confirmation here from french authorities, but if that turns out to be the case, what then does that tell you about where we are in this fight against isis? well, it tells us something very significant. the battle line activities that you would usually see ramadi, baghdad, mosul, raqqah, have now been moved to the front lines of france. to a certain extent, welcome to my world. this is exactly what we saw in iraq. as a matter of fact, there s some significant information here with the information that there was a female suicide bomber. in iraq al qaeda in iraq, now isis, pioneered the husband and wife suicide bomber team. and it was interesting, because most female suicide bombers wore belts, and male bombers would wear vests, or what we call chest-rigged explosives. so all of this is consistent absolutely with how they fight there. and what they ve decided to do is bring those battle tactics,
authorities here of course because there could be more potential attackers on the loose. of course, for the french, na will be one of the avenues they will be questioning. poppy? was he tied to anyone else or was he carrying this out on his own. thank you very much. nic robertson live in france. jonathan, to you. how big is the concern that isis operatives are using turkey as a base to not send europeans who have been radicalized on to syria but rather, turn them back to go home to carry out attacks in their homeland? that is a big thing. what really alarms me is that not just turkey but there are so many of these areas now that that could happen. turkey is a good base for them to do that because it s so close to syria to where, you know, these operatives are actually being trained and actually getting battle tactics. they can come back, they can go over the border in turkey and
outside. that s what awlaki adapted to more than bin laden. being able to recruit within the u.s., to find home grown terrorists, to find people under the radar screen and recruit them over the internet so they had changed their battle tactics where it s not a large attack that we were as concerned about as it was these almost one off attacks or attacks by you know, appears to be people like major hassan recruited by awlaki and recruited scientists so last year we saw the air cargo bomb stopped at the very last moment and by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. that would have caused probably hundreds and hundreds of casualties. he also is was behind the scientist perfected and planting bombs within the body through surgical bodies to be used on airlines. he was the cutting edge of the
weeks to teach battle tactics to small units. right now there, is no coordination between the various rebel groups. there is no critical mass to work with, perhaps outside of bengha benghazi. reporter: maybe 1,000 have military training, one-tenth of gadhafi s elite forces. the disparity really shows in the wide open desert spaces, where rebel guns were no match for the regime s long-range firepower. my experience is that darwin works very quick until war. reporter: the ex-cia offer says if the allies gave the rebels more anti-tank weapons and consistent air support, they could survive enough battles to teach new recruits. that s an army that will grow in skill very, very quickly. reporter: he offers a warning of american s own experience of arming of mujahidin. they turned out to be corrupt and rapaciou sncs and i mean
they were several thousand of them a few minutes ago. they have all just run in this direction. some retreating back and the gunfire is mixed with fireworks here. it has been the result of that. this is the moment the protesters have been waiting for, the moment they have been fighting for all day, rachel. this is live imagery from cairo. this is not on tape. as you look at the scene, you say it looks like the anti-mubarak protesters have won, how are they winning? how is this fight playing out? reporter: you can see people running now. making a counter attack. a counter charge. the bridge has been the high ground in this. we are talking old fashioned battle tactics here. the pro-mubarak supporters were