and able to coordinate further attacks, jake. yeah, i saw earlier at the site of the apartment. you could see through the window, the shot we re showing to our viewers right now, police forensic teams clad head to toe trying to make sense of the wreckage before them. tim, is there any further clarity on the question of how much of these horrific paris attacks from five days ago were actually planned and directed from isis leaders in syria? i think that s a huge question. what we got the sense of in investigating this and previous attacks is that isis likes to almost subcontract some of its work, especially in the field of foreign attacks. we know that french and belgium fighters very much hang out together in syria. they work together on the battle front. they plant together. so there is this possibility that a french network that also
isis about a quarter have come back. but we know at least two probably three of those involved last friday had gone to syria, come back undetected. even their families had no idea that they had come back. the belgian justice minister said, we hadn t a clue that one of these attackers was back on belgian soil. he made the point they don t have the resources to track these people. every single fighter that comes back from syria or iraq is estimated at 25 officers, analysts are acquired to track their moverments. this is the scale of the charge. and the europeans are really scrambling to catch up with the flow of both outward and backwards. on top of which you have the silos of intelligence, intelligence agencies very zealous of their sources, information. they re not sharing enough information. it s a huge challenge, chris. tim lister, stefan due vees, thank you very much. you would think the authorities would be celebratory today.
apartments. the prosecutor saying he is not in custody. but if he was killed, well, that we still don t know. state television in belgium says a woman who blew herself up as the french commandos moved in was his cousin. thousands of miles away, french war planes today launching new attacks on isis command centers in syria as an isis magazine claims it was indeed their terrorists who brought down that russian jet just a few weeks ago in late october, publishing a photograph of what they say was the bomb, the ied in this case, according to isis, a soda can and some kind of simple detonation device. that is, if you believe these claims from isis. let s bring in nic robertson, cc international correspondent. nic, carly ward actually climbed on a rooftop close to where you are where she could see the raided apartment. let me play a bit of that for us
syria on what they refer to as jihad earning the revulsion media reports suggest of his parents. he also has been pictured in isis propaganda, notably once dragging corporations behi dragging corpses behind a truck. also being pictured alongside two other jihadists killed in a raid in belgium in january. quite his moves this year aren t clear. he was certainly pictured in isis propaganda magazine in february in syria and in fact they are saying how easy it was for him to move around and how he had yet to be intercepted. but the precise movements after that are not clear. obviously because muof the speculation or reports that he is somehow in paris or europe again. if that were the case, that would be quite terrifying. this is a high profile individual, brooke. someone who appeared very
of a support network that knew whether abaaoud or someone else, they were tied into this larger group. so although there s not much yet proven in the way of links between friday s tackers and the group that was there today, i m sure investigators will think that that is highly likely. and of course abaaoud, his female cousin amongst those killed today, that for him is going to probably motivate him to continue and to accelerate these attacks across france, belgium, unless he is inside that apartment that has been so wrecked by this morning s gun fight that went on for more than an hour. investigators say inside it s an unbelievable mess. it s difficult to even suspect there s a body there. there s just body parts. i it s going to be difficult to establish whether abaaoud is that man lying in that apartment or whether he s still on the run