belgian capital on thursday. now, they said they were in particular targeting the family and entourage of a family named hadfi. he s within of the suicide bombers from the paris attacks last friday night. he was also wanted at the beginning of 2015 here in prus sells. he s a resident for being a suspected jihadi militant who had allegedly traveled to syria to join isis. they did not know he had gotten back into europe before debt tating his explosives before killing himself in paris last week. in addition to that, they carried out a number of search warrants in connection with the paris attacks. investigators say even with the death of abaaoud, they re working very hard on trying to track down the missing suspects for the paris attacks. that s a native of brussels still at large right now.
five syrian men detained for traveling with fake passports. the men have not been linked to terrorism. here s more. honduras detained some men when their greek passports didn t pass the smell test. authorities say that interpoll alerted them about a group of syrians traveling with false documents. and sure enough, the syrian five blew in tuesday night. arriving with the stolen and altered greek passports, say officials. the pictured updated with personal photographs and used to hop from syria to lebanon, turkey, brazil, argentina and costa rica before arriving to honduras. the finding, alarming, given intelligence that one of the paris attackers had a doctored
the country. is there a middle ground here that this conversation can happen in this country right now? it really is the important question. this arises at a moment where we already have having a blazing debate about american identity and whether more diversity means less security for average americans. ask illegal immigrants from central america and mexico. threatening american security with street crime and infiltration with terrorists. we see a growing republican backlash against the black lives matter movement, arguing that it s undermining law enforcement. and now you have this with syria. you know, tfrs striking that the head of the department of homeland security under george w. bush joined janet no politan
belgium is starting to debate tougher measures to crack down on a serious jihadi problem here. you have just about 11 million people. i m standing in what s the capital of the european union, and yet per capita, it contributes more jihadis in syria than any other western country. we appreciate that ivan, thanks for the reporting. now the air strike campaign on the isis strong hold of raqqah syria has intensified as forces from all over the world have increased efforts to destroy the terror group. as these air strikes ramp up, there s growing concerns for the safety of civilians inside raqqah. jets in skies. we don t know precisely the number of takes.
pashmerga cut off the vital supply. the question is, when do we possible see a ground offensive complementing these air strikes? it wouldn t be foreign troop unless they re amassing somewhere we don t know of. the kurdish forces to the north, they seem very optimistic, john. of this raises the question, was the paris attack a strategic overreach by the terror group, or was the isis leadership in raqqah unaware of what was about to happen in paris and not entirely happy with the operation or gruesome and successful than they wanted. explain the logic here.