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The legacy of the war overseas and here at home will be judged not today, but for years to com come. >> absolutely, this is certainly something that will take historical perspective, but you look at what is happening in the middle east, and it certainly doesnt look like a rosier place than it did eight years ago. >> bill: not just the middle east, i think it has branched out, gillian, you know how many countries where isis has bred and operating in northern africa and southeast asia. this is som...

Tape to determine if he met anyone there until they know if there were other people involved. i think the fact he was traveling alone on a public train and a big city. milan is a big city. that would undermine the idea of a hidden terrorist network he is involved with and he wasnt protected. he was out in the open. the police did not stop him because they thought he was the killer, they stopped him because he was acting suspicious at 3:00 a.m. he reached in his jacket and pulled out a gun and sh...

Every case involves people, wiretaps, money. so the question when youre dealing with numbers is who gets over the bar to spend those resources. to answer your question, from the american perspective, we have two characteristics here. one, an individual who was in contact with a known terrorist network that went down in november in arrests. two, an individual who evidently was talking about a violent attack. in the american context with the fewer numbers were dealing with compared to europe that ...

Deadliest here since september 11, 2001. >> there are hubs for the growth of terrorism, iraq, syria, yemen, libya, afghanistan are really the major hubs. we are seeing a -- the pattern of where groups go to build their terrorist network and to further launch terrorist attacks on the west. >> reporter: attacks have risen steadily since 2001 according to the university of marylands global terrorism database. in 2012, the frequency of attacks increased substantially through 2015. as the islamic sta...

When the germans announced these arrests in november. that they took five people in custody, including the ringleader allegedly of this network, an iraqi national who is 32 years old. known more popularly as abu walah. this was a very significant network working at the transnational level to get recruits from germany, into syria and iraq to join isis. and the fact that they now believe that he was part of this network, linked to this network, suggests that he may have had at least an opportunity...

>> all right lets get the latest on the investigation. welcome back cnn terrorism analyst and co-author of "agent storm," my life inside al qaeda, and cia paul cruickshank and cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official phil mudd. paul we hear you have just learned new details. what are they? >> -- from german security officials that the tunisian perpetrator of this attack, theres a manhunt going on right now, were connected to a isis recruitment network in germany whos...

Deadliest here since september 11, 2001. >> there are hubs for the growth of terrorism, iraq, syria, yemen, libya, afghanistan are really the major hubs. we are seeing a -- the pattern of where groups go to build their terrorist network and to further launch terrorist attacks on the west. >> reporter: attacks have risen steadily since 2001 according to the university of marylands global terrorism database. in 2012, the frequency of attacks increased substantially through 2015. as the islamic sta...

Larger network, saying hes trying to destabilize the country. theres another aspect of this, this guy was a turkish police officer, a riot police officer, whos been watching the images coming out of aleppo, as the rest of the world has, and has been totally self-radicalized or impassioned by what hes seen and wanted to take action and express himself in this very heinous way, because hes been watching the politics of the country to his dissatisfaction. there are going to be a lot of questions wh...

And importantly, we built a counterterrorism capability that can sustain this pressure against any terrorist network in south asia that might threaten the united states of america. there was because of the work of our outstanding service members. moreover, that early decision to strengthen our efforts in afghanistan, allowed us to build the capacity of afghans to secure and defend their own country. so today, there are less than -- less than 10,000 american troops in afghanistan. instead of bein...

Pakistan, even as al qaedas been decimated in afghanistan and pakistan, the threat from terrorists, metastasized in other parts of the middle east and north africa. and most dangerously, we saw the emergence of isil, the successor to al qaeda in iraq. which fights as both a terrorist network and an insurgency. theres been a debate about isil thats focused on whether a continued u.s. troop presence in iraq back in 2011 could have stopped the threat of isil from growing. and as a practical matter,...