as for the others connected to friday s attack, there is sammy amimour, believed to be another of the alleged rock concert shooters. he has been wanted for terrorism since 2013. bilal hafdi, ibrahim abdeslam. he is connected to the man who may be the most wanted man in europe tonight, his brother salah. he is the one everyone is looking for. he rented a car the killers used to drive into paris and he drove back to belgium. but he was stopped at the border by french police. they checked him. police looked at him but they let him go. he moved on into belgium and disappeared.n he is a big manhunt is under way for the man what happens you are looking at right now. police are hunting for salah.
francois hollande said that we re at war. and he s absolutely right. we are at war. and there s an ideological war we have to consider. and isis s ideology is underpinned by a particular reading of islam. it s known as wahabiism. it s a puritanical reading of islam. and which is effectively undoes and eradicates any kind of ethical content of islam. and then what we have is this politicized understanding of islam that wants to impose itself on other people, which is islamism. these combined views create a psychological state, an intellectual landscape which makes it very easy for someone to be recruited and lend themselves to violence. but explain to me psychologically what happens in the mind of a young man really the majority are men.
this is something they want to publicize. they re using very strong language like massive bombardment campaign, et cetera. meanwhile, back in france police carried out several anti-terrorist raids across the country. authorities have released new details about one of the atta attackers who was killed while carrying out his bombing. his name is bilal hafdi, a belgian resident. you see his picture there. that s a screen grab from a video. you can see also sadly how young he looks. authorities believe 19 years old, perhaps 20 years old. and authorities said that he spent some time fighting in syria at the beginning of this year. our senior international correspondent jim bittermann joins me now live from paris with the very latest. jim, you ve been listening to the french prime minister s interview on rtl. what is he saying about france s response to all of these attacks? and he said the response is going to continue. on the attacks, he said they re going to continue for the near future
football club real madrid, et cetera, et cetera, and that he turned eventually into a very radical, violent jihadist. senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is live in paris with more on the investigation. tell us more about what we know with regards to those bombers who have been identified, fred. reporter: yeah, absolutely. and as you said, his name is bilal hafdi. and the information we re getting, hala-s that he apparently traveled to syria in the early stages of 2015 and fought for isis. it s not clear when he came back to belgium. however, authorities believe he was radicalized quite quickly. the photo image we obtained of him comes from a video that apparently show him calling for attacks against the west. and as you said he appears to be
we re also learning more about the other attackers, french national bilal hafdi, an and ismael. officials say a man using the name ahman al muhammad blew himself up at the stade de france. a subject of an international arrest warrant since 2013 is responsible for the attack at bataclan. this is something planned over the course of several months in terms of making sure they had the operatives, the weapons, the explosives with the suicide belts. reporter: six of the attackers spent time training in syria, belgium authorities confirm they lost track of some of them. we were not aware that some of them already returned. reporter: tonight intelligence sources tell cnn at this point in the investigation it does not appear any of the attackers were known to the u.s.