he s a franco american, meaning he was born in the u.s. but has french citizenship, that he was wounded and he was the first to confront the shooting suspect. but the prosecutor tells a different story, that apparently he was actually in that fray, that fracas on the train that three americans and the fourth american were all trying to stop this gunman and that somehow a gun goes off, believed to belong to the terrorist and that it s that gun that wounds him in the neck and unfortunately we are told his medical condition deteriorated overnight. he s being treated at a hospital about two hours north of the city. let s hope he ll be okay. thanks very much. we ll stay in touch with you, martin, appreciate it. we also got a treasure trove about his movements. let s bring in paul cruickshank, the co-author of the book agent storm, my life inside al qaeda. also joining us the former fbi assistant director tom fuentes.
and he has made surprising connections with al qaeda leaders. according to counterterrorism expert magnus ranstorp. by almost sheer luck to some extent that he had been to the many places, he had met all the right people. he s almost a forrest gump of radical islamism. i don t think that there are many people like him that have all those different dimensions. he was the real deal. the real deal. a larger than life personality who reveals his journey from jihad to james bond in this book agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia, co-authored by paul cruickshank and tim lister, both cnn contributors. coming up, how storm goes from boxer to holy warrior. i was invited by osama bin laden to join up with him in the training camp in afghanistan.
lifestyle. and he s made important surprising connections with al qaeda leaders. according to counterterrorism expert magnus rantrop. sheer luck he d been to the many maceplace, met the right people. he s the forrest gump of radical islamism. there aren t a lot of people like him who have all the different dimensions. he was the real deal. a real deal. a larger than life personality. who reveals his journey from jihad to james bond in this book, agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia. co-authored by paul cruickshank and tim lister, both cnn contributors. coming up, how storm goes from boxer to holy warrior. i was invited by osama bin laden to join up with him in the
connections with leaders. according to counterterrorism expert magnus ranstorp. he had been to the many places, he had met all the right people. reporter: he s almost a forrest gump of radical islamism. i don t think there s many people like him that have all those different dimensions. he was the real deal. reporter: the real deal. a larger than life personality who reveals his journey in this book agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia co-authored by paul cruickshank and tim lister, both cnn contributors. coming up, how storm goes from boxer to holy warrior. i was invited by osama bin laden to join up with him in the training camp in afghanistan.
across various parts of the middle east north africa eyes targeted on the united states whatever they call themselves it will be a difficult enemy increasingly to track down. jake? let s talk about this isis claim of responsibility with cnn terror analyst paul cruickshank. he is also the author of agent storm, my life inside al qaeda and the cia. thanks for being here. do you think this attack was orchestrated by isis leadership or is it just an idea once again of these lone wolf packs emerging self-radicalized? i think the jury is still very much out on that. clearly isis have released this audio claim of responsibility but they offer no proof whatsoever that they were behind the attack. tunisian authorities have so far said they can t link this attack to an organized terrorist group. of course they may do in the hours ahead. as barbara was suggesting this