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Because we believe this woman was the cousin of the ringleader. >> you know, weve seen so many brother and sister teams carrying out suicide attacks and in fact, when i looked at the women involved in terrorism, islamic, non-islamic groups, suicide bombers and register rorests, the best predictor was being related to someone already in the group. >> so why do you think that is? just as a lot of these networks to people who have prior relationships, just that you reach out to the people you know....

Now. they have been involved there but we have seen a rise in suicide attacks. even just this year, the situation is is far from under criminal. as you point out, now its not just al qaeda affiliated groups, but groups with isis. in terms of who was there this morning, the employee telling me that they were dressed casually. so he said jeans, checkered shirts, baseball caps. now again, he saw two of the shooters. we know there were more. the two shooters he saw is how he described what they were...

Im john berman in paris. the breaking news from here. abdelhamid abaaoud is dead. he is the ringleader, the architect, the planner for the attacks last friday in this city that stole the lives of 129 people. he was killed in that daring raid in the paris suburb of saint-denis. in the shadow, literally, of one of the sites of the suicide attacks on friday, the stade de france, where three attackers blew themselves up as people were leaving that stadium. this man now dead in this attack yesterday....

Is the town where some of the suicide attacks were carried last friday. now over the last few days, though the french have ramped up security against terrorist networks, radical networks. a lot of arrests were carried out in frons and also in germany and belgium. there is a large security sweep over europe. attacks were carried out by french citizens. they were planned in syria and prepared, organized if belgium against french targets. so this is a whole regional sweeps. but what the french are ...

Where you detonate and it doesnt fall apart and doesnt work. it is something that requires a large degree of sophistication. one of the things we have to keep in mind with that is that the suicide vests that the bombers or attackers were wearing, were all identical. they were all made exactly the same way. to manufacture something like that is difficult. we have been speaking to french authorities here who are saying you basically need a bombmaker to do that. you need an explosive specialist to ...

Still very early on in this investigation. >> yeah. hopefully they get some progress and theyll find all these guys and find them quickly. pamela, thanks very much. were following the breaking news in a newly released video. members of isis now threatening attacks in europe and in washington, d.c. the department of homeland security and the fbi now say theres no specific credible information of an attack on the u.s. homeland. not so long ago isis fighters were concentrated on capturing territory...

He was the key point to the isis leadership, perhaps al baghdadi as jim was pointing out. he was making all these telephone calls to the cell in belgium. the police eventually went in. there was a big commando raid and they seized tatp, they seized -- >> tatp, which by the way the explosive used in the vests here in the suicide attacks among the attackers. >> this is another point to me made by french authorities. they believe, of course syria the home base, in effect, for these attacks, but bel...

Match. there were two others waiting and instead they detonated it to a lesser degreechlt four people wereçó killed, but it could hav been far, far worse. >> first suicide attacks in frances long history. rick, thank you. here at home, officials with the national football league are beefing up security in this weeks football games. the security presence is a precaution. and major cities all over america beefing up. every time we see an attack like this, it is a reminder to be prepared and vigi...

Raqqa in syria because of what happened here and being directly linked to isis. simon cooper was in the stadium, anderson, when these bombs went off, suicide attacks went off on friday night. first describe what you felt there and then -- >> were you aware right away something was wrong? >> i was aware something was wrong. 20 minutes into the game we heard a loud explosion. play continued and there was cheering and people thought i think it was fireworks. >> people light off fireworks in the gam...

Locally made. >> there have never been suicide attacks in france before. >> not until now. cla r clarissa ward is joining us. the desire is for an answer that somehow makes what happens here less likely? >> reporter: thats right, chris. just to piggyback on what christiane was saying there about the importance of holding that land and having the caliphate. i speak to one young man and ive been speaking to him over a year now. initially he went to syria he told me because he wanted to help the sy...