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on the planet and punish them. vladimir putin vowing revenge against the people responsible for downing the airliner. saying he will take that retribution anywhere. very significant developments coming out of russia in the last hour. >> matthew, thank you for those developments. we also have breaking developments for you in the paris terrorist attacks. the intelligence in the months preceding them. a homeland security assessment six months ago raised the red flag of the suspected mastermind and isis was carrying out the ability to carry out the attacks. let's bring in jim sciutto. what have we learned? >> we reported yesterday, that they believe the mastermind in the attacks was a man named abdelhamid abaaoud. a belgium national.
capita, belgium contributes more volunteer to syria and iraq than any other western country. close to 500 from this country. a tiny country of 11 million people. a lot of them seem to come from this neighborhood. a heavily immigrant muslim neighborhood with high unemployment. 40% youth unemployment. you have suspects here involved in previous attacks. just last august when a moroccan international attacked on a train on the way to france from brussels. he is believed to have lived here. the mastermind of the attacks abdelhamid abaaoud hailed from this neighborhood, molenbeek. and the way the city is policed, one official says there are six different police forces and 19 mayors. they are clearly not coordinating well enough to
shock. we do to the realize what has happened. my family and i are affected by what happened. we found out by tv just like many of you. we did not think for a moment that one of our brothers was releaded to the attacks. >> reporter: the french president said the series of attacks was planned and organized here in belgium. it is not the first time brussels and in the neighborhood i'm in now, molenbeek has been implicated in international jihadi acts of terrorism. the suspected mastermind of the attacks, a man named abdelhamid abaaoud originally hails from the neighborhood right now and he is believed to be in the middle east. the abdeslam brothers, the family residence is 50 feet from where i'm standing right now. the belgium authorities made
oh, poor abdelhamid abaaoud, he's dead now. then use that cover to travel back and forth to syria to belgium to continue to plot attacks. and this is one issue. u.s. security officials were telling me in the past several days they are concerned and french officials echoed this. the suspects went dark. they were under surveillance and not using communications or encrypted communications. >> jim sciutto, thank you. stick around. we will have more questions for you. >> we have a larger context of with a was known to what they are trying to find out right now. to focus on the investigation and who else was involved. an eighth attacker on the run. the terrorist brother speaking out denying any knowledge. we know over 100 new raids were carried out overnight. that is become a blessing a curse for the french. we will talk about that more. let's go to belgium and ivan watson. he is there tracking this