french investigators looking to the possibility he escaped to syria sources tell cnn. if he made it over land from france to turkey, it would have been very easy for him to get into syria, same, he could have also done that via greece by boat to syria. all of that is possible and there is very little control over the borders. reporter: still, it would be an alarming escape by europe s most wanted man. his last known whereabouts were belgium. authorities are getting closer. i do think they are closing in on him and that s the good news. there are many involved with this plot as very sophisticated plot and external operation and we see from isis. reporter: investigators are piecing together the november 13th attacks. french police say salah abdeslam
around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re the situation room . let s get to the breaking news tonight, americans warn terrorists may strike in less than 48 hours. the u.s. embassy in afghanistan say there are credible reports of an imminent attack on the capital city cobble and more attacks targeting transportation networks, schools and jewish areas, this with one of the alleged attackers still at large. sources tell cnn intelligence that salah abdeslam likely escaped to syria. i ll ask the top democrat what he s learning. congressman adam shift wrapping up a closed door briefing on
with this salah abdeslam, one from french officials and one from belgium intelligence. you would think there is strains that relationship. reporter: i m sure, there is cooperation and a lot of difficulty because they are reacting to new information and so there are gaps in what they are sharing with each other. this is a broader problem, wolf, than france and belgium. this is a problem across europe and ultimately, i think europe is going to have to make a decision that either going to have to share information create a unified list in realtime so they can identify who is moving where, people have returned from syria in iraq for example, or they are going to have to end that unrestricted travel within europe, but can t have it both ways and maintain security where they can expect i think unfortunately more attacks like paris. you heard jim sciutto s report there were other
restrictions. it would also be helpful if we had forward air controllers who could help target those air strikes to be more effective. but the president has not allowed that either. 50 special operations forces are being deployed to syria right now. that s presumably a start. 50 guys is not going to turn this struggle around. but my point is there is a series of restrictions we have placed on ourselves which shows the isis and shows potential allies that we re not serious, we re not committed and we re not going to stay with this. that momentum has to be turned around to push back. occasionally they have some pretty good intelligence when they took out jihadi john, you know, the propagandaist, the isis in the videos beheading americans among others. they knew what they were doing then. yeah. no question. we occasionally have successful strikes, but i think it s also telling that right after the paris attacks the first couple days of attacks that the french carried out were targ
attacks on charlie hebdo. this is an interesting detail reported today, and that is that one of his associates, one of abdelhamid abaaoud, the mastermind or ringleader, one of his associates had bought him two suits for $5,000 to help give him cover as he went into if he was able to carry out this attack on this fancy shopping center, but to give him cover so he would blend in as part of their preparations. as you look at these you really get a sense of, you know, they were doing their homework on these attacks to be able to carry them out at a number of locations. money is not a problem for isis. no question. they ve got maybe a billion dollars that they ve stolen, so far oil, gold, banks, jewelry. they ve got a lot of money. and they squeeze money from all those people under their control both in syria and iraq. it s a business. money is not a problem. $5,000 piece of cake. thanks very much, jim sciutto. president obama and the russian president vladimir putin they ta