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>> all right let's get the latest on the investigation. welcome back cnn terrorism analyst and co-author of "agent storm," my life inside al qaeda, and cia paul cruickshank and cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official phil mudd. paul we hear you have just learned new details. what are they? >> -- from german security officials that the tunisian perpetrator of this attack, there's a manhunt going on right now, were connected to a isis recruitment network in germany whose key leaders were arrested in november, so just a few weeks ago, including a charismatic individu...

Deadliest here since september 11, 2001. >> there are hubs for the growth of terrorism, iraq, syria, yemen, libya, afghanistan are really the major hubs. we are seeing a -- the pattern of where groups go to build their terrorist network and to further launch terrorist attacks on the west. >> reporter: attacks have risen steadily since 2001 according to the university of maryland's global terrorism database. in 2012, the frequency of attacks increased substantially through 2015. as the islamic state expanded through iraq and syria. republicans charge the obama administration's military withdraw...

Larger network, saying he's trying to destabilize the country. there's another aspect of this, this guy was a turkish police officer, a riot police officer, who's been watching the images coming out of aleppo, as the rest of the world has, and has been totally self-radicalized or impassioned by what he's seen and wanted to take action and express himself in this very heinous way, because he's been watching the politics of the country to his dissatisfaction. there are going to be a lot of questions whether he was acting alone, whether he was connected, but it seems at this stage of the investig...

And importantly, we built a counterterrorism capability that can sustain this pressure against any terrorist network in south asia that might threaten the united states of america. there was because of the work of our outstanding service members. moreover, that early decision to strengthen our efforts in afghanistan, allowed us to build the capacity of afghans to secure and defend their own country. so today, there are less than -- less than 10,000 american troops in afghanistan. instead of being in the lead against the taliban, americans are now supporting 320,000 afghan security forces who a...

Pakistan, even as al qaeda's been decimated in afghanistan and pakistan, the threat from terrorists, metastasized in other parts of the middle east and north africa. and most dangerously, we saw the emergence of isil, the successor to al qaeda in iraq. which fights as both a terrorist network and an insurgency. there's been a debate about isil that's focused on whether a continued u.s. troop presence in iraq back in 2011 could have stopped the threat of isil from growing. and as a practical matter, this was not an option. by 2011, iraqis wanted our military presence to end, and they were unwil...