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With what information you can. well, the information this you can pick up inside of syria about the whereabouts of abaaoud abdelhamid, and i can tell you what was known about his past here. he was stopped back in 2014 thought to have at that stage joined isis, and may have traveled to the region earlier, and a number of notable appearances of him in the jihadist media here, and one troubling one that involved him dragging corpses behind a pickup truck. he is expect ted to have lived according to some media reports at a lavish village in aleppo, and also developed an alternate identity here inside of syria of abu u mar al baliki, and then ....
Syria with abu bakr baghdadi, and now assumption is that he was in paris and maybe he has been killed. what is the latest that you are hearing? and clarissa, we will go to you and then ask jim. yes, wolf. what a difference a day makes, because yesterday we had heard that the french authorities had targeted abaaoud in syria, and as early as a month ago, and that target was thwarted, and he has been on the run for a month. the impression that the authors had was that he was inside of isis territory of syria and iraq, and we are now led to the fact that it may not be the case. big question mark. was he here in paris? killed in this raid? we still have a number of questions, and no answer, but that is why you are seeing the forensic experts, wolf. ....
So it is fair to say that the process is deliberative, and careful, and multi layered, and obviously, that should continue to be perfected, but here is a problem with all of the voices that say we should shut our borders in a humanitarian crisis. it send as horrible message to t the world, and turning our backs to the people who are victims of terrorism. i mentioned a study today, of a survey, i should say, that we should look at soberly that in 1938 a public opinion survey of 2/3 of americans said that we should not take in more jews fleeing are from the nazi persecution. so we cannot turn our back on people in danger, innocent people. i know that you have seen this photo. it was on the front pages all around the world, this tragic situation with this young boy, and 3-year-old boy who died, and the syrian refugee boy, and this ....
Allowed isis to move n because they felt that nobody was looking after them in the face of the regime s onslaught, but the talks of the moves against raqqah is growing day by day, but for most observers that is a realialism of a massive operation, an hud a huge city t isis has had months to prepare, and they have been using awnings over the city, and disguising their movements for a long time. it is much less than sinjar, and smaller and much less consequential city, and isis believes they don t have to fight that hard and decide to pull out. but yes, the air strikes and now hearing of the kurdish fighters amongst their ranks increasingly feeling the day that raqqah is nearer, and the notion of an offensive here in syria against that city is not as far-fetched, but the notion of foreign troops involved in the large scale is ....
Method, wolf. yes, and it is unclear if this leader abaaoud abdelhamid is in syria someplace or france someplace, but a massive international manhunt under way for him, and also abdeslaabdesl. and now, they are taking credit for blowing up the jet airline er that went down killing 224 russian, and so what are you hearing that ground troops are moving any closer to the isis caliphate capital of raqqa? well, we have to be clear, ....