year s terror plot. a series of raids that started sunday in brussels turned up isis propaganda material but no weaponry according to officials. the investigation is not tied to the terror attacks in paris. nbc s cortney cuby is at the pentagon and chapman bell is in london to break all of this down. cortney, you were in the briefing. bring us up to speed. you listened to the briefing, i should say, on what the very latest is. reporter: well, there was the individual who was killed that you played the tape of colonel steve warren announcing. there was actually another individual who was killed. there were ten during the month of december that colonel warren mentioned. but one of them was another one that had ties to the paris attack network. he was just killed last weekend. he was another the u.s. military calls them external operations planner, so basically what that means is they are people who are working on planning attacks outside of that area, usually in the west, in europe,
attacks in europe, more attacks in paris, what kind of attacks, were they large population centers, were they airliners, we don t know anything like that about either of these two individuals. what we do know is they were actively planning attacks against the west. there was one other name that stood out to us. that was a bangladeshi national killed earlier in the month in an air strike in raqqah, syria. he was working on creating terror networks between bangladesh and back in syria and iraq, and he was actively working on attacks, planning attacks, against the west and potentially against bangladesh. he was a high value target that was a name that we actually knew around here. there are a lot of names that are sort of thrown around that we don t necessarily know, but that one definitely stood out as well. thank you for all that great information. as you and i both know from our reporting, the administration has come under a lot of scrutiny, people who say they are not doing enough t
public view all over europe and he was still able to move is just incredible. reporter: the primary concern remains for western security agencies that individuals with european passports and perhaps american passports have yet to get to syria, and participate in the fighting against eisis, the concern is to them to return to europe all while planning attacks and slipping below the radar as we saw him do in france. thank you so much for that report. a new fight is brewing over illegal immigration following a series of reports following the deportation raids that could come as early as january. earlier this week the washington post said that the obama administration is going to be sending back hundreds of families who were ordered to be deported, but managed to escape deportation.
former neighbor of syed farook. marquez is charged with buying the assault rifles used in the terror attacks and for planning attacks in 2011 and 2012 that never took place. there s no evidence he played a role in the san bernardino massacre. pete williams is following the story for us and joins us with more. pete, what happened in court today? well, no surprise here. the government asked that he be held without bail, and the judge agreed. although, for slightly different reasons, the government said that not only was he a danger to the community, but he was also a flight risk. the judge said there was no indication that he was a flight risk but agreed he could be a danger to the community, so he ll be held without bail pending his trial. that will be undoubtedly sometime next year. his next court date will be in january. he ll be back in about two weeks, to enter a plea. but in the meantime, the government may file an
highways in america. let s bring in cnn national security correspondent jim sciutto. jim, it appears farook was radicalized much earlier than previously thought. he recruited marquez years ago. they ve been planning attacks carefully together? this is one of the most alarming results of the investigation, and that is that the san bernardino shooting was not farook s first plot. the second, farook and marquez, had another plan three years ago potentially just as deadly or more so to attack a major california highway and a college. that attack thwarted not by authorities having any inkling of the radicalization or planning including buying the weapons, but simply farook and his partner marquez getting spooked. this busy california highway nearly became the sight of a deadly terror attack. enrique marquez, long-time friend of san bernardino shooter syed farook has told law enforcement the two watched videos of al qaeda cleric anwar