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The libyan militia claims hashim said he and his brother were members of isis. cnn is reaching out to the authorities for verification. u.s. military sources tell cnn salman abedi, the manchester bomber, had been in libya for several weeks before the attack. >> he certainly might have had the opportunity in libya to connect with a terrorist group. isis has a presence in libya. al qaeda has a presence in libya. other jihadi groups. >> reporter: police say he was known to both british and u.s. intelligence officials, and investigators are now trying to piece together when abedi met with isis or ...

Point that i've seen since the fall of the taliban in 2001. isis is just one of the many, by the way, jihadi groups, including al qaeda, in uzbekistan and others. i wouldn't say they are hugely important. the real issue is the fact that the taliban have taken helmand in 2009. you will recall that the district fought by the american marines, now being retain by the taliban and that is quite a significant victory, unfortunately, one of many the taliban have had in recent months. >> this is a reminder of people who maybe have not paid a lot of attention to afghanistan, and we didn't hear a lot ab...

They'll be scrubbing their phones, their social media, looking who they were in touch with, who they were associating with in germany or any other countries, whether they were among the 800 who traveled from germany to join jihadi groups in syria and iraq. more than 270 have come back to germany. but this comes at a time, john, when the system really is blinking red when it comes to the terrorist threat against germany. officials have described it as an unprecedented terrorist threat. we've seen five plots since july either connected to isis or where people have been communicating back with is...

Nic robertson said these two men have been arrested with traces of explosives in their car. more than 1,000 have gone to syria. these people are comfortable in fra frankophone environments. they are people that are part of the isis cell that geneva authorities have said they are concerned with them planning to strike. >> the fact that a cell has possibly made it to switzerland, is that alarming to you? >> we know that 90 countries have seen members or citizens go to syria to fight with jihadi

Who have said things about isis and being supportive of isis, no? >> well, that's true and there's some admiration amongst these jihadi groups and their leadership. those in the sahara tend to break off and compete with each other. so there are two or three figures that may be behind these attacks. >> thank you. straight ahead, the fbi on alert for potential paris copycats here at home. not from returning foreign fighters, but from people already within u.s. borders. stay with us. we're trying to give them all the feeling of being at the stadium. the microsoft cloud gives us the scalability ...