they sent her chocolates. they sent her religious books. step three moves the recruit to encrypted communications. by step four the recruit is committed and isis begins to provide operational advice including this travel guide. it s what you should pack. a checklist of pills, band aids, particular backpacks to bring. reporter: they are exploiting the digital domain to shape perceptions in their favor. and no group has been more prolific in this space. america s enanies aemies are evolving. and america has to do the same. we have to maintain a robust set of capabilities, overhead,
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? it s much more harder now than 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. you now have 72 hours. he was nicknamed jihadi john, and identified by his accent as british national, mohamed emwazi. fast forward to november 12th. jihadi john killed on a city street of raqqah, syria, killed by a drone. it s a dangerous place for an asset. as i say, when you re thwarted in one direction with one particular discipline, you try to compensate for it in other ways. like operating from the safety of space. jihadi john tracked, targeted and taken out, all with the help five, four, three of spy satellites. and we have liftoff.
nightmare. translator: the day we are revenging because you started the assault. paris, november 13th. as hospitals and morgues in paris are inundated with the injured and the dead, the investigation began into how the attacks happened but there was little doubt about who was responsible. isis claimed responsibility very quickly. the french government within 24 hours identified isis as being responsible. reporter: quickly, investigators learn the identities and movements of the men who killed and died that night in paris. many had long histories of jihadist terrorist activity. some of the bombers in the paris attack were not on the 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 nationals and most had travelled to syria. several were known to both european and u.s. intelligence. the french say that for every one militant they are trying to follow, they need 25 people to monitor tha
monitor that person. so if you ve got thousands of people, do the math. do the math and then ask the hard question, could what happened in paris happen here? white house, this is nctc, how do you have us? we have you loud and clear as well. this is the daily meeting at the nctc, or the national counterterrorism center. critical to heading them off is first understanding what is happening elsewhere. the national counterterrorism center is tracking an explosion near the pyramids in egypt and two suicide bombings inside nigeria. isil is going to remain and expand on these dependingly 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.