said to be an engineering student from a nearby town. a spokesman for the interior ministry said he was in his 20s and specialized in electronics for his master s degree. he wasn t having terror connections an his parents are being detained. i is also believed he worked in the tourism industry and may be how he knew the hotel s layout. no indication of foreign travel on his passport. isis claims it is behind the attack. two u.s. officials think the terror group inspired the student but didn t dispatch him. let s bring in our senior international correspondent nick peyton walsh who is joining me. i know the hotel is closed. a couple of hours ago you had a chance to go in. what did you see. you can walk through the lobby to the beach, the scene of the massacre. last night, in the dark, you could see military humvee parked
kuwait france and tunisia. firemen fired up the hotel killing 38 people. isis claimed the attack was carried out by them. officials say he wasn t known to have terror connections and no indication of foreign travel on his most recently issued passport. it is believed he worked in the tourism industry and that may be how he knew about this hotel. the whole attack lasted four to six minutes. well isis claims responsibility for this attack in kuwait city. hundreds are wounded and 28 dead. french authorities investigating a man who tried to blow up a factory. two wounded. police found a decapitated body
center. this is a mom and dads come together for art shows and basketball games. people in the community are concerned. they did not want this. now this attack comes on the heels of similar attacks in france and copenhagen. we do not know exactly who did the shooting here in texas, but we know the attacks in europe did have terror connections. we are joined by cnn s nic robertson. put us in the international context, nic. reporter: attending the event in texas, he is on the hit list. a cartoonist was on the al qaeda hit list he was killed in paris at the charlie hebdo magazine where two brothers burst in and started shooting over the
praised all law. zehaf-bibeau had libyan and canadian citizenship. officials believe he was planning to join terrorists in the middle east but couldn t get a passport approved. royal canadian mounltys are still investigating his terror connections and remain on high alert. listen. we are at a very heightened state in terms of addressing the risk we assess attaching to the individuals who have been identified as what we refer to as high risk travelers or high risk individuals within this counterterrorism framework. we should also note the killer was a known criminal and drug user, though he was not under the influence at the time of the shootings near parliament. gretchen? trace thank you so much for bringing us that story. here s the big question. what s the judge going to do? the obama administration pushing a federal judge to make a quick decision on the president s
we re also learning this morning more about who jihadi john really is and whether british intelligence blew it in his case. cnn senior international correspondent nic robertson is in london with more. hindsight always 20/20. is there any proof this was a real miss? it s hard to know the specifics of precisely how he did get out of the country. but the bottom line is yeah absolutely since 2009 at the least, he s been on the radar. british officials and media is using a court document which states that emwazi mohammed emwazi jihadi john was associating with a group of men in west london with known terror connections to somalia. indeed one of those people he was, he was believed and alleged to have been sort of teaming up with in west london went off to fight in somalia, was killed in a u.s. drone strike in 2012. so the authorities here certainly believed that he had a track record that they needed to pay attention to. they had obviously picked him up in tanzania in 2009.