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but they don t get a number of or they get their intelligence on the ground that produces these targets. and when that happens they will assign a plane to strike it. and ian, what do we know of the level of coordination between these french airstrikes and the ground troops there on the ground fighting isis? reporter: well, what we re hearing from the ground there in syria is that the ypg fighters who are north of raqqah, they have u.s. special forces that are with them. now, they wouldn t indicate where they were and what they were doing exactly. but we know that u.s. special forces have been on the ground with them. they re also in coordination we re hearing through intercepts, this is something that isis has been aware of. they have shut down internet cafes and restricted the use and
least seven civilians have been killed in the air strikes. it looks like isis is on the defensive. very afraid. they have controlled the flow of the internet. they have shutdown internet cafes. they have restricted licenses of people to operate the internet. they are afraid that people on the ground are sharing intelligence withi either the western coalition and hitting targets. headquarters and training facilities. although the organization has said that it hasn t hit isis too hard. they said they have been hit, but we have not seen a large number of casualties. right now, roughly three dozen isis have been killed. you see john pointed out the family members of the leaders are fleeing to mosul. they are trying to lower their
either. the science center, you can actually see not from the camera here but just around the corner and across the way we would be able to see that building if we could get a little closer over there. but most of these buildings we can t see from this vantage point because of high walls and we re being blocked off by firefighters just like all the harvard students. molly, thank you. stand by. i want to come back to you in a moment. catherine herridge is tells us a law enforcement source telling fox news that the threat came in by email that explosives were in the harvard buildings. email is more promising than a phone-inned threat identifying source it reads, email is increasingly difficult to track the ease which accounts can be set up at internet cafes. that from our national security correspondent catherine herridge. back to molly. let s put a fine point on this, molly. no explosives have been found, this is only a threat, correct? reporter: at this point in time there is no wo
beyond that, they may even send deputies in a sense to conduct the conversations so at any given moment none of the leaders can be connected to each other or to whatever is being orchestrated. but it goes even further. instructions from top al qaeda operatives are believed to sometimes be sent by trusted couriers are often sent to internet cafes on public computers where they encrypt the message and send it through an e-mail account set up specifically for that one message and no other. minutes later the whole trail disappears. some security analysts say the combination of technology, social media sites and internet anonymity is the backbone of terrorist communications. flash point global partners says it works well. i think they allow such groups to flourish. they certainly give the means for possible lone wolves to