fighting isis in some instances but cold in the sense that look, isis has had a banner quarter year in the last three months, look at the attacks they claimed credit for. the bombing which killed over 100 people. the metrojet airliner in sham el-sheikh that killed over 200 people. the worst bombing in lebanon since the close of the civil war and now this gruesome paris atrocity. al qaeda feels left out like they are the j.v. team to coin a phrase and trying to catch up and regain the narrative and regain the sort of luster. and as i have also said, there is a generational divide here. the cooler brand, believe it or not is isis. they are younger guys. they are not your grandfather s jihad. al qaeda feels like it has to keep pace with what isis is perpetrating and as isis is
siege, including a woman who blew herself up. eight others were arrested. but what about the two chief subjects of the manhunt, salah abdeslam and abdelhamid abaaoud. here s paris prosecutor françois molins at a new conference. now the identities of the people arrested in the building have not been formally established but i must say that abaaoud and salah abdeslam are not part of the people are not part of the people in custodies. so not in custody. but was abaaoud one of those killed? the prosecutor said french forces neutralized the cell in saint-denis and found a weapons stockpile, suggesting it could have moved to carry out another attack. and the suspected perpetrators, isis, are putting out more propaganda, this time related to the metrojet airliner, that
matthew matthew? reporter: chris, thanks very much. this is the first time that it s been confirmed that it was a bomb that took down that metrojet airliner at the end of last month, killing all 224 people on the sinai peninsula. the head of the russian fsb, the former kgb telling vladimir putin on state television that a search of the luggage and fragments of the plane that s been recovered has found traces of foreign-made explosives. they believe it was a bomb on board, a terrorist act, a bomb with at least a kilo of tnt or the equivalent contained inside it. that would account from the fact that the debris from the fuselage was spread across such a wide area this again, the first time it s been confirmed that it was a bomb that caused the crash of that metrojet airliner in sinai at the end of last month. vladimir putin was swift in his response speaking on state television saying of the culprits we will search for
welcome back to the lead. i m jake tapper. coming to you live from paris, france. we continue to cover the isis terrorist attacks just four days ago. but right now i want to turn to russia. there was a major announcement from the kremlin earlier. the kremlin now acknowledging that it was a bomb. they say two-pound bomb that brought down the metrojet airliner last month over the sinai peninsula killing all 224 innocent people on board, including 25 children. isis, as you know, claimed responsibility for that attack as well. cnn s rene marsh following the developments. today russia confirmed what western intelligence sources have been saying literally for weeks, the crash of metrojet 9268 was no accident, it was because of a bomb, the amount of explosive material used, of course, ensured an extremely
on the latest in the investigation into that metrojet airliner crash that crashed last month killing 224 people on board. we can say now, i m quoting him, we can say unambiguously this was a terrorist attack. explosives were found in the airline debris and the passengers baggage. the homemade device on board was equal in power to one kilogram of high explosive tnt. this is the first time to be clear it has been confirmed that it was a terrorist act and a bomb that caused the downing of that metrojet airliner on october 31st killing all 224 people on board. swift reaction from the kremlin. vladimir putin at the meeting. he addressed it saying we will search for those responsible everywhere no matter where they are hiding. we will find them in any place