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Im poppy harlow joining you live with special coverage of the terror attacks that have shocked this nation, and, frankly, enraged the entire world. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the globe. Heres what we know at this hour. French officials warning that more attackers could still be at large right here in paris after a wave of coordinated shootings and suicide bombings at six different locations took place in paris on friday night. Isis has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which took 129 lives, wounding 352 more individuals. One of those who was killed we now know is an american, an American College student from california. Today the investigation has moved far beyond the borders of paris. Belgian authorities making a number of arrests today after a car rented in brussels was found here in paris near the site of one of the attacks. Were ....
These operations in europe, i think, we really were surprised. but there s got to be some centralized direction to this, because it s just too organized. but how centralized? david rogge, to you, pick up on that, how centralized are we talking about? because it is, when you look at this series, you know, the fact that if isis did bring down that russian jetliner, that they were capable of doing that, an al qaeda-type attack, and then look at the bombings in beirut killing 43 and then look at this. how centralized are we talking about, one mastermind? well, what we re talking about is centralized training, and this is the problem and this is why we can no longer ignore syria. a very sophisticated bomb brought down that russian airliner. it was either a time or altitude device. as peter and juliette talked about earlier, some kind of bomb factory, these are volatile chemicals used in the paris attack. whoever is getting these attacks ....
Francona, global affairs analyst david rogge. when you look at this, and i want to get to the significance of libya and isis in libya in just a moment, but when you look at this, it is astonishing what we ve seen, the fact that isis has claimed responsibility for downing that russian jetliner in sharm el sheikh egypt, that you saw the coordinated attacks in beirut with 43 people dead. six coordinated attacks here now, colonel rick francona here in paris friday night across this city, and my question to you, is this centralized? do you believe all being executed or led by a mastermind or group of masterminds, or are these different groups with the same mission? i think we ve got to reassess how we ve looked at them. i think many of us thought they didn t have this kind of capability to coordinate these kind of attacks all over the region, and now in europe. we ve known they ve been able to coordinate attacks up and down iraq, all up and down the valley, but for them to conduct ....