or his or her associates? they ll try to figure out everything they can. in a case like this, it s just speculation, but if someone was assisting or there were associates, you don t want those people moving on and doing another attack. it s a herculean effort under way. all hands will be on deck. i think they have a very difficult task ahead of them in order to fully identify this person and his or her associates. also joining us, law enforcement analyst juliette kayam and gail lemon. what are the questions you have about all that we know and so much we don t know about this investigation right now? you know, i ve been following german media all morning. i actually lived in berlin during the 9/11 attacks in new york, and, you know, what german media s been asking people is please send information if you have it and also please don t put photos on the internet. we re using those pictures.
embassy in moscow hostage by saying you do it to our guys in washington and we are going to do it to your guys in moscow. by the way, they are already doing it to maeamericans in mos at the embassy with quite a bit of almost psychological warfare against them, letting them know they are being followed, making sure they know that security can get into their apartments or anything else. so you have the cyber threat that they could make things very nasty for the united states, then you also have this kind of unpleasant worrisome personal thing about american diplomats. juliette, the russians may be putting the cart before the horse here. the u.s. has to first announce what that retaliation will be, at least the part they are willing to make public. what do you expect to hear as we are expecting to hear this as early as today, and will this be the proof that the russians and
these men, you re talking about less than a year and that means that they can be underground, they ll never be found out. and that s going to be the challenge. and, juliette, what about in the united states today? you have the national security adviser ben rhodes speaking, for the white house today saying they know the isis has the ambition to strike the united states but they don t think it yet has the capability. many people feel that that statement is, at the least, assuming way too much. i think what we have to assume is that there are people in the united states who are going to try to do something that is sort of this lone wolf terrorism that we ve both gotten used to, but has minimal impact. it s not paris. and you know, maybe a few people die and that s a tragedy but it doesn t have the sort of consequence of what we saw in paris. but the capability of people to plan something in the united
fingerprinted, no flags were raised. there is no sort of central database that this person was a part of that would have perhapsed warned people of his true intentions in finally reaching france. he then was also registered again in serbia. this is part of the normal process. at this stage. but in speaking to other refugees who were here, they re absolutely appalled by what happened in paris. they say that this is exactly the kind of violence that drove them from their homes, and what they re very concerned about right now is the fact that this violence, which they do not, absolutely do not condone, is going to somehow cause greater mistrust to exist amongst them, and the population in these various different european countries, and this growing rift could then potentially dangerously play straight back into isis hands, erin. arwa damon, thank you very much. and i want to bring our national security analyst juliette kayam
the u.s. is very worried about the possibility of an al qaeda attack in the middle east and north africa, and homeland security chairman peter king says the intelligence information is the most specific he has ever seen. there s very little doubt, if any, that something serious is being planned, and i think that s a worldwide alert. obviously we re focused on the middle east, but, you know, it s a potential series of attacks that really could be almost anyplace. cnn national security analyst juliette kayam joins us live from boston. are we talking about threats that go beyond internet chatter in your view? yes, likely, and, in fact, the government has essentially