greatest threat, the greatest islamist terrorist threat inside germany. and so for months and months and months he has been very much at the top of that list of concerns in terms of the 500 or so most dangerous radicals inside the country. and very quickly, then how could this happen? how could he not have been stopped that s a great question and that s going to be the second part of this review. look there are people that touch law enforcement intelligence agencies throughout the world that are on lists. but amri was not just on the list that paul is describing, the most wanted. he was on our, you know, essentially some of our, the united states, lists, meaning he would never be able to touch u.s. soil. this wasn t some random sort of pickup, some guy who was maybe toying or flirting with isis. the amount of information they had about him beforehand, and the concern that they had beforehand, is relatively unique in these cases. i mean, a lot of these isis cases, the guy sort of
the hijackers. we do know the context and that is that libya has been in the midst of a very very complex, to say the least, civil conflict with them. number of armed groups, obviously, in the wake of the gadhafi government there. what else can you tell us about what could have sparked this? there s a lot of factions in libya right now. isis is also operating there. we don t know who these two people are. i think the important thing to look at is that this they allowed this plane to land. so it looks like that they have demands. what those demands are, we don t know. but, we did see a man who left the plane a little while ago. he waved green flag. the green flag was the flag of the former leader moammar gadhafi who was killed in that civil war. so it could be supporters of the former leader who hijacked this plane. but we re still waiting from the maltese government right now the armed forces of malta are conducting the negotiations.
break news on the main suspect in the berlin truck attack just hours after anis amri was killed in a police shoot-out last night just outside of milan isis has released a new video. this video appears to show the 24-year-old tunisian man pledging allegiance to isis leader. there is no mention in the video of the attack on monday. it s not clear when this pledge of allegiance to isis in this video when this was all shot. let s go to journalist chris burns from berlin with more on the investigation. and obviously the shoot-out that led to amri s death. walk us through what happened. i know you have some breaking news on frankly how much german intelligence knew about what a threat amri was before the attack.
waiting for that to happen for another attack or for him to be killed before putting out this video pledge of allegiance to isis. and he s doing this because he wants isis to be able to take ownership of this attack. in his advice for one of the jihadis in the west in launching truck attacks, isis in a recent communique said that it was absolutely vital for them in it some way to say that they were doing this on behalf of isis. and he s done exactly this. now, this poses all sorts of questions about his link back to isis. because to be able to upload a video to the group you need a few contacts at the least in syria, and iraq. and of course we know that he was part of an isis recruitment network in germany whose senior
of this investigation will be focusing on this suburb of milan. why specifically did he go there? poppy? absolutely. was there a broader network there helping to harbor him? stay with us, ben, thank you for the reporting. paul i want to go to you now with new information just coming in. we know that a video was uploaded today on an isis affiliated website. basically their media wing. and this shows the 24-year-old tunisian now dead, suspected terrorist anis amri pledging allegiance to al baghdadi. obviously the head of isis. it s not clear when this was filmed and there was no direct mention of the christmas market attack. what does this tell you at this point? now you have this video where this attacker is saying i am basically a soldier of isis? yeah, this video was put out