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Another 227 wounded. isis is claiming responsibility for that one. in france authorities are questioning a man that drove a van into a gas factory and set off an explosion and then left the decapitated head of a victim pinned to the fence of that factory he attacked. lets bring in phil mud. cnn counter terrorism analyst and former cia counter terrorism official. phil first, good to have you this morning. >> thanks. >> lets talk about the timing here. this comes after the request from him to atta...

He went from a life where he was nobody to a life where he was somebody. >> phillip mud, thanks for being with us. >> my long standing joke is that phil mud is always in a different city when we interview you. >> making you wonder. ahead at this hour, two blood thirst ki groups could be joining forces, boko haram swearing alliance to isis. how does that change now? stay with us. okay, listen up! im re-workin the menu.

Out its not what we might have expected. perhaps its more the person well educated, comes from a good background, dressed well, had lots of friends and just happened to be very islamic. were you surprised to hear about that kind of perpendicular turning into the person we see in these videos? >> no, it shouldnt be surprising. we need to get off this idea of the profiles and these cookie cutter profiles of individuals who are -- dont have jobs or are lacking intelligence or something. everyone is...

Saying. you know, this idea that mi5 radicalizes individuals is laughable really. theyre doing their job. there arent that many officers to go around just pulling off your average random muslim. there are many, many muslims living the u.k. the vast, vast majority never interact with mi5 and theres a reason for that. >> all right. let me ask a little bit about how significant this person is. phil, maybe you can shed some light. hes famous, hes foul. hes the face or at least the masked face of thi...

Harassment had something to do with pushing emwazi towards this route to syria. of course there are many aspects of his life that were just getting to know now and learn more about. >> im glad you ended on that nope. its the very topic i want to explore with the next guest. right now to phil mud, hes a former cia counter terrorism official. and then a former jihadist himself, hes also the co-author of this book. first to you, that very point that she just talked about, this guy, jihadi john thro...

Or at least was the one arranging things, arranging money, making plans, helping to make the trips possible for the other two who were in brooklyn, the other two being 19-year-old and 24-year-old injujuraboev. so the picture you saw is the third of the suspects. we do not have pictures of the other two, because they made their appearances in brooklyn yesterday. these are the three so far being alleged in the conspiracy of heading off to wamg jihad in syria or with isis or if it was too difficult...

Theres a second question too. if youre not in the room for a questioning operation at the same time, not just looking through a mirror, but in the room with them, youre dealing with having to pass questions through an intermediary. my experience, thats really inefficient and cant cut to the chase as quickly as you want to. this is a matter of time here, anderson. chasing somebody down. go ahead. >> in some cases though, u.s. intelligence has used foreign intelligence services to do dirty work th...

And our counterterrorism analyst, phil mud, also formerly of the cia. mary, we watch both of these things, its hard to focus. the viewer finds it hard to focus because this is something that was so -- it could have happened to anyone. in a way that, perhaps, i think viewers feel more than anything else. weve talked about in a long time. so is there, when you, in all your experience of investigating these sorts of crashes, how different is this one in terms of the scene? when we hear about these ...

Who would do that inviting in this situation? >> in this case, ukraine can invite them in. its their land. technically they have the ability to do that. since its a crime scene, you would expect them to do that and more. pan am 103 which is a crime scene, there were 1,000 investigators assigned to get to work and literally comb the fields. that at a minimum, you need 1,000 investigators and thats about what it takes, so i dont know how they will get them there with hostilities. >> phil mud, ther...

Download whatever is on it. >> what can the united states do if indeed snowden is in that airport? i mean, what can it do? >> the dirty secret here is theres not much to be done. hes violated a federal law and the department of justice and diplomatic officials will say, look, you have to hand him over. but in truth, this is not hollywood. youre not going to swoop down with black hawk helicopters and pick this guy up. you go and knock on the door and say, youve got to give over somebody who has v...