europe. i would say it's true in other parts of the muslim world. in europe i have been studying this for longer than 15 years and you can see that they will pitch islam against the west and describe the west as an enemy of islam and not only a military enemy but more importantly an enemy that is here to destroy the soul of muslims. this kind of rhetoric has l