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Isis is pivoting towards launching attacks against the european countries that are targeting isis as part of the anti-sisco list. belgium is one of those countries, they're flying air sorties over iraq. isis have called for attacks against belgium and many other european countries. this comes a few weeks after this capital was essentially closed down for several days because of a terrorism alert that went out here. they went up to maximum alert. i'm also finding out why that happened. it was because there was a text message that was intercepted on that day, november 20, a week after the paris ...

Is not only launching attacks but has dominated large swaths of territory in the middle east and north africa and is expanding beyond the region and areas we can't target in afghanistan, pakistan, nigeria, even bangladesh and the philippines. so we're seeing isis tentacles reaching. but we look at isis as a centralized threat. but there is that decentralized threat that emanates from its ideology, self-radicalized individuals at home, especially in the post-san bernardino attacks that rose up and that's a big challenge. >> so when you look at the way that this has changed, we know of more than...

Intelligence of isis extremist whose have come back from syria, suspected to come back from syria to europe talking about the idea of attacking various cities among them, geneva, hence the warning provided to the swiss but toronto and chicago viewed more of sort of aspirational ideas of launching attacks. but also several other strands coming in to the swiss, one of them the van with belgium number plates recently crossed into switzerland and traced the number plates they picked up on cc tv and found out that the vehicle, the van was linked to an associate of salah abdeslam, the eighth attacke...

Now, they are clearly looking for a wider network, whether it wasn't whiting.the attack was - i don't think these people acted alone. they were talking to people. they were recruited a long time ago, possibly in riverside based on the communications and now the fbi is desperate to get into this hard drive and tom is absolutely right if it is just water soaked, it's phone. the only way to destroy a hard drive is smash it with a sledgehammer. we may get lucky and it may turn out as a wider network. >> paul, you've been reporting on this new threat in geneva switzerland now, extremests discussed ...

>> well, i mean they need to understand, it is true that what isis has primarily done with the areas that they captured is to try to launch attacks on shia. now, of course, they're launching attacks on us, as well. they've gone global, which is why it is important to understand that this is not a problem that is contained. but in attacking the shia, there are many sunnis in the region. unfortunately, who take the view, well we don't like isis' tactics, but at least they're dealing something -- doing something about the iranians. well, we've got to have much more focus, first of all, in dealing...