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In syria as an extension and they have long maintained that in their mind, if you're the turkish government, the kurds are a bigger problem than isis ever was. >> that's true. and unfortunately, of the rou roughly 40,000 foreign fighters that joined isis, what we know is that almost all of them passed through turkey. through the istanbul airport unmolested. theyle went through that airpor and from there to the border and were allowed by turkish offic l officials or turkish r officials looked the other way as they crossed the border so the foreign fighter problem we have of isis members is a pr...

Directly by the security services of other countries in europe. and we did not do what was necessary to keep track of them. >> consistently france has known who the actors are and said oh, yes, we were watching that guy. and they still managed to carry out attacks. >> absolutely. this is where you get into the complete disconnect between the scale of the threat and the level of the resources. >> what does this say about the foreign fighter problem? all of these militants who've come from europe, gone to isis, that come home. >> yep. what does isis give them? that's a question we have to ask be...

There were no people who came out of the blue literally. all of these people were known to some extent, to varying extents, if not by the french directly by the security services of other countries in europe. and we did not do what was necessary to keep track of them. >> consistently france has known who the actors are and said oh, yes, we were watching that guy. and they still managed to carry out attacks. >> absolutely. this is where you get into the complete disconnect between the scale of the threat and the level of the resources. >> what does this say about the foreign fighter problem? al...

Foreign fighter problem? all of these militants who've come from europe, gone to isis, that come home. >> yep. what does isis give them? that's a question we have to ask because after all, why would they go to syria when they can self-radicalize at home? there's all sort of stuff you can learn on the internet. they went to isis in syria or iraq both to be in contact with the people who were inspiring them and motivating them -- this is a powerful ideology for these people. and of course isis also provide them with operational training. there's stuff you that can't do through the internet. you ...

We haven't had that kind of foreign fighter problem coming from the united states that europe has had, nowhere near it. >> richard engel in paris. richard, thank you for that. we want to head north to claudio levania who is in belgium, the scene of even more raids now. claudio? >> reporter: yes, brian. there were about seven raids overnight. now calling them raids a bit of a stretch, maybe. there was no breaking down of doors. there was no shootouts. they were more like house searches. now the investigators here told us that they will look for accomplices. he's one of the three suicide bombers...