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On the pictures, the apparently secular life she lived, that also is a very common thing for supporters of the islamic state and people who fight for it. a lot of them, they seem to have lived, shall we say, sinful lives in the eye of conservative muslims, and then have come around and repented. and you know, ive spoken to islamic state supporters about this, and ive asked them, do you think this discredits your people? and they say no. they say the companions of the prophet muhammad himself wer...

Eighteenth draggth dragged out for hours, people hiding in the hotel, the terrorists going for ransom. and thats a pattern weve seen from groups based in the north, this pattern of hostage-taking, of asking for ransom. certainly, youll hear the name of the group ansar dine. i think well be saying that a lot more in the next 24 hours. so, this fits in with what weve been seeing unfolding in mali in the past sort of three to six months, certainly a ramping up. this, as you just laid out, chris, re...

Now. they have been involved there but we have seen a rise in suicide attacks. even just this year, the situation is is far from under criminal. as you point out, now its not just al qaeda affiliated groups, but groups with isis. in terms of who was there this morning, the employee telling me that they were dressed casually. so he said jeans, checkered shirts, baseball caps. now again, he saw two of the shooters. we know there were more. the two shooters he saw is how he described what they were...

We are many hours into this crisis in mali, an ongoing hostage situation where attackers went in, guns firing, by one estimate ten of them, but its still unclear exactly how many people are being held inside. three people reported dead. let me bring in sean hennry who served as an executive assistant director of the fbi, now president and chief security officer of crowd strike services. thanks very much. as weve been talking, theres been a report that an al qaeda-affiliated group is claiming res...

Malaysia is a large muslim country. so this is not about wednesday versus islam. this is about the world and a group of terrorists and terrorist ideology that is spreading a lot of copycat, a lot of cells connected to each other. this is why this is a network we have to go after. no one incidents including secretary clinton yesterday who laid out a broad strategy to deal with this. we all have to think in those terms. >> obviously this has changed the entire tenor of the presidential cam pan and...

Mali. >> very much so. very much so. al qaeda affiliated group occupy a huge swath of territory in the northern part of the country. that was an area where fighters traversed into libya. so much conflict going on there as well. it was a transit area for fighters into libya. mostly connected again to al qaeda. no shortage of islamist terrorists operating in that region. a number of attacks, you mentioned one within the last year in mali. a frequent target for terror groups there. as of now, no kn...

Third dead man. abaaoud was in there, the cousin was in there, who is that third person? could it be the eighth attacker, salah abdelsalam? who we know is still at large? that is probably unlikely because we know he was last spotted after the attacks on his way to belgium. but all of this brings home, wolf, is one central theme here. this is an ongoing operation, an ongoing investigation. the network is ever expanding. you heard john berman there talking about 800 raids. we know more than 100 ju...

Reporters just pointed out these are all late-breaking situations. weve been in touch with our people on the ground in mali throughout the day. we have confirmed that no americans were lost in this barbaric terrorist attack. we dont see anything right now to connect anything that happened in mali to paris. but obviously were continuing to follow-up very aggressively. and as jim just mentioned we have about 25 u.s. special forces on the ground. and we understand that some of them played a heroic ...

Officials saying there was a big delegation there for peace process. this may have links to the local situation in mali which is limping toward peace because of that threat of islamic affiliated groups. islamic fundamentalist affiliated groups that were threatening the capital some years ago. significant french interests in the y. france has drawn down its troop levels within mali. in times of peace, i have seen french special forces in mali and elsewhere in that region operated both operations....

Military presence there. well, u.s. africa command has tweeted out, saying that a small group of special forces is involved in the rescue efforts at that hotel. we also know that the french president has ordered the deployment of 50 special forces from france to help with those operations in addition to the current efforts by the malian security forces. the united nations has also deployed some additional resources. it does maintain a force in mali, part of its u.n. mission there. so, a lot of d...