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Related to the friday night terror attacks, isis terrorists killed 129 innocent people. all this happening as elite terror police units are conducticonduct ing anti-terror operations across france in grenoble and toulouse. toulouse, police took three people into custody. we'll bring you the latest information as soon as we confirm it and get it up to date. meanwhile, paris, itself, remains in a state of emergency. new details about the attacks, who the isis terrorists were. now u.s. officials have a new concern. did these isis terrorists go dark just before they sprung their plan on an unsuspe...

That is what officials are so alarmed by. >> what are officials doing based on everything you're hearing from your sources, the fbi, the department of homeland security and elsewhere to make sure what happened in paris doesn't happen in the? united states? >> officials are working around the clock. they're going back looking at their cases particularly the high-priority people who they're concerned about and increasing surveillance of them. wiretapping. basically increasing scrutiny of these cases to make sure that we don't see copycat attacks. that is the big concern in the wake of what we sa...

We should declare war and harnness all of the power the united states can bring to bear both diplomatic and military of course to take out isis. we have the capabilities of doing this. we just haven't shown the will. >> looking at the ideological war that is being waged by the jihadists has been very effective. we need to wage a counter war against them utilizing social mediand mechanisms they use. >> you can say all you want, but if they had gun, if our people had guns that they were allowed to carry -- it would have been a much, much different situation. >> plenty of tough talk from some of ...

For our members. that's what i'm talking about. visit wintheholidays.com and have a winning holiday season. welcome back to our breaking news coverage of the terror attacks in paris. i'm wolf blitzer reporting. tributes to the victims have

Bombings in lebanon that killed at least 43 people. joining us now, graham wood contributing editor for the atlantic and the edward r. murrah fellow at the council of foreign relations. good to see you. you wrote an article "what isis really wants" and i want to get to that. but bu maybe the basic question is that people are trying to get their head around who's isis? what motivates them? >> isis is an organization that's been around in different forms for a while. as you correctly pointed out, they really split from their parent organization al qaeda in 2014 when they decided they wanted to b...