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They were taking, one has to wonder whether or not they are part of a sleeper cell that they are trying to apply here in the united states. it could have been for a very innocent purpose or semi-innocent purpose where they were just trying to come here to live in the united states. but it's very, very suspicious and i can tell that you the intelligence committee is drilling down on these five right now deeply. >> but as you said, they don't yet know at this time anything about motive or what they were trying to do, from your understanding, in your briefings? >> that is absolutely correct. howe...

The early evening. they know that angela merkel was supposed to a it end this game. even though it's a friendly. it was taken as real. the evidence was too strong. let's end it, we're done. we're finished. >> angela merkel holding a special meeting on security issues now and throughout the day. >> they're reluctant to release many details, they don't want to give away how they did things. however, there has been a group i.d.'d. they're referred to as the north africans and 30 hours earlier they were planning to target the entrances of that particular stadium with assault rifles and suicide bom...

>> reporter: very little more information around that but it does raise a question, was it linked to france? it certainly lends itself to that theory, the tip came from the french intelligence agency and also the timing, of course. but the french president, as you know, said that the paris attacks was planned in syria. this was an iraqi sleeper cell. i think we don't know whether or not they are linked, but it does really give a sense of the sensitivity around the world in relation to any sort of intelligence flying around at the moment that relates to attacks at public spaces like this. >> hi...

France was taking on england today. max, what are you learning about the german football stadium threats? >> reporter: ultimately, there wasn't a device but the local police chief told the national broadcaster, ndr there in germany that they had concrete intelligence that someone was planning an attack, an explosive device in that stadium. ultimately, they didn't find one, but they cleared the stadium, they put the german football team under police protection, said they were very, very concerned. as i say, they said there there wasn't something concrete there where did the tip come from? accor...

Operate to be able to pull off what happened here in paris on friday. >> well, sleeper cells generally have very little if any communication with outside parts of the organization. they -- if they lose someone, they regenerate that membership probably themselves. they don't go to some central organization and say we need a new member. the whole point is to be more like a starfish i guess than a spider. if you lose something you regenerate what you have. and what you need. they -- it's a little hard to generalize because they occur in many parts of the world in many ways with different organiza...