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Claimed responsibility today. the founders of this group were themselves members of al qaeda in west africa. so, the area where there is very little state control in mali and in southern parts of algeria and elsewhere, they have been the main areas where these terrorist groups have been operating out of. theyre not very different in their ideology than isis and others like boko haram. the methodology may be different but they want to establish an islamic caliphate and impose sharia law and the o...

Explosives. there are bee bees that have been compacted and what that means, according to this bomb expert, clearly this is a device that will not only kill the person that detonates it but because of the bbs inside, the shrapnel effect, it will injure many near it. its a big threat to new york and the fact that they are showing their methodology, that they plan to do this by a suicide bomb, this is only a threat. the police department has tamped down on it saying we have been a target, we will ...

>> and do you have, michael, do you have any sense of how many people were in the theater at the time? >> yeah, its a venue that actually holds around 1500 people according to julian, my brother and it was sold out and at capacity and maybe over sold so maybe more than that. >> so the number of people who are in that theater could have been very, very high. we had a producer on the scene that said he saw at least 100 hostages leaving the building alive. and were still trying to get an accurate t...

With western capital this shouldnt be able to happen. >> this is a low-tech attack, but it was a well run attack as far as we can tell. >> well, people say low tech and sometimes -- you know, i dont quite get that, with all due respect to some of the folks have been raising. when you bring in the level of sophistication, simultaneous sites, a timing, a commitment. clearly the coordination. its not just a weaponry you use. its the confidence, its the methodology, its the frame work. to call it a ...

We dont have audio with this but this is the s.w.a.t. team storming that club. okay. so this is what exactly happened, as i said, we dont know how many people were inside. hundreds perhaps. we know that many people were able to escape. afp reporting 100 of them lost their lives inside that club. we do not know how. we do not know how many. we understand it was terrorists with assault rifles. i want to go to pamela brown in washington. youve been working your sources. what are you learning? >> i ...

Similar to the attack in mumbai, in fact, this is also going to be considered more of a mimic of the charlie hebdo attack, but with the added hostage -- suicide hostage pair cade situation. i dont know who in particular did this attack, but a lot of the indications of the professionalism and the methodology is going to come down to one of the two global jihadi groups that does this as as a living. al qaeda in iraq -- im sorry, one of its affiliates or al qaedas newest it ration, which is the isl...

What some people were able to do to bring the worlds attention and a great city to a stand still as they have to create mas slaughter. with gun violence, just copycat stuff, but the level at which sophisticated assaults like this go up the chain, that becomes a real problem before it metastasizes around the world. with what well see french authorities do is dig into who these people are, their relationships, do forensics on how they met, communicated, and we will also see that come up so that la...

Much. pamela brown now joins us with information from her sources. >> counterterrorism officials in the u.s. are busy trying to piece together what happened here. and they are alarmed by the apparent meth appare apparent methodology. there are tactics from various terror groups. so its a bit of a guessing game as to who could be behind this. but i will tell you, this is what law enforcement officials have been concerned about for a while. there are people in europe who may travel to syria and ir...

A quick update tonight on the last governors race that will take place in the country this year. its the runoff election for the governors race next weekend in louisiana. two new polls out today show republican senator david vitter way behind in that race. one of the polls is by a firm called market research. we couldnt validate their methodology. they show david vitter trailing by 13 points pb for what thats worth. but theres another poll out by the university of new orleans, showing their bott...

If this was isis, what does it say about the sophistication level of their operation? we dont know what methodology reports they used to penetrate it. it could have been an ideological supporter on the inside and could have been someone who was paid by a third party, maybe they thought they were smuggling something or it could have been someone whose family was being held hostage or threatened with death if they didnt participate. >> you really dont know. does this mean they are going to heighte...