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Obviously the department of homeland security has all sorts of other responsibilities designed to protect this country from terrorist attacks. the irony, the tragedy of having these three individuals arrested today in new york potentially plotting attacks against the united states when we are about to potentially shut down the department of homeland security is shameful. hopefully it might change the debate here over the course of the next 48 hours. >> it comes after the secretary of homeland se...

This is "world news now." good morning to you all on this friday. im t.j. holmes. >> im reena ninan. lets get to the top story. the vigilance and nervousness in europe about terrorism officials in belgium saying they have broken up a major plot to kill police with a series of raids. >> officers were greeted with gunfire at one location. this is near the german border. alex marquardt has the details. >> reporter: the crackle of gun fire. the glow of flames, piercing the darkness in this tiny be...

Now they have a car they think is connected to this attack. >> it looks like it john. that hasnt been confirmed about the car but they picked up this car on the edge of paris. it had been abandoned and it was right near an area which is a sort of downtrodden area north of the city where theres a heavy concentration of islamic and immigrant populations. so it could very well-being b that thats where the gunman abandoned the car. but that hasnt been confirmed. we may get some more confirmation tho...

Terrorist attacks before. from islamic extremists largely because it has targeted in its cartoons particularly but in its editorial as well the prophet mohammed. it has provoked a lot of ire in the islamic community here. and of course should be remembered that in fact this is not an isolated attack. we had just before christmas, had an attack by an islamic, an avowed islamic fundamentalist against two police officers with a butcher knife. he was killed at the scene. were not sure what happened ...

Them about what would normally be a 12-minute drive away from that spot where it all began. you look at the red spot there. they ended up way up in here about 12 minutes away before they crashed their car and then tried to drive a little bit more cant hijack another car and then they disappear. an awful lot of activity in a limited space in four separate encounters with police each time the gunmen shot their way through. jake? >> tom foreman, thank you so much. this was the deadliest terrorist a...

Again, jihad comes in a couple of different forms. it comes in the violent form, which we know all too well. it comes in the stealth infiltration form infiltrating western societies, including the united states. it comes in the form of trying to criminalize free speech. jihad comes in these different forms. we have to be willing to talk about this because, otherwise if were not, were going to get mowed over by this enemy. if theyre trying to silence free speech as this act was an attempt to do i...

Five terrorist attacks have been foiled in recent weeks. what do we know about any specific there is, if at all? >> reporter: thats all we know. im surprised he said that we -- we were under the impression there had been at least a dozen terrorist attacks in the last couple of months that french police had foiled. they had been telling media. they had been telling people in charge of transport to be alert to constantly be alert. do not let your guard down. so its been widely known that france ha...

Today so there must have been some police on the scene. >> jim well check in with you as we gain more information. i want to bring in christiane amanpour who joins us from live done. clearly an attack on the press and press freedom, something that journalists throughout the world react to and the death of two plirzolice officers. >> youre right, this sebds ands a chill and will do around the western democracies who feel freedom of speech enables them to report and even to engage in satire. david...

French senior political analyst who said unlike previous attacks in the city of london in july 7, 07 n madrid a few years before that those were civilians attacked. this is directly targeted on journalists. europe now according to all officials faces the highest terror alert in many many years since 9/11. the french prime minister said even before christmas that france faced the worst terror threats ever and this follows several terrorist attacks in france just before christmas, all in one week....

You really dont see in a lot of other terrorist attacks. i will say, this was an assassination that caused terror. this was so targeted so focused on who they were getting. so in that way, we are in a different stage. this is not either 9/11 which is big but in some ways anonymous, nor is it the sort of lone wolf whoever they can get walking down the street. this is a new type of attack and thats why were all sort of taking it seriously. >> taking it very seriously. juliette and tom, thank you v...