The kouachi brothers computers. They were watching their telephones and they did not, for instance pass along something that might have been very vital which was an alert between the Surveillance Agency and the Domestic Intelligence agency in february of 2014 until june of 2014 and at that point they dropped off radar. The two brothers dropped off radars of the internal intelligence agency. A lot of communication errors which may have contributed to the fact that they missed planning for Charlie Hebdo attack. I think were going to hear a lot more about this in coming days because one of the things that politicians on both sides of the aisle here are talking about is some kind of an investigation into what did go wrong and why there wasnt more advanced communication. With a growing number of raids across europe Foreign Ministers from several european nations are scrambling to find a way to prevent more attacks from happening tackling the issue at a meeting today in brussels belgium. They say one way to do this is by working with muslim countries. We start obviously with a discussion on how to Counter Terrorism not only in europe but also in other parts of the world being the mediterranean, africa im just having now before we start a meeting with the secretarygeneral of the arab league as the threat is not only the one we faced in paris but also spreading in many other parts of the world starting from muslim countries and we need to strengthen our way of cooperating together. First of all with other countries and then internally. Amnesty International Calls islam a phobia one of europes Biggest Challenges leaving the Muslim Population there more vulnerable to radicalization. After heavy clashes in yemen, the countrys interior minister says rebels and the government just agreed to a ceasefire. This is new video coming in from clashes outside of the president ial palace. The u. S. Is particularly interested in whats happening in yemen and is closely monitoring the situation there because yemen is home to what u. S. Officials consider the most Dangerous Branch of al qaeda. Its the same branch that claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack. Barbara starr is at the pentagon with more. Reporter ceasefire or not, whether it lasts or not, the situation in yemen very much on the radar of u. S. Officials especially due to their concerns about the safety of the u. S. Embassy there and u. S. Diplomatic personnel. A u. S. Navy warship remains offshore. That would be the platform from which helicopters would go to the embassy if there was a request by the state department for the military to evacuate it. We must be very clear, there is no such request at the moment. The military always Planning Organization has plenty of forces on standby if the situation were to deteriorate to that point. Yemen is a big concern right now as these huothi shia rebels have launched attacks across the capital. The concern remains the same. Can the government of yemen hold . Can it maintain its fragile control over the country . Is this a country thats about to absolutely disintegrate into sectarian warfare and of course the problem is that leaves the door wide open for that Al Qaeda Organization in yemen to grow Even Stronger with no government if that were to happen and no Central Control if that were to happen. Carol . All right. Barbara starr reporting live from the pentagon. I want to continue our discussion right now. The pentagons readiness for a possible evacuation of the u. S. Embassy there. Lieutenant colonel james reese serves as a cnn Global Affairs analyst. Welcome. Good morning, carol. So i guess we have a warship off the coast ready just in case the embassy is evacuated. We do. Thats a plus. Yes. Its what we call power projection. They have all these assets. It has marines. They are trained to do noncombatant evacuations if need be and if the ambassador they dont want to do this. They want to hold out until the last possible minute. If the Ambassador Says we need to evacuate we can project power and get everybody out safely. Why do they want to wait until the last possible moment and why leave the decision to diplomats . Again, we want to be able to do diplomatic and political aspects with the country. We want to hold off. With the military in coordination with the state department wants to be able to tell the state department dont put us in a position where we have to do a forced entry and fight our way in and fight our way out. Its an art to decide when we go. A scary art. Lets talk about yemen itself and if the government there totally disintegrates and what that means to our fight against isis and al qaeda. Sure. You know the whole peninsula you have to keep in effect is predominantly sunni especially with saudi influence right above yemen. The houthis are shia based. Its a huge clash between sunnis and shias in the islamic world. If that collapses, we have another safe haven allowing al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to have place where people can train. Another syria . Another syria. Another somalia. Another libya. Its a safe haven that are popping up in areas we have collapsing the entire government. If that happens, how might the United States react . Well well have to go in there and take a look. If we have to pull our embassy out, that really puts us in a bad position to have an idea of whats going on on the ground. Only way we could react is to give the government the sunni government of yemen, support to push back rebels and now again were in another conflict in the middle east. Cnn will look at the battle against terrorism tonight with two cnn special reports. At 9 00 p. M. , jake tapper goes inside the paris attacks and at 9 30 p. M. 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Already started with president ial staff trying to make themselves feel more secure by cutting off roads around their key buildings. The rebels didnt like that and both sides blame the other side for that. Right now we see a strange calm. I was at the u. S. Embassy and for families working there its a calm situation. There is no sign of them imminently going anywhere at all. Its a tense city certainly because that political deal which is supposed to come after the ceasefire that really hasnt been hammered out yet and the the closed door negotiations are going on and theres a third problem in this. We dont know what the expresident who has a lot of men who doesnt quite know what he wants. That sound of gunfire will come back as it gets darker here. I want to go back to the u. S. Embassy. You said you visited. Its under heavy guard. U. S. Marines are guarding it. You said its relatively calm. How close is the u. S. Embassy to the president ial palace . Quite a long way away. Were not far from some of the embassies here. Its perfectly calm in that area and theres a large hill between that and the area where much of the fighting has happened. That embassy always had substantial security procedures and its very well protected area. I saw the u. S. Marines myself around there. It seems quite safe at this stage. Theres no sense of imminent departure of anybody. They say numbers arent diminished and consulate section is open. While everyone is on edge taking every precaution they can, were not looking at a situation here where necessarily they will be called into action imminently. Nick paton walsh reporting live from yemen this morning. Thank you. An faa safety inspector making an unsafe move carrying a gun onboard a plane in his carryon bag. The inspector was arrested last week for flying from atlanta to Laguardia Airport with a gun in his carryon bag. The federal employee used his badge to bypass tsa screening. Two men were charged with smuggling more than 100 firearms on the same route. One of the men also an airport employee who skipped security checkpoints. Aviation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh is following the story and is live in washington. Good morning. Good morning, carol. Flat out this should not happen. The tsa and the faa are now investigating this case. The federal employee was traveling with a 22 caliber gun in his carryon. He did not have the same security clearance privilege in new york and thats where tsa agents discovered the gun. Now, atlantas hartsfield airport has been under the microscope for security procedures following the recent incident last month where a baggage handler was accused of using his security clearance to bypass security checkpoints to smuggle guns onto multiple new york bound commercial aircraft. Now, the faa has suspended this practice of allowing safety inspectors to bypass security checkpoints while it looks into this most recent incident. Tsa also saying that they are taking this breach very seriously. They say that they are considering or will put into place new procedures which could include additional employee screening. So why should anyone be given a clearance . Well the argument is resources really. There are so many employees, airport employees, faa investigators like this one, who go in and out of the airport and tsa just does not have the manpower to screen every individual who has business at the airport. So they prioritize. And many of these employees do get that clearance. However, the faa making the move at least temporarily while this is investigated to stop that program that allows their own employees to circumvent tsa checkpoints until they figure out why this happened and how this happened. Rene marsh reporting live from washington. Thank you. Checking other top stories for you at 16 minutes past the hour. Reuters reporting that indonesian investigators looking into the crash of airasia flight 8501 say there are no signs it was a terrorist act. After listening to the flight voice recorder Officials Say the pilots were busy handling the plane before the crash. They also say there were no sounds of explosions. All 162 people died. Her movie selma is drawing people to the box office but yesterday they marched in selma, alabama, to honor the late Martin Luther king jr. The march from city hall continued to the bridge. In 1965 civil rights marchers were tear gassed as they tried to march across the bridge on a march to montgomery. A rare move by isis. What may have motivated a group to release a group of religious minorities. We come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us i mean, were going to be there anyway why dont you just leave it for us to pick up . Or you could always get in your car and take it back yourself yeah, us picking it up is probably your easiest option its kind of a no brainer ok, well, good talk you give. And you give. And then you give some more. But sometimes you get. And so you take. Tylenol® cold is Strong Enough for you while childrens tylenol® is gentle enough for them. We give you relief from your cold and flu. You give them everything youve got. Tylenol®. Isis has done something completely unexpected in iraq. Its actually freed about 250 members of the yazidi religious sect. Most were children and elderly people. Reporter the Iraqi Kurdish government and kurdish activists are trying to take care of an enormous number of prisoners from the yazidi religious minority who were released without any explanation by isis militants on saturday after they had been held for months in isis captivity. These members of the yazidi religious minority describe one activist i talked to almost entirely elderly men and women. Many of them filthy and hungry and sick after months in captivity. Some of them mentally and or physically disabled. We dont know where they were released. They were dumped by an isis front line and sent walking, those who could toward peshmerga positions near the northern kurdish held city of kirkuk. Their release underscores a much bigger problem. The fact that when isis launched its military offensive last summer in Northern Iraq they took thousands of members of the kurdish religious minority hostage. 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