something populated, open fire. that simple. you know, it is terrifying in terms of, you re right, it could be that simple. it is so complex at the same time, and so coordinated in the fact that it flew their the radar of the french authorities p. bob baer, to you. call it bad timing. call it what you like. but the day after president obama says isis in soryria and iraq on the battle field is contained. what does this show you about isis now and fighting isis effectively now? well, poppy, i mean, you know, we were talking about al qaeda being contained in pakistan and being contained in yemen. and this thing morphs into something completely different overnight. and this is a group that, yes, is contained in the kurdish areas of iraq. the kurds are on the offensive.
trainers on the ground in syrian space, that could serve as only further inspiration to keep that spread of isis from country to country going. it would be a recruiting call. absolutely. bob baer, kimberly, thank you as always. we will have much more live from paris straight ahead. our continuing coverage of the terror attack in paris continues after a very short break.
here in france all the way to the outskirts of brussels. just hours before these coordinated attacks in paris last night, the pentagon now telling us that a u.s. airstrike killed a senior isis leader in libby. this is significant. that beale was establishing an islamic state base in libya. he may have been responsible for mass executions. we have never seen before a senior isis leader. joining me now is bob baer, analyst kim dozier is with me. when you look at all of this, kimberly, it just seems sort of unbelievable to see so many attacks claimed by isis in three weeks from the russian jetliner being down in egypt, to the beirut bombings killing 43, to the a attacks in paris last night.
night claimed by isis. parisians struggle to go come to grips with a horrifying series of attacks that the president of france francois is hollande calls an act of war. isis says this is merely the first of the storm. french officials now put the death toll at 129. we know that one american has been killed, a 23-year-old college student. we also know more than 350 others are injured. 99 of them in critical continue at this hour. this comes after that series of coordinated explosions and shootings. one of them outside of that stayed yes, ma am where that soccer match was going on. one inside the concert hall. several of them at caves and restaurants where people were enjoying their friday night. nick robinson has more on how it all unfolded. the first attack came at 9:20 p.m. local time.
well, it does seem like isis s senior command has decided to move out on several fronts. and maybe they have communicated with these different cells through encrypted communications, things the u.s. can t penetrate. or you could have a group of attackers following the overall charge of stay where you are and attack in place. officials i ve been speaking to have said what scares them is this mixture of complexity plus simplicity. getting these attackers with military training to paris and making sure they were communicate anything a way that didn t arouse the french intelligence suspicions. the simple part was the tactics and the targets in that they chose an evening before, as one official put it to me, what you could do is just say everybody hit a target at 9:30. go to these general areas, find