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Worldwide in 13 days like last week's london terror attacks. there was also the massive may 26th attack on a bus in cairo packed with coptic christians which killed 29 people, then on may 30th over a dozen people were killed in a bombing at an ice cream shop in baghdad. on june 5th in melbourne, australia, one man was shot and killed after a woman was held hostage for hours before escaping. lieutenant colonel mitch utterback is here, he's a former special forces officer joining us now to to talk about this. and, you know, colonel utterback, this is all happening as isis is promising a, quote, ...

But on the other side of the country, you have al qaeda exploiting that vacuum, you have isis trying to exploit that vacuum. so these air strikes are really trying to keep al qaeda in check. but when you look at the war, the conflict overall, it's unlikely to really play -- have much of an effect on the war between the houthi rebels and the government troops. that is taking play more in the western part of the country, although al qaeda has been taking its shots at both in the past, as well. >> another war that is extremely complicated. thank you so much, ian lee live for us in cairo. french...

Was he trained in pakistan or by the egyptians in cairo? was he trained in saudi arabia, as many have been. >> that's another thing we dismantled. we're no longer looking at the mosques. >> we want the organizations to be our eyes and ears in the community. they don't have the same interest in national security as we do. >> so what do we do about that? we have civil liberties and a president that doesn't believe in that and need to strike a balance of where trump is and where the constitution is. >> this is not a a constitutional issue. they made it into one. there's no constitutional prohibit...

The campaign of air strikes that has been under way by the russians. so it is a huge escalation. of course it is a huge loss of the russians to think one of their aircraft is shot out of the sky. it could have serious consequences for relations in turkey and with nato in general. >> matthew, thank you. going back to ian in cairo. this is the issue, isn't it? turkey is part of the innato alliance. it is an international issue. it draws into question the coalition working in syria and how they are working with russians and this could be interpreted by russia as an attack by nato, effectively, wh...

As we know, isis gets a lot of revenue from oil. about 50% of the coalition bombing oil fields. we do not know who has carried out those strikes. >> ian lee for us in cairo watching what is happening in syria. thanks, ian. >> let's bring in the deputy chief of the magazine here in paris. let's talk about the cctv footage. we have not seen it. officials are telling cnn that it shows abdelhamid abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the attacks, at the metro stops around the time of the attacks. >> and one detail is that he didn't take a metro ticket. he went over the fence which tells you what ki...