Great to see you, im john berman. Im kate bolduan. Following a lot of breaking news at this hour. The first round of Jordanian Air strikes against isis have begun with u. S. Warplanes flying alongside in support. The target . Isis positions inside syria. This is revenge. No other weigh to put it. Revenge for the barbaric murder of jordanian pilot muath al kasasbeh, burned alive in a cage by isis militants. A jordanian Spokesman Says this is the muslims war now. He spoke to cnn a short time ago. Youll hear him using the term daesh which is a director term for isis. This is our war. This is the muslim world war because daesh is an affront to jordan in putting threats to saudi arabia and kuwait and other gulf countries as well as iraq and syria, of course. So it is logical for all of us to say and understand and accept that this is our war, especially that daesh is committing this war in the name of islam which is absolutely incorrect and not true. The king of jordan has vowed a relentles
Ben, what do we know about this release video showing these peshmerga fightering being held in these cages . Reporter this is a video that was posted on facebook yesterday. What you see is these 21 kurdish fighters, we believe most of them were captured by isis at the end of january when it attacked the city to the southeast of here. You see them clad in these bright orange jumpsuits. Their hands are chained. Theyre led to cages where theyre interviewed by a bearded man with a microphone. On that microphone is an isis logo. Among other things one of the prisoners tells him that basically he calls upon his colleagues in the peshmerga to stop fighting isis or they will suffer a similar fate. Then we see them still in their cages on the backs of pickup truck going through a town just south of kirkuk. And toward the end of the video you see flashes of still photographs of some of those egyptians who were killed early last week beheaded by isis in libya. Now it doesnt appear from the video,
[ speaking french ] so thats the video we see. A minute and 42 seconds in its entirety. That video may speak volumes about the kind of training the brothers have had. The next video, sadly iconic says something about their cruelty. We believe it happened moments after the footage we saw and a few steps away from where you see the police car back up. Wounded ai mad mair bet, a french muslim and killing him with another shot. A Police Officer and two other officers killed during the initial attack and the manhunt that followed. All pos every frame of the video weve been seeing joining us to break it down for us jim sciutto in paris and also phillip mud, a former fbi and cia official and Global Affairs analyst, retired Lieutenant Colonel james reese. Jim sciutto lets begin with you. This video underscores how methodical they were from getting away from Charlie Hebdo. You lack at this video right now. Considering theyve massacred people inside hes now standing on the street yelling out to
Cnns Jomana Karadsheh is joining us from amman, jordan, with more on the reaction to this claim. Lets repeat this is a claim by isis with no confirmation no evidence that a Jordanian Air strike over raqqa in syria, thats an isis stronghold, wound up killing this Young American woman aid worker. What else are they saying there, jomana . Reporter well as you mentioned, wolf this is exactly what the interior minister is saying calling this a p. R. Stunt and lies. There has been this feeling in jordan over the past couple of weeks that isis is trying to embarrass this country, trying to corner this u. S. Ally. We saw this happen with the hostage negotiations with that situation with the japanese hostages a couple of weeks ago. And there was this feeling that jordan was being thrown into this put in a position where it was asked to release a prisoner that isis was demanding because they wanted to put jordan in that tough situation, that difficult situation with japan, a close ally of jordan
The netherlands. There are as many as 20 sleeper cells and between 120 and 180 people said to be ready to attack. What does that mean at home . In an exclusive interview, Cnns Fareed Zakaria put that question to a man who would know former cia director leon panetta. It sounds like secretary panetta panetta, you are more worried based on what has happened in the past few weeks, particularly in paris and you feel that this could happen in new york this could happen in many many places in the world. I dont think theres any question. I think what were seeing as i said is a much more gingrich chapter and a much more dangerous chapter in terms of the war on terrorism what has happened in paris, what happened in ottawa what has happened in belgium is something we need to understand that these terrorists are now more engaged in a much more aggressive effort based on their recruiting based on whats happening in syria and iraq and yemen. They are engaged in a much more aggressive effort to condu