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They have told cnn that they actually saw this so-called mastermind abdelhamid abaaoud in the neighborhood following the attack, following the friday night attack before that raid which eventually saw him wind up dead. what does that say about how much these individuals can move around? apparently the french didn t even know this guy was in france until a few days ago. we ve seen the french intelligence services stretched so dramatically. again, as i mentioned by your earlier colleague, literally folks with french passports can travel over land into turkey or into the region and oftentimes travel back. and the french services actually had a number of these people on their potential watch list, but they hasn t triggered anything that would actually cause their arrest. i think a lot of that is going to be reviewed at this point. i think if we had increased ....
Out there, it s the best guy in france. but he is not going to engage or get close to the target. i suspect the reason the standoff is going so long is because they are evacuating every building around theire. they are literally going to empty that place until it s only that terrorist and the forces who are opposed outside. i m also joined right now by retired atf special agent in charge, jim cavanaugh, who has been with me now for a couple of hours. again, at this point, canal plus reporting that the mastermind, likely the target of tonight s ongoing police raid, semi automatic weapons being used. the raid being conducted in the predawn hours. what does that tell you, jim cavanaugh? a couple interesting things. it i agree with everything ....
Person is inside the apartment. the standoff is still going on. at least one person holed up inside the apartment. the standoff is ongoing. but we do know that fringe official french officials just a few hours ago told us that they were actively pursuing this ninth suspect and they have also been looking for, as you indicated there, the mastermind. yeah, but they are also looking for again, we come back to the story that we have been reporting in the last 12 hours. that was on friday, which attacked multiple restaurants. two men, part of the unit, were scared. since then, the french police was looking after those two guys ....
that was a police raid. that still appears to be ongoing. although right now there s a reportedly a standoff that s going on. two officers, two of the special forces officers have been hurt. we re told that at least two terrorists are dead. we re also told, and this is undoubtedly the highlight. mastermind, the alleged mastermind abdelhamid abaaoud, like the the target of the police raid. of course he is the man who joined isis back in 2013, went to syria, son of a shopkeeper. actually recruited his 13-year-old brother. the moroccan immigrant is a ....