consults with the dwoecgovernmee told us you can get a kalashnikov for as little as $1,000 u.s. on the black market here in belgium. add to that a pretty robust trade and fake passports and other things. belgian government has now addressed the fact that it is being criticized severely for not do enough in terms of security and intelligence and trying to interject and break up these terror cells before they actually can strike. the prime minister said this week that they were going to increase spending, increase efforts, increase programs to not only try to increase security, but to stop belgians going to seyria and fighting fo isis in the first place and to arrest and imprison any belgian who comes back, they are no longer welcome. certainly a lot on their plate and very little time.
overnight, and two people dead, but seven people detand, with what are you doing with the seven people after this raid right now? the couple of pieces that you have to focus on now always, always imminent threat. the first question that you to ask is if there is something else afoot that we have to stop now. the second question is that you have to ask a people question. are there other cokon spe-consp out there and support network for the false documents and the travel and the facilitation, and the provision of money. so you start with the imminent threat and then to the plotters and the expanded plot. over time, you have to have more advanced conversations about things like what is the network leading back to seyria, and how did you arrange travel back to the syria, but you have to start at the core of imminent threat and slowly and even over weeks and months build it out. and what about the connection of syria, the person they thought that was the target of the raid, we are now l
interior minister will be holding a news conference on precisely what kind of device was that perhaps they found. we re watching that for you out of germany. security, everything on heightened alert because of what happened. that friday night that left 129 people dead. investigators had even tracked one of friday s suicide bombers back to seyria. what they didn t know is he had come back according to a belgium prosecutor. e he also say this is. the 8th terror suspect, the target of an intense global manhunt had been in police custody for questioning. but he along with his brother were released. the men s other brother talking
institute a no-fly zone to provide a a sanction ware for people in syria, project u.s. power into the region, these are the things we need to do. and the west has to understand delay negotiation not moving quickly is you re either going to pay me now or pay me a lot later if we don t beef up intelligence and promote our ideas and values worldwide. the president yesterday said deploying thousands of troops to seyria, for example, would be a mistake. . what do you do after wards? it would only antagonize people in syria as the deployment of u.s. troops in iraq did. what do you say to the president? i fundamentally disagree with the fact that we can just wait this out and things are going well. wolf, we should not just go alone. we should be there with our nato allies, with the turks, with the saudis and form a coalition to
said that he would be shocked if they didn t use encryption because that is what we re seeing from terrorists, particularly those who have gone over to seyria and iraq to trai with isis. that is part of their m.o. in addition to these encryption apps and apps that allow you to write a message then have it disappear quickly, officials are also looking into the possibility that the attackers may have used gaming devices such as playstation and xbox where you can communicate really across the world via headphones. it s not encrypted but it s an easy way for terrorists to communicate in a setting that is harder to detect. so these are all possibilities that officials are looking at. i haven t spoken to anyone who has concrete evidence yet this is, indeed, the case, but the fact these terrorists were able to plot, plan, get that training, coordinate the way they did, it appears, wolf, they did it under the radar and clearly pulled it off.