An additional 10,000 troops will be out on the streets of paris and other french cities as the country steps up security in the wake of last weeks terror attacks. Thousands attended Funeral Services on tuesday in paris, in jerusalem as well for those victims who were killed. That includes three French Police officers. President Francois Hollande awarded them the countrys highest honor. [ singing in french ] you can hear them there, members of the French National assembly singing the countrys National Anthem after a moment of silence honoring the 17 People Killed last week. And the National Assembly voted to extend french air strikes against isis targets in iraq. The Prime Minister drew a distinction between the fight with muslim extremists and people of the muslim faith. Take a listen. Translator yes, france is at war against terrorism, jihadism and radical islam. France france is not at war against a religion. France is not at war against islam and the muslim people. The first issue o
Credit and prosecutors arrest a comedian for a facebook post. Then republicans vote for mass deportations on the hill. Enough is enough. Rand paul goes into attack mode questioning the sanity of another Romney Campaign as he picks up a key endorsement of his own. Rand paul is the best. And as a virginia lawmaker wins his election while serving a jail sentence. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has officially claimed credit for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, carried out by two French Brothers that left 11 dead and 11 wounded. The 11minute video released shows the Senior Leader claiming the attack on Charlie Hebdo was ordered over its insults to the Prophet Muhammad saying his Group Planned and financed the operation. He specifically u. S. Born radical cleric Anwr Al Awlaki who was killed in 2011 as having coordinated the operation. A source within the group broke the story that they had direct it would attacks. But today marks the fir
he was taking in al qaeda and isis propaganda online and launched this attack. so officials believe that this was a flash-to-bang scenario where it all happened very quickly, with very little warning. wolf? pamela, thank you very much. we re joined now by the top democrat of the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff of california. thank you very much for joining us. good to be with you. i know you ve been briefed on this individual, abdul razak ali artan. but do you know why he actually came to washington, d.c. where his credit card records show he went to a home depot and bought this big knife? i don t. and i think law enforcement is still trying to find out what took place in the days and indeed the hours leading up to this attack. it does appear that the period of radicalization may have been fairly quick in the sense that he was a consumer of this online propaganda of anwr al awlaki and perhaps others. but there wasn t much indication
the arab spring that will territorially present the substantial threat down the road. so al qaeda is not dead? no. reporter: the threat connecting most home brown plots from the ft. hood massacre in 2009 to the boston marathon bombing earlier this year is that the suspects are followers of anwr al awlaki. the first american targeted for death by the cia. the increase in individuals who are radicalized on the internet and in addition to that can gain the knowledge on how you develop an explosive device on the internet, that is the biggest threat at this juncture. after that i would say probably al qaeda in the arabian peninsula out of yemen. reporter: fox s ongoing reporting of the cleric in newly declassified documents are raising questions over whether the u.s. government tried to recruit al awlaki as an intelligence source in 2002. i am not personally familiar with any effort to recruit anwr awlaki as an asset. that does not mean to say there
killing more than 300 people. his regime, though, denies that. they blame the rebels. the defense secretary chuck hagel says we must be ready to act, whatever the president decides. president obama has asked the defense department to prepare options for all contingencies. we have done that. again, we are prepared to exercise whatever option, if he decides to employ one of those options. now this morning iran is warning that a u.s. military attack would have, quote, serious consequences for the white house. with iran and russia in bashar assad s corner, does this conflict now pit tehran and moscow against us? u.s. ambassador john bolton joins us now as he does every time this sunday. ambassador, good morning. good morning, eric. glad to be with you. what should we do? well, the president, i think, is responding here because he has been so heavily criticized over the past six months after the last reports of serious chemical weapons usage by the assad regime for not r