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Discussed launching attacks. he was known to u.s. intelligence before the truck attack and had been put on a no-fly list. president-elect donald trump tweeted today that the u.s. must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability. his message hours after vladimir putin called for boosting the strike capability of russias nuclear forces. the comments raising troubling new questions about the future of the relationship even as trumps transition team rushes to explain the statement. as p...

Related to threats in europe and elsewhere. the coalition is searching those captured phones, hard drives and maps for more information. >> when they know that they have lost some of their human intelligence or their signals intelligence or digital intelligence, anything that they have got in the pipeline in terms of terrorist attacks, they like to speed up. >> reporter: what are intelligence officials looking for? >> you can pin point the individuals who have gone to the battle front and gone b...

Explosion this morning. it was swift, and its toward the central area. the response was very quick. i got there, you know, a few minutes after the explosion happened, and special forces were heavily armed going into the building. the police here, they have been recommended and recognized for the work theyve done in terms of breaking down the terror network in indonesia and there was a group responsible for the body bombings. but what youre seeing here is smaller sen tgroups that are ra and check...

Bali and in jakarta when they bombed hotels here, they were all gone, and that they had smaller groups that were not as capable of launching attacks. that might have changed, and im sure authorities will be looking at that. >> it is a very concerning situation there. cnns kathy joining us from central jakarta where the six blasts took place. at this point we understand six people killed, four of them suspects. one of them a police officer, and kathy, do stay nearby. we want to come back to you a...

They still claim to be moderate and secular. theyre not the minority thats been discriminated here in this country. theres not a lot of reason for them to join the jihad, for example. i think the main thing here is that people oppose the messes that isis has taken in terms of launching attacks and treating other muslims as well. that has angered many of the muslims in indonesia. thats why you dont see too many of them joining isis right now. >> kathy is our cnn producer in the center of jakarta,...

Isis is pivoting towards launching attacks against the european countries that are targeting isis as part of the anti-sisco list. belgium is one of those countries, theyre flying air sorties over iraq. isis have called for attacks against belgium and many other european countries. this comes a few weeks after this capital was essentially closed down for several days because of a terrorism alert that went out here. they went up to maximum alert. im also finding out why that happened. it was becau...

Is not only launching attacks but has dominated large swaths of territory in the middle east and north africa and is expanding beyond the region and areas we cant target in afghanistan, pakistan, nigeria, even bangladesh and the philippines. so were seeing isis tentacles reaching. but we look at isis as a centralized threat. but there is that decentralized threat that emanates from its ideology, self-radicalized individuals at home, especially in the post-san bernardino attacks that rose up and ...

Intelligence of isis extremist whose have come back from syria, suspected to come back from syria to europe talking about the idea of attacking various cities among them, geneva, hence the warning provided to the swiss but toronto and chicago viewed more of sort of aspirational ideas of launching attacks. but also several other strands coming in to the swiss, one of them the van with belgium number plates recently crossed into switzerland and traced the number plates they picked up on cc tv and ...

Now, they are clearly looking for a wider network, whether it wasnt whiting.the attack was - i dont think these people acted alone. they were talking to people. they were recruited a long time ago, possibly in riverside based on the communications and now the fbi is desperate to get into this hard drive and tom is absolutely right if it is just water soaked, its phone. the only way to destroy a hard drive is smash it with a sledgehammer. we may get lucky and it may turn out as a wider network. >...

>> well, i mean they need to understand, it is true that what isis has primarily done with the areas that they captured is to try to launch attacks on shia. now, of course, theyre launching attacks on us, as well. theyve gone global, which is why it is important to understand that this is not a problem that is contained. but in attacking the shia, there are many sunnis in the region. unfortunately, who take the view, well we dont like isis tactics, but at least theyre dealing something -- doing ...