intending to commit this terrorist attack as he did yesterday. he has not been convicted for any terrorism offenses. he was known by a number of different aliases, 52 years old, the first information we have about this attacker as we get more, we will bring it to you. leland: back to domestic news, there s a big showdown that looms over the g.o.p. a word or that the houseboat may not even happen today. house speaker paul ryan has delayed his weekly press briefing from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. eastern. he is in g.o.p. lawmakers hard to keep their campaign promise and repeal and replace obamacar obamacare. he wrote the bill effectively cuts obamacare, all its taxes, mandates, and spending. ed initiates a stable without
weeks that intense surveillance on him, that gave him an opportunity to move forward with an attack. we re going to have to wait and see what explanation the germans come up with for why there wasn t in recent weeks that intense surveillance on him. did he somehow manage to sort of get away, start hiding somewhere, where they couldn t follow him? what were the reasons that they were not tracking him more closely? and they re going to have to look at all the other members linked to this network still at large now. and to come up with a determination about whether they are but of course it s difficult because to bring people into custody, you have to have enough evidence to charge them with terrorism offenses. in germany, there s a very, very high bar when it comes to that and the word of a police informant may not be enough. all right, paul cruickshank,
investigators say they found amri s fingerprints on the door of the truck used in the deadly attack. adding to their confidence that he carried it out. as more is discovered about his background are his links to radical islamists. translator: we have additional information that the suspect is the attacker. in the driver s cab, we found fingerprints and there are additional indications to support this. reporter: the lengthy investigative file connects him directly to a terror cell in germany. other members of the group also stalked of carrying out attacks, including driving a truck full of gasoline and loaded with a bomb into a crowd. the five men connected to the cell, including a close friend of amri, were arrested in november and charged with terrorism offenses. two of amri s brothers say before he left tunisia as a teenager, he was a very different person. he drank alcohol and didn t pray. they say they believed he changed while in prison in italy. he served a four-year sentence
connection with these terrorism offenses. so, they will be talking to them as well to generate more information. the government here has told us the prime minister, the interior minister has also said as well, the french president, that the raids on homes of suspected jihadists around france will continue. the legislation that s been debated and passed today will make that easier. so, i think we can expect, from what we re hearing from the interior minister, to expect more operations to target more of the people that they will undoubtedly find were in connection with abaaoud in the recent weeks. john? they staged more than 100 raids a night every night since the attacks here last friday. nic robertson here in paris, thank you so much. we have breaking news from belgium as well. six anti-terror raids launched there today. we understand at least nine people have been detained now in connection with the attacks here in paris. i want to get to ivan watson
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