that i can t make absolute assurances there are no risks associated with refugees coming into this country, and the former head of the dni who says there is a concern about isis trying to infiltrate operatives into the refugees. there s always room for improvement in terms of how we vet people coming into the country. the greater threat the country faces isn t coming from these countries. it s coming from europe. it s people that have gone from europe to iraq and syria to fight, have come back to europe, and now can travel to the u.s. with no visa at all. we don t want to look at that because we re dependent in the whole travel industry on people coming from europe. but if we re serious about looking at where the vulnerabilities are, that s where they come from. but this is not about security, because it s alienating our
guantanamo bay. he was released in 2004. afterwards he claimed to have been tortured. the british government paid him 1 million pounds in compensation for that. however, we understand that in 2014, he traveled through turkey into syria, joined isis. he took on an isis name, and three days ago he was basically a suicide car bomber, killed himself right outside of an iraqi army base southwest of mosul. we understand that between iraq and syria, there are about 400 british nationals fighting on the side of isis, poppy. indeed, ben wedeman, live for us in irbil, iraq, thank you, ben, for all that reporting. coming up for us, the white house at odds with some of their key economic agencies over just
now, not all of them were perpetrated, for example, by isis. in fact, isis this is the first time that isis has claimed an attack here on sort of an official level, although we cannot confirm whether or not that is from a very great source. however, it was all over twitter and a lot of isis followers were retweeting that. so the government here saying they have a lot on their hands, especially since, of course, they are on the border with syria, they share the border, the border is porous, and there have been a lot of fighters who have come through turkey into syria and then back into turkey. they have a lot to deal with, ever since the syrian government and the syrian regime crumbles. there was one american injured in the attack. is that right? reporter: that s right, an american who said that he showed up with nine people, and seven of the nine people he went into that club with ended up with bullet wounds, including he himself. he said something very poignant, talking about th
possibility, wolf. brian, thank you. we re back with the senior democratic house intelligence committee congressman adam schiff. how telling is it congressman, that isis operation can get their hands on all these toyotas, all these supplies. is isis more sophisticated, more complex organization than some thought? well it certainly has great capability. the fact they are able to smuggle in just about whatever they want in terms of weapons, fighters toyota vehicles shows the degree to which we have a long way to go before we re sealing off access to supplies and munitions. it s really quite disturbing how nonetheless readily accessible the marketplace is to isis. i don t know whether these vehicles are being purchased in iraq through straw purchasers or simply being driven across the border from turkey into syria and maybe some combination of both. one thing i think is interesting, wolf we had very similar reports probably ten years ago in afghanistan that the taliban and al qaeda w
egyptian authorities deported him to the united states where he was arrested in january, january 16th in new jersey. he is still behind bars. but bottom line wolf, this is an air force veteran when he was in the air force, he worked in the training and installation and maintenance of aircraft engine navigation and weapons systems. he apparently left the air force before 2005 and then went into the private industry working on airplanes and then as the department of justice alleges, tried to link up with isis in december. apparently there were according to the criminal complaint, a lot of searches on his computer of isis propaganda. searches on his computer also for ways to cross in from turkey into syria, right? that s right. according to the laptop, the electronic devices, his laptop broken usb thumb drives the suspect was doing extensive searches on the borders controlled by isis anything there in the turkish border where he could try to figure out ways to get from turkey into