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Piece of intelligence coming. one a significant one coming from u.s. intelligence officials which says quite simply that they have heard chatter coming from four isis members inside syria about an attack in geneva. the whereabouts of those four are unknown. at least a couple of them speak french. there is also a concern because a van belonging to an associate of one of the paris terror attackers from last month, that was driven into switzerland. the van the police have now found that but they don t know where this associate of those paris attackers is right now. that is a concern. also we now know the identity of the third attacker in paris. at the bataclan nightclub where the band was playing. his identity has now led the swiss police to be concerned. because the man who recruited him, who s now in jail in france, a swiss associate of his was with isis in syria. ....
reporter: the gunman could have been communicating with hussein, the notorious head of isis s hacking division, killed recently in a drone attack. he s said to have inspired the attack and may have directed it. this terror chatter in the dark is one of the major stops. terror groups are perfecting the use of encrypted communications. conversation chopped up into a jumble by mathematical algorithm ims. they do a good job of keeping what their saying. reporter: jihadists have their own brand, developed or modified by supporters of al qaeda. experts say it helps terrorists communicate in secret and there s a mobile version of it. isis developed a mobile app that provides updates on news and propaganda with video. and jihadi websites publish ....
Beirut and tunisia. much of this network would rely on existing infrastructure and how much would created from scratch? i think in a lot of places you are going to basically see it rely on infrastructure existing and bases. we re really not talking from our understanding what the pentagon has in mind building massive new military bases. you are talking about access to places where the u.s. wants to be. so for example libya on the coast of north africa. that is a huge, growing danger of isis moving in there. there may be hundreds if not thousands of isis operatives already in libya. so what do you do about it? if you can put some more capability in southern europe, just across the mediterranean, you can respond more quickly when you find a target in libya, when you find intelligence you want to act upon. that is kind of the model that they are really talking about. barbara starr, thank you for that report. ....
Chatter, whether or not this has now gone to some sort of encrypted form of communication that can t be tracked. but it was picked up by these individuals. they were in syria, were associated with isis. but now their whereabouts are unknown. as we ve seen here in europe, once somebody s been to syria, connected with isis and their whereabouts are unknown, it s potential they could get here into europe and potential they could get beyond even potentially to the united states. so, this is a concern right now, pam. yeah, we saw how easy it is with the paris attacks. nic robertson, thanks very much. appreciate it. still to come on this friday morning, protesters calling for more change in chicago. they want the mayor out. is this just the tip of the iceberg? 16 shots and a cover-up. coughing.sniffling. and wishing you could stay in bed all day. when your cold is this bad. ....
Suspect they may have because they left behind such a small electronic trail. pamela? still a lot to learn from both of those investigations. thank you very much. tonight on situation room, brian has more about a key isis figure at 5:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. let s discuss this with cnn counterterrorist analyst philip mudd. we ve been talking about this for a while. do you think this is a temporary problem the u.s. government will be able to overcome or a troubling, long-term obstacle? boy, that depends on what happens with congress and the silicon valley. i think this has to be resolved eventually because if you want to understand the basics of a terror plot and terror investigation, one of the key components is intent. what does someone want to do? you might be able to figure out capability. do they have access to weapons and explosives? are they talking to people of interest? determining intent, what does someone want to do, for example, with a weapon they acquire is real ....