it has prevented effective coordination until now. but fuelled by anger over isis attacks in paris, france s leaders say in spite of the problems they are determined to degrade and ultimately defeat the terror group. the aircraft carrier charles de gaulle should be in place in the next couple of days and left here on wednesday. and then no doubt as soon as possible will also join the air campaign against isis targets in iraq and syria. thank you, fred. u.s. lawmakers, the latest on
correspondent. and, you know, fred, tracking abdelhamid abaaoud is a massive win for the french, but there s a question, how was this expected terrorist able to make it into france in the first place? yeah, and how was it possible for him to go around large parts of europe. he went to the airport to possibly try to get a flight to turkey at that point in time. we know in the meantime, he was in syria that he did make it back to france without french authorities knowing where he was. when the attacks happened last friday, most people thought, apparently u.s. intelligence thought that abdelhamid abaaoud was, in fact, still either in syria or in iraq. apparently the french shorts were tipped off by the moroccan sbhel jens service that he was not in iraq or syria but was right here in france and indeed
alleging to take in 30,000 of them. the nays are 137. the bill is passed. the u.s. house of representatives passed a bill that effectively blocks refugees from syria and iraq coming to the niets. united states. the first duty of our government is to keep the american people safe. the bill requires top administrative officials to certify that incoming refugees are not a safety threat, which the head of the fbi and ths say is overly kucumbersome. the white house says it will veto it. don t worry, it won t get passed. a new vote supports blocking certain refugees to keep isis from getting out.
we do know that while they ve been intensifying air strikes both here in syria and raqqah, too, the first civilian casualties were reported last night by the same activist who said six or seven people were killed when a fuel truck was targeted in and around raqqah. now that s important, because we never know really who drops what bomb. but we do know the russians say they were aiming at the infrastructure. the americans have two in the past, but say they don t ever try and get civilians caught in their cross hairs. but this intensification is key. because it s the fate of the civilians that matters so much if you want to have a functional society in the event you manage to push isis out. we re hearing reports from activists that isis leadership may have tried to flee to the east. that s unclear at this stage. they must surely have been feeling the pressure.
targets in raqqah after the fight. the problem is why were there still targets in raqqah? we ve been fighting isis now for over a year. why are there any hard targets left? they should all be eliminated. the fact is we haven t employed air power enough. we don t have enough intelligence assets on the ground to develop what are fast moving targets, a guy in a bongo truck. if you look at it from the air you don t necessarily know is that a family in the truck or isis fighters. if you have intel assets on the ground, you re able to identify that and strike them. that s what we need to plus-up. we need to plus-up our special operations in iraq and syria. and keep cutting off the head of the snake until we destroy it like we did in the surge in iraq. congressman kinzinger, thanks very much for joining us. you bet, wolf. take care. coming up, chilling new details of the man believed to have been the mastermind of the paris attacks and earlier terror plots as well. and five syrians with