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I want to bring in our terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. max foster referring to a report from the police chief for the city telling germany's public broadcaster that the reason for the stadium e evacuation is that, quote, there were serious plans for explosions. a press conference on the matter is eminent and we'll bring that as it happens. but this is not uncommon, i would suppose, if this turns out, and it's very early information and police do not have accurate information early on, nor do we. but if this was another terrorist plot, it's not that uncommon for terrorists to do one horrifi...

Look at boston, look at the boston bombings, you had two guys there who were about the biggest losers you could come up with, using a magazine in english that they al qaeda in yemen without ever speaking to anyone from al qaeda in yemen, these guys came up with a real terrorist plot and hurt and killed quite a number of people. so just remember, two guys with no connections to al qaeda or isis did that. they were able to build bombs that killed and wounded a whole bunch of people. it doesn't take direct connections to terrorism to make you into a mass murderer. >> evan kohlmann, thank you for ...

It's very, very tricky to make in almost all of the cases we've seen, the people who have managed to make it actually got training overseas. this very much is consistent with this being isis with there being training somewhere like syria for this attack. the other significant thing is that back in january with that terrorist plot that was thwarted in belgium. they had all of the substances necessary to make tatp. they were planning to make exactly the same kind of explosives. and we've now seen raids in that same neighborhood in belgium in brussels where those plotters were residing back in ja...

They can. there is sole sort of coordination here and some sort of -- somebody knows what they are doing. >> paul? >> i agree and really points towards an established terrorist group isis or al qaeda over 1,000 french nationals have traveled to syria and iraq, many joining with isis. more than 250 returned. europe-wide a staggering 6,000 extremists traveled to syria and iraq. 1 ,500 back in europe. security services stretched very thin. they just can't monitor any but a few all the time, th24/7. this is sometime coming. the president of france warning there was an unprecedented threat they wer...

>> 65% in good airport security. bob baer, thank you so much. stay tuned to cnn. wolf blitzer's going to have a lot more on this. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. "the situation room" starts right now. happening now, breaking news. bomb on board, cnn is now learning that u.s. intelligence suggests the crash of that russian passenger jet in egypt was most likely caused by a bomb on the plane planted by isis. is isis responsible? sources telling cnn that internal communications and increased activity in the region point to a terrorist plot. did an isis sympathizer at the airport plan...