we ll get back throughout this day. joining me now, cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes and military analyst rick francona. tom, let s talk first about the poishl criminal element. what is the first thing investigators will do looking at here in terms of the background of those who committed these attacks to get them to the source of who ordered this carnage? reporter: well, they have all kind of vel cells in europe, particularly in france, for decades as a matter of fact. the wake of 9/11, there were al qaeda cells in several countries that were going to commit attacks, they were thwarted by arrests, including an attempt to proceed up the united states embassy in paris. so these cells, many of them were convicted, members of those cells. they got minimal sentence, they re back out on the street. in fact, one of the individuals coordinating that attack on the embassy helped in the charlie