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>> reporter: obama warned local troops supported by u.s. air strikes are a better option than a costly and open-ended u.s. occupation. military experts warn the current air campaign may dent isis, but without ground troops, it will never defeat it. >> you can fly things over the ground, make that ground a horrible place to be, but until you put forces on the ground, you don't own it and you can't change the conditions. >> reporter: putin's plan suggest a dramatic shift against isis. >> see if this coalition gets together and works. more of breaking news after a quick break. hi i'm heather cox ...

Phone, hardest to crack for the intelligence agencies. use particular applications that are anonomized, the dark net. >> reporter: isis may have made one cyber enemy. anonymous, now vowing to unleash a wave of cyberattacks on isis in retaliation for the paris massacre. matthew green says people at anonymous are probably better hackers than the ones isis has. but he doesn't think they're going to be able to do much damage to isis and he says they certainly cannot break the enkrep enkrepe encryption, those, wolf, too well designed. >> joining us ranking democrat of the house intelligence committ...

Against isis. enter vladimir putin who joined the fight and giving momentum to a new global momentum to fight isis in syria and beyond. today russian bombers pounded isis targets in syria, pairing air strikes with 34 cruise missiles launched at isis fighters. in all, 127 strikes of retaliation for the isis downing of a russian commercial jet. president putin promised this was just the beginning. >> translator: we will search wherever they are hiding. we will find them any spot on the planet and we will punish them. >> reporter: putin was slow to concede terrorism. since the deadly attacks in p...

Isis instructs operate ins to move from social media, once they recruited people, to these applications where they can encrypt and we can't even if we were to intercept the message tell what that message has to say. it's still early, wolf, to tell what role that may have played in the paris attacks, whether encryption accounts for why intelligence agencies didn't catch this planning or that plotting. but nonetheless, given these instructions from isis, it wouldn't surprise me at all if we ultimately find that encrypted communications used here. >> it's a real problem. what do you know about th...

Redemption, a sense of purpose from it. but isis is also excusing, you know, all of their past sins, so to speak, flirting with girls, drugs, all of that kind of stuff and corrupted by the infidel west, here's your way out. here's your path to paradise. and the people in these gangs, isis has that same sort of violence and it resonates with them. as one belgian counterterrorism official was telling me, wolf, they are moving to syria as part of a supergang and coming back as gangs as well and, of course, they know how to act as a gang. they know how to communicate. they know how to get weapons ...