building, they do not appear to have found him. some family lives just across this square and this is an area where there has been increasing concerns about rising jihadism. there s a link between this area and a number of terrorist attacks including the 2004 madrid bombings and attacks on the charlie hebdo magazine offices in paris. the question is, how did it happen? some people are saying the politicians here have just turned away, they closed their eyes and covered their ears and hope the problem will go away instead of of course it hasn t and has been increasing links to isis here. perhaps leading to those paris attacks. back to you. keir simmons in brussels. while keir was deliver that report we have just learned that french warplanes have again been in action in the skies over raqqah in syria tonight. the french have a single aircraft carrier, the charles de gaulle. they ve been moving that toward
today, in this search for the suspected terrorists who escaped the paris attacks still alive. nbc s keir simmons is in brussels for us tonight. good evening, brian. that fugitive, that wanted man who is believed fled paris as two others got to the border of france and belgium was stopped but then was released by police. salah abdeslam comes from this suburb of brussels and the fear is that he is still in this vicinity. the police have been searching for him. earlier today they closed off a number of streets. police commandos went from house to house. snipers on the roof. witnesses talked about hearing gunfire but in the end while they led some people away from a building, they do not appear to have found him. some family lives just across this square and this is an area where there has been increasing concerns about rising jihadism. there s a link between this area and a number of terrorist attacks including the 2004 madrid bombings and attacks on
we were here yesterday and at the site of the bataclan were killed. many people were living flowers and candles, but mixed with the sadness is this residual anger. mirren, there will be more grief and pain in the coming hours, because we have this national service planned sunday. how will the people of paris be dealing with that grief? reporter: well, i think it s going to be difficult. i think the memories and the images are going to linger for a very long time here. these are the worst attacks in paris since world war ii and the worst in europe since the 2004 madrid bombings. so it s going to be a difficult week for paris. a national day of mourning is part of the collective three days of mourning and it s going to take a long time for the
maybe one of the reasons why it happened to you is because in our religion, we were responsible for 9/11, the madrid bombings, the london bombings, the bali disco tech bombings, the kenya mall bombings. the lack of perspective on this is astounding. bill maher was right according to dr. jasser who we were talking about a moment ago. listen to this. any kid that brought in be it muslim or non-muslim i hope in today s heightened security alerts in high schools and schools across the country, second-guessing how certain murders happened, listen, i want the school where my kids are at to be hypervigilant especially in today s threat of isis, et cetera, so please let s stop the selective outrage. potus, our president, needs to stop tweeting about these little victim mongering episodes and pay attention to real muslim heroes in saudi arabia and elsewhere, where there s thousands of muslims fighting for freedom that deserve the
he was the counterterrorism guy, essentially, in the justice department. he d been a counterterrorism prosecutor. that day he wrote the letter of resignation was the day of the madrid bombings. he wanted to resign anyway. he wrote his letter of resignation and prepared it, if the white house was going to go through with this. and the fbi director at the time, robert mueller, said that he, too, would resign if the white house was going to go through with this. and there was a threat that there were going to be mass resignations at the top levels of the justice department if the white house went through with this, in protest of the bush white house acting in a way that its own attorney general said was illegal. but these guys stopped it, in part with a car chase and that standoff in the hospital room. and now, today, james comey, 6 8 , former terrorism prosecutor, deputy attorney general under john ashcroft, the man who sat in an armchair at the head of the bed in that hospital room wher