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Event like this. remind the nation s law enforcement agencies of what has happened here, urge them to keep a close eye. at this point, the theory is that this was an attack against this target because of its what it s written and said about the prophet muhammad and about islam and about islamic jihadist leaders, so there doesn t appear to be anything beyond that at this point, based on what they know ari. pete n your expertise, how do u.s. officials evaluate that kind of claim from isis? they just have no way to know whether it s accurate or not. these claims are being made on websites where known isis officials have posted things in the past. but they were posted of course after the shootings. so they don t seem to give us inside information that anybody watching news reports wouldn t know, so it s simply impossible to verify whether they re accurate or just people saying ....
Paris jewish business leaders. many of these parisians are now fleeing paris. secondly it s important to understand the french feel like they re being overrun by muslims. there s a backlash that s developed. the political context is very interesting. the number one politician right now in france is madame marie lapep lapenne, who leads the right wing paeshgts anti-immigration party. she is polling in the polls in france far more than sarkozy, who is thinking about running again, and hollande. there s a real backlash against immigration, against muslims. the french think former muslims inside than there are, but it is the largest muslim population and the least assimilated muslim population in europe. ambassador, thank you for joining us. sure. upon learning of the attack this morning, charlie hebdo s ....
Working to determine whether they have any connection to isis. france, of course is a major u.s. ally fighting isis in iraq and syria with us. what happened today have the french rethinking their role, perhaps, ramping it up? joining us at the table with his perspective is ambassador marc ginsberg former white house middle east ambassador and ambassador to morocco. ambassador, i wonder if these attacks, as we ve seen several throughout the west do these attacks and work and quite often the answer s yes it makes us attack them but is that ultimately what aq and isis actually want? toure, you hit the nail on the head, really, by that question because president hollande has more than prime minister cameron of great britain, more than angela merkel he has been the stalwart ally against islamic extremism, against isis against al qaeda and magreb and also against ....
Toment to go after, right? you look at aqap al qaeda and the arabian peninsula. this is a group two weeks ago put out a magazine they allege they have developed an explosive device they can sneak on board an airplane through airport security, no problem, 100% guaranteed. now, the national question is if you have a group that s capable of that, why would they do this? this is like several layers beneath this. now, look, these guys demonstrated some degree of sophistication. they show they know how to use weapons. they show that they know how to carry out an attack. but you don t need to receive instructions from a terrorist group to figure that out. and everything we ve seen here so far, it s within the capability of individual lone wolf extremists be it with experience of firearms. maybe they ve been on a front line, been to syria, iraq or yemen or boss knee, yeah one of ....
That s a nightmare to is yoursurveil them. we were talking about the breath of islamaphobia. you have to expect that this major incident on french soul would only make that sentiment grow. without a doubt. it is certainly throwing a little bit of kerosene on to that fire. ambassador ginsburg related concerning the jewish community there. there was a car that was set on fire there in front of a synagogue this morning in paris, which i find very interesting in light of the attack that took place today. there is no shortage of problems for the french police and intelligence service to try to wrap their arms around. ....