But it is not just isis. Why this country is attack another group of terrorists you never heard of until now. Will air strikes make us safer or put us in danger on the home front. We have a busy program to got to. Cnn reporters around the world. They will have the late forest you along with our team of military and security experts. We want want to begin with breaking news. Terror fears in the homeland. A senior official tells cnn, khoras khorasan, comes amid concerns of lone wolf attacks. Lets get the latest from cnns justice correspondent, pamela brown. Pamela, good evening. What can you tell us abut these attacks and khorasan . We can tell you that this group of al qaeda operatives in syria, called khorasan had been on u. S. Officials radar since at least the springtime. Recent intelligence suggested the group was in advance stage plotting an attack against the west, europe or the u. S. , by using western recruits. U. S. Officials felt like they had to act fast to disrupt the plotting by this group. We have learned from sources that the group had acquired materiels, and part of, what it, one of their plots included bringing concealed bombs, having westerners, bring concealed bombs on to an airplane. That had long been a concern by, by a u. S. Officials. And then once they had sort of gotten past the aspirational preplanning phase, and got to a more advanced stages thats when the level of urgency was really increased. It is important to note according to sources the group didnt have a specific target, a place or building picked out. So while they were in advanced stages, it wasnt imminent. In that regard. They didnt want to give them anymore time to become operational. The question is, pam, how were they planning on concealing the bombs . One of the ways was concealing them in hand held devices. A cell phone. An ipad, smart phone. Creating small enough bombs where they can put it in the cell phone. Remember back in july when Airport Security was increased. Dew due to recent intelligence, trying to put bombs into hand held devices. Another way we learned from sources, a source telling them that they wanted to put them in toothpaste tubes, hide them in toothpaste tubes and dipping clothes into explosive residue. Told by sources they were looking at variety of options a more sophisticated attack, as well as smaller less sophisticated attacks. Pamela, how concerned is the department of Homeland Security about lone wolves . And sympathizers . Thats been an ongoing concern. In fact, they sent out a bulletin to Law Enforcement agencies across the country. Asking them to stay vigilant, stay on heightened alert for lone wolf attacks. The bulletin said the strikes to disrupt the plotting by khorasan and isis were successful. As a result that could embolden home grown violent extremists. The big concern here they may retaliate against the homeland in response to these strikes. So the bulletin is asking Law Enforcement to scrutinize social media, look for changes of behavior. Appearances by an individual who may want to retaliate. Pamela brown at United Nations. Thank you very much. Even hearing about their plans for what to do on airplanes is so, so disturbing. So lets bring in now Cnn Senior International correspondent, ben, tell us what the reaction has been in iraq to the air strikes . This part of iraq certainly the reaction in this part of iraq in the northern kurdish region has been very positive. Keep in mind this u. S. Campaign against the Islamic State ak sthael began in august with strikes on actually began in august with strikes on state targ targets. Almost 190 strikes in northern iraq, irbil, south of here, south of baghdad as well. Also over the weekend there were french air strikes in northern iraq. So, serb tenlcertainly the most proamerican area in this conflict. Keep in mind for instance during the entire time u. S. Troops were in northern iraq. Not a single one was killed. So, certainly we spoke to a senior iraq, kurdish official here in irbil this evening. He was very positive about the the u. S. Strikes. In syria. He said kurdish officials would look to see a similar level of intensity and breadth of american strikes on isis targets in iraq as well. What he says is they have seen until now, is sort of tactical strikes. When for instance, Kurdish Peshmerga forces are advancing on Islamic State radicals, militants that they will take out a, a jeep here and a humvee there, but, not the sort of broad strikes that you have seen, in syria so far. So, by and large, very positive in this part of the country. And as we heard with an interview, he is positive about this stepped up level of attacks on isis. But, of course, in baghdad they have other problems with, with of course, alienation between sunni tribes and the government in baghdad. So it is somewhat more complicated situation to south of here. All right. We will be talking whether or not the broad stripes are coming to iraq later with our military panel. Thank you. President barack obama did not seek support from the u. N. Before he ordered air strikes on isis in syria. A fact that has not gone unnoticed by World Leaders at the General Assembly here in new york city. Joining us a man who has spent the day talking to a lot of the World Leaders, fareed zakaria. Great to see you. A pleasure. Lets talk about everyone is saying, unprecedented, the arab Nation Coalition president obama has been able to put together. Is if it unprecedented . Or in 1991 gulf war did some of the countries help out as well . Well in the 1991, 9091 Gulf Campaign you had arab nations helping, you had tasupport from the soviet union, much broader coalition. What is important, noteworthy, praise worthy, the president was able to get core sunni states. Saudi arabia, jordan to come along. Remember, the, the one thing we have to remember we are viewing this, terrorist nonterrorist. It is a sectarian conflict. The sunnis in iraq and syria feel dispossessed. Thats what gave rise to groups like isis. So you have to demonstrate that you have sunnis on your side. Sunnis have to be out front. Getting saudi arabia, core sunni state, jordan, very important. The problem is, we dont have the sunnis of iraq. We keep staying we have a new government in iraq. We have a new Prime Minister. The minister of defense. He hasnt brought back the sunni generals he fired. Thats why we have had 190 air strikes in iraq. And there hasnt been that much to show for it in the sense of being able to reclaim ground that isis covered. As you are talking looking at your hand. Near iran here. You are interviewing the iranian president tomorrow. He said air strikes are illegal. What do you plan to ask him about that . I think what i am going to try how to ask him about, is he willing to be part of the political settlement, help with the politics of this. The point he made about the strikes, was actually not as incendiary as it sound. He said look are two ways for streaks to be legal. One the u. S. Authorizes them, or two the government of the country involved has to, ask for them. Neither condition obtained. The Syrian Government didnt ask for the strikes. The u. S. Didnt authorize them. It doesnt have a legal basis. He didnt say the is illegal. The real question, can you get the iranians to play politically . You know, don, we are very good at the military stuff. It looks great the we do all this stuff. It is powerful. Is actually dazzling. Its actually dazzling. But the day after, the hour after is the politics on the ground. That lead us to the next thing we des cuiscussed. We saw the president a couple weeks ago saying we dont have a plan for isis. Sort of this guy who didnt really know what was going on. At least that was the perception. Then we see him today. He appears to be a different person. Lets look at him today at the u. N. Then we well talk about it. I dont want to put the cart before the horse. We dont have a strategy yet. Good morning, everybody. Last night on my orders, Americas Armed forces began strikes against isil targets in syria. The question, has he gotten his swagger back. This is sort of the day after, right . Well, it is all, president s always look president ial when ordering military action. But of the question you have to ask, is for it to work we, now, i hope we understand now, having done it in iraq, having done it in libya. You need a poll foe lfollowup. We are 6,000 miles away. Not able to be there. The question is, are the local sunnis going to take the fight. Are they going to go with it. Are you going to get an iraqi army. The iraqi army, depending on how you count it. ,00 250,000600 t. All tribes. More than enough people if they will take the fight to isis. How involved are we going to been the political solution . Not military solution. The political solution to fighting back. We need to push much harder, the Iraqi Government. We do not have a new Iraqi Government. We have a new Prime Minister. There have been no major concessions made to the sunni. Theyre not back. A bunch of things, general petraeus did in iraq. Pay off the sunni tribes. Pay them. Rented tribes. We need to start renting them again. Or Iraqi Government need to do it. President of them in high positions of office. Make sure they dont feel diskrim nate di discrimina discriminated. This is where we get back to irans potential role. They have a lot of influence with the Iraqi Government. Sound all complicated. The key is you have got to remember the politics you. Can throw a few bombs. But the ongoing, daytoday campaign. Getting. Wind the hearts and mind of people in iraq. And syria. 80 people in syria are sunni. Maybe more, like 25 , 20 in iraq. Are sunni. The question is where are those people and how can you move the politics to get them. All the bombs in the world wont do that. Uhhuh. It was a diplomatic coup getting the arab nations to cooperate. So perhaps we now have some leverage and clout in that world and get them, the, these five arab nations to again contribute on the politics side. Very, very good point. Very important point. I will emphasize though, that the country that has influence with the government, two governments we talk about. Iraq and syria. Is actually iran. Its not so much saudi arabia, jordan. And yet we dont talk very much to iran. Tomorrow, so important. You are a busy man. Tomorrow you have the interview. Today you interviewed Chelsea Clinton. She had this to say. Then we well talk about it. Chelsea, i have to ask you you are somebody who has, knows a great deal about medicine, about health, why did you decide you didnt want to know the sex of your baby . There are so few mysteries in life, fareed, in which any answer is a happy one. And so my husband and i decided that we would enjoy this mystery for the nineplus months that we were granted. And we are eager to find out what god will have given us. Isnt it strange that the doctors around you know but you dont know . No. I think the doctors know lots of things that i dont know. So, such hard hitting question tuesday. On a lighter note. I have got to point out the whole panel was about ebola, we talked about ebola for 27 minutes. This was the last. Needed to have that. At the clinton global initiative. The president was. Even he joking saying if Chelsea Clinton went into labor, she scud ha could have his motorcade. Our version, any time a politicians daughter has a child. Our version of a royal baby, correct . Particularly, the clintons, it feels like will there be a rollout. Official photograph. Knowing the clintons there will be some sort of beg announcement. Thats great. Well be on baby watch the we know some where in the first week of october. Exactly. Exactly. Fareed. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you very much, fareed. President Barack Obamas big speech to the u. N. Tomorrow. Can he rally the world to defeat isis. Plus, whatever happened to Terror Threat level . Used to have colors, yellow, orange what happened to that . Have we all become too complacent. Maybe the risks here at home are greater than we realize. And the terrorist you never heard of. Until now. That is the Khorasan Group and ominous connection to september 11th. Er it. Seven billion hungry people. Well, we grow a lot of food. We also waste about a third of what we grow. So, we put our scientists to work. And they found ways to keep the food we grow fresher, longer. Using innovative packaging. 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Beauty is bone deep. President obama vowed today to take the fight to the terrorists and keep up air strikes on isis in syria. Now he is preparing to try to make his case to the rest of the world, the big speech at the u. N. Tomorrow. Cnns senior White House Correspondent jim acosta joins us with more. Great to see you. What do we know . The latest . We got a pretty of the preview of the speech the president is going to be giving tomorrow, earlier today when he met with representatives of the arab nations that took part in air strikes in syria last night. The president saying to that group that their coalition that they put together is essentially the beginning of what he hopes will be a united front. In response to, to the threat posed by isis and this new terrorist group that a lot of america americans this war on terrorism. The war on terrorism, 2. 0. That is, to see iraq and syria, show some, some pretty good stride in the years to come. Heres what the president had to say. [ indiscernible ] we are committed to a to a syria that is at peace and not having the sort of spillover effects that are burdening its neighbors. Now, one challenge for the president , is he is not exactly laid out a road map for how he will accomplish those things. Thats why tomorrows speech comes in. Told by Senior Administration official about the president. Will talk about the general unease the world is feeling right now because of the dangers posed by the two terrorist groups, isis and khorasan and get into building the global coalition, and working on that a lotten t ein the speech. And later, the Prime Minister of ive rack. Lateen the day. Something we have seen the president do once before chair a meeting at the u. N. Security council. On Climate Change this time on global terrorism. The president meeting with the u. N. Security council to talk about a resolution hepassed by s that sets standard for dealing with the problem of foreign fighters. We have talked about this a lot over the last several weeks and this problem of americans, westerners who go off to the middle east and fight alongside isis and terror groups in iraq, syria, potentially come back to the homeland where they could, wreak havoc here at home. And something the president will be dealing with, the United NationsSecurity Council members tomorrow. Jim, thank you for that preview. Mr. Strikes on isis could come at any moment now. Standing by for that. I want everyone to listen to what rear admiral john kirby says about the effects of the air strikes so far. Early indications we hit what we were aiming at and greatly disrupted this groups ability to continue the plot and planning they were doing for attacks either in europe or on the hopeland. Just how successful was this first phase of this campaign, what is next . Joining us to talk about all that, rick francona, cnn military analyst and military attache in syria. Great to have you back, gentlemen. We know a lot more to night than we did last night as we were watching things unfold. In realtime. Lets take a look at where the air strikes were on our map last night. Carl francona, tell us what kind of targets were hit when we look at this map . At aleppo, this was done tomahawk land attack missiles off ships in the red sea and persian gulf. And theyre hitting this area here which is the stronghold of the Khorasan Group. The group, planning an imminent attack. The timing of the strikes probably were driven by the fact that these people were in place and we were going to be able to get at them. That was the key in selecting last night as the target. But everyone was looking at isis, right. We wake up and weep hear this new, Khorasan Group. Isnt a new group to counterterrorism people. But to, but to the common person, theyre look where does this group come fruchlt whom. What was going on . That became a trigger. Khorasan became a trigger. They were there. Actionable. Became the trigger. Everything else flowed across the field. Here hae what we know about targets last night. Isis fighters, training compound. Isis headquarters. Command and control facilities. Storage facilities. Isis finance center. Isis supply trucks and armored vehicles. Sounds like a lot. How many more nights like last night are we going to have to have . As many as you can. Ideally you take that out until there are no more left to hit. The