they used those words, to prevent another attack about to be launched. the fact that one of the people killed, one of the terrorists killed, this woman was wearing we think an explosive suicide vest indicates to them that maybe she was getting ready to go out. ap question whether she was wearing it or it detonated. what gives us that question. if it was like the ones worn on last friday, it is made of a highly volatile compounds tatp. we believe that s why it almost certainly had to be locally made. it can go off. so who knows what the circumstances were. the finality is it did detonate. it took that woman s life at a min much let s go to fred on the ground in sontene where this operation is still going on by observation, what do you see now? hi, chris, area, one of the things we are seeing, we started seeing a couple minutes ago as this truck moved past, you can see the police down the street
yesterday said he had more concerns there were more attacks in the pipeline. whether this is the pipeline, we re not sure. a significant operation over the last several hours with three suspected terrorists. i was going to say on saturday, sunday, we were talking about seven to eight attackers. most of whom were dead. one of whom was on the run. in the intervening days, it has grown. there may be a cell, yesterday, they were saying 20. today we may hear the number is bigger. but the number of people suspected of being involved in this big cell, these several cells, to be a part of this operation, these terrorist attacks, seems to be growing, of course french police. because if they were planning, indeed, another set of attacks or another attack, you know, conducting an operation such as the one we saw on friday, which was terrible and deadly and unprecedented on french soil and modern times. and then having all the journalists gather to cover that and potentially carry out another
killed. others arrested. police have been hurt in what they are calling a discovery of another team here that was as they believe ready to act. jim scuitto joins us now. there is a reason to believe what intelligence took them to this point. what do we know? the big lied are the cell phones at the scenes of the attack. including with that message, our evan perez reporting yesterday, ready to go. in effect, the cell phones of the attackers in the friday attacks used before the attacks too many. we know apps for encrypt 7d communications which has been a concern of u.s. and european intelligence, officials for some time. so did they gain some intelligence from those phones that led them to other players in this game, other players that those attackers were communicating with. that s potentially a very important lead. one point here, paris
important conclusion, christiane, which is they don t know exactly what they are dealing with here. they went on a lead because of these cell phones, they went out finding an entirely second team with the same explosive equipment, the same fire power as the ones that did the attack on friday. let s wait and see exactly who these people are. look, over the last couple days, they upped the number of terrorists they believe were involved in this whole thing and from the beginning they have said, even the president said, the ministry of interior about to brief about a half how far on the latest investigations, have said is that we think there are even more, remember, when we started, it was seven or eight terrorists. now it s 15 and numbers are climbing. even yesterday, they said 20 or. so but from the very beginning, they were very afraid that there would be more attacks. which was the preventive order to keep people off the streets and not congregating in public spaces. so they re quit
plot was thwarted. but he managed to escape and it had been believed that he made it back to syria or iraq. we know that the department of homeland security, chris, as recently as may or rather as far back as may was complaining that they viewed him to be a potential threat, that they were concerned that isis was possibly developing the capabilities to launch a kind of complex or sophisticated attack here in the west. we also know that french and coalition forces who are fighting against syria, fighting against isis and syria and iraq had tried to targeted abaaoud before. that, obviously, was unsuccessful. now it appears, chris, he may be, indeed, right here in paris all along, not, in fact, in syria or iraq at all. i m not sewure if you can see. the police are outside the door of that church. one man sort of keeping a