police believe the paris attackers used encryption to help cloak their operation. i think we saw in paris that intelligence agencies had no idea that these guys were going to do this. that presents a huge problem, because the united states has been very reliant on its ability to monitor e-mails and phone traffic. if it s losing that, it s going to be harder for it. i thank our listeners for tuning in and a senior fellow at the new america thinktank, showed us one encryption tool being used by isis. so this is telegram app. it offers isis unprecedented ability to reach recruits and fans without worrying about its information being intercepted. and unless you subscribe to the channel, you wouldn t even know about it. telegram is a free app that isis uses to spread its propaganda and recruit new members.
but there was little doubt about who was responsible. isis claimed responsibility very quickly. the french government within 24 hours had identified isis as being responsible. quickly the investigators would learn identities and movements of the men who killed and died that night in paris. long histories of jihadist terrorist activities. some of the bombers in the paris attack were not on u.s. watch lists. some of them were. because some of them were quite well known jihadi terrorists. almost all of the attackers were european nationalists and most had traveled to syria. several were known to both european and u.s. intelligence. the french say for every one militant they re trying to flower, they need 25 people to monitor that person. if you ve got thousands of people, do the math.
do the math. then ask the hard question. could what happened in paris happen here? white house, this is nctc, how do you have us? loud and clear, thanks. we have you loud and clear as well. this is the daily meeting at the nctc, or national counterterrorism center, the agency charged with stopping terror attacks in the u.s. critical to heading them off is first understanding what s happening elsewhere. the national counterterrorism center is tracking an explosion near the pyramids in egypt. and two suicide bombings inside nigeria. isil is framing multiple strategies to remain and stand on these geographic regions. that means isis makes different plans for different places. like putting a bomb on an airplane in egypt or striking france s capital. isis is an organization that is definitely still expanding and growing.
the new faces of extremism. those that are recruited in america are young and active online, but there is no single ethnic or geographic profile. this is one isis classic propaganda videos. the message here is that, you know, you can come to isis held territory, you can bring your kids, you can have a normal life. it s actually paradise. look, here s an isis fighter swinging, smiling and swinging his kids. express an interest and step two, isis recruiters begin chatting online with their potential recruit. enticing him or her. we ve had cases in the united states where a 23-year-old female potential isis recruit, she was online with isis sympathizers, followers, fan
isis, an enemy america and its allies are desperate to destroy. but fighting isis operatives means finding them first. how does that work in layman s terms, tracking isis movements today in iraq and syria? it s a tough problem now, much more son than it was five years ago because we don t have a presence, physically, in syria. with no country, capital or clear leadership, targets can be hard to come by. late august 2014, this man became the face of isis. our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. in a terrifying series of videos, he graphically demonstrated the brutality of isis.