only eight showed up because the others were fighting in syria or at least in syria. this is something the investigations that have been going on in belgium for a while. it was interesting what chris and paul was saying as well. it seems possibly because of events in paris that maybe the belgium anti-terror officials believe now is the time to conduct these operations. >> we will hear from belgium officials any inmany. we're a waiting a news conference from brussels from the federal a prosecutor to explain why they launched this raid on the isis directed group. everyone in paris and is france now is wondering is there any connection to attacks in paris? we haven't heard if it is yet. it's a question many many people have. paul cruickshank i want to bring you in here. the idea of western isis fighters going to iraq going to syria and returning home to their nations. that a has been a fear for months and months. it's just been a fear. you say if it is now in practice this is a major development. >> yeah. it's been a fear for quite some time. it's believed there are up t

, poorer than syria was before the civil war.t could appoint come where they may say no more? >> yes, absolutely. to grind on and more and more people see syria, of course jordan is going to bear the brunt of this. right now jordan is coping better than lebanon. but if anyone has visited the refugee camp in jordan, anyone can see that the situation there is far from ideal. it's not like jordan is offering refugee s luxurious surroundings. it's just able to cope. the international community bears responsibility because the syrian crisis is actually an international crisis, not limited to one country or one region. >> you know the resettlement very well. what is the danger to have people live outs of their normal milieu? once they start liveing in cardboard walls and corrugated metal, is it bad for the refugees themselves? >> in displacement people have to create lives for themselves where they are displaced, but also the life that they left in their home country disappears. so in many circumstances where people seek to return home

at the moment hezbollah is mired in syria, fighting the war in syria on the same side. resources are stretched. they needed to retaliate, but in a way that would be commensurate with the attack in cannes art ra. but not so long that it would lead to a full-scale war as such. >> you know you were saying there that the danger the clear and present danger here is that this could escalate into a wide adaptation in hezbollah and israel. how could that play out along the border? >> well that really depends on exactly how large-scale this attack is. we haven't had that confirmed. a number of tanks were destroyed. some recourts that soldiers have been killed. how many have been killed and injured, how significant it is. it's difficulty to sarp how this could develop. it might be a smaller scale where we get artillery shelling and go back to the usual pattern. neither side in lebanon want to see a war, when there's a war on the borders in syria. >> nicole johnson there in the lebanese capital. for the time being, thank you. let's just guage a response there. the picture confusin

they had gone to syria. when they're in syria -- buck let me begin with you.alk about training. this is not just how to fire effectively, automatic rifles they were found with this is also operational, logistics. >> they'll have training in operational security. one of the most important things for a cell to learn is how to communicate with individuals when it's multiple individuals, how to communicate in a way they don't catch attention of authorities and don't get stopped before they conduct the attack. there's a whole training that goes into that process. there's a lot learned about how security forces will monitor them things they can and can't do on social media, things to get them flags and that sort of thing. they learn about weapons and making them more lethal. getting training from isis is more likely to be a mass casualty attack versus someone that sees stuff on the internet and takes it upon themselves to launch a one man jihad. >> let's make the point our terrorism analyst paul cruickshank has made several times. he said listen this is the first ti

syria syria syria. syria is an open wound at this point spewing out into the world these trained motivated terrorists and in multiple countries tonight, terrorism suspects. but that observation, recognizing that fact about syria, does not necessarily prescribe a specific thing that should be done to stop that about syria. knowing it's true doesn't tell you how to end it right? if there was an easy thick to do to sew syria up and fix it as a problem it would have been done by now. but the predictions about the civil war in syria becoming some sort of viral engine that would turn out trained, motivated terrorists for the world, trained, motivated terrorists who would then wreak havoc back in their home countries or wherever they could get to with their home passports, that is not what we are worried about happening anymore. that is now what is happening. that is now what we've got. it's where we are. and as this very very quiet backdrop to this loud international terrorism news today about these gun fight

we know she moved on from madrid to turkey and on to syria and was in syria when the attacks happened. we also know that the authorities are concerned about other people who might be associated because a driver or someone who took him to the grocery store that day seems to be unaccounted for. there is also a number of other leads that authorities are trying to pin down. again, yes, it is a dense web. authorities are trying to unravel it. it may have a deep connection to belgium we are finding out tonight. >> thank you very much. >>> let's go back. we are now looking at live vird video, amateur video showing the raid that took place in belgium. this is amateur video taken of that raid where in reportedly two people were killed, none of them police or authorities. if you are there let's talk a little bit about the belgium connection. ron allen reporting that belgium is sort of a weapon [ inaudible ] what do you make of the few more tidbits of information that we are getting about the belgium connection? >> we know there was a weapon exchange. the alleged dealer, if you will the weapons

but recognizing that fact about syria does not describe a specific thing to stop that about syria. it's true it doesn't tell you how to end it, right? if there was an easy thing to do to fix it, it would have been done by now. but the predictions about the civil war in syria, becoming a viral engine that would turn out trained, motivated terrorists for the world, trained motivated terrorists who would then wreak havoc in their ohm countries nap is where we are. a quiet backdrop to this loud news about terrorism today. the search warrants, the trials, the very quiet backdrop, there is headlines in the international section of your national next of your newspaper. isis in syria expanded the amount of territory it controls. there has been 800 air strikes in syria alone in the last several months. 800 air strikes have not slowed them down in personals of controlling territory or continuing to gain more. and them controlling territory in syria has significant implications for syria, what happens to is that government, that country, in that civil war. but them controlling territory in sy

he tells me they suspect this group traveled to syria, came back from syria, that when they were in syriawith isis there and they also suspect that isis directed them to launch an attack in belgium, in europe to retaliate for these air strikes. of course belgium has been part of that coalition. belgium has been launching air strikes on isis in iraq. so that's their assessment. there is real concern that isis is pivoting now towards launching attacks in the west using that very considerable resources, their training camps, their access to european recruits in syria, the large cash reserves that they have to launch a campaign of attacks in europe and this just may be the start. there is also concern of returning fighters to other countries, not just belgium. i was told about britain and france as well there being high concern about isis directed plots potentially in those countries. this is all a very fluid situation. it's far from clear if the danger has yet been neutralized in belgium. they have been trying to round up as many people as they can. the concern was that they may have been ac

i'm told more than 500 extremists have returned from syria and iraq to europe.a very very big number indeed. i'm also told this threat is not just about belgium tonight, but it's also other european countries as well this concern in the uk concern in france as well. i was told that by european counterterrorism officials that this cell may have connections in other countries, too, so very very worrying times indeed. unprecedented threat on the streets of europe. it may be that isis is now taking its war right into the heart of europe. >> i know it's early yet, this story is just developing. do we have any idea what this major terrorist attack was supposed to be, according to belgian police? >> there are some indications that they wanted to go after multiple police stations. not exactly clear if there were other targets as well but these were men who were well armed. when police went in they had kalashnikovs they had automatic weapons. the belgians feared they were about to launch a massacre somewhere on the streets of belgium just a week after we saw another mass

there's so many europeans in syria. we may be seeing the start of something truly worrying in europe with what's going on right now, wolf. >> i want all of you to standby. we're following the breaking news. three suspected terrorists killed in an anti-terror operation in belgium. we're getting more information and standing by for a news conference. also making headlines today an alleged plot to attack the united states capitol. that plot disrupted. in france that investigation now expanding. an ohio man is accused of plotting to setoff pipe bombs at the united states capitol then gunning down lawmakers and workers as they try to escape. christopher lee cornell plotted the attack with an informant posing as an police. a source telling cnn coulibaly and boumeddiene travelled to spain. she travelled to turkey and onto syria. the crowd applauded as the coffin of the cartoonist bernard ver lack known by the pen tame tin you passed by. also coming up, new details on authorities stop an ohio man allegedly plotting to bomb the

in syria had been killed. video was released of another japanese hostage, alongside him, pleading for his life. his mother made an emotional plea. we are getting more from jordan from the foreign minister saying "you will hear good news. we have information that al-rishawi will be released within hours" that is a woman held since a failed bombing attempt. i.s.i.l. said if you release her, we may release some of those we hold hostage. we'll get news but japanese hostage kenji goto jogo who is being held by i.s.i.l. as part of the deal we understand also that a jordanian pilot could well be part of the negotiations. that's all we know at the moment. we'll bring you more as soon as we get it. continue with the fight against i.s.i.l. syrian kurds replaced. kurdish forces recaptured the town of kobane from i.s.i.l. fighters. they are yet to cross, because the security situation is too dangerous for them to go home. kim vinnell has the dangerous. carefully stepping outside watched on by those fighting for freedom. i

how do he get into syria? i can turn around and go back to jordan which is where i was writing go through israel but i really wanted to see syria. i took out my tent and camped out between jordan and syria and i waited until i finally convince somebody to call damascus and give me the okay to go into syria. i'm telling you it was probably, maybe because expectations were low but it was one of the best countries i've visited. i never once had to pay for a tank of gas. any gas station i will went into the embrace me and said mr. allen you are our american friends and even at the border even though i had all the pomp and circumstance to get this visa into the country and i had to get one for my motorcycle too too, here's what they said. wade mr. allen the chief inspector wants to see you and i'm thinking great they are not going to let me through. there are guns -- guards with guns of the big iron gate. the chief inspector shows up where i'm waiting with my motorcycle gear and i had been there for over day. he sa

a military area near northern syria. hezbollah has confirmed one of the dead is 20-year-old jihad machine onia, the son of imad monia killed in 2008. let's get more from the core respond comments jerusalem and beirut. let's start with nicole johnson inbeirut. tell you see more details about these airstrikes and who has been targeted. >> reporter: so far, we are still getting information in. this is a major hit they're the seats fire line between israel and syria, and they hit the son, jihad. his father had been previously assassinated. he was a special operations commander for hezbollah. so, as i said, this is a big hit against the organization. the other big name that we know of who was taken in this attack is mohammed isar a chief operations officer for hezbollah working in syria another major hezbollah figure to have been taken out. on top of that we have another commander, so this as i said a really big hit for hezbollah hezbollah confirmed this has taken place. they have said that there will be retaliation for this.

we have discussed the syria connection.what foreign policy implication does this have at a time where before we get the facts on whether there is linkage a lot of people in western europe are feeling a larger sense of being under attack linkage or not? >> well, the main -- for the europeans this is bringing up -- adding a security element to the sentiment growing in europe related to conflict in syria and iraq. there have been large numbers of migrants and refugees seeking asylum in europe from the conflict in syria. that has caused kind of a backlish in europe against this wave of immigration. and these attacks are basically giving fuel to the antiimmigrant contingent in europe. so i think that's part of it. and i think it's yet to be seen how the european authorities are going to -- first of all they will be reacting this way by increasing raids and police actions against suspected terrorists. it's not clear how it will change their foreign policy towards these conflicts in the middle east. for the united states i would s

syria is a failed state. the civil war in syria basically broke the country apart.y thing i can say is you have to deny the enemy's safe haven, withdrawing from iraq prematurely was a mistake. not supporting the free syrian army three or four years ago was a mistake. you have to stay after these guys. >> are you advocating more troops in a place like syria now, more troops potentially? is it yemen we need to do? what is the answer now? we want to debate about some of the things in the past about iraq, but what is the answer now? >> well, the answer now is to deny isil the safe haven they enjoy in syria and iraq because it is a platform to strike the united states. there are more paris' coming until you disrupt the -- there are more terrorist organizations, more safe havens with more capability to hit home than before 9/11. the answer is the former regional coalition america has to be part of it go in on the ground and get these guys out of syria. the current strategy is failing. everybody has told us on this trip that if you don't have a no fly zone the people who a

sectarianism has been used in the powers. >> the situation in iraq and syria are different now.n iraq, we keep hearing about how maliki and his shiite administration did not allow space for the sunnis and that has fueled this growth. the truth is the sunnis before them didn't allow space for the shias and when the shias took over, they didn't -- they may have done things to moment this. you put out a paper called from buka into bakane. >> buka was a facility where, you know, anybody could get arrested because of activities against the coalition and the iraqi government, they used to take them and put them there in that dettension facility. >> there were a did you say proportionate number of people loyal to saddam and baathists? >> baathists and islamists. the baathists and islamists met together and we have a new brand of terrorism that has saddam, bin laden. one of the detainees, buka is baghdad e. and if you look at thenu 1, you know e tier leaders, the tier 1 leadership of is, mows of these visits were baathists who met al baghdad e in buka. the oil and the fire got to know e

of an islamic state in syria and iraq. but that's not the same political objective that is present in yemen for al qaeda ap. it's not the same objective for al qaeda in the mograb it's not the same objective for al qaeda in pakistan or any of the other terrorist offshoots of this office. when i was in northern iraq we counted the number of sunni terrorist groups that we were dealing with as part of the insurgency and the number of shia. there were 13 and 7 respectively. and there was an ebb and flow between these organizations, each trying to contribute to one another to reach their objective. and one of the key areas or one of the key approaches we had was to keep them separated and defeat them in detail in separation. there are some groups that want to attack the united states. isis wants to establish first and foremost an islamic state, and they will do anything in their power to do that. >> all right, general, thank you for the expertise. jamie, thank you as well. unfortunately we have to leave it there. we'll be talki

they don't understand why the jordanian pilot is bombing the isil targets over syria. they say that jordan should not have been part of this coalition. this is not the belief among all jordanians but a good portion this is what they believe including members of parliament. the jordanian government, on one hand don't want to release the prisoner without the release of the pilot. however, if they don't, he might be killed. >> salman, what is clear that is even though the public face of this deal is the japanese government in terms of international media it's the jordanians who really have the power to be able to negotiate with isil and broker this deal. how much pressure has the jordanian government been under? they are saying look, we want our pilot back. >> absolutely. a ruler is absolutely right. there's a lot of pressure in jordan bewilderment why jordan is engaging in such a visible way against isil, even though most jordanians feel the threat of daish. >> daish being isil. >> isil, of course. these are areas which have already shown quite a lot of resistance to the

you mentioned syria already.t is certainly preoccupying most of us at the moment. >> we just looked at a map of those being displaced. in lebanon, almost 900,000 people. it's like taking the whole population of canada and moving it to the united states in a matter of a couple of years. >> yeah, the situation in lebanon is quite extraordinary. i have had the opportunity to go there in the last couple of months. you can see refugee villages everywhere throughout the country. it's equivalent to the number of canadians moving into the united states over a period of 18 months or two years. and one of the things we're beginning to ach appreciate in lebanon, it's also the local populations we have to worry about. because when such a large number of people flood across a border, settle in local towns, villages, and cities, they place an enormous stress on the local infrastructure. so whereas the humanitarian community has traditionally focused its efforts on the refugees themselves, now we're beginning to look at the hos

it's definitely true and the biggest problem is syria and iraq. >> charlie: we'll come back to syria. the yemeni government is impotent to stop them. >> they're better than they were and they're a good ally of ours. there's intelligence sharing and operational cooperation there, burks you know, that country and government have deep-seated problems, and, so, the ability of the united states to work with them, to build their capacity to be better at counterterrorism, that's a long-term effort but absolutely essential. you could add to that list somalia and north nigeria. >> charlie: french got involved in mali in a big way. >> right. >> charlie: the fear now -- and this is a question they worry in paris, we just saw one cell that supported them and made some arrest and they have suspects. how many sleeper cells might there be in the united states? >> right. >> charlie: is that a huge concern? >> you knowish it's a concern. we have a different -- we are fortunate in the united states, we do not have the same degree of problem that europe has france and belgium, and i think also the unite

, who are fighting in syria. the police confiscated ak-47s and handguns and communication tools and the most important thing is they confiscated police uniforms. that is one of the reasons why the police here say they are sure that the terrorists wanted to target police officers. they say the targets were police officers both in the streets as well as inside police departments. so big threat for the police and this country is reacting. officers have been told not to walk alone. they've been told to wear bulletproof vests at all times and they've been told to take guns home with them even when they are off duty and another thing the country is doing is one of the first times in history, it's deploying its military inside the country. that's something that usually never happens in belgium. several hundred troops have been called on to be on standby. the first 30 are going to be deployed tomorrow in a town where there is a large jewish quarter and that's where the troops will be deployed. like in paris, the jewish c

into syria, that day she is believed to have crossed into syria, the day after the charlie hebdo attacks, and the day after her common law husband killed a policewoman and then attacked a market in paris, killing four hostages before he was killed in a shootout. they are all dead now, all killed by police, but she is still at large. bbc reports today that officials placed her last known phone call as coming this saturday from an isis controlled town inside syria not far from the turkish border. french police say that as many as six people overall are still at large, including one man being seen driving her car after she left it behind in france to make her way to spain and then to turkey, and then into the isis stronghold of syria. joining us now is richard engle. thank you for being with us in the middle of the night. what do we know about the investigation, police looking for six suspects now. >> those, that information is coming from leaks, there is two reports that say they're looking for six suspects and one of those was seen driving her mini cooper around paris somewhere, but when

same thing in syria. as manan american you are supposed to acquire your visa at washington, d.c. before you go there. they don't grant visas to anyone with diplomatic relationships. when i got to the border they had go to washington to get it. i have been on the road for two years plus and the visas expire in six months. so here i am stuck at a border and we are talking politics and diplomacy and how do you get into syria? i can turn around and go back through jordan which is where i was or try to go through israel in a lebanon but i wanted to see syria. i camped out at the border between jordan and syria and waited until i finally convinced somebody to call damascus and get in. it was one of the best countries i visited. i never had to pay for a tank of gas and even at the border with all of the stamps to get this visa into the country and i had to get one for my motorcycle as well. i had to import that. here is what they said: wait mr. allen the chief inspector wants to see you and i am thinking great they are not going to let me through. they show up the border where i am wait

from syria. sources say that number is more than a dozen and also anderson those americans who may have traveled to yemen and trained with aqap. in fact, officials are saying there's been a steady stream for years of americans going to train in yemen and in light of the fact one of the paris suspects trained in yemen, of course that's something u.s. officials are especially concerned about. >> yeah. all right, pamela appreciate the update. luke ereman is production of agency in the same building as charlie hebdo offices. arrived at the office 30 minutes of the shooting. thank you very much for being with us. we talked to one of your employees, martin who took the now world famous video from the roof just a few blocks from where we standing. explain when your employers realized something was going on. >> they heard heavy fire automatic rifle and immediately understood that the target was charlie hebdo right on the same floor next door on our floor. >> so just a few feet away. >> right there. death

it's a signal may not be for certain, they detected in syria.y. what we have to remember erin, all this meta data is good after the crime is committed. you talk to anybody that's dealt with this and yes, contractors are making billions of dollars in the software but the end of the day you really can't predict who will commit a crime and who will not. that's the problems with police. the french police are the best in europe. they got great surveillance teams and worked against me. i've worked against them. they are pan tasfantastic. i don't think we should lay the blame at the steps of the french but rather in the faith in the computers and meta data which isn't enough to catch these people. >> ambassador row made that point when you look back 200, he said look we'll investigate it because it looks bad now but height sight is 20/20. the question i have though, and we know this. france has one of the best counter intelligence programs in the world but when you look at these brothers it raises a broader question maybe about policy right? when i ask

but kenji had also told me even for him syria was a different case. syria was full of danger. because there are many many players, for instance the assad regime, that's very skeptical of international journalists in the first place anyway. then there are different opposition groups fighting against the government, and new actors such as islamic state have emerged. so it is such a complicated picture. and he knew the danger. >> now goto is seen with a man i.s. claims to be another hostage, yukawa. >> yes yukawa was initially with an armed opposition group in syria. kenji had told me that in his previous visit he saw yukawa with the group in syria, and he said yukawa didn't seem to be in immediate danger. at that time and seemed to have even be friended with the armed group. but this group has informed nhk that yukawa got lost north of aleppo and apparently was detained by islamic state. we don't know how kenji fell in the hands of the islamic state. i just really for safety of both men. >> miki thanks as always. miki ebara, editor in chief of nhk world. >>> china's economy is s

our son is missing in syria. is more than natural that we would appeal to the syrian government, who is the sovereign entity over the state of syria to find him. they have the best resources. they have access to their own country, so we have appealed to them in many ways, many times to help us find austin and bring him safely home. >> i want to turn to austin tice in his own words explaining why he made the decision to go to syria. in a facebook post on july 25, 2012, austin wrote -- "we kill ourselves every day with mcdonald's and alcohol and a thousand other drugs, but we've lost the sense that there actually are things out there worth dying for. we've given away our freedoms piecemeal to robber barons, but we're too complacent to do much but criticize those few who try to point out the obvious." he goes on to say -- "so that's why i came here to syria, and it's why i like being here now, right now, right in the middle of a brutal and still uncertain civil war. every person in this country fighting for their fr

>> what's changed is syria. we've been worrying about this for several years, since isis began to rise in syria and then subsequently in iraq. all these young european men going over there, becoming fully immersed in this perverse ideology and then coming back home bringing with them a desire to do harm. the fact that there are many cells is not entirely surprising. the nature of cells vary. no two cells are necessarily alike. not all cells are equally dangerous, for instance but their presence is something that we should be alarmed about. the other alarming thing is the geographic spread obviously. not just in one country, one city but in multiple countries. finally, the range of different targets. the kouachi brothers went after "charlie hebdo" a very specific tagt. amedy coulibaly goes after a policeman in the street a jewish groeshjew jewish grocer deli or market. it's hard to put a pattern in what they want to attack and therefore law enforcement agencies have to work extra hard to defend not just one type

we don't know her location, and i would be careful about saying that she is in syria or traveled to syria. >> i have to add that nbc news has not independently verified or confirmed that yet. christopher, you've been writing about the investigation into who these terrorists were. we know they were on the u.s. no fly list and had been flagged by the u.s. intelligence community. they were on the french intelligence community's radar. was there a misstep in not monitoring them closer? >> oh, yes, there was a huge misstep. this isn't just something you can say in hindsight. it is clear that if you have two guys with the kinds of records that they have, particularly the record that the younger brother, cherif has, either of them go to yemen for no good reason, for any length of time, the security services should have been all over them like white on rice. in fact, they were not. i don't think there's really any excuse. there's going to be a lot of investigations, internal handling about how and why that happened. it is conceivable that the french didn't know they went to yemen, like now, it is

an israeli strike in syria. funerals had been held for six hezbollah fighters who also died in the attack near the israeli occupied golan heights. cameroon's defense ministry said that the army has rescued 24 of 80 people taken hostage by boko haram fighters. there were many children among the hostages. let's get more on yemen. joining us here in the studio, and we've been asking a lot of people we've been speaking to whether the cease-fire is going to stick. let me ask you that as well. and if so, if there was any potential for it to stick how? how will that be possible? >> well. >> it has political stability in yemen. i don't think this will hold for the the following reasons. the president has appointed a top political adviser the man a few days ago said that there are huge differences and i don't see them coming together in the future to solve some of these problems. it's not just about minor political issues. it's about who is going to rule in the future, and the houthies have made it clear they want to be

syria is tough.'t think the criticism in "washington post" is justified in the broader counter terrorism effort. everyone understands iraq and syria are a magnet for jihadis and there are a problem when these foreign fighter goes back in paris and belgium. but often they're without recommendation about what to do about it. they don't want american troops on the ground in syria, neither do i. they criticize air strikes being unefficient but not really to see what would be efficient. it's tough. i think the administration has properly although it is frustrating, had to prioritize iraq because there was simply no other way because we don't have the partners offen the ground in syria. we do have some partners on the ground now in syria but very few and more in the south than the north where they have been effectively picked off by both the regime and by the islamists fighters. but it's a tough situation. >> what more should the administration be doing? >> well, look i think in terms of protecting the hom

it is at turkey's border with syria.monitoring hayat boumeddiene's whereabouts say they followed her phone signals from istanbul to the border city until last thursday, until a day after the attack on the "charlie hebdo" offices in paris. turkish officials say they believe she then crossed in to syria that day. that someday day is believed to cross in to syria. and the day that her husband killed a policewoman on the outskirts of paris and next day attacked a kosher market in paris killing four before he was killed in a shootout with french authorities. cool bab lab by and the kouachi brothers are dead now, killed by police but she is at large. bbc reports today that officials placed her last known phone call as coming this saturday from an isis-controlled town inside of syria not far from the turkish boarder border . police people are at large and sought by authorities including one man reportedly seen driving her car after she left it behind in france to make her way to spain and then to turkey and in to the isis stron

security council is waiting for a regular briefing on syria. they're going to be talking about the humanitarian situation in syria. it's possible some of the ambassadors will refer to the deterioration of the security situation on the border between lebanon and syria. ban ki-moon is here for his last day before going to the african summit taking place. he may speak about the deteriorating situation on the ground. >> talk us through for our viewers who don't know, the u.n. force in southern lebanon on that border and its mission there. >> it's been there for a considerable length of time to try and protect that border, one of two courses in the immediate area. there's also the u.n. force that's there patrolling the border between israel and syria so two separate u.n. forces, not often called upon find themselves very much in the front line. the u.n. force has been there at the time of conflict. before, of course, in 2006, again, it finds itself in a very dangerous position, and we'll have to see how events unfold in the coming hours. >> all righ

if syria breaks through there would be a lot of change. weapons not to be in the hands of islamists because if they get it they will never hesitate to use it. >> reporter: isis has recruited some 700 suicide bombers around the world which is added to a list that the leadership pulls from. >> from italy, france australia, some from somalia. they have come even from afghanistan. >> now it's important to note that that piece was filmed at the end of 2013. he was arrested by lebanese authorities last may and faces charges that include encouraging terror acts and insighting hatred against the lebanese army. if convicted he could face the death penalty. >> that moment when he turns to the camera after he says islamists wouldn't hesitate to use chemical weapons is absolutely chilling. you interviewed him in 2013. as we look at what is happening in belgium and paris how influential is he among jihaddests? >> he is less influential now that he is arrested. he was arrested. that is an important conversation about religious intolerance. the one thing