bombarding syria for the fourth day. the first such attack since the campaign began last year. the cremlin coordinating attacks with the french who are carrying out nighttime strikes as france calls for large coalition after the active war on their nation. french navy aircraft carrier departing for the mideast today will get the help of a british warship to help launch attacks from the sea. bill, fill us in a little more on these raids and the cell phone they were able to recover outside of that concert hall last friday night or early saturday that was able to lead them to these other locations. reporter: critical piece of
they think the french, the belgians, so on, working together. then the germans, austrians and germans working together. then the brits and americans and canadians working together. all of these recruits are kind of moving in and around their own language groups. in syria and they re being basically contracted by the isis leadership now to go back and to hit all these various countries which are targeting isis and syria and iraq. you can also add the dutch fighters to that mix. there was a very specific threat against the netherlands in that claim of responsibility. i think the dutch authorities will be very, very concerned about that as well. so, they re using all these different language groups to go back and launch attacks. fascinating, new information. again, a man believed to be on that video, claiming responsibility for this attack here. thank you very much. we ll check in with you in a little bit because this is new information. breaking news from the neighborhood where many
was a belgium citizen who went to syria in 2014 and ascended up the hierarchy of isis. somebody very skilled in recruiting operatives and giving marching orders to come back and launch attacks. he was the master mind of that plot in belgium . it s figures like this, these operational master minds that really make the difference when it comes to international terrorism. the threat is definitely growing from isis. but you mentioned what s also key here. you mention ed getting marching orders having gone to syria. the marching orders coming directly from the chief of isis himself. if that is the case, what are the implications there that it came from the top? i think the implications are that the top leadership of isis
launch attacks. the ring leader of belgium national who risen into a senior division and someone who is able to corral and recruit these belgium and french fighters to come back and launch attacks. the intelligence suggests that he is plotting a string of terrorist attacks against europe, particularly against france. this is is in a way just the beginning. he is also responsible pr that plot back in january. we talked about a lot about that major plot in belgium where they were beginning to go off to targets. they had. weapons. but they arrested in a a raid by the belgium security services. . he was communicate iing with th
his tough immigration policies would have stopped the hijackers from boarding the planes. jeb bush fired back on cnn. overnight, received an unexpected interesting boost at an evangelical forum in texas. athena jones was there. reporter: six candidates were at the forum at the mega church outside dallas. they talked about the importance of faith and public life. they talked about views on abortion and issues like religious liberty. it was an opportunity for the candidates to appeal to christian conservatives. the candidates did not go after each other or launch attacks, the pastor who was leading the forum, jack graham, weighed into the feud with donald trump and jeb bush about whether george w. bush kept america safe. take a listen. by the way, george w. bush