traffickers to have access to these powerful encrypted tools. i want to get to that in a moment. wrapping up on this terrorist leader, abdelhamid abaqoud, the notion he once faked his death, are there other co-conspirators out there and other plots in the works right now? well, i can t comment on specific plots but i can say we should assume there are other plots going. the show opened with a report by this video striking new york. i feel like we ve come full circle with the islamic state now because al baghdadi, the leader released from american custody during the iraq war told his american captors, i ll see you guys in new york. it s clearly their intent to strike the united states and that s why we have to go on offense to fight them where they are before we fight them here in the united states. earlier there was a video threatening washington d.c. by isis and this revamped, revised
abdelhamid abaqoud may look up to him. back in 2009, before he eventually left for syria, he was involved in a threat stream here against the bataclan music hall, wolf. so this group that s been active in syria and the mo at the moment is to try to talent these fresh recruits, give them quick training, one or two weeks and send them back to do attacks. let s talk about this video that isis just released, we programmed some of the scenes were taken from a rap video put out earlier in the year in april. it s a clear threat to new york city earlier today. i spoke to mayor de blasio and he said there is no specific credible threat. this video comes out. what s your analysis? i watched the interview and i got to say are you kidding me?
of the radar screen and belgium security services and of course, known to a certain degree therefore by the united states intelligence services but the problem is there are so many of these individuals now traveling over to syria, 6,000 or so from europe. 15 00 back and the problem is isis is moving up gears in terms of launching international terrorists operations. my understanding from talking to officials today is that it s there is a group of about a half dozen belgium and french operatives in isis who moved up the hierarchy, who are the brains behind this operation. they include abdelhamid abaqoud but also include fabion clan.
be european born citizens. the idea that relatively young guy based in syria could have been the mastermind for this and also it s believed he may have been behind the attempt on that train that was interrupted by several americans who subdued the attacker and other attacks, as well. exactly. we re talking about abdelhamid abaqoud. he was behind this massive plot uncovered earlier in january. he managed to escape and now he s there sitting in syria able to orchestrate and organize an attack of this nature and you heard president hollande say these attacks were conceived in syria and organized in belgium and executed in france. how do you deal with that situation when you have so many knows along this nexus. how do you get your arms around that? after charlie hebdo, there was much talk about increasing funds for french intelligence
pointed out i think in more detail than i know, but there s no doubt about that, wolf, and there is no doubt about mr. baghdadi s intentions. he said i ll see you in new york. i don t think there is any doubt about this. i think it certainly does sound a real strong note of warning. mike rogers, the former chairman of the house intelligence committee said the same thing, believe what these guys said. abby backer al baghdadi, the suspected ringleader, abdelhamid abaqoud, does it concern you the americas don t have a better ability to keep track of the terrorists. i think it s obvious we re going to see new measures enacted both on the boarders of