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christine. >> pamela brown in washington. thanks.the fbi says they have been watching him for several months. he is in custody. the complaint is unsealed. the threat has been mitigated. john. >> you can see why they are on alert in the united states and here in france. the highest level of alert. this morning, tensions still rising in the wake of the new claim by al qaeda in yemen. that group has taken responsibility for the deadly terror attack last week against "charlie hebdo" the satirical magazine behind. at the same time the country is celebrating the free speech with the magazine with the prophet muhammad on the cover. the government is ordering prosecutors to crackdown on some kinds of speech. the justice ministry says since the attacks last week more than 50 people had been detained or arrested for what they call hate speech. defending or condoning term. in the level of public hostility against groups like isis and radical islam, seems to be growing. lower house of parliament in france voted to extend the air strikes against

christine. >> pamela brown, thank you.ror threat in this country, john something the investigators have been warning about that isis can inspire people who have no ties to isis. can inspire people to pursue such attacks. john. >> in the wake of what happened in canada and ottawa you know why they have been on alert for that situation in the united states. of course, here in france the highest level of alert and tensions rising in the wake of the claim of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula taking responsibility for the after on attack on "charlie hebdo" the satirical magazine behind me. at the same time the country is celebrating the issue of the magazine with the prophet muhammad on the cover. the government ordered prosecutors to crackdown on some kinds of speech. the justice ministry says that since last week's attack more than 50 people have been arrested or detained for what they call hate speech. against the law to condone terrorism or defend terrorism. the tensions on the streets is growing. the house voted to extend

pamela brown also joins us from paris. phil you have new information regarding some potential terror-related arrests in greece. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right, poppy. it is further indication i think, of the international certainly pan european nature the investigation that has been going on here in brussels. just a short time ago, greek police confirmed to cnn that they are conducting an investigation based upon information that has been provided by belgian authorities here. belgian investigators. asked by cnn if they had taken people into custody as a result of this information, the greek police said they could neither confirm nor deny that. interestingly, the greek minister for public order has also released a statement congratulating greek police for making a blow against terrorism in their country. so it appears that things are moving in greece as a potential connection to the events that we have even unfolding here in belgium over the last few days. remember on thursday night a series of raids took p

cnn justice correspondent pamela brown has been speaking with her intelligence sources. live with the latest. pamela how does this impact the measures that u.s. officials are thinking about taking? >> well they are already beefing up security. of course there's probably a lot being done we don't know about for national security reasons. we know that right now, investigators are still trying to piece together what exactly the kouachi brothers did in the time between one of them training in yemen in 2011 and launching the attacks. the cracks in the intelligence gathering system are a frightening reminder to u.s. officials there could be something happening in the homeland they don't know about. as paris reels from the devastating terrorist attacks, the u.s. is bracing for what could happen at home by putting law enforcement on heightened alert and ramping up security at u.s. airports. >> the paris attack exemplifies the kinds of threats that could come back to the united states. we need to understand exactly how it happened how the training occurred how the movements and pl

our coverage continues right now with jack tapper and pamela brown. have a great day. >>> hello, i'm jack tapper in paris. welcome to a special edition of the lead view here from paris. the faces of solidarity that we've seen. the french government saying that 10,000 soldier wills augment a force of more than 8,000 police officers to safe gourd vulnerable areas. topping the list of vulnerable areas were more than 700 jewish schools across the country. one day after joining some 40 other world leaders on the boulevard, benjamin netanyahu today visited the kosher supermarket. back in washington, d.c., a senior u.s. official tells cnn that the kosher supermarket, gunman, the terrorist seen here in a video posted on jihadi websites had been in a u.s. database, quote, for a while. cnn has also learned that the man's companion and suspected accomplice hayat bomeddiene is likely in syria right now, having arrived from turkey. she's in the white head dress on the right side of your screen. secretary of state john kerry is in india today but says he's coming t

pamela brown. >> reporter: bombs like these being smuggled into commercial flights, u.s.tepping up random security checks once passengers have made it through airport security. those second checks could include an additional bag search, and hand swabs for explosives. >> one part is for airplane and another part is threat to passengers cueing up the in a security line and somebody is trying to bring a bomb maybe rudimentary device along and blow up people in the security lines. >> reporter: the stepped up e measure s ares are in response to the al qaeda and arabian epeninsula's "inspire" magazine's concoctions of explosives. the advanced technology to detect this technology is not available in smaller airports. >> the aqap says that there is going to be enough fuss of people attempting this is that it is going to be spreading terror in the west, and the aims will be achieved. >> reporter: this comes after enhanced measures that put passengers on u.s.-bound flights through further scrutiny such as turning off electronic devices. and there are e rerare renewed targets by isi

pamela brown thank you very much. let's dig deeper now with cnn analyst paul cruickshank joining us author of "agent storm." you've been on the belgian cell. what are you learning on him and where he might be? he's still at large. >> still believed to be at large despite a large international manhunt for him. his last known location was in greece where he was believed to be communicating with this terrorist cell in belgium in the weeks before belgian authorities thwarted what they say was a major imminent attack. a new interesting line of inquiry is he may have faked his own death while he was in syria last year. his family in a belgium interview in the last few hours have said that they were contacted and told that he was killed last october. it's possible therefore he faked his own death to get off the radar screen of western intelligence officials to travel to greece and direct this plot. he's considered by the belgians as the key link person back to this isis leadership in syria, anderson. >> there's surveillance

i'm pamela brown live in paris.y after a string of anti-terror raids. the big question this morning, whether al qaeda and the arabian peninsula and isis have active terror cells in the west ready waiting to strike. this is really is big concern among folks i've been speaking 0 to, especially in the wake of the paris attacks. what's the latest you're hearing art the hunt for potential terror throats and the sleeper cells across europe? >> what we know for example for the paris atakes is this is a larger cell. there's nine people held. other are sought by the police. and we're also trying to determine if they were simply inspired, initiated by a foreign terrorist network or if they were inspired simply by these networks. it's very difficult at that stage to have a clear view of what happened exactly. >> and of course there could be a middle ground where they did have some connection with the terrorists groups but ultimately they decided the time and place. as we know, the international manhunt still underway for survi

law enforcement is being asked to stay on a heightened state of vigilance. >> pamela brown joining us from washington. let's talk about this heightened state of vigilance. officials you've been talking to today, what are they saying about potential threats of attacks in the u.s.? do they have anything specific? >> nothing specific i'm being told but there is a sense among law enforcement officials i've been speaking to this heightened concern for their own safety and the safety of those they're supposed to be protecting. i think the sense right now is that it's easier it's more plausible for someone influenced by current events or terrorist propaganda maybe an extremist on the cusp to actually act out. the census that the terror attack like in paris, more people will be emboldened to attack. that is compounded with isis aggressively using social media to get the message out. the threats from aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. as a result of these issues anderson i'm being told law enforcement sources are scrutinizing certain cases in the u.s. that perhaps didn't get as much scrut

thank you very much to pamela brown in paris.n yemen, at the heart of this the home base of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the group that has claimed responsibility for the massacre of "charlie hebdo" in paris. officials tell cnn that they are prepared to evacuate the american embassy in yemen on short notice. nick paton walsh is in sanaa, the only western television reporter there. nick the situation where you are, is it escalating? >> reporter: well certainly. and now we really have a tense standoff over who will run the country. the houthi rebels have moved into the capital in the past few months and are now said to be surrounding the prime minister in his residence. at stake here is the outcome of closed-door negotiations that have come after a cease-fire that came in the middle of the afternoon. those talks really are going to have to magic some kind of incredible compromise to stop the fighting. so this morning, picking up all over again. in the early morning hours we heard blasts as the presidential administration worr

pamela brown reporting from paris. ned, a western official is now telling cnn that the kouachi brothers were quote, legitimately aligned with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, an alignment by several accounts included training in yemen. cnn senior traditional correspondent nick payton, the only from an american television in yemen. with the capital, sinai. this is dangerous for you. first of all, be careful. what is the connection over there between the kouachi brothers and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap which is based in yemen, where you are? >> reporter: the kouachi brothers said they were working for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and said one of the key figures killed by u.s. drone strike in 2011 anwar al-awlaki was in fact the man who helped organize what they were doing. that was a sentiment echoed by the statement we heard in the last 72 hours from aqap. an 11 minute video in which they said al-awlaki has been the organizer. the key thing for investigators though is to work out if that's true. they h

i want to go back to pamela brown in washington. pamela it now looks very embarrassing what's going on. the u tune accounts and twitter accounts have been hack snd. >> that's what we're lrng. this is a developing story as we speak. what we've learned is sitcom, twitter youtube have been hacked. one of the tweets there were pentagon documents. of course these could be public documents that look like they're coming from the pen gone. the tweets are meant to look like they've been hacked by isis. some of the tweets saying we won't stop we know everything about your wives, saying that asis is already here we're in pcs and each military base. but as my colleague, barbara starr reported the intel community has been running a cyber program against isis for months. of course this could be someone unaffiliated with isis who has hacked sitcom make it look like it was coming from isis. we'll bring you the latest as soon as' find out. >> this is really embarrassing cent kom is responsible for u.s. military operations in all of the middle east so

in a moment. >> but we want to get back to pamela brown.f you, victor and christi. one of the questions we're grappling with. what should the world call the terrible terrorist acts? to does this i want to bring in a doctor. she is a muslim and written a new article in london spectator magazine about the need to name terrorism. if you would, dr. ahmed, explain what you need by that. >> i feel the discourse in the united states is shying away from the ideology that's inspiring these acts in paris. that ideology is known to political scientists and i call it islamism. certainly islamism has many facets and the one in paris was jihadist. one is the evolution of any teaching jihad in the koran. that's a complex idea. and another feature in paris is the islamist central tenant on acting in genocidal -- these are values of islamism. >> so then in your view, what should these terrorists being called? >> these terrorists are islamists. they are acting as islamist ideologues. they're fulfilling one aspect of islamism, which is diabolical jihadism. th

let's go to europe now, where officials are cracking down on terror suspects. >> yeah, pamela brown hasest details from paris. pamela, i understand you've been doing some digging on this? >> well, that's absolutely right. the hunt continues christi and victor for the terror suspects in europe, still after the recent attempt in paris, authorities are also looking for a possible accomplice of the gunman charged with killing four people last night. >> reporter: belgian authorities are trying to hunt down the man seen here reportedly walking behind suspected french algerian isis fighter maggie mamous. now the prosecutor in brussels says this man may have been one of mamush's accomplices. this is after belgian continues to track down about ddelhamid abaaoud. >> we have intel, and we have the lone wolves. and we have those returning from the conflict zones proposing threats from the countries they come from. >> reporter: and at least half a dozen countries cracked down on terror cells, as well as those believed to be planning separate attacks. >> it's very difficult to detect plans, identify

let's bring in pamela brown. pamela what's causing u.s. officials to step up security? >> hard to detect bombs has been a long concern. now there are new fear bz this. dhs is ramping up this airport security after this renewed push by al qaeda in yemen to activate extremists living here in the u.s. they're asking them to create a new type of hard to detect bomb with the goal of bringing down an airplane or wreaking havoc at the airport. amid renewed fears of hard to detect bombs like these being smuggled onto commercial flights, the u.s. is expanding random security checks of passengers in u.s. airports once they've already made it through airport security. that could include another bag search passenger pat-downs and hand swabs for traces of explosives. >> one part is the potential threat for airplanes, the other is a threat to passenger whoz are cueing up in a security line and somebody is trying to bring a bomb maybe rudimentary device along that could blow people up in the security lines. >> reporter: the stepped-up measures are partly responsive to "inspire," layin

, we are also learning about the suspected ties to violent extremism and for that, first go to pamela brown you're getting some information right now. what are you learning, pamela? >> reporter: that's right, anderson. we learn from u.s. officials who obtained information from french intelligence about items found in the car, may have used to make molotov cocktails in empty containers and gasoline. we know from multiple sources there were rudimentary explosives found in the car. we're not sure if the fact there were gasoline canisters and these other items part of that. also, anderson, we know one of the ids of the brothers was left behind. did they intentionally leave that behind to throw off authorities? but we're told authorities have additional evidence, in addition to the id, indicating that the brothers are the key suspects behind the attack that happened at charlie hebdo in paris, yesterday, and we're also learning from sources, anderson, that there's no evidence at this stage indicating the connection between that attack and the other attack that happened in paris today against a po

pamela brown is joining us from paris. unsealed department of justice documents that were unsealed today, we've learned that the two yemeni nationals were on a mission to kill americans abroad under the direction of al qaeda. they allegedly took part in several battles against u.s. forces and one in particular a u.s. army ranger was killed according to these documents. they also helped recruit an american to join al qaeda. that american recruit turned into a cooperating witness and helped the fbi find these two yemeni nationals. they were actually arrested in audi arabia and then brought to the u.s. recently and they appeared before a new york judge today facing these charges of conspiracy to kill americans abroad abroad. wolf? >> that's a dangerous situation pamela. we'll get back to you shortly. i want to goo in depth with our national security analyst peter bergen our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and james reese a former army delta force officer. peter, you heard brian todd's report. the u.s. has already spent, wh

pamela brown is in paris. pamela he is the third and final paris terrorist to be buried.n did this happen? who attended the ceremony? >> reporter: according to afp, this happened this morning in a cemetery here. what's interesting, this is a cemetery owned by the city of paris but you don't need the mayer's approval to be -- to have someone buried there. according to the website, whoever dies in paris can be buried in what we call the cemetery without the approval of the city mayor. we don't know -- this is key, whether this is unmarked. if it's not, the concern you just brought up the concern is that it could become a shrine, a pilgrimage for those who are islamic radicals for those who followed amedy coulibaly, who were inspired to act as a result of what they did here in paris. of course that is the big concern. what we can tell you is that the brothers the kouachi brothers were buried several days ago. we were told that their graves are unmarked. it's not as much of a concern for them. you may remember the boston bombing suspect, this was a big controversy with him ba

pamela brown is in paris reporting for us.are your sources telling you about the danger posed by these suspects? >> reporter: i can tell you they are very concerned. it's believed around half a dozen people associates left france and went into syria. of course a black hole and really a terrorist safe haven just before the paris attacks. it's believed the suspects urged them to leave before they launched the attacks. really the concern is they could have the same intent and capabilities as the suspects and we saw what happened here in paris. now, authorities are concerned not only could isis recruit them could they be used in propaganda videos but also are they plotting against the west. is this people with western passports, could they come back and launch an attack here. one source said they the fact they are in this war torn area with terrorists like isis raises concern. >> i would imagine it does. with the suspects on the loose, many of them not apprehended, real fear of another and bigger attack. >>> there are growing conc

let's talk about this with our justice correspondent pamela brown and mark with the department of justiceeat to have both of you on. pamela let me begin with you. we talk about private information yesterday dod is telling us nothing classified was posted, correct? >> yes. they're trying to take the appropriate measures to address this issue. it caught everyone's attention earlier today brooke when the unusual teet tweets came from central command twitter account aligning with isis targeting the u.s. military as we saw. it became quickly a parent isis sympathizers hack into the youtube and twitter accounts. it was disturbing. it says american soldiers we are coming. watch your back. it appears to be pentagon documents. the pentagon saying it does not appear anything of a classified nature was posted. there was one item marked official use only that reportedly included the names and addresses of u.s. military officials. that would be concerning if items of personal nature are out there in the public arena and isis had access to that. right now brooke what's important to note that officials

let's bring in justin correspondent pamela brown.ve new information this hour. >> really disturbing. we're learning that this 20-year-old cincinnati ohio man was arrested by fbi agents today. the fbi says he aligned himself with isis and he was allegedly plotting to murder u.s. lawmakers and employees at the u.s. capitol building. the fbi says the cincinnati man planned to detonate pipe bombs around the u.s. capitol and shoot people with rifles as they fled. according to the complaint, the fbi began investigating him several months ago when a confidential informant alerted them to statements allegedly made by him on social media. the fbi says he used twitter to support attack for isil. in one exchange he allegedly said i believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with islamic state here and plan on operations ourselves. the fbi arrested him in the final steps of his he allegedly acquired weapons for the attack. two primary concerns. the first is that our own home grown violent extremists will be emboldened. they wil

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our justice correspondent pamela brown is in washington with e details. >> christine, amid-he newed concerns making hard to e detect bombs, the department of homeland security announced they are ramping up security measures at some u.s. airports. according to a government official these enhanced measures include passenger passdowns and luggage searches and hand swab where is they look for any type of explosive device at the gate. now this move in part is in reaction to a recent article published by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula describing a new recipe in how to make home made bombs with household products. it's long been a concern among u.s. officials that they are targeting aviation in contacting ieds only detectable but full body scanners. it's not always available at smaller airports and that is we're being told by a government official the reason for the stepped up measures. >> pamela brown in washington, we'll be following the latest on the terror attack all morning long. >>> new developments in the search for airasia flight 8501. investigators have downloaded audio from the plane's

cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown joining me live now from washington.some specific information to point authorities towards airports or any particular airports in general? >> reporter: well, the information that we've been told, ashleigh, is that this is partly in response to a new "inspire" magazine issue. and in this magazine, there's an article, of course, this is aqap, the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which published this. this article describes how to make homemade bombs with simple household products. this apparently was released in late december. the article is encouraging would-be jihadists to make these non-metallic bombs, these bombs that may not be detected through typical airport security if you don't go through a full-body scanner. so the big concern here is that there are some smaller airports in the u.s. that don't have full-body scanners. and therefore if there's someone with a non-metallic bomb, it perhaps may not be detected. and so in response to this new article, ashleigh, the department of homeland security is, as you said, ra

our coverage continues right now with jack tapper and pamela brown. paris. welcome to a special edition of the lead view here from paris. the faces of solidarity that we've seen. the french government saying that 10,000 soldier wills augment a force of more than 8,000 police officers to safe gourd vulnerable areas. topping the list of vulnerable areas were more than 700 jewish schools across the

breaking news with justice correspondent pamela brown. terrorists in paris. tell us more. >> we just learned that amedy coulibaly was in the data base of known and suspected international terrorists for quite some time according to a senior u.s. law enforcement official we spoke with. it's unclear why he was put in that data base. we do know that he was arrested and convicted a few years ago for apparently trying to help an algerian escape from prison. as far as the woman we know about, it's unclear at this point if she was on that list. the source tells me though that as far as getting to her at this point, it would be very difficult if not impossible. over the weekend sources told cnn it's believed she went to turkey. apparently to go to syria days before the paris attacks. also the source telling me it's not yet completely clear if paris suspects were directed by isis or al qaeda to carry out the attacks or just influence at some level. that echos what we heard from attorney general eric holder who told gloria borger it's unclear if ad

cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown is working her sources and joins me from washington. pam, do u.s. officials have any reason to think the terror suspects in france had any kind of contacts here in the u.s.? >> i'm being told not yet, brooke but that evaluation process is ongoing and you really hit the nail on the head. that's what they want to figure out. is there any connection there? could happened in paris impact any of these high level targets in the u.s.? these tier 1 suspects. we know the fbi, dhs and intelligence agencies in the u.s. are scrubbing data bases evaluating these high priority targets searching for any connection between the attackers and americans. any sort of secondary connections between them. so the tier 1 targets include americans who are believed to have returned to the u.s. after fighting in syria. sources tell us that out of the dozens of americans who have returned from syria, there's a percentage of those who are believed to have fought alongside terrorists over there. intelligence law enforcement officials are evaluating what kind of impac

cnn's pamela brown is in france tracking all of this. pamela, what are you learning? >> reporter: well jake, a growing cast of characters related to the belgium plot as well as the paris attacks has authorities across europe working overtime. now we have obtained exclusive video of one of the paris suspects and his wife providing new clues in the investigation. this exclusive surveillance video obtained by cnn shows ahmedmedi coulibali and hayat boumeddiene last summer. they say the duo was trying to blend in and scope out potential jewish targets months before coulibali launched a siege on a kosher grocery store where he killed eded four people. today four men were charged in connection with the paris attacks, the first since the "charlie hebdo" massacre shocked the city. one of the suspect's dna was allegedly found ond a car used to transport coulibali to the grocery store. this as we learned bulgaria will extradite in frenchman who was friend wtz kouachi brothers. the mayor of paris tells christiane ammonanpour the city is still on alert. we have to be very vigilan

first let's go to pamela brown. she's following all of this from paris. pamela?e in france one of the suspects's dna was found on amedy coulibaly car, another suspect is still on the run, his dna was found on one of coulibaly's weapons. as police try to hunt him down we're learning more about missteps among french intelligence agencies leading up to the attacks here. french authorities are focused on two people whose dna links them to amedy coulibaly. dna found on an ammunition magazine of his and inside the car thought to have taken coulibaly to the supermarket where he killed four people. a source close to the investigation says one of them is already among the nine in custody in paris. his dna was found in the car. tonight authorities are continuing to search for coulibaly's partner hayat boumeddiene. but she's thought to be far away on the run in syria. >> this is obviously a larger cell that cell. >> we have today mainly more than 4,000 european union citizens or residents involved in the jihad in syria and iraq. >> reporter: a series of communication lapses

let's go straight to pamela brown live in paris. pamela when you were with us last hour i asked you about the situation in paris. i want to know what you're hearing from your sources about what is going on in greece tied to this string of terror that we've seen. >> reporter: well this is still a developing situation, poppy. and we're hoping to learn more. but at this point, greek authorities are saying that they have launched an investigation in connection with the belgium terrorists. i can tell you what we know. sources tell us that other people that were a part of that cell were on the loose and that the ring leader someone who is a belgian isis operative, was believed to be in greece. but at this point authorities are not confirming whether the people that they may have arrested in greece are those people who we have been reporting on who have been on the run including the ring leader. we are still trying to nail that down. but we know that authorities have been working around the clock since this ring this cell was busted in belg

. >> i want to skip over to paris if i may, where our pamela brown is standing by live. pamela, just to remind everyone of the circumstance we're in, the investigation is still very, very deep into the instances in last week's attacks at the magazine and then at the kosher store and then also the police brigade -- or at least the traffic stop where the policewoman was killed. now we're learning 12 more people arrested overnight there connected to those attacks. what are we finding out not only about those people but about what connection they had to what's happened and what might happen in the future? >> reporter: that's right, ashleigh. i think this goes to show how active this investigation still is. we learned overnight that 12 people were arrested in connection to amedy coulibaly who was the suspect in the paris attacks here last week. now, the prosecutor will only say that they were arrested for providing logistical support. the prosecutor's office wouldn't elaborate on that. we don't know if they provided logistical support before, during or after the attacks. but w

let's begin right now with cnn justice correspondent pamela brown, who is live in paris. pamela these nine people held in custody, including the one whose dna links him to coulibaly, french police have until tomorrow to charge them one way or the other. is there any indication from paris officials what they might do? >> reporter: well if the suspects are charged, jake then they will have to appear in front of a judge likely tomorrow so at that point, we could find out who the suspects are. those that are not charged, we will not find out who they are. they are still looking at that 96-hour window of questioning. all of that as we learn about a series of missteps among french intelligence agencies leading up to the paris attacks. french authorities are focused on two people whose dna links them to amedy coulibaly. dna found on an ammunition magazine of his, and inside the car thought to have taken coulibaly to the supermarket where he killed four people. a source close to the investigation says one of them is already among the nine in custody in paris. his dna was found in

. >> our justice correspondent pamela brown has all the details from washington. >> reporter: the fbi says 20-year-old christopher lee cornell was in the final stages of carrying out his attack of detonating bombs at the u.s. capitol and opening fire on u.s. lawmakers. fbi officials have been keeping an eye on him for several months after he told an informant he had been in contact with people overseas and the complaint says that he allegedly said i believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the islamic state here and plan operations ourselves. this was a communication between cornell and the confidential informant, an operative in this case. the fbi says from there he began to research how to make pipe bombs and wednesday he bought semiautomatic rifles. his father did speak to cnn, saying he had no knowledge of this and was shocked by the allegations. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >>> next up here on cnn officials spotted the fuselage from airasia flight 8501 and it could mean recovering many of the more than 100 victims believed to be still inside. live to in

pamela brown joining me now with the latest. i speak to the young man's father in just a moment who said he's completely stunned. the details of this plot according to authorities, what did they say he was planning? >> reporter: the fbi, anderson is saying 20-year-old christopher lee cornell was in the final stages of carrying out his alleged attack of detonating bombs at the capital building and opening fire on u.s. lawmakers as they ran out. the fbi has been keeping an eye on cornell for several months now after a confidential informant tipped them off about alarming statements he allegedly posted on social media about wanting to launch a violent jihad and said congressmen were enemies. allegedly told me the informant in the complaint contact overseas and wanted to u.s. murder officials in honor of isis. >> at what point did authorities start to believe he posed a credible threat? >> reporter: we know authorities started working with this undercover informant in the fall. in late august cornell communicated with the informant,

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pamela brown is live in washington, d.c., right now.re they trying to draw any connections between people who might actually be living here or currently are here with what happened in paris yesterday? >> absolutely. that is their top concern that there could be a connection between some of these high procedurety targets -- priority targets living in the u.s. and the suspects in paris. the fbi, dhs and intelligence agencies in the u.s. are scrubbing their data bases, evaluating the high priority targets living in the u.s. following the terrorist attacks in paris because whenever something like this happens, what happened in paris, authorities want to make sure they tighten things up. they're evaluating everything and making sure there are no connections between the suspects here in the u.s., people they're keeping an eye on and the people who were allegedly involved in the paris attacks. these high priority targets include foreign fighters who u.s. officials are believed to have returned to the u.s. after fighting in syria. officials bel

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what officials don't know. >> pamela brown with that report from washington thank you so much.to talk more about the threat to the u.s. potential threat to the u.s. is former state department coordinator for counter terrorism, ambassador daniel benjamin chief advisor to hillary clinton while at the state department. he is director of the john sloan dickey center for international understanding at dartmouth college. good to see you, as always. yesterday on cnn's "state of the union" senator feinstein, member of the senate intelligence committee, said the visa waiver program, the program that allows citizens from some countries to enter the u.s. for up to 90 days without a visa, she called that the achilles heel of america. do you agree and what more do you think needs to be done to prevent an attack on the homeland? >> jake, it's good to be with you. i don't agree. in fact the visa waiver system is complemented by an extensive array of information sharing agreements that we have with our european partners who are the principal participants in visa waiver and other countries that

. >> and the justice correspondent pamela brown is going to help us out of washington with more of that breaking news coming out short shortly. and now, we will look at more of the video here. so, they are driving a wayway here, and they are getting into a confrontation here and then the police retreat, paul, and the the police are clearly outgunned. outgunned. >> they are clearly outgunned here, and quite extraordinarily playing out on the streets of the heart of a major european capital and they have kalashnikovs and rocket launchers, and these are the police wo are calm and discipline and precise using these weapon, and all of the pointers suggest that at least one of them and perhaps both of them received training at a certain point at possibly in yemen. >> and certainly, the last video is when we see the brothers executing a police officer on the sidewalk and we have seen it where they show no mercy at all. >> no mercy to view a police officer as a representative of the french state, and they regard the french state as engaged in a war against islam, and so no mercy with these kind

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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 brooke. as you mentioned, the four men went before a judge here in paris today. they were basically indicted on terrorism-related offenses in connection to the paris attacks. the first indictments we've seen since the "charlie hebdo" massacre. according to sources, one of the men's dna was found on the car used to transport amedy coulibaly to the grocery store. another man's dna was found on the glove that coulibaly wore during the attack. that's what we have learned at this stage. of course, we know that authorities are on the hunt for other suspects who may have been in their network. but the problem is it's believed that a lot of them have actually made it to syria, which is going to be very tough for authorities to get to them there, including hayat boumeddiene, w

barbara starr and pamela brown with the news. first, barbara starr. one may have trained in yemen with al qaeda. what's the most you know about this? >> reporter: two u.s. officials tell us they have information from french authorities that said kouachi, the older brother, traveled to yemen in 2011. he affiliated himself with aqap very dangerous al qaeda affiliate in yemen. that is a group that's tried to attack the united states before and had the french magazine in its cross hairs. now, what officials are trying to determine is how long did he stay there, who exactly did he meet what kind of training he got and when he left yemen, where did he go? the big concern, of course you know is this an attack that may indicate al qaeda has other sleeper cells out there? people that they may have trained years ago who went back home who may be planning additional attacks. anderson? >> the other question about that particular trip to yemen is there's two options. one, that he was there. the plot was hatched there. the plan was hatched there. and he was sort of

pamela brown has more. >> reporter: this exclusive surveillance video obtained by cnn apparently showsdy coulibaly and his partner, hayat boumeddiene, outside a paris institution last summer. the couple was scoping potential jewish targets months before coulibaly stormed a grocery store and took hostages eventually killing four people. the paris attacks set off a dragnet of terror-related arrests across europe amid fears of other plots. in france, authorities charged four men with allegedly helping coulibaly carry out the attack. >> one of them his fingerprints were recovered in a car used by coulibaly. and the other one, his fingerprints were covered in a glove also used by coulibaly. >> reporter: overnight in germany, 200 police officers raided 13 properties of a group tied to islamic extremists. >> i think authorities want to be more aggressive and to take them and to arrest them very soon. but the earlier stage, to precisely avoid any terrorist attack any further terrorist attack. >> reporter: in belgium a manhunt is underway for one of the suspected ringleaders of an isis-directed

pamela brown is joining us, and i will speak to the father of mr. cornell in a moment but what does the fbi say he was planning? >> well, the fbi says that christopher cornell from cincinnati was in the final stages of carrying out the final stages of detonating a bomb at the u.s. capitol building and then detonating a bomb on the u.s. lawmaker ss as they ran out. the fbi has been keeping an eye on him after several months of a confidential informant kept them informed about statements that he put on social media about gee mad that he wanted to launch. at one point he told the informant in the criminal complaint that he wanted to murder u.s. officials this in honor of isis anderson. >> and at what point did they believe he posted a credible threat? >> we know that the authorities started to work with this undercover informant in the fall but according to the criminal complaint cornell had communicated with the informant the plan that he wanted to wage jihad under the orders and plan at a tack. when look at the social media postings the fbi caught th

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let's go right to cnn justice correspondent pamela brown, live in paris. there has been progress in the investigation into the terrorist who attacked the kosher supermarket, less so in the probe into the kouachi brothers who attacked the "charlie hebdo" offices but now intelligence officials are telling you that some suspects disappeared off the grid maybe even slipping into syria. tell us more. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. sources are telling us that it's believed several associates of the kouachi brothers as well as amedy coulibaly are in hiding and out of reach of french authorities, possibly in syria. this as we're learning more about the four suspects in custody here in paris. according to the french prosecutor here it's believed that one of the suspects sent nearly 400 text messages to coulibaly in the days leading up to the attacks. today for the first time the paris prosecutor is identifying four suspects charged in connection with the paris attacks whose dna was allegedly found on amedy coulibaly's car, gun and glove found at the crime sc

thanks very much pamela brown with that update. more now on the search, the suspects the reaction to this terror attack. joining us here our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi and national security analyst peter bergen. tom, how is it possible these guys apparently carrying out a sophisticated operation in the abandoned car, they find the i.d. of one of these two terrorist suspects some. >> well that's the dilemma here. either they're so stupid that they left an i.d. accidentally in the getaway car or they're so sew fes cated they wanted to leave a calling card, we did this come get us and maybe they have a bigger gun battle planned for when the police close in on them at another location. during this attack they only encountered a couple police officers. killing them. of course. but maybe they want to kill mores officers and have a big blaze of glory type battle. >> in the process commit suicide? >> probably. >> probably. take more people with them than just the people at the magazine. >> doe