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He was killed in these air strikes. abdelhamid abaaoud was killed in a gun battle with french forces in days after the attacks. colonel steve warren delivering this information. he also had this to say. >> its important to note that all of these terrorists had eventual designs on tattacking the united states. lets be clear about that. thats what they want to do. as far as the stage of their attack planning, we are not going to go into those details yet. because we want to preserve some of our op...

France. 29-year-old man believed to be linked to the deadly attack planning to flee to syria. at this time exact link to the terror attack is not known but he is now being questioned by police. and back here in the united states, terrorism now taking centered stage in the campaign trail so far the biggest announcement from any candidate is donald trumps controversial plan for a temp it rather ban on muslim immigrants. former speaker of the house newt gingrich is here to go "on the record." good ...

On a beach and the idea that he would attack a school. that is nothing new. some of the worst this history were exactly that. in nigeria, massive attacks so schools. so pulling from this attack planning and jttf got involved just in time to prevent violence from actually occurring. >> and this was on the fourth of july he was arrested. is there any indication this was one of the plots that the fbi said it thwarted on the fourth? >> the fbi has not said that. we did have that plot that was thwart...

And not follow him around forever. the question did they miss glaring signs in the run-up to this either on social media or elsewhere, an hour before the attack tough to ask the fbi to get that but im sure there are other signs probably out there that were missed. we have to look at that in terms of how to overt this attack planning. >> postprobation. what would surveillance look like? how do they monitor people like this? >> a high threshold, very manpower intensive and constitutional issues wh...

. were back with the acting state department spokeswoman, marie harf and talking about the u.s. drone strike that killed two western hostages and two al qaeda leaders, lets talk about the al qaeda guys who were killed. adam gadahn ahmed farouk. adam kadahn. were they intentionally targeted for killing by the united states? >> they werent. we were not aware that they were at this location when these operations were undertaken. youre right, adam gadahn had been indicted in u.s. courts he was invol...

Democratic congressman adam sheriff who was a member of the house intelligence committee and getting some of these briefings. congressman, what can you tell us publicly about what you know and what you understand about this plot? >> what i understand is theres a high level of confidence in the sources of information on it. we get chatter all the time. its often very nonspecific. sometimes its from less than credible sources. to take this kind of a broad action, to shut down this many embassies o...

Penn station to toronto every year. and the service crosses one of the most spectacular bridges in north america. sources tell abc news the plan involved planting bombs to blow up tracks and derail the trains. >> by derailing a train they were actually -- we were looking at a real threat to kill people, hurt people. >> reporter: the two arrested suspects had allegedly begun surveillance of trains in the toronto area, but authorities had been watching them since august of last year and the plot w...

Sources tell abc news the plan involved planting bombs to blow up tracks and derail the trains. >> by derailing a train they were actually -- we were looking at a real threat to kill people, hurt people. >> reporter: the two arrested suspects had allegedly begun surveillance of trains in the toronto area, but authorities had been watching them since august of last year and the plot was disrupted before it became operational. here is one of the suspects in handcuffs, escorted by police. and an un...

Well find out. >> sure does. canadian authorities say they have prevented a deadly terror attack in the making. two men are akigsed of plotting to blow up tracks and derail a passenger train from new york to toronto. police say the suspects had trains under surveillance. they were allegedly aiming to kill hundreds of people. it appears they werent acting alone. >> the significance of this investigation was that it involved domestic attack planning being supported by al qaeda. >> now those al q...

Diplomatic sources say the courier was a kuwaiti named abi ahmad. cbs reports that ahmad would are you teenly turn his cell phone off when he was close to the abbottabad compound, which is why it took them so close to find it. >> i can tell you that the intelligence was acquired over the last nine years or so, and there was some painstaking work done by some very, very dedicated analysts who were putting together the pieces of information. >> officials are now giving specifics on information rec...