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they're losing territory in syria, iraq, libya, afghanistan, and other places. for their most hardline supporters, this energizes them. they're a huge amount of anger from that point of view that children are being killed in british strikes and western strikes, u.s. strikes in syria and iraq and for them, it's an eye or an eye, it's retaliation. this is the show of strength. >> children purposely, ali? >> yeah. i think he intentionally targeted that. last saturday a statement was issued for an attack to avenge the attacks on children in the middle east. he asked for a martyrdom operation that would create a lot of damage in the west. this is something not only isis
cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this frame grab. turkish officials apparently releasing two photos of the suspect. they tell us they have his fingerprints from the scene but so far have not given us a name of the suspect. there is also dramatic surveillance video of the gunman entering the nightclub. take a look at this. he is firing as he goes in. in some frames you can even see bullets ricocheting. he killed 39 people inside the nightclub and wounded dozens of others. the victims were from 14 different countries. isis has claimed responsibility for this attack but has given no clues about the identity of the gunman. terror experts tell us, if isis actually directed the attack, it may have been more likely to have been a martyrdom operation with the perpetrator either taking his own life or confronting police and dying in a hail of gunfire. the information that this man slipped away leads some experts to believe this might have been an isis-inspired attack by a man acting on his own, possibly,
have detained eight people. isis has claimed responsibility saying a soldier of the caliphate targeted the nightclub. experts say it could be the work of an isis sympathizer rather than an attack directed by the group. >> typically this would be a suicide mission. they don't tend to say alive as we saw in brussels and paris. the isis inspired attacks, these guys tend to be less professional or less beholden to the isis mantra of going on a martyrdom operation. >> reporter: a key question tonight, isis, how responsible is it for this attack. to what degree was it involved. isis has the resources if it wants to to possibly help this gunman get away. former u.s. marshal james shields says the more he moves around the more vulnerable he is possible to be captured.
so this was -- we have a tendency in the media to say, oh, this looks like a lone wolf or isis-inspired attack. no, i don't think so. this is isis that released his last will and testament, that means he was in touch with isis hq in raqqah and the media apparatus there. that means somebody, probably this network in germany if not also in italy, knew where he was going and what he was planning to do. and to do a last will and testament means he was on a martyrdom operation. why did he engage in a shootout with italian police? well, for isis taking out law enforcement in europe or north america, that is the creme de la creme of victims. if he managed to kill italian cops, then he would have gone down as more of a hero, according to the isis world view, than for what he achieved in berlin several days ago. >> taking this in, talking about europe but we got breaking news and i want to ask you to stand by and get evan to report on this first here as it pertains to the u.s. apparently the fbi is issuing a new warning about
cameras. you might see a shift in that as well. germany has stricter pry vas rules and that's something that's prohibited having as much sort of cameras operating in some of these areas. >> let me ask you about amri's fingerprints. only his were found in the actual cabin according to police. do you think anybody else may have been involved in this attack? is that something you can begin to speculate on? >> sure. it's difficult to speculate in terms of the attack itself. at this point in time this is something that could have been carried out by just one individual given that he killed the driver and drove a truck into a crowd. that wouldn't require logistical support or other individuals. and nobody seems to at this point be pointing to other individuals in the attack. having said that, it's possible he was in touch with other people, possible he could have had other plans. that's why finding him is critical, not just for the intelligence that's going to be collected on him or his background and getting him convicted of this attack, but also because he might be getting ready to carry out another attack, a martyrdom operation particularly if he thinks that
obama has to reverse it. but this is what we see out of the homeland security department is the dismantling of a system that theoretically could be the basis for a muslim ban, a muslim ban, importantly, that just yesterday president-elect trump talked about as it seemed like a good idea that he's been right all along in the context of speaking about that attack in germany. so it does seem like there is a wariness to give the incoming administration tools to do some of the things that the outgoing administration really doesn't agree with. >> just today i think the transition team spoke very highly of the current president's efforts to try to make this transition smooth. do you think that's lip service or do you think there's truth to it? >> president obama has been speaking with president-elect trump. they've been talking about a lot of thins it seems like, but there are clear tension points and not just on all the politics that we've seen going on through the course of this xap.
just into the newsroom. the assad government is now saying it is in control of aleppo, the previously rebel-held city. the syrian military says the taking of aleppo representing a quote strategic transformation. the last of the refugees getting out on these buses, we've been following this story all week as they've been loading into buses and getting out, are out of the city. so it is potentially a milestone here at least for some of these refugees in aleppo. we'll have more on this story as it develops and we'll bring it to you as we get it. the president-elect after the berlin terror attack not backing off his plan to temporarily ban muslims from coming into the u.s. he says it's the best way to stop an attack from happening here at home. but is he right ideas come i ? ugly and messy. ? yes, ideas are scary, and messy
which is a difference from what we usually see. usually it's a martyrdom operation or somebody that doesn't have to worry about the authorities are working not just, of course, to track this person down and bring him to justy, but to prevent what is likely here, the attempt at another mass casualty attack. not that hard to get this individual's hands on another vehicle and try to mow down a big crowd of people. so they have a big challenge ahead of them and they seem like they have very few leads right now. >> cars and trucks are everywhere. grab one. there was a person found deaded in truck, so we don't know if this was a carjacking, that person had anything to do or an end in bystanders. there are plots all over throughout germany. a 12-year-old planting a nail and shrapnel bomb. how do we again to combat this? >> unfortunately we've seen all warning signs for decades, but in particular over the last few years. the terrorist organization before al qaeda have been instructing people to use every
widow. she writes, i want to do a martyrdom operation and join her husband in pair dice. she asks if storm can check on the cia wanted list and no fly list. in fact, a european counterterrorism official has told cnn that a threat bulletin was issued warning that aminah could be dangerous. many months later storm contacts ellegard again. this time they jump on the story and it becomes a sensation in denmark. storm becomes a marked man. jihadists in syria release this video. faces of the enemies lined up on a wall including a photo of mortem storm. >> going public i knew that