open response to make the french people frankly feel like something is being done. hopefully too the french mill incapacity ate parts of raqqa, these are well known to the united states. why weren t they hit earlier. but where does it go from here? nick is going to stay with me and john shuuto is with me. i want to bring in our terrorism analyst jean charles, significant as nick paton walsh is saying, one night of attacks but overall not something that will change the game. is this just the beginning? yes, i think it is just the beginning, we re discussing this issue of increasing the pressure on the islamic state on the ground there in syria and iraq
people who at times may be against them and may be forced to be alongside them. if you bomb them, maybe increasingly close to their point of view, how do you strike that cautious balance and militarily effective. a vitally important part where isis is. it has a lot of military power that they are trying to gather to its north through kurdish forces and weak syrian sunni arab coalition, the syrian democratic face. they want to use special forces to mobilize them to move south towards raqqa. it s not imminent but the idea of france saying raqqa is our target now, that may potentially focus nato minds, barack obama too, involved in this thought pattern as well, may involve people to think slightly more about what happens next on a border military front. if this is the beginning, what is next for france? is this a ground troop situation and what is next for the united
sharing all of its intelligence with the french. what s different about this, they are giving them raw intelligence from what s known as the five eyes program, this is just the agency, u.s., uk, canada, australia and new zealand. they had this agreement for years where they share everything. they are welcoming the french into that family. what will that be? when you talk about the significance of raw data? what is the raw data we could be talking about as pertains to the strikes in raqqa? intelligence based on all of their gathering methods, from satellites and drones it s basically all of the backup data that leads to a target. that would give them the best information they have about what exactly fixed positions are on the ground and what this building is for and where people are on the ground. intelligence, for instance they used on friday to kill jihadi john. the operation one of the operational leaders of isis. they shared that with the french and the french using that
together. of course. jean-charles, let me go back to nick paton walsh. you re learning more information about the strikes? reporter: according to the french defense ministry, a recruitment center and ammunition storage base were amongst the first target and the second target was a training camp. all were destroyed they say. 12 aircraft were used, 10 of which were involved in the bombing. i would imagine the other two were involved perhaps fuel resupply and total of 20 bombs were dropped. accurate information from the french side about what they expected to have been hit here. we ll have to work out what the reaction has been on the ground in raqqa, how they choose to exploit or report this attack. but it is interesting to see that level of munitions dropped by the french who have been a participant in coalition air strikes but not of course the main driving force.
now? aymeamoayman mohyeldin, that have been in touch with tweets with people in the region? what can you tell us from people inside syria? reporter: as you know, getting information that is accurate and reliable especially during a time of conflict in war is very difficult so we have to put this with a little bit of grain of salt, but we are getting some information from inside raqqa and that is based on a group of activists who regularly tweet and have in the past have been somewhat credible in the information that they have been provided and have been identified in the past and they have been tweeting out some of the information that has been confirmed by the ministry of defense in france. that information includes that about two hours ago they started hearing fighter jets over the skies of raqqa by a series of air strikes. they have now counted that number of air strikes to be within 30 air strikes within the last two hours or so and they ve