actually the jihadists in our prisons are actually the gangs and people have been forced to join gangs in order to get through the prison sentence, so it s a real disaster. prison sentence, so it s a real disaster- prison sentence, so it s a real disaster. ., , ., , disaster. and some of these gangs have serious disaster. and some of these gangs have serious influence disaster. and some of these gangs have serious influence within - disaster. and some of these gangs have serious influence within the i have serious influence within the jail, overthe have serious influence within the jail, over the staff, have serious influence within the jail, overthe staff, notjust have serious influence within the jail, over the staff, notjust other inmates? jail, over the staff, not ust other inmates? ~ , , ., inmates? absolutely. there is a term for this in france, inmates? absolutely. there is a term for this in france, gangster for this in france, gangster jihadis, and we see people go
multilayered checkpoints on new year s eve and using a new critical response command team composed of some 500 elite counterterrorism police officers. shannon? all right, trace, thank you very much. the terror plot that was just broken up in belgium came as no surprise to our next guest. a former cia double agent who infiltrated al qaeda, who not only predict wed could see exactly these kinds of attacks like the once we re expecting possibly as the holidays are approaching, but whose prediction that the u.s. could be attacked came almost to the day of the massacre in san bernardino. morton storm is a terrorism consultant for the international spy museum and co-author of agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia. all right. let me ask you about what we know so far in belgium. you point out that it sounds like these guys may be part of what is a biker gang? you say we should be looking for the rise of gangster jihadis.
year s eve and using a new critical response command team composed of some 500 elite counterterrorism police officers. shannon? all right, trace, thank you very much. the terror plot that was just broken up in belgium came as no surprise to our next guest. a former cia double agent who infiltrated al qaeda, who not only predict wed could see exactly these kinds of attacks like the once we re expecting possibly as the holidays are approaching, but whose prediction that the u.s. could be attacked came almost to the day of the massacre in san bernardino. morton storm is a terrorism consultant for the international spy museum and co-author of agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia. all right. let me ask you about what we know so far in belgium. you point out that it sounds like these guys may be part of what is a biker gang? you say we should be looking for the rise of gangster jihadis. what is that?
so gangster jihadis is the new era of terror that we re entering. in fact, it s been there for a little while. but it hasn t really been recognized. it s the problem is that it s muslim, it s basically gangsters with a muslim background, origin, who have tasted the flavors of jihad because of the arab spring. and so these people, you know, have been introduced to this jihad from the fundamentalistic or radical muslims, and, you know, cover things, one of them is they hate the system, they hate us, and they feel victimized. they feel that it s us against them. so these gangster muslims, or gangster jihadis have been to syria on the jihadi holidays, as they call them, and they have tasted the flavors of islamic jihad. and they return back. and they have one foot within, you know, radical islam and another foot within the
what is that? so gangster jihadis is the new era of terror that we re entering. in fact, it s been there for a little while. but it hasn t really been recognized. it s the problem is that it s muslim, it s basically gangsters with a muslim background, origin, who have tasted the flavors of jihad because of the arab spring. and so these people, you know, have been introduced to this jihad from the fundamentalistic or radical muslims, and, you know, cover things, one of them is they hate the system, they hate us, and they feel victimized. they feel that it s us against them. so these gangster muslims, or gangster jihadis have been to syria on the jihadi holidays, as they call them, and they have tasted the flavors of islamic jihad. and they return back. radical islam and oot within,