body for infadels. he said the chechens did that. he is pulling the body. he s with, you know, young recruiters that just came from france and he talks to them. he s from belgium. he s with french people, which is very interesting because back then and i think ever since when they fight on the ground in syria, they are with group of, you know, with the same language. so there is no surprise that you see them connected so much connected to belgium because they fought together. they forge bombs, blood bombs in syria. they are from largely the same neighborhoods and went to prison together and were petty criminals together. they have it s like an ex end t extended gang. some of them went to school together and if you take the ring of terrorists from the south of paris and from the north, as well, you have people
exists here. what i having thought about all this, we can say that we are really at post 9/11 stage in france, not that we cooperated with the u.s. on many cases and everybody is aware of that global terror threat but this time around, we re still piecing together how an attack of that scope could have happened in our country in belgium and france. we need to, you know, definitely there is going to be a lot, a lot of questions addressed to politician, addressed to intel service, you know, in the coming months. there is going to be a huge shakeup and also maybe the problem is we re going to turn towards more security. that s obvious. this is something that your viewers have to understand is that france is always prided itself of being a free country and, you know, sometimes pointing at the u.s. with too much regulations, too much
the belgium police had no idea this guy was even back in europe until his body was found in paris. i mean, belgium police certainly had chances to intercept some of the other f terrorists involved in this plot, didn t they? there is a lot of criticism, salah abdeslam on the run that you mentioned, abraham abdeslam who blew himself up in paris. the belgium police were alerted in february, why? because abraham abdeslam tried to go from turkey to syria. they sent him back to belgium, notified the police and the police went and interviewed both brothers back then and came up empty, determined there was nothing to it and let them go. you said there is growing criticism by belgium authorities. the prime minister said he s
then he also vowed that any of those isis fighters who come home thinking they are going to come home to belgium, they he said will come home to a prison cell. anderson? drew, appreciate the reporting. before continuing the conversation, i want to quickly show you video that aired on abc news. the first clear look of the explosion during the raid. the female suicide bomber blew herself up. [ gunshots ]. joining us is cnn term ris m analyst paul cruichshank. there was contact with and before we do that, to what drew was reporting about the problems in belgium. how big a problem is it, intelligence sharing between services and countries inside europe? because in the u.s. we had a huge problem with that before 9/11 between the fbi and cia. it seems like that problem
going to clamp down but i talked to one analyst that said this is too little and too late. listen to what he said. it took too long and even our anti radicalization policy took too long, actually. it needs time and too bad i think our politicians that our governments successtididn t und estimate the problems happening under ground. luckily, now they are aware of it and facing it but still in the tackling it enough. anderson, in a speech the prime minister of belgium announced that he s going to increase both the intelligence and the security services by a big margin. he also said he wants to increase the efforts being made to stop young belgium men from going to fight in syria.