Detained some returning fighters from syria. Authorities there say they dismantled imminent terrorist attacks on a grand scale. The suspects had Police Uniforms and radios. They were reportedly planning to kill Police Officers. This comes after a raid on one location led to a gun battle into the death of two militants. Meanwhile, in paris, prosecutors rounded up 12 people who were being questioned about whether they provided edd Logistical Support to the men who carried out the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket last week. And in germany, two turkish nationals were arrested accused of recruiting those to go fight in syria. The countrys Intelligence Service has warned of planned attacks against major train stations in berlin and dresden. Also tonight big news out of the Supreme Court. The justices will take up samesex marriage and decide once and for all whether kay couples have the right to marry under the constitution. Well get to that in a moment but we begin with th
We begin with new developments in wednesdays shooting rampage in San Bernardino, california. An isis Radio Station announcing the two shooters were supporters of the terrorist group. Tashfeen malik and her husband, sayed Rizwan Farouk killed 14 people and wounded 21 others by opening fire at the Regional Center. They both died in a Police Shootout. An official close to the investigation telling cnn that the female attacker, posted on pace book pledging allegiance to abu ab dar al baghdadi. They are investigating as an act of terrorism. Lets get to paul san ddoval. What more did we learn about the package addressed to the shooters home . Reporter it did turn out to be a false alarm. It was enough to leave many on edge. Three days since the shooting. This story is still heavy on the minds of people. It is all over the local headlines. The reminders were right there. San bernardino on edge. Overnight, police evacuated a ups facility and called in the bomb squad to investigate a package. I
anger, a great deal of frustration, alienation among sunnis. some of those sunnis aligned up with elements of the with the ousted saddam regime, and some of those sunnis formed together and they formed a group that went by a variety of names, but eventually came to be known as al qaeda in iraq. baghdadi came from this group. zakawi was also killed in a special operations raid. he was perhaps the group s most notorious leader the first time around. he was the one who really characterized the group s modus operandi, which was to terror ize civilians, to capture hostages, to behead them on video. like bin lauden himself, he was america s number one enemy. baghdadi did something different.
photos of his face and whatnot, and that was one of the ways they were able to confirm it. in his case also, they had dna, of course. i ve actually never heard whether they have dna samples on baghdadi. but when you have someone like that, such a high-profile terror leader, like baghdadi or osama bin lauden, the u.s. init tell jensen will usually try to have something on hand if, in fact, they have an opportunity to kill or capture the person, they can verify the identity. now, courtney, baghdadi was obviously a highs target value for the u.s. with a $25 million bounty on his head at one point. how will his death affect the isis organization? reporter: so, i mean, it s definitely one of the questions i ve been asked since all this started unfolding a couple of hours ago. you know, it s not clear that he had a major role in the day-to-day operation. so is this sort of like, you
repaired. this is the tribal arab region, the sunni conservative heartland of the middle east where isis tends to thrive. so for me what s extraordinary about this allegation or this news reporting is that baghdadi has gone to a place that frankly he s not all that welcome in. the place that the u.s. has announced it was going to withdraw from until donald trump rather precipitously said, no, we re doing an about face, we re actually going to come back into syria to guard the oil wells, this is the place i would expect to find baghdadi. so, the questions in my mind are when did he repair to idlib? under what circumstances? was this precipitated by the fact the u.s. announced its military withdrawal from eastern syria in conjunction with the turkish invasion of northeast syria? also, where did the intelligence come from? there are all kinds of deals