states, the latest of which from the new york times published a series of photos, crime scene photos taken of the detonator, the battery of the bomb, as well as shrapnel, as well as a piece of the backpack. british authorities saying these kind of leaks they say coming from the united states compromising the investigation. british media reporting that prime minister theresa may plans to talk to president trump about this at the nato summit in brussels today. erin, thank you. all right, let s bring in paul cruickshank, the cnn terrorism analyst and co-author of agent storm: my life inside al qaeda. he s in our london bureau this morning. paul, good morning. thanks for joining us. we re seeing authorities round up more and more terror suspects. what do you think that tells us? and does this, indeed, mean that there s a terror ring right there in manchester? it means that they are
my life inside al qaeda, from our london bureau. good morning, sir. good morning. good morning. does it appear there is a wider network responsible for the terror attack in manchester? every hour this investigation goes on, that is increasingly the conclusion of the investigating authorities here in the uk. they believe there was a wider network, that he was not acting alone. and what they are doing at the moment is trying to dismantle this network, understand the scope of the network, firstly by focusing on people who were suspected to be radical associates of abedi and then kind of looking in turn at the associates of the associates and trying to map out a radical network that was behind these attacks. there s an international dimension to this investigation. there s all sorts of uncorroborated information.
all right let s get the latest on the investigation. welcome back cnn terrorism analyst and co-author of agent storm, my life inside al qaeda, and cia paul cruickshank and cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official phil mudd. paul we hear you have just learned new details. what are they? from german security officials that the tunisian perpetrator of this attack, there s a manhunt going on right now, were connected to a isis recruitment network in germany whose key leaders were arrested in november, so just a few weeks ago, including a charismatic individual who said himself that he s part of isis. this was a network that was trying to smuggle people from germany to syria and iraq to join the terrorist network, isis. also hearing that the tunisian suspect was actually arrested,
tell me any different, you know, information. reporter: any sign of inspiration of some sort? motivation or other thing, really. reporter: thank you so much. appreciate it. wolf, back to you. rosa, thank you. more now. joining us, paul cruickshank, agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and kimberly dozier, cnn global affairs analyst, contributing writer at the daily beast. and complaining about muslim brothers and sisters persecuted and an a reference to awlaki, the cleric killed in a u.s. drone strike. do you believe this is an act of terror? short answer, yes. very strong indications that this was indeed islamist
multilayered checkpoints on new year s eve and using a new critical response command team composed of some 500 elite counterterrorism police officers. shannon? all right, trace, thank you very much. the terror plot that was just broken up in belgium came as no surprise to our next guest. a former cia double agent who infiltrated al qaeda, who not only predict wed could see exactly these kinds of attacks like the once we re expecting possibly as the holidays are approaching, but whose prediction that the u.s. could be attacked came almost to the day of the massacre in san bernardino. morton storm is a terrorism consultant for the international spy museum and co-author of agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia. all right. let me ask you about what we know so far in belgium. you point out that it sounds like these guys may be part of what is a biker gang? you say we should be looking for the rise of gangster jihadis.