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So you re running into business here, as well. and it s not going to be as simple as open up. so realistically, there are a lot of things that can t be done. but there are still things that can be done. laith, what are some of the solutions you can bring the tech companies in on. i think cal mentioned this briefly, these encryption programs that are very hard to eavesdrop and conduct surveillance on, but terrorists are not necessarily just capitalizing on that one space. if we re missing on 5% of that activity, we have 95% of the activities taking place openly on social media, facebook, google and so on. so working hand in hand with these companies, by the way, who have been launching a very secretive war already, suspending thousands of accounts every week. what we feed to keep doing is keep up with the new platforms that are being used every day. and isis and its supporters are looking for new platforms every day, as they are getting suspended on twitter. how much are they crea ....
i m getting to the question. laws nvrsment has to apprehend a criminal. in the case of terrorism, these things are not done on the spur of the moment. people plan them. they do conspire to commit a crime. the crime is being committed. you just have to detect it. this is what the fbi does, they try to anticipate this. they have heavy surveyian, physical surveillance, and they re trying to figure out when are these going to commit the crime? when do we move in and get them. what i notice, laith, what we saw the other day with the french police going up against a reinforced door, they have to blow it apart, those people were ready to act, but the government couldn t act, the police couldn t act, so they forced the hand of the terrorism terrorists to defend themselves, and shoot back. it s so ironic that the police need a crime on the basis of this they can get emergency powers, use those emergency powers to rush these people and ....
They re trying to figure out when are these going to commit the crime? when do we move in and get them. what i notice, laith, what we saw the other day with the french police going up against a reinforced door, they have to blow it apart, those people were ready to act, but the government couldn t act, the police couldn t act, so they forced the hand of the terrorism terrorists to defend themselves, and shoot back. it s so ironic that the police need a crime on the basis of this they can get emergency powers, use those emergency powers to rush these people and thereby force them to fight for their lives and expos the fact they have all the weaponry in the world, bombing equipment, thereby showing their hand. it s a weird kind of catch 22. look, the security forces have very legitimate reasons why they raided that apartment building. ....
Welcome back. after that extraordinary interview by lester and brian williams, of course, we have new pictures from france of the raid taking place. a female suicide bomber apparently blew herself up during the raid at saint-denis. this photo was posted to social media back in june. her name is hasna. she was reportedly a relative of the ringleader of all of this, abaaoud. laith, so much to quickly ask you about. let s talk about hasna aitboulahcen. she is french. she was raised in the outskirts of paris. she is this woman identified as the female who apparently blew herself up as they keep looking through the evidence from that raid. yeah. it s very interesting but we ....
They seem to be ready, these kind of explosives are very difficult to make, it s very sophisticated. they need to have the know-how. these things you can only get in two ways. one, explosive manuals that are barely available online. you have to go to specific places to dig them out. or travel to a jihadi zone and be trained how to built these explosives. we know the explosive maker apparently was killed, died and the mere fact that he was able to have that kind of tradecraft is very disconcerting. laith, you are such an expert on their social media communications. within the last day or so, one of their encrypted sites has shut down because of the public shaming but there are a lot more out there, are there not? there are plenty more out there. telegram shut down only 78 accounts. that is nothing compared to, for example, what twitter and facebook have been doing shutting thousands of accounts every week. i think telegram s got plenty to ....