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Paul crook shank is here. also with us is phillip mudd. what a harrowing story we've heard this evening. paul, i'm going to start with you, sayfullo saipov, 29 years old from uzbekistan, came to the united states in 2010. why is this significant? what can you tell us about terrorist activity in uzbekistan? >> well, there's significant jihadism in uzbekistan, don. there are two major jihadi groups. the first affiliated with isis and the second affiliated with al qaeda. both those groups have significant presence in syria and iraq. at least 1500 uzbeks have traveled to those foreign countries, t...

That's been going on for decades. major jihadi groups, one affiliated with isis, one with al qaeda. they have presence in syrian iraq. up to 1500 traveled there. there's uzbek's involved in terrorism cases. they are involved in an attack in sweden, involved in the nightclub bombing on new year's eve and metro attack. here in the united states, a major counterterrorism investigation centered in brooklyn, new york in 2014 into a group of extremists. people from central asia who were planning to go and travel and join isis and discussing shooting president obama, discussing launching attacks on c...

>> absolutely. the recipe for tatp is widely available online. it's available on jihadi websites and magazines. this isn't to say that this attack is necessarily committed by sympathizers of jihadi groups. but this has been, i'd say, one of their favorite expositives to employ. >> so, the threat level is now at critical. it's been raised, and another attack is expected because of that. there is a manhunt under way for suspects or a suspect. so, given what we know so far about the explosive, the simple fact that there's this tv, closed circuit tv, is there a good chance for investigators to get...

>> like a microcosm of the world there. >> very international target in barcelona. but spain has been grappling with a jihadi extremism problem for decades, more 100 spanish residents have traveled to join jihadi groups in syria and iraq, of which a significant portion have joined isis. that's actually a much lower number than some countries in western europe where you almost had 1,000 each in those countries travel to join the group so the scale of the threat is less big in spain than it is in some other countries but they've been very vigilant. there have been hundreds of counterterrorism ar...

Iraq and syria and launching multiple terror attacks. what russians are saying this morning is that they believe that their strike in syria killed 330 isis fighters on may 28th and they are still checking whether as they are suggesting the isis leader was among them. >> well, if al baghdadi is, in fact, dead what could it mean for the future of isis? >> well, there are mixed views about that as well. some people think that -- make the point that these jihadi groups, remember that isis is the result of a split from al qaeda. they morph and they move and they select new leaders, so removing the ...