trying to determine the full scope of the organizations that somebody might be involved in, if they re planning a threat. but now, sense what we ve seen in paris, they re out there being much more proactive, aggressive, turning over every rock, trying to develop credible intelligence to help them assess if there s a pending threat and disrupt that. right now intelligence is the key piece to help them disrupt that. paul crook shauickshank, wha sources saying about the possibility of new threats across europe? they re very worried. in fact, they know these threats are coming, they know there s a network behind what we saw play out in paris on friday, what we nearly saw play out in paris on wednesday, and this threat we re now seeing in belgium. that network is a group of isis operatives, some who have climbed up at the isis highera y
hierarchy, tasked by the senior leadership to launch a rolling series of attacks in europe against countries targeting isis in syria and iraq. and they re organizing the various language groups to target various countries, so they re getting british isis recruits to target the uk, dutch isis recruits, netherlands, germans, and so on. there s a real concern now that paris is the beginning of what will be a very worrying few months, john. a rolling series of attacks. paul, what s the latest theory on what abdelhamid abaaoud, why he would go to the scene of these attacks in paris on the 13th in the hours after they happened? well, one possible explanation is that he was going there to film the carnage, the aftermath for propaganda purposes. isis really drilling into their operatives and fighters at the need to film their attacks, to film the aftermath of the