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Unfortunately he was let go at the time they did not know he was a suspect. we are now learning this new detail, a connection that salah abdelsalam, that missing eighth attacker and the ringleader abaaoud spent time together in prison in 2011. what remains to be seen is whether abaaoud the architect of this attack is dead or if hes still at large. thats a key question here. we know that theyre doing dna tests and weve also heard accounts from inside the explosions and the gunfight inside that ap...

Malcolm said. i think this will be huge he covers he has been the operational commander in belgium for a series of terrorist attacks. he has already been sentenced by the french courts to 20 years for previous attacks. we could talk about those, but he is an operational commander. he is running this tell. if its him, that will be a huge development. what will be interesting is that when the tactical team arrived, where they ambushed by the terrorists before their team could even go into make the...

Paris. there are so many reports whether he was in syria or whether he went back to belgium. do you think its significant that he was in paris very close to where the terrorist attacks, part of them occurred last friday? >> thats normally not the playbook, if you have this mastermind, because the person who plans it and gets the resources together and gets everyone going is usually not in the target zone so that this individual can continue doing other types of operations. so if in fact he was i...

Morning particularly and theres been a lot of discussion about the fact that this female suicide bomber blew herself up as police tried to get into that apartment. that is another first for paritions. that is really shocking. we have not seen suicide bombers in france. we really havent seen them in europe, and then to have a woman which is reminiscent of those chechen black widows that seemed far away from all of this in the caucuses of russia, this is something new. i think people feel life has...

I want to tell you that the search. no weapons were discovered. and another individual is supposed to have provided the apartment. right now the ideare ids of the people are not established. salah beslam is not in custody. we are trying to identify the terrorist that are retakened or dead or anybody that is implied or involved in this terrorist attacks. whether it was in syria or in france. and those investigation have the goal to determine the condition under which the terrorist attack

After, a terror attack, after they left the scene, when we have, its completely blank. we have to find them back. thats apparently what we did. >> stand by. let me go to alan bauer, joining us by phone. we have spoken to him many times in the past year with the terrorist attacks that have befallen france. alan bauer, what do you make of the current operation under way? >> i think the operation is now finished. and its a huge success. real intelligence, ground intelligence, made by judiciary poli...

Ongoing operation. that was quite a large explosion in that direction. a second one now. just hold on. no gunfire that we can tell so far. a third explosion. fourth. that was much larger. police asking them to move back. there are a number of military soldiers that are now being moved into the front as well. >> were told that wiretaps led french police to this alleged paris cell that, were told, had an imminent plan of attack intercepting, quote, just in time authorities say. we still do not kno...

In the days since fridays terrorist attacks here in paris, france has launched dozens of air strikes in syria. primarily in the city of raqqa, the defacto capital of isis. police have also carried out hundreds of raids on homes in france and belgium detaining dozens of people and placing over 100 under house arrest. so there is a military air war under way and also an on the ground house-to-house hunt for accomplices or people who knew something about the attacks or people who might be planning ...

Fighters. this is an issue that is well beyond it. as mike pointed out, it goes on the internet. a lot of the people we are tracking today, radicalizing jail as well that was the case of for example, the killer and the toulouse terrorist attacks against jewish kids in 2012 or the terrorists that followed just after the "charlie hebdo" attacks. >> juliette, in the short time we have left, can you explain the dangers law enforcement faces if neighborhoods like this. again we are getting reports of...

A local tell us earlier today that she actually saw increased security at post offices in paris. she went in to mail something and they checked her bag. we were talking about that happening in grocery stores. she said it happened at her grocery store this morning and at her post office. obviously a heightened sense of alert. but the fact that the guy came in and presented his passport with the name of a terrorist on it, something were going to follow up on. >> chris jansing thank you very much. ...