Of documentation and that this pilot was involved in recruitment activities presumably venezuelans who would take part in a coup. The background here. We have seen an increase in antigovernment protests in venezuela. The United States house and senate have passed sanctions against venezuela. Nicolas maduro and his government fighting back vehemently against those things such as calling the u. S. Government arrogant imperialist yankees. We also noma dur row know maduro has set up a coalition to look into Human Rights Violations by the United States. So i can not stress enough there is a tense relationship between the u. S. Government and venezuelas government and that sets the stage for what we now see, an american pilot taken prisoner in venezuela. I think on the phone we have juan carlos lopez, anchor and correspondent for cnn espanol. What do we know at this point in time . Hi poppy. There was a rally today in caracas and in that rally it ended at the president ial palace president m
Orders to try to capture this man. But apparently a firefight broke out. Handtohand combat he resisted. He was killed in the firefight along with other isis fighters there. His wife captured and taken back to iraq. The big question why this guy, why was it worth risking so much u. S. Military lives to go after him . What we are being told is he was an isis leader if you will in their oil and gas operations. So thats very key. Because of the Financial Impact the financial benefit to isis. But perhaps more serious even there had been a sense by the u. S. That he was increasingly involved in isis command and control. And isis operations. And u. S. Officials are beginning to indicate there may have been a reason to believe he might have been in contact at some point with abu bakr albaghdadi, the very reclusive leader of isis. The guy the u. S. Of course wants to get. All right. Lets talk more about this Senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is with us from beirut. Nick you ha
America . Why there is a lawsuit now against Manny Pacquiao. That and much much more in this broadcast. Isis though is here and thats where we start tonight. With the terror attack in texas, by radical islamists. Cnns justice correspondent, pamela brown, joins me now with more. So isis claims pamela that they are behind the attack but what are intelligence officials saying . Reporter well officials ive been speaking to don, say its likely that isis is being opportunistic here claiming responsibility. But what is clear here is that the group did, to some degree have an influence on these two gunmen. In fact one official telling us today that its clear that this was more than just aspirational. Don, weve been talking about this concern of isis reaching in through social media and identifying targets and recruiting. One official i spoke to today said were seeing this play out, in this case. In fact one of the gunmen Elton Simpson, had openly been talking online with terrorists overseas. I
Who follow isis in the media, in the academic world, but clearly someone that u. S. Intelligence and the u. S. Military had known about and were tracking for some time. I think a lot more is likely to come to light. We cant assume we know everything at this hour. But officials familiar with the raid in syria have told cnn that he was for some time essentially the oil and gas emir the head of isis oil and gas operations which had in the past been vital to them raising money. But recently had become something much more than that something very troubling. He had taken on an increasing role in isis Operations Planning commanding control and critical information here. The u. S. Believes he may well have had some kind of communication with abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of isis. So you put this whole intelligence picture together plus his wife and her knowledge potentially of hostage operations that isis had been involved in and you see why the u. S. Wanted to get him. This was supposed to
On black drivers or the police . Is. And now, two plots to build and use a bomb in the u. S. And we will get to what that means for you and me and all americans. And the stunning things that we are learning about the copilot of german cowings. And we will go to miguel marquez, and bowing to a tremendous amount of are pressure, the governors of indiana and arkansas signed a fix into the law, but one local business is becoming the focal point of this business and what is going on . Well it is a pizza shop two hours from indianapolis and they were interviewed by a local station, and the young woman there, ms. Oconnor said that when asked if they would serve a gay wedding, and pizza for a gay wedding, and she said nope our religious beliefs would not allow that the, and so we want this bill to pass, and of course then the twitter storm, and the social media storm ensued. A young woman was actually the source of it and they had to shutdown because of the threats they were receiving, and the