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In january, as youll recall, he was thought to be the mastermind of that plot in belgium, coordinated by cell phone from greece in touch with the plotters and went back in belgium and also in turn in touch with the isis leadership in syria. and at the time, the belgians brought in the greek security services. they also brought in the cia to try to locate where this phone was communicating from. but by the time they went in, he had escaped. he escaped the drag net. hes believed to have gone back ...

What assumptions we make. triangulating on the notion this was directed from syria but who directed it from sira is to be determined. >> whats the latest information about the evacuation of the soccer stadium in germany where the chancellor of germany was to attend with thousands of others? >> the germans, as they said, got foreign intelligence, suggesting there might be a threat. i in an abundance of caution they cleared the areas but as german officials said they havent as yet found any explos...

Brian todd here watching whats going on. >> we are getting new information on the sophisticated methods isis has for hiding all of its communications. were told investigators have had a difficult time finding electronic traces that these paris attackers left behind. officials attempts to break the isis codes are starting to become a modern day version of the movie "the imitation game." >> reporter: they planned coordinated, complex attack and theres new information tonight on tight operational s...

Isis plot but chances are 99.9% that it was and the european authorities are working on that. we do have people over there now as youve noted on your show that are willing and ready to help and our technology our intelligence work is better than any others in the world. they call on us for help and we stand ready to help and its in our best interests to do so. were in the crosshairs just like they are. >> were going to get to that in a moment but the cell phones found on the scene, presumably be...

Over there. there are a lot of different reasons but one of them is, they have, france, particularly belgium, have a very large population of middle eastern, north african people, many of whom are on the list that they want to keep an eye on. you heard earlier that the french themselves have admitted that they are overwhelmed with a number of people they have that need to be watched. and so, as a result of that, we obviously are focused first and foremost on the united states, whos coming, who i...

A case like this is can they go back to where these people were calling two years ago, three years ago when they were going back and forth to syria, when they came back and started doing these plots. this is the third major attack in france in less than ten months and the worst of all would have been the train attack. >> so paul, why is brussels, why is belgium a hot bed for the source of these terrorists who did this damage, this horrible massacre in paris? >> the root of the problem, wolf, is ...

We have to improve our interagency system to get better detect of jihadists. thats the problem. >> reporter: im told that u.s. law enforcement here in france is cooperating very closely with french intelligence providing any help that they ask for but also a focus of u.s. law enforcement here and certainly back in the u.s. is a threat of isis to the u.s. homeland and im told that threat is not only aspirational but u.s. counterterrorism officials believe there is plotting under way for attacks o...

Abaaoud in sira where hes believed to have close ties to al baghdadi. john kerry met with president hollande and pledged american cooperation, promising isis will soon face even greater pressure. >> feeling it today, they felt it yesterday, they felt it in the past weeks. we gained more territory. >> reporter: tonight, friend. officials are asking for the publics help to identify one of the attackers not yet named. they have a picture, a fingerprint but, wolf, still no name. they posted a pictur...

The west. >> go back to beginning of the year, it wasnt clear that isis had the ability to move a large number of operatives and keep them under the radar and help them avoid detection, now they were able to do that to devastating effect. >> reporter: details of the plot foiled in the january raid in belgium eerily what happened in paris. the in the january incident, precursor chemicals to make explosive known as tatp. the same materials french officials say used in suicide vests worn and detona...

Richest terrorist group in history. theyve got western extremists, more than 6,000 traveling from europe to join groups in syria and iraq, including isis. theres a lot of concern now theyre orchestrating a string of terrorist attacks against the uncountries targeted in syria and iraq. one of the reasons there should be concern about the fact that it apoors that none of the perpetrators of the paris attacks were on the watch list from the united states point of view. they could have gone on a pla...