members were in touch with german isis operatives in syria. and some of whom were in touch, we understand, from u.s. sources with members of the external attack network of isis in syria. what remains to be seen is whether isis was giving instructions before the attack and had any advance knowledge before the attack. if he sent this to them before going and launching, i guess it would have some advanced knowledge that something was on the way. let s also bring in to the conversation cnn national security analyst and department of homeland security juliette kayyem, paul brings up a very good point. just because this one terrorist is dead does not answer so many questions about the broader network, how big was it, what were they plotting. you know, obviously europe on high alert right now. given all of this, this was the most wanted man in europe.
just a few minutes ago by the news agency affiliated with isis. they put it out on their official telegram page. and a video in which the attacker pledges allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi the head of isis. the strong presumption is this was nymph filmed before the att because on the video he makes no mention of the attack. he may not have known whether he would survive the attack. and, so everything points at this point to this being prerecorded. and then uploaded to isis in syria, at some point. and it may well be that isis actually have this for quite a few hours, even though, because, the timing of this release was right after there was a confirmation by the italians that he had been killed in a shoot-out in milan. so it may well be that isis was