is simply unknown at this point in time, wolf. it s part of this huge investigation. poppy, thanks very much. let s bring in our experts. cnn security and intelligence analyst bob baer, former cia operative, cnn national security analyst peter bergen, former fbi assistant director tom fuentes and our justice reporter evan perez. what s intriguing, peter, and you ve done a lot of work on this, these improvised bombs, these explosive devices that they found in the car at the site and maybe a dozen in that home. here s the question, could they have been built based on those recipes, those instructions in the al qaeda magazine out there, one of those articles entitled how to build a bomb in the kitchen of your mom. inspire magazine showed up in a lot of cases. boston marathon bomber used that magazine to help build that bomb. it wasn t the only source they used. we don t know if this couple downloaded inspire magazine, but in pretty much every jihadi terror case we ve seen both that
baer. evan, you ve been doing a lot of reporting. what s the latest information on the two shooters and possible motivation? the fact that they didn t leave any kind of manifesto and looked in the bag they left behind at the scene of the first shooting and looked in the suv where the shootout occurred where they died and found nothing. absolutely nothing left behind so now the work of actually trying to piece together what motivated this is actually now just beginning and it is really as pamela just describe d is a puzzle. these people perhaps had radicalization in their recent background, but at the same time, the indications of what actually occurred, some altercation or dispute at the scene, again, indicates workplace so perhaps what they are looking at is a hybrid event
suspected of having ties to isis. one of the men, a 26-year-old belgium of moroccan dissent reportedly scouted venues for the terrorist attacks that took place right here in the french capital in various locations last friday. he was arrested at a high end hotel in the southeastern turkish city antalia. police believe two other men under arrest were trying to smuggle him into syria. we will have more on both of those developments throughout the morning. there are more concerns and questions about u.s. national security in the wake of the paris terrorist attacks. after officials reveal that at least one of the eight paris attackers likely would have been able to travel to the united states, that s right. our own cnn justice reporter evan perez has more. reporter: at least one of the paris attackers, possibly more,
to provide more information to the u.s. now, one u.s. official says that the vast majority of the people who are attackers or plotters were on watch lists and most were on the no fly list. evan perez, cnn, walk. and victor and kristi, so many things we are looking at. that breaking news coming out of turkey with three arrests, including one man, who is apparently possibly tied to the plots that unfolded here last friday. then, of course, the situation in brussels that is ongoing. the new raising of the terror alert here. then, of course, we have the situati situation in mali. there is so much going on we are reporting here in paris. fred, before we let you go, i have a question at the top of this half hour, took a brief look at the people there behind you and the messages and flowers in the memorialium.
evan, what are you learning? well, there is a shortening of the time of becoming first radicalized to becoming trying to carry it out. they have noticed that the guys seem to be radicalized recently before they try to do something, and that makes the job of law enforcement exceedingly more difficu difficult. so they the are watching a few dozen of the people. there are 900 investigations in all going, but they decided to focus on the ones higher priority and the people they believe are most lickly to carry it out. and we have reported that in europe whether france or belgium, the law enforcement intelligence, they seem to be of whemed by the huge number they are tracking. 900 open investigations here in the united states. a fear among the u.s. law enforcement, the fbi, the justice officials that the fbi could soon be overwhelmed with the number of surveillance programs under way. you need a lot of people to watch one individual. well, there was a period between may and july befor