Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 2

Transcripts For CNNW CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield 20150404

This morning over 48 hours since the attack happened cynthia, a 19yearold girl was discovered hiding in a cupboard by the military and during that time after that 48 hours all she had to drink, this is quite remarkable all she had to drink was body lotion. Heres what she had to say. Cynthia described how she had her eyes closed but could still hear all of this going on. She didnt see what happened next but we spoke to one medic who went in shortly after the military who said that when those Young Students were made to lie on the floor, he said he saw gunshots to the back of the head. Cynthia was still in shock when we saw her, but the military when they went in and they found her, they had to bring in the principal back to the crime scene to say to her, its okay cynthia, these people are not going to hurt you. Christi . All right, Christian Purefoy, thank you so much appreciate that. Six people in england are now in police custody. They are accused of terrorism offenses related to syria, five men and one woman were arrested in the southern port city of dover. Searches are under way at the homes of several of the suspects. Police say the group did not pose any immediate risk to the public. Meanwhile two illinois men have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to provide support to isis. U. S. Army National Guard specialist and his cousin were arrested last month. They are accused of plotting a terrorist attack on an illinois military facility. Prosecutors say the two men will be arraigned on april 8th. If convicted of the charges against them both men could face 15 years in prison. Three american women are also now in federal custody facing terror charges. Cnns Jason Carroll takes a look at the accusations of a homegrown terror threat. O detonate a bomb in the United States. In the 29page complaint, the u. S. Attorney details how the women allegedly expressed their support for violent jihad. Prosecutors say the women researched and acquired materials needed to make various types of bombs, including vert leiser a Pressure Cooker device and multiple propane tanks which Authorities Say siddiqui kept in her apartment building. My client will enter a plea of not guilty even when theres an indictment. She and i will address everything in the courtroom where it belongs. Reporter Authorities Say the suspects were not after civilians but instead the police and military even taking inspiration from the funeral of Slain Police Officer rafael ramos, believing a crowded Police Funeral would be an easy target. They say velentzas considered Osama Bin Laden her mentor and praised the 9 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and was obsessed with Pressure Cookers since the Boston Marathon attack according to an undercover officer. Siddiqui had repeated contact with al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and wrote a poem which appeared in a jihadi magazine. In it lines such as no excuse to sit back and wait for the skies rain martyrdom and taste the truth through fists and slit throats. She according to a Law Enforcement official close to the case the women came to the attention of investigators through another terrorism investigation. People in velentzas neighborhood say shes married with a young daughter sometimes argued with her husband but nothing to indicate she had jihadist leanings. Theyre very lovely people. I know i saw the fbi this morning but i didnt know that was what is regards to. That is so crazy. Reporter Jason Carroll, cnn, brooklyn, new york. Is this evidence the threat of homegrown terror is growing . Rick francona former military Intelligence Officer and jonathan gillian, former fbi agent and navy s. E. A. L. Joining us here in atlanta on set with me. Good to see you as well. Jonathan to you first, what does this tell you about the growing threat of home terrorism or perhaps even what does it say about the counterterrorism efforts . Well ill tell you, both of those questions, the first thing i think this really starts to show everybody the lone wolf definition that we always use, the reality is these are homegrown operatives. Lets look at it that way because you dont necessarily have to go to some type of a tryout or boot camp to be a part of isis, al qaeda or follow mohammadism. You have to say i believe in that and swear allegiance to it. These women we have learned said they were inspired by the marathon bombing in boston. Right but they are a part of this fundamental belief system they were inspired by it and so they raised their hand and say i want to do this. So thats the first point is that people need to realize anybody thats in that religion if theyre in an inspirational moment they can be guided by this. The other thing that we really need to look at here is that this woman that was just on there a second ago saying she had no idea what was going on. Blending in. Its a closed society and the people that will be able to spot this are muslims themselves and i think this shows that our counterterrorism efforts are still moving forward, but sources in and around islam, in and around the mosques and as a part of those things thats going to really be the biggest tool that we could ever use. No technology will ever be greater than that. Colonel, hearing what jonathan is saying and describing how people are inspired working on their own, it would seem as though that would make it even more difficult for counterterrorism specialists to find to weed out, but does it not seem that in recent weeks, if not even months were seeing a number of arrests that speak to the effectiveness of counterterrorismerts . Are you inspired by what seem to be a stripping of arrests . Well im encouraged by the string of arests but its frightening to know these people are out there and i think were just getting to the tip of the iceberg right now. As jonathan said these lone wolf attacks are hard to detect and hard to stop because we know weve caught some but we dont know that weve caught all so its quite the problem for everybody. Whats interesting in this particular case is now theyre trying to recruit women and weve seen a huge effort to try and bring women into the isis fold, have them overseas as jihadi wives. Now were seeing them being recruited as actual operatives inside the United States. This is an interesting trend but i think Law Enforcement has a real challenge here and i think jonathan is exactly right, how do we get the information inside this very very closed community. So real challenges particularly as it pertains to women being targeted to carry out, to be followers. What are the challenges that you see, jonathan for Law Enforcement in particular to locate them to suspect them number one, and then to actually make an apprehension or find enough evidence in order to arrest . The biggest challenge for Law Enforcement is opening their mind opening their mind and actually looking at people and saying its possible that they will be an attacker. Now were going back to that slippery slope with the whole profiling. You looking at someone and suspecting you potentially are up to no good. There has to be more than that. Youre exactly right. Im saying going beyond profiling and as the colonel would tell you in the military when we plan our operation we look at all contingencyies and try to have a very robust plan before we go out. Theres a lot of kids Walking Around out here and theres a big draw to the cnn studio here. We had to start looking at anybody as a potential, even kids could be used and have been used overseas. Its just a matter of time before they take the tactics that are proven there, and bring them over here. Kenya is a perfect example. Theyve started using malls, now universities those are very soft targets, where theres little or no protection and over here theyve shifted from just simply having support from the females to actually having females that can carry out akz ta, weve been seeing that for years. Colonel, al shabab is threat thing more attacks on soft targets in kenya and one has to believe just as you heard from boko haram threatening more in algeria and al qaeda and isis threatening beyond the borders where were typically seeing them. How does counterterrorism get ahead, anticipate especially since we see an evolution of attacks, weve seen that since 9 11. Weve seen it even in Charlie Hebdos recent attack. Were Getting Better at this. If you look at the background of the kenyan attack at the university there was intelligence that almost predicted that. Maybe not the specific university but we know that the soft targets are very lucrative and al shabab wants to go after them trying to punish the kenyans. The kenyans developed a good capability although as jonathan will tell you, you only have to be right once to create that significant emotional event and thats what these attacks are aimed at create fear create dissension and cause people to question their own Law Enforcement capabilities. So i think were going to see more of this and theres going to be a shift from these harder targets to these malls and University Shopping centers. Its a huge problem, and i do not envy my Law Enforcement colleagues. And so jonathan how do you see the road ahead particularly as it pertains to counterterrorism what kind of predictions would you make in terms of potential targets . Weve been the experts in the field that actually study this stuff from an attackers point of view weve been saying for well over ten years that soft targets are what are going to be hit now. Theyve shown that you can go to university in kenya and kill 150 people with guns. You dont need airplanes. Its just a simple fact that they use grenades, they use guns in boston they used crude bombs. We need to look at soft targets and forward thinking these things. When we say soft targets what do we mean . Right now most people are convinced that anywhere is a soft target. I tell you the biggest thing that people in general can look at is any place that people congregate and let their guard down stadiums and arenas at the end of a Football Game theres going to be 50,000 people conjugated in one area because theyre trying to leave, the end of a marathon which we saw in boston religious institutions malls, Tall Buildings where you go to work every day, these are targets that are somewhat, you know a good comparison to that is the attempt or whatever happened where the two people drove their vehicle into the nsa the other day. Thats a hardened target. They didnt get close to the building. One was killed the other injured, that say hard target so to do an effective attack because theres reinforcement of security present. Thats correct. But any other place where you dont see reinforcement, you talk about the stadiums as you leave the stadium, in the stadium you have protection. Its hard in the stadium but heres what you have to realize. Stadium on a sunday night at 2 00 in the morning theres nobody there theres no target there. Theres critical times and critical areas in and around these soft targets and heres what everybody has to realize. If i want to steal from you, i have to figure out how to get in take what i want and get out. If i want to attack you all i have to do is figure out where you congregate and i go there and attack you. Its much easier. Colonel, a last word or anything you want to add to that concept of how anyone is to go about their business on a daytoday basis and try to protect themselves . I just want to underscore as jonathan said how difficult this is to defend against because you cant be everywhere all the time. You cant defend every target and as you shift your focus of what youre going to defend then the attackers will simply move somewhere else. They will go where the defenses arent. 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The family was air lifted back to mainland United States after falling ill after a fumigation of the villa beneath the one where they were staying on st. John. This was scary, fred the older boy had blood in his lungs, his heart was failing. One of the boys has brain damage right now. The father hes now awake, but he cant talk and the mother has been released to Occupational Therapy because she had a lesser degree of exposure the attorney told me but he also said this is a long recovery. Methylbromide is like sarin gas. It attacks the nervous system and the Environmental Protection agency says traces of it were found in the familys villa, even though the fumigation was done below. Methylbromide is not allowed to be used indoors because of acute toxicity. The epa has a restriction on it. The resort which is owned by seaglass vacations, told us the Pest Control Company terminix fumigated march 18th, smack dab in the middle of the familys vacation nine days in the u. S. Virgin islands. 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