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22-year-old fouad mohamed aggad was a french citizen known by french terror officials. he traveled to syria two yearsation. he was eventually identified by a fingertip found inside that theater in paris. investigators also revealing the man who planned the attack was nearly captured ten months earlier by greek police. it's not clear yet how he got away. he was killed during a police raid in a paris suburb five days after the attacks. well, heavy fighting continues at this hour at kandahar's airport in afghanistan after armed taliban fighters stormed the city overnight. at least 19 people are now dead, including afghan military officers. nine taliban fighters were also killed. the insurgents also taking several people hostage at homes, and at a school in a residential area of that part of the city. the officials say the death toll may rise since the syria has still not been secured. well the clothing billionaire who cofounded north face and
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23-year-old fouad mohamed aggad. he joined two others in the killing of 90 people in that concert hall. jim bitterman is live in paris with the latest. >> reporter: one of the things we're hearing is that in fact it was the parents of mohamed aggad who may have helped authorities identify him. basically his mother says that she received a text message from syria just saying simply that her son had died as a martyr in paris. she went to authorities with that information. they had the dna from mohamed aggad's body from the bat clan theater. he blew himself up. and with the dna from the mother there was enough similarities to know that was the identity of the third person at the bataclan theater, where ninety people were killed. so now it's been confirmed that all three gunmen at that theater
attacker at the bataclan nightclub. ramp france says it's 23-year-old fouad mohamed-aggad. he traveled to syria in 2013. ben wedeman joins us with what we have learned and if so if he is a french citizen, traveled to syria. this is the biggist nightmare of french officials. >> slewly, christine, all three were, effect pa, french citizens and the latest identification proves yet again what the french authorities have been dreting, french young people have been radicalized going off to syria. what we know about the 23-year-olds presented be i this morning. he went off with a group of eight others from the strasburg area. his older brother kareem, was
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uncertainty as to whether or not this will, in fact, happen. if it doesn't happen, that is an enormous impact on the region because it gives license to assad to do this again and, perhaps, suggests the u.s. is checked out as a kind of policeman to that particular part of the world. you should bear in mind about how awful it's already been for the syrians. this war began, as many syrian children have died, soldiers lost in afghanistan and iraq put together. the world is going to cover this for 30 more years. going to impact the u.s., our allies. at some point the u.s. was going to get drawn in. is this the time which it was supposed to happen? it's too late. eventually that is going to be the case and barack obama possibly has the moral weight of history on his side when trying to navigate this problem. >> let's talk more about israel, fouad. how worried should israel be, if at all? >> look, the israelis and syr n syrians have shared a border for a very long time. one thing that's very
>> few ouad, in terms of the u. approach to this, it's difficult, i know you've been critical of the administration's past actions in the region. how do you see how they're playing it now, and what the role is down the road? >> well, you know, anderson, i don't think we have an overwhelming role in egypt that people think we have. we don't have that much influence. even with the military in egypt, where we think we can tell the military what our wishes are, they can defy these wishes, we have $1.5 billion in aid for the egyptian military, and some -- it's mostly military aid. that aid could be obtained from saudi arabia, from the united arab emirates. i don't think we have that much influence. >> fouad, do you see -- some say this is the downfall of political islam. this is islam on its heals, do
the supporters of deposed president morsi are claiming that they were engaged in early morning prayers when this happened, they were fired upon. they're calling it a massacre, but certainly regardless of how it started and who started it, it has really raised the level of tension in this already very tense city. >> fouad, how do you see this? where do you see this going? >> you know, anderson, this is a major event and i think it's going to embarrass the army, it's going to embarrass the supporters of the army, and it's going to embarrass washington by extension. >> obviously, supporters of the military overthrow resist even using the term coupe. they say, look, this is an extension, a continuation of the revolution that occurred some two years ago, but in terms of what happens next, i mean, can one predict where this goes? i mean, if there are elections, would the muslim brotherhood be
happened, they were fired upon. they're calling it a massacre, but certainly regardless of how it started and who started it, it has really raised the level of tension in this already very tense city. >> fouad, how do you see this? where do you see this going? >> you know, anderson, this is a major event and i think it's going to embarrass the army, it's going to embarrass the supporters of the army, and it's going to embarrass washington by extension. >> obviously, supporters of the military overthrow resist even using the term coupe. they say, look, this is an extension, a continuation of the revolution that occurred some two years ago, but in terms of what happens next, i mean, can one predict where this goes? i mean, if there are elections, would the muslim brotherhood be allowed to take part in upcoming elections? >> well, anderson, we really don't know, we don't know what the future holds for egypt, but we do know there's a kind of
i don't think we have that much influence. >> fouad, do you see -- some say this is the downfall of political islam. this is political islam on its heels. do you agree with that? >> i do. i think it's the set back for the muslim brotherhood, ben wedeman gave us a cautionary note. we should never think that anyone could extubate the roots of the muslim brotherhood in egypt. they run deep. they run to the 1920s. the muslim brotherhood should always be in the game. many of the liberals if you will, begrudge the brotherhood, they ran for elections against the brotherhood and they lost. it sustained a setback in egypt and it even sustained minor setback in turkey, the troubles of erdogan. the story continues. it never ends, because there is no way that you could somehow