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Jenkins. also the co-founder of the jenkins group. chad, when this popped up, i said where the heck did this come from? you said this looks familiar. what do you mean? >> well, we see too often this type of behavior from individuals who are devout followers of islam. this compound out in new mexico is very similar to what we see overseas. isis compounds in syria and iraq. the institute in yemen. al shabaab in, you know, in africa. it represently indicates that now we are seeing it here in the un...

But family, friends telling cnn that it was actually the father who wanted to get him out of a sort of troubling situation related to gangs in manchester and to get him out of the country to get him over to libya, and then he then sort of made up a pretext to his family about going to pilgrimage in saudi arabia to get back to the uk. so, not clear whether he went to libya to get any sort of terror training or anything like that. a lot of unknowns at this point. >> the relative sophistication, th...

All of these rates are many of these raids have resulted in compelling and important clues and arrested eight people in the u.k. so far have been significant. salman abedinis older brother here in manchester, his father and younger brother arrested in a tripoli, libya, where authorities say the 18-year-old brother confessed and knowledgeable plot that he and salman abedini belong to isis. authorities say that salman abedini may have gotten terror training in syria, but theyre also very concerned...

The libyan militia claims hashim said he and his brother were members of isis. cnn is reaching out to the authorities for verification. u.s. military sources tell cnn salman abedi, the manchester bomber, had been in libya for several weeks before the attack. >> he certainly might have had the opportunity in libya to connect with a terrorist group. isis has a presence in libya. al qaeda has a presence in libya. other jihadi groups. >> reporter: police say he was known to both british and u.s. int...

The times of london said he may have had terror training in libya and the french interior ministry said he traveled to syria and had proven links to isis according to the french foreign ministry. he did return from libya last week after three weeks and his neighbors apparently said he changed before the attack. >> that seems normal. my 5 says he was on their radar. he killed a lot of innocent people and many little girls and so many tragic stories of an and shielding her niece and the aunt dies ...

Jihadi groups. and as vladimir putin himself has said, up to 7,000 russian nationals and citizens of former soviet bloc countries have traveled to syria and iraq, joined groups like isis. theyve emerged, especially the fighters from the caucasus region as the elite fighters of the terror group and have been involved in international terror attacks, including that istanbul airport attack back last june, which was carried out by a number of russian nationals from the caucasus region. the fact that...

On what is fair and what is practical which is this is your country, the citizens from your country, we jailed them for a period of time, now they finish their sentence, they need to go home. or we found them after theyve been accused of multiple felonies. were going to deal with them and then ultimately they will have to go home. apparently we are supposed be housing the worlds criminal population as long as they came here legally first. its craziness. >> sean: isnt non-american non-american to...

Practical which is this is your country, the citizens from yourt country, we jailed them for a i period of time, now they finish their sentence, they need to go home. or we found them after theyve been accused of multipler felonies. were going to deal with them and then ultimately they will have to go home. bearently we are supposed housing the worlds criminal population as long as they came here legally first. its craziness. >> sean: isnt non-american non-american to say come in legally and are...

>> sure. law enforcement has told a number of media outlets, it does appear that this guy was radicalized. fox news has a story up now. the question is did she, actually radical eyes him. was she his terror training? yesterday during this program, we said dont be surprised if the white house refers to this as workplace violence just as they did with ft. hood. yesterday, the president of the united states went there. >> it is possible that this was terrorist rooelt d ---related. it may be workpla...