else. i don t know which strategy would work. i hope neither of them work, but al qaeda is trying to show that it s relevant and i don t know where this this will lead to next. just quickly. is there benefit, i have been wondering in this one ups manship in the two terror groups. any benefit from a western terrorism perspective? they have battled each other in afghanistan and proal qaeda groups. they are turning off and we talked about this over and over again the vast majority of m muslims totally disagree and loathe these tactics. so in a sense is, the belief that isis s brutality will backfire. if al qaeda becomes more brutal, it will backfire as well. muslims, the vast majority across the world are horrified by this. always great to have your voice, thank you for your time. thank you. coming up next, isis reports
are a lot fewer people. it s almost eerily calm here. keep in mind, this is a monday sort of early afternoon at this point in time. this is not only the capital of belgium, but in my ways, of course, also the mentorive capital of europe. and instead of many people pouring in here as would normally happen, what you have is you have soldiers on the street, you have a lot of police on the street, you have armored vehicles on the street, trying to make sure that nothing happens. as that terror alert level iv, the highest that this country has, which warns of an imminent threat remains in place here, it s unclear at this point in time how long that imminent threat level is going to stay in place, chris. it seems the more they learn, the more they realize they cannot control there. fred pleitgen, thank you very much. president obama meeting tomorrow with french president hollande to talk about what this bigger plan will be to destroy isis. and he s urging americans not to overreact to the
iranian jail for nearly 500 days. donald trump back on top of the polls. new numbers from abc news and a washington post poll shows trump holding his ten-point lead over ben carson among republicans. but the front-runner is under fire once again claiming he saw people in muslim areas of new jersey celebrating as the world trade center towers came crashing down. that has been wildly debunked. he also appeared to justify the actions of some of his supporters who got physical, really beat up a protester at a trump event last week, saying, quote, maybe he should have been roughed up. well, perhaps you have never seen isis. in fact, you never have seen isis this close. cnn takes you within miles of the isis headquarters in syria. what is life like in that terror stronghold? we have a cnn exclusive you do not want to miss, next.
frommer bi erbil, iraq. does anyone know what s going on in raqqah, syria? little information about the impact of the strikes. we hear from activists, large buildings are hit, but questions are asked as to how the targets, after the u.s. being in the skies over the city for months, looking for targets to hit, how suddenly, what must be dozens became available in the last week or so. concerns about civilians, as well. we know isis are presenting people from leaving. they have done that in the past. there have been suggestions some are tried to leave. it s hard to work out the reaction on the ground. isis released videos that suggests civilian targets have been struck. clashes have been occurring in the last 24 hours in the area you were seeing in that report. it seems as though isis may have launched an attack on those kurdish positions, but also,
russian defense ministry releasing photos from missiles that the russian pilots have written for paris. these are missiles that are striking targets in syria striking isis. your read on that. i m very distrustful that this is excellent propaganda. it s incredible. it s propaganda. intelligence from the ground has shown that the russians were more interested in defending assad than in dash. now they have changed a little. why? because the russians are worried about having terrorism in thundershower own cities. but mainly their main enemy is not daesh. their intention to just make sure that the syrian state not necessarily assad, but the syrian state is pamaybe