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Victims and families. We are going to tv 2 in copenhagen and Police Issued a photo of a man they believe to be connected to the attack. What do you know about this . Caller well first we believe there were two men who was behind the attack, but after they have been talking to a lot of witnesses, its one man, a man dressed in dark clothes. The photo has been taken from an automatic photo system near the place where the man dropped a car that he stole from another man just after the attack. Police is asking everybody to look out for this man, and if somebody knows him or if this man has nothing to do with the shooting they ask him to report to the police. So, the picture may or may not be connected at this point, is that correct . Youre hearing that a vehicle has been abandon somewhere near the subway . If thats true the gunmen could be anywhere i suppose . Caller they could be anywhere. I just heard a report from the border between den marc and germany and seems the Border Patrol is stopping all cars now. I suppose they think he can be anywhere. The Prime Minister and the police have asked everybody to keep an open eye and report to the police if anything looks suspicious or out of state. Astrid what are the response people are having to the attack . Are people responding as if this is like their Charlie Hebdo, is that what youre hearing . It is strange. Denmark we have been considered a target for quite a while now, and it does not seem like people are surprised. Its happened in the middle of copenhagen, basically in the sender of copenhagen but in a place where not many people live just next to the national futbol stadium, but people we thought they would attack our train stations, somewhere with a lot of people, and at this point, it was a small meeting. All right, astrid thank you very much for keeping us on top of this and well get back to you as events warrant. Thank you for the time. We appreciate it. Joining me now with insight into the frightening attack our Cnn Senior International correspondent, nic puentes, and author of agent storm my life inside al qaeda, and james reese. Nic, what do you know now in terms of what happened here . Well, we know 30 bullets were fired approximately from what the Police Describe from an automatic web. It may have been a small machine gun or a machine pistol they are saying. They are not clear on that at the moment. Its not clear if both men were the attackers, or if one was planned to be the driver, but the police returned fire. There were three policemen or three people three police or security personnel injured. One was a police officer, the other two worked for pet, a danish intelligence service. There were body guards there, inside they returned fire and the three injured, but not seriously injured. What the police are saying they are doing now is pulling in resources. They got all their staff on koep hague p on duty pulling staff from other parts of the country in the man hunt. Its a very serious, being taken very very seriously with the Prime Minister of denmark this evening asking the german and swedish, two land borders, road borders, with denmark to monitor borders closely. We heard, in fact the border with germany does right now appear to be closed. The road has been shut. So this is a level its being taken to, a huge man hunt for men who are considered it appears, armed and dangerous. And tom, danish officials call it a terrorist attack. How can we call it that at this point, you think . Yeah jim, i think we can. The target has been a target for years. The attacks against the danes and the swedish have gone back to 2006 and 2007 publications of cartoons of the prophet mohammed and at the time they first came out, those many years ago, danish embassies were attacked all over the world. There were riots. Hundreds of people died in those riots in a number of countries. And the Danish Police the fbi and other authorities have uncovered a number of plots over these recent seven or eight years, to attack the cartoonist in denmark and in stockholm, sweden and also one in the u. S. Jihad jane putting together a group to do the same thing. Its nothing new. Thats why they are pretty sure its terrorism. This attack happened weeks after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in paris, talking about cartoonists here trying to express their right to free speech here but depictions of the prophet mohammed can provoke violence. Do you think its possible because its just coming weeks after that attack in paris, that these events are connected in some way . Well certainly seems likely the motivation here is the same and what you have is jihadists essentially making sure everyone in europe knows if you do these thing, you engage in this mockery of the prophet, your life may be at risk. They dont attack everyone in the matter in order for it to have a widespread effect and people to change behavior as a result of it. While i appreciate there was very large march after Charlie Hebdo and the moment of unity, but the threat does not diminish because of that. They still very much want to attack people seen as offender islam or in the jihadist view point seen as offending the prophet, and so you have to think that the motivation here is the same. Otherwise its quite a coincidence to have a shooting at a forum discussing blasphemy and theres a figure we know had threats on his life. One important point, by the way, this is not a soft target. They went after an individual who had security there were security personnel in place. Clearly, the symbolism of the attack was more important than mass casualties. There are easier targets for higher casualties, but wanted to go after vilks to make a point on blasphemy. From what we understand in the initial details coming out of this attack is that vilks had protection. Which is something i suppose these attackers were not counting on . Yeah jim. Vilks had protection from pet, which is danish intelligence. He had boyd guards someone who is protected to a very significant degree when he comes over to denmark to give these talk, and so there were fears he could be targeted. This is someone on isis and al qaeda hit lists for many years. In fact in 2007 the leader of isis put out a hundred thousand dollar bounty if someone were to go and kill vilks and 50,000 bonus to slit his throat. Al qaeda threatened him. Al shabab threatened him, the cartoon put out in 2007 depicting mohammed as a dog, hes been on a hit list for al qaeda and isis. No clear if they were inspired by al qaeda or isis or people connected to the groups not clear if perhaps, they were people who travelled to syria, for example, about a hundred danish radicals traveled to fight in syria and some returned to denmark. Colonel reese, will this just continue and continue . See incidents play out over and over again as these jihadists who have access to major fire power in areas where theres not a lot of protection. In this case this lars vilks had protection. Are we just seeing more episodes in the days weeks, and months to come . Yeah jim, unfortunately, it is, it will continue and well see other attacks throughout europe and i think, you know as folks back here in Homeland Security they anticipate attacks back here in the united states. Its something to watch for, and its something to figure out especially countering their propaganda to bring down their recruiting base along europe and we thats why i think were hurting now. How do we counter propaganda to help recruitment . All right, well jenmen thank you for the for the time and laying that out there for us just another reminder that free speech is under attack around the world by these jihadist, and thank you for putting it in perspective for us. Thank you for the time. Dont miss tonight, nic and paul in a special report, double agent inside al qaeda for the kri cia, a man who embraced islam before becoming a double agent for the cia airs tonight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern here on cnn. More on the attacks and an earlier interview with the possible target lars vilks, himself, and a dire warning in iraq about the collapse of a key province to isis. Well discuss that threat and ask a key member of congress about the war and white house ask for troops to fight the militants. Thats coming up. The bed reacts to your body. It hugs you. I dont have to think about how to get comfortable anymore. This zips off so i can wash ityes, please. 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Dire warnings today that iraqs Anbar Province could face collapse from imminent isis fighters and they predict a fall within hours in iraqi forces pull back. Isis on friday took control of al baghdadi and the outskirts were under attack friday, and the pentagon says u. S. Troops at the base were far removed from the fighting with no evacuation planned. Its against this backdrop they take up president obamas official request to use military force against isis. A retired marine corp. General said he would like to see modifications to the war authorization. Id like to see the language changed to give him more authority to use other forces. I dont like theed didea its limited to three years. Time lines dont mean anything this in part of the world. I understand why he put a time limit in but it more has to do with mission. I dont think we would have begin roosevelt three years to win world war ii. Some of the language i would hope maybe gets changed in the congressional language that comes out of this in debate but i do think that going to congress is the right thing. And the House Committee on forp affairs is hotting hearings on the president s request, and chairman ed royce is joining us from los angeles. Thank you for joining us. Let me ask you this as that war authorization currently stands right now, would you vote for it . Well, i think as the war authorization before congress, we are going to debate it. In my committee, we begin the process on thursday. Im sure theres going to be some amendments and there will be an attempt to bring the republicans and democrats together. I think its very important we come together and support an authorization for this reason. So far isis has recruited 20,000 20,000 fighters from around the world from 90 different countries, so unless were going to put together a di ceasive strategy to show that they can be defeated on the battlefield, theyll continue to message out over the internet they cannot be stopped, and in order to stop them, we primarily need kurdish forces, jordan forces, arab tribes on the front lines. As you know so far, the kurds and jordanians say we have not given them weaponry needed to engage isis effectively, so and likewise they need air support from us and special forces you know spotting calling in air strikes, and providing other support mind these troops. But, mr. Chairman i think yes . Let me ask you this as you know though the devils in the details, and perhaps you are being kind to the members of your committee by not coming in too strongly on one specific provision over another, but this threeyear time limit, you heard anthony mention hes not in favor of that that that should be expanded and roosevelt couldnt have been expected to win world war ii in three years, what about that time limit . Is that okay with you . Well i dont know where Congress Comes down on the time limit. I tell you concerns raised. One, you notice today british and Canadian Forces have their spotters Forward Deployed so that when they are helping the air strikes, they can actually see the targets effectively, and those strikes are effective. Ours are not Forward Deployed and so issues like this giving the authority to conduct those strikes, also i point out their air strikes are made in realtime those decisions dont go out to washington and wait and then hold in advance as washington agrees on a fargt or allows an air strike. I think well have a discussion here certainly with the pentagon with special forces about what can be done to make them effective. Certainly, with the kurds, we know the administration has not given the antitank missiles or artillery or long range missiles they say they need. They have small arms fire against isis artillery. We have to get engaged in the debate in order to make certain that we can have a decisive victory there. Mr. Chairman just very quickly before i ask you about the events in copenhagen i want to ask you, though u. S. Forces when they go into iraq under this authorization, the president does not want them in an open ended commitment there under this aumf but how far should they be able to go in these operations . You mentioned air strikes. You want strikes to be more effective. Obviously, you want them calling out air strikes. How much combat should they be seeing . Well you have 3,000 u. S. Forces on the ground today. I think it should be understood that we are involved in training right now, and we are assisting those arab tribes. We certainly hope to be equipping better the kurds and jordanianseniorjordanians because they are up here asking for that support. So i think we will be working behind them. I think theyll be carrying the major battle. Were not looking to put the 22 22nd airborne in operation, but that said you need rules of engagement that allow for victory, and thats going to require a certain cooperative relationship in which we can call in the air strikes needed and give the support necessary for the front line forces which will be arab tribes and kurds. Hey, mr. Chairman on these events coming out of copenhagen very similar to what occurred in paris a month ago. Whats your Immediate Reaction to that . Obviously, this is a very serious situation if were going to see these events sort of unfold month after month over there in western europe. You must be very concerned about what youre seeing today. Well, its not just western europe. There was an attempt in australia that was prevented thats right. I think it was tuesday. Now you have large isis units operating in libya, also operating in egypt, certainly, weve watched things in nigeria unfold and so the recruitment around the world for people to join the war for this is something that will be with us for a long time. This takes us back to the original point. They have to see it defeated. They cant believe its inevitable that they are going to wipe out other religions and wipe out enlightenment and wipe out other points of view. It is an attempt, frankly, to use terror to use beheadings, to use stoning, to use burning in order to strike enough fear into populations and also to recruit young men and unless thats decisively defeated in this isis battle its going to continue to have its allure and its pull on young men. Absolutely. Chairman royce, we appreciate your time very much. Thank you for coming on to talk about this and hope to talk to you soon thank you, sir. Thank you, jim. Coming up a deadline for both sides in ukraine to stop the fighting and end the bloodshed. Ahead, were live to an area battered by the deal means russias president has won. Thats coming up ahead. At ally bank no branches equals great rates. Its a fact. Kind of like mute buttons equal danger. That sound good . Not being on this phone call sounds good. Its not muted. Was that you jason . It was geoffrey it was jason. It couldve been brenda. Okay, listen up im reworkin the menu. Mayo . Corn dogs . You are so outta here aah [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of greattasting ensure. 24 vitamins and Minerals Antioxidants and 9 grams of protein. [ bottle ] ensure®. Nutrition in charge™. [prof. Burke] its easy to buy insurance and forget about it. But the more you learn about your coverage, the more gaps you might find. Like how you thought you were covered for this. [boy] check it out,mom [prof. Burke]when youre really only covered for this. 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Its a region rocked by heavy violence for weeks now, more than 5,000 died and civilians and fighters have been reportedly killed today, and cnn Nick Paton Walsh, and from what i understand in the last several moments, you heard shelling yourself. Whats happening there . Reporter yeah just give a moment to pause so maybe you can hear some of the noises. Theres a fullon artillery happening on that side from the live position for a while. Just now, the sky was actually orange what i think must have been a rocket system. Devices landing here inside donetsk separatist controlled territory. Hearing this consistently. You hear that sounds like outgoing artillery fire and will be armed by something landing here. Not the sound of a ceasefireunderpar a hundred minutes away from the noise to stop the two sides before having to stop for a while, but it feels unlikely given the tenure of whats happening now. We know that john kerry, according to the Russian Foreign ministry has been talking, thats incoming and they talk about the need for a ceasefire to be upheld. We heard that too, breathing out from the ukrainian president with president obama and merkel and french leaders too. Theres a lot of activity to make

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