"Brussels is the latest European city to be bombed." "It is the work of the so-called Islamic State, IS." "The attacks came just days after this - the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a leading member of the IS cell that attacked Paris last November." "A Panorama team has been investigating how IS plans and executes attacks in Europe." "We have seen secret files that reveal how the terror group trains attackers in Syria." "He gave me some shooting lessons, he said imagine a rock concert, if we arm you, would you be ready to shoot opt crowd." "And we learn how they supply weapons to its operatives in Europe." "I opened the car, there were three" "Kalashnikovs, four magazines." "We have seen intelligence that reveals a secret race between IS and the west's security agencies trying to stop attacks." "TRANSLATION:" "They want to destroy our model of society, so this is really a war." "Over the past year, western intelligence agencies have been trying to get information about the" "Islamic State's plans to attack us." "They have foiled a number of plots and captured the IS fighters involved." "We have seen secret intelligence transcripts of their interrogations." "One of these fighters gave the DGSI from France details about the department in IS running its European terror campaign." "It is called Ani, meaning security. 1,500 people work for Amni." "You have to be trust worthy to be involved." "Its role is to detect spies in Iraq and Syria." "That is its only internal role." "Its external role is to send people all over the world to commit attacks." "Europe was a prime target." "Foreign fighters were hand picked to return and attack their homeland." "Each gets 15,000 euros to attack Europe." "He provided some crucial information about the commander of the attacks." "It is Abu Omar who keeps an eye on the files." "Abu Omar real name is Abdelhamid" "Abaaoud, the man responsible for the attacks on Paris." "At Europol they have asking this." "You referred to the Islamic State's external action command." "What is that?" "We think what happened is a new external command force has been set up within IS to transport terror on to the streets of Europe, using Special Forces-style tactics with shootings," "AK-47s, using suicide belts." "Such a military-style assault would mark a worrying and unprecedented advance in IS's tactics, led by Abaaoud." "From secret intelligence we've gathered crucial evidence that" "Abaaoud was at the very heart of IS's new strategy to target Europe." "He was to spend 2015 plotting attacks that would culminate in the slaughter here on the streets of Paris." "So who is Abdelhamid Abaaoud." "He was brought up in the Brussels district of Molenbeek and spent time in prison." "His family told their solicitor they saw a change when he was released in 2012." "He was critical of how his father was raising the other children." "The father realised that his son was changing a lot, saying he was not giving to the other children of the family a good education, not a Muslim one." "That he was a bad example for the small kids." "In Mar 2013 Abdelhamid Abaaoud travelled to Syria to fight the Assad regime." "At one point he returned home to Molenbeek to kidnap his 13-year-old brother." "He later taunted his father on the phone." "The father, he received a phone call, saying don't search for Unis, you will not see him back in your whole life." "I will learn him the real value of the Muslim religion." "He is going with me to Syria." "Abdelhamid Abaaoud's brother was believed to be" "IS's youngest Jihadi." "Abdelhamid Abaaoud later became notorious for his brutality when he was seen in this video dragging corpses, some beheaded behind a 4X4." "All the men in this video came from" "Belgium." "If you want towns how IS operates in" "Europe, you have to understand why Belgium became so important." "It was a country Abdelhamid Abaaoud would use as a base for operations." "One reason is the number of Belgian Jihadis who have ended up fighting in Syria." "Belgium has sent more per head than anywhere else in Europe." "Some former members of this boxing club drifted into extremism." "Here they try and fight radicalisation and they understand why young men consider going to Syria." "High unemployment and feelings of discrimination are big factors." "Radicalisation doesn't start with a religious idea." "They're going because they're leaving something, they're fed up with the society here." "Some here have even known people who have become suicide bombers." "TRANSLATION:" "I watched the news and heard some young guy had blown himself up, when I saw his face, I was upset." "Many from Molenbeek who became" "Jihadis were actively recruited." "One radicaliser stands out." "Khalid" "Zakani." "I believe he was the biggest recruiter Brussels has seen." "This journalist has investigated how Zakani operated." "TRANSLATION:" "He was the co-ordinator." "It was like a machine sending young people to" "Syria." "Abdelhamid Abaaoud was a petty criminal in Molenbeek and was involved in Zakani." "Like Abdelhamid Abaaoud many of those sent to fight in Syria by Zakani were criminals." "We have seen intelligence that reveals how Zakani worked." "He wouldn't just preach, he doled out money to assist their travels and put them in touch with smugglers." "He was key in getting the I sichlt link." "That is my son when he was six." "One he sent was this man." "He travelled to Syria with the two brothers." "His mother believed Zakani pressured him to going." "The phone kept going to harass him." "I heard, I'm going to leave." "She says Zakani was responsible for a dramatic change in her son." "He would wear robes only like a Saudi." "At home, it was the Koran only." "The name of" "Allah until he went to sleep." "That is the way it was." "This video reveals where he ended up in Syria with IS." "He was dead soon after." "Abdelhamid Abaaoud was about to take on a new role in IS." "IS's expansion in Iraq led to an American led coalition to launch air strikes against them." "It is about taking out an entire network, decimating a militant cult masquerading as a religious movement." "IS beheaded American journalist James Foley in Syria." "Around this time, IS made plans to strike Europe." "Abdelhamid Abaaoud was preparing a cell that would involve sending Jihadis back from" "Syria to attack." "It was two from Molenbeek he chose for his first recruits." "The IS network was under way." "They were sent on a mission to set up a terror cell in Belgium." "We have established that Belabi passed through the UK and got into the UK illegally using a passport belonging to a Dutch IS fighter." "One of the persons came to the UK, ten through" "France to Belgium." "They are able to come with false paper and that nobody is able to detect them." "It seems that he was never stopped odd or questioned at St Pancras station as he left the UK." "We have seen secret intelligence that reveals Abdelhamid Abaaoud monitored their arrival in Belgium and contacted his brother in jail and said..." "Abdelhamid Abaaoud's cell laid up in this back street in Belgium." "Part of terrorist trade craft is to choose a safe house like this to remain as anonymous as possible." "When you choose a house in a pop lated area, with people living next to you, above you, beeneath you, people passing by all the time, makes it very difficult to raid a house." "It what is they were allegedly planning to do that would send shock waves around the world." "The mission they had that was to take a police officers from the street, to bring them in the house and behead them." "Before the webcam and send this action all over the world." "Abaaoud's plan seems to be on track, but a tip-off led security services to start monitoring the safe house." "They had intercepted calls from offence." "There was contact between people in the house and somebody in" "Greece, and at a certain time, we learned that person was Abdelhamid" "Abaaoud." "And that was because you were into set in telephone calls between the cell and Greece?" "That was the position, yes." "We have seen" "Belgian intelligence documents that leave Abaaoud's involvement beyond doubt." "The documents say that Abaaoud was organising the structure, providing instructions on which documents to use, presumably." "Humans, and which cars to steal, and he was doing all this from Greece using at least five different mobile numbers." "What he didn't know was that the intelligence services were listening in." "The Belgians had planted a secret listening device in the house in Verviers." "As they monitored the cell, the world was gripped by dramatic events at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. 12 people were murdered by jihadi gunmen from Al-Qaeda, including eight journalists and two police officers." "Whilst a third gunman, claiming allegiance to IS, shot dead a policewoman before killing a further four people in a Jewish supermarket." "Fearing the cell in Verviers was about to launch a similar attack, a week later, the Belgians decided to act." "GUNFIRE." "As the gun battle raged, the listening device picked up a jihadis final words, a prayer before they died." "TRANSLATION:" "There is no god but" "Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet." "French special forces, the equivalent of the British SAS, had been drafted in to assist in the operation." "TRANSLATION:" "Generally, when we intervene with explosives, the enemy inside tends to come down immediately, so it is quite easy to stop him." "Not in this case." "Here, we faced resistance to the very end." "Two of Abaaoud's team was shot dead in the fierce firefight." "A third man tried to escape through a window at the back, but was caught." "The first ISL in Europe had been neutralised, but what about their commander?" "Abaaoud was 1600 miles away in" "Athens." "We understand from intelligence that the CIA and Israel's Mossad helped track and locate Abaaoud in Greece." "There was now a rare chance to catch and stop him." "It's believed the CIA planned to intercept Abaaoud, but the plan failed." "Abaaoud, whose DNA was found in this apartment, was one step ahead, and escaped to Syria." "Weeks later, Abaaoud resurfaced in the IS magazine Dabiq, bragging about plotting terrorist attacks under the noses of Western intelligence agencies." "Intelligence services knew that" "Abaaoud would learn lessons from Verviers, and now, back in Syria, would pass them on to IS." "IS has what I would call an army of radicalised people who have learned to handle arms and explosives, people who have participated in governments, who have been adopt related to do the worst, and who are willing to do so." "With Abaaoud now back in Syria rebuilding his network, intelligence reports indicate that 2015 developed into a race, a race between Abaaoud and" "Western intelligence agencies who were desperately trying to find him and stop him." "In its war against Europe, IS, as well as preparing cells of trained killers, developed another strategy, to inspire individuals who had never been to Syria to carry out attacks in their own countries." "And that's how IS has operated so far in the UK." "This IS online propaganda glorifies the actions of so-called low balls who operate without the support of IS networks." "Ashman lone wolves." "Where I got hold of it from was IS members, their Twitter accounts." "This journalist contacted IS over the Internet, pretending to be willing to launch a suicide bomb attack in the UK." "He asked us to protect his identity." "He established a relationship with a high-ranking" "British recruiter operating from Syria called Junaid Husein." "He was very straight to business, not very friendly." "I got the idea that he wanted to catch hold of someone quickly, and I said to him, I want to do the will of Allah, and he said, you should do something over there." "Did he mention a target?" "He did, it was the Armed Forces day, the Lee Rigby parade in Woolwich." "That was an June the 27th, 2015." "He told me to go into the middle of the crowd and press the button, and from there I would go straight to Paradise." "The journalist was also set a series of DIY terror manuals over the Internet." "One of them contained instructions on how to make the type of device that was detonated at the Boston Marathon." "The first impression I got was how easy it looked to build, because all the items you have to get hold of, you can pick them up from any local shop." "Once he received the manuals, he told the police." "But last year, one of Junaid Husein's real Twitter followers was planning an actual attack in London." "Mohammed Ramin used a similar instructions to build a bomb." "He even filmed this test in his back garden." "They planned to mark the 10th anniversary of the London 7/7 bombings of 2005 with their own suicide attack." "What do you think would have happened had they not been arrested?" "I seriously think that he would have set off a bomb in London, a suicide on, and there would have been another 7/7 in the UK." "Mohammed" "Ramin was sentenced to 27 years and his wife to 25." "Stopping this plot was the result of good intelligence by UK undercover police officers." "On mainland Europe, intelligent services faced another problem, devices control dramatically by IS." "A plot to strike in Paris was foiled, but how it was uncovered is an extraordinary story." "We have seen secret intelligence which includes the interrogation of the captured IS operative involved." "He reveals how he botched the mission." "I placed the gun at the height of my thigh, point-blank, and I shot." "I thought to myself, if I call the police, they might shoot me, and they immediately put in touch with the police." "Officers followed the trail of blood to his car, and there they discovered a huge arsenal of weapons." "They had it covered and IS operative." "It was on a trip to his native Algeria that Sid Ghlam says he first came across IS supporters." "He then travelled to Turkey wanting to go to Syria, but IS operatives there had other plans for him." "They said I needed to go back to France because my help there was needed." "IS had a tactic for controlling him remotely." "They showed me how to stay in touch via the Internet using encrypted messages." "Before he left for France, IS gave him a crucial piece of information." "It was so sensitive, he wasn't allowed to write it down." "It was a location in Paris." "Then they showed me a map of a car park, and they said I needed to memorise it." "A few weeks later when Sid Ghlam was back in Paris, he received an instruction from IS to go to the car park." "They said there will be a car, and you will need to find some keys on top of one of the car wheels, so I drove there, I opened the car, and there were two bags, so I took them." "During his interrogation, he tells the police exactly what he found in the bags." "Three Kalashnikovs, some bullet-proof vests, four magazines, some police vests, walkie-talkie stations, tactical vests." "IS had developed a sophisticated network where an operative could be dropped into a certain area and would be supplied with targets and ammunition." "This made it harder to uncover the network." "Is a former undercover agent who now helps the authorities." "A lone wolf is someone who is expected to select a target, secure the material on the weapons, and then carry at the operation, but Isis decided this was not right." "Armed to the teeth, seed Ghlam said he was told to select a target for mass murder." "They told me to look for a good church." "I chose the one they told me to have a look at." "It was in one of their messages." "And this was his target." "What would have happened that Sunday if the attack had been successful?" "TRANSLATION:" "It would have been a bloodbath before police could even intervene." "But on the morning of the attack, the plan went wrong." "Police believe he tried to steal a car, but during the carjacking, the driver was shot dead." "Shortly afterwards, Sid Ghlam shot himself." "If it was very intention to launch a major strike in Europe, it seems IS chose the wrong man." "Whether Sid" "Ghlam was too reluctant, too nervous or two incompetent, it seems that on this occasion they had failed." "When a French national arrived in Syria to join IS in June 2015, Abaaoud spotted another opportunity." "The man had a French passport, but it was due to expire." "If Abaaoud could train him quickly, he could send him back to Europe to launch a fresh attack." "But Abaaoud's plan was foiled when the French intercepted the IS fighter before he could strike." "We have seen a transcript of his interrogation in which he describes being personally trained to kill by Abaaoud." "He gave me some shooting lessons, showing me how to handle the Kalashnikov." "He made me shoot round by round, and in bursts." "Abaaoud worked with his new recruit, training him for all-out assaults." "He told me that the hand grenade was set on three seconds." "He drew silhouettes, got me to shoot them, through the grenades." "I threw the grenade in the house, heard an explosion, I went in, shot three targets, and the grenade exploded." "I was bleeding from the arm and a leg." "Abaaoud detail the kind of mass casualty attack he wanted Reda Hame to carry out." "It was a sobering indication of the kind of target IS would select in Paris." "He told me to choose an easy target." "Imagine a rock concert in the European country, he specified the best thing the best thing to do was to wait for the intervention forces and die fighting with the hostages." "He told me that everyone who rushed to the enemy would dive with the martyrs." "Although Reda Hame were supposed to be alone attacker, he was to be provided with the weapons by an IS" "Logistics team." "He said it wasn't a problem to find weapons, I was to ask what I needed." "In my opinion, they have networks." "The arrest and interrogation of Reda Hame should be a thing for celebration." "But he predicted chillingly three months before the" "Paris attacks." "All I can say is this will happen very soon." "Over there it is like a real factory, they're really trying to strike France or" "Europe." "Given their determination of the people I met, this wouldn't come as a surprise if there was some action soon." "The authorities knew an attack could come anywhere any time, driven by the commitment of Abaaoud and his fighters." "TRANSLATION:" "We are dealing with religious fanaticism, with people who determined and choice the time place, objective how and when to do it." "In summer 2015, western intelligence agencies were on high alert." "The race to find and stop" "Abaaoud was intensifying." "We understand the CIA warned one of" "Abaaoud's network was trying to get hold of European ID cards." "And the intelligence warnings continued." "With one source Reporting that" "Abaaoud was now IS's minister for war." "We now also understand that the" "CIA issued a warning that Abaaoud was in contact with Turkish smugglers about getting fighters into Europe." "During our investigation, we heard rumours that one of Abaaoud's key lieutenants" "Mohamed Abrini visited the UK last summer." "Was one of those members of" "Abaaoud's network who went to the UK Mohamed Abrini?" "Yes." "Is it known what he did in the UK?" "TRANSLATION:" "No, I don't know, that is the secret of intelligence b services." "We understand one member of network," "Mohamed Abrini, went to the UK, came back to Europe, came back to Belgium or France, and was stopped and on his phone were pictures of what could have been possible targets in the UK." "Is that correct?" "We still have to establish what he did in the UK." "So I cannot give any comment about that." "Were there photographs on his phone that identified possible targets like a football stadium?" "It is a piece of the judicial file, I cannot give any comment." "You don't know what Breen was doing Abrini was doing in the UK?" "We are working on it." "We know" "Abrini visited Birmingham and we understand that a photograph of a football stadium was found on his mobile phone." "There were even more disturbing intelligence reports that Abaaoud wanted to send 60IS fighters to attack Belgium, France, Germany and the UK." "All partners in the coalition against IS." "In October, MI6 and MI5 met with a partner agency to discuss Abaaoud and the threat posed by such a potential onslaught." "Other agencies were discussing setting up a specialist team to target Abaaoud." "A meeting in Paris was planned to finalise the details." "Originally on the 13th November 2015, the date was ominous." "It was the date of the Paris attacks." "By then, it was too late." "This is one member of Abaaoud's terror cell training to attack" "Paris." "It includes French, Belgians and Iraqis." "This IS propaganda video features some of them beheaded people." "It is a tactic that this former Al-Qaeda member understands." "What was the purpose in making the attackers carry out such things." "It is a test of loyalty and if they showed hesitation they would be excluded from the operation." "The most recent attempt to attack Europe had failed, but IS were learning." "The network they built would evade all attempts by the authorities to detect them." "This strategy can be seen in the support network he built." "His chief lieutenant was a petty criminal from Molenbeek." "Salah" "Abdeslam." "He committed crime alongside Abaaoud and he had a big advantage - although on a Belgian watch list, he was in the lowest possible category." "We have seen notes from a police interview with him about his Frenchship with Abaaoud." "He admitted they had been friends, but said they had never spoken about Jihad." "He is not questioned again." "Here in Molenbeek, Salah Abdeslam seemed just another small time criminal." "TRANSLATION:" "Every day we get reports about arrests, about drug problems, gun problems, false papers, illegal trade." "And Salah Abdeslam was known more as a small delinquent or a petty criminal than a radical." "Salah Abdeslam's brother Rahim was also a petty criminal." "He is seen here being arrested for a robbery." "He also became a member of the terror cell, helping with logistics planning in the Paris attacks." "We have seen a lot of Jihadist groups operating in Europe having criminal links, because many in many cases they have as it were graduated from street crime to something more serious." "Often as a result of stays in prison." "Considered low risk petty criminals, the brothers were able to set about getting what the terror cell needed." "Since they're not on the authorities' radar, they're able to drive around, they're able to basically make purchases, transport goods without being noticed by the authorities." "And I think this is where the genius of IS's planning process is." "We have been told that it was criminal contacts here in" "Belgium that supplied the weapons for the Paris cell." "What you tend to find is when you look at these cases that the criminals are simply engaging in entrepreneurial activity, the weapons are being bought in many cases it suits them to know as little as possible." "All they're interested in is the criminal transaction." "It wasn't just the logistics team that could outsmart the authorities." "Abaaoud and the team were able to make their way back from Syria without detection." "Bilal Hadfi also became one of Paris cell." "Belgian police were told he was planning to return from Syria and monitored locations where they thought he might turn up." "Despite the fact that so many people were involved, information about the planned attacks didn't leak out." "I would suspect they were pretty communication-secures aware and it does seem that the members of this group must have been very surveillance aware, because they were in some cases on watch lists." "It's a kind of mind set that understands what it is to be a hunted individual." "Despite having to keep low profiles Abaaoud's support network brought weaponses explosives and detonators." "They rented a hotel room and this safe house in Paris." "By the evening of 12th November," "Abaaoud and his men were in Paris ready to strike." "Using French intelligence documents we have pieced together how Abaaoud planned simultaneous attacks at multiple sites." "This was his first target - the Stade de France." "Among spectators at the game between" "France and German was the French president, Francois Hollande." "According to the investigation, the gate closed at 10 past 9." "A witness says he saw one individual trying to bluff his way in here at gate R but the security guard was suspicious and wouldn't let him in." "The intention was to get in the Stade de France and detonate." "They were unlucky they didn't get in, but they regrouped." "They had a plan B. Having failed to get in the stadium, they then each moved to new positions." "Intelligence indicates that the bombers were communicating with a mobile number in Belgium." "At 9.17, Abaaoud's first suicide bomber detonated his device." "Killing himself and a civilian." "After the first explosion, the second attacker waited three minutes and then detonated his device." "As the stadium and the surrounding area were being cleared the third attacker triggered his bomb." "Each of the three suicide bomber's vests were packed with small metal objects." "The damage is still visible today in the area." "Although there were 80,000 spectators in the Stade de France from, Abaaoud's point of view, the operation was a failure." "Only four people died and three of them were the suicide bombers." "As president Francois Hollande was rushed to safety, from the stadium, the centre of Paris was descending into chaos as Abaaoud took personal charge of the night's carnage." "The attacks were carried out with meticulous planning and co-ordinated military precision." "Five minutes after two bombers had blown themselves up outside the Stade de France, Abaaoud and his unit began their attack on the cafes and restaurants here in the heart of Paris." "This time, given the failures of the past Abaaoud was leaving nothing to chance." "He was here on the ground directing operations." "At these cafes in central Paris, Abaaoud and his gunmen ambushed and killed 14 people." "Five more were gunned down here." "One of the attackers moved in for the kill at this cafe." "Two women were lying on the pavement." "But his gun failed to fire." "As Abaaoud and his men slaughtered another 20 people here, the bloody climax of the operation was about to begin at an American rock concert at the Bataclan." "These were places where western people were engaging in activities that the Islamic State regard as sinful and hence the people engaging in these activities were deserving of punishment." "The French investigation documents reveal that the attacker had down loaded floor plans of the Bataclan and these are the actual images retrieved from one of their mobile phones." "The investigation documents also show that the Bataclan team was in touch with a mobile phone in Belgium." "One of gunmen sent a last text message before dumping his phone in a bin." "Two of the gun men went into the front of the Bataclan and started firing." "As panic erupted inside, some of the audience rushed to one of the exits which opened onto this alleyway." "But a third gunman was waiting." "They had anticipated how people would respond." "Those trying to escape were mown down." "Abaaoud's plan to distract and confuse the police by simultaneous attacks across the city seems to be working." "There are only so many security forces, it takes time to mobilise, so splitting them up and weakening their overall impact is an obvious thing to think about." "The gun men had time to secure the Bataclan by placing human shields in front of doors and windows." "Even one of France's most senior police officers was taken aback by their tactics." "TRANSLATION:" "Who would have expected that they turned up armed like that, like they were carrying out a military operation?" "The differences they came to die." "What is clear is that the gun men inside the Bataclan were able to kill for over two hours." "On stand-by, ready in Paris, were 40 elite officers from the GIGN, the French equivalent of the SAS, although protocol indicated that the police should step in first." "The irony is that the GIGN was used in Belgium, but was not used in France." "TRANSLATION:" "Yes, because the units we work with did not come to us to request our help in these operations." "If you had been used, you might have intervened much sooner and more effectively, and more lives may have been saved?" "TRANSLATION:" "That's possible, but the unit which conducted operations felt it was in a position to complete the mission at its own level, which I totally respect." "Abaaoud had outwitted the Western security services who had been trying to thwart him." "He had won the race." "After a series of failed operations, Abaaoud's meticulous planning, the recruitment, training and logistics, finally paid off." "The resulting carnage is a grim testimony. 130 dead and almost 700 injured." "Don't the Paris attacks represent a huge intelligence failure?" "TRANSLATION:" "It is obvious there have been failures." "There were mistakes." "We shouldn't accept this situation, especially because a number of terrorists were known." "So of course there were intelligence failures." "The intelligence services are overwhelmed by the situation." "As Paris went into lockdown after the attacks, Abaaoud's chief organiser, Salah Abdeslam, was on the streets." "The police hadn't yet discovered he was involved." "He needed to escape, so he called on to friends from Molenbeek who sped to Paris to pick him up." "We have seen copies of their police interrogations about the escape." "Hamza Attu described Salah Abdeslam's behaviour as they picked him up in Paris nearly five hours after the attacks ended." "He was crying and shouting." "He was telling as he was part of the Paris attacks." "He claims was part of the Paris attacks." "He being part of the Paris attacks." "He was part of the Paris attacks." "He said he was in the car, he used a" "Kalashnikov to kill people." "But rather than flee, Abdeslam and his associates drove around a district of Paris for 20 minutes." "Then he ordered the driver to head for Brussels." "After this, they ended up on the motorway, and drove straight into a police checkpoint." "It was to catch Abdeslam, but even though the driver of the car said he told police he had the driver of the car said he told were still let go." "Despite more police checkpoints, they reached this service station, and Salah Abdeslam was confident enough to be out of the car." "and Salah Abdeslam was confident stopped three times at police checkpoints." "They showed identity cards, and despite the fact that Salah was on a identity cards, and despite the fact were told to continue." "We were told that if he had been stopped as 15 minutes later, he would have been flagged as someone connected to the" "Paris attacks." "Salah Abdeslam arrived back in Brussels around noon." "He was on the run, so he decided to change his appearance." "He says Abdeslam pleaded for his loyalty." "Abdeslam then called on another associate for the next stage of his escape." "We have also seen his police interrogation." "They asked me to go to a cafe where we could get a drink and talk." "He asked us to leave our phones behind in the car." "He told us to take the batteries out and leave the handsets in the vehicle." "He asked to be some questions about the news, how many had been killed, how many suicide bombers there had been." "He asked me how many of the attackers were dead, and seem to be analysing the situation." "He also told me he was not supposed to be there when things were happening." "Ali Oulkadi drove him to another district of Brussels, and it was the last known sighting of him for months." "He squeezed my arm and said we would never see each other again, and he left." "He took the first St on the right and disappeared." "Back in Paris, Abaaoud was still at large." "We have seen the intelligence on where he was." "Abaaoud was hiding out somewhere around here, which is an industrial area, and the report of the French investigation gives very detailed instructions on how to find" "Abaaoud's hideout." "This is where the world's most wanted man had holed up." "He was planning another attack, but needed help." "In an act that would lead to his undoing, you turned to a woman who had wanted to marry him years earlier." "It was his cousin, and she came to the hideout, but the problem was, she brought a friend." "And after they left the bush, the friend rang the police." "Despite the resources of the CIA, Mossad and European security agencies, who had been desperate to find him, it was a tip-off from Hazna's friends that finally led the hunters to Abaaoud." "The police watched him for the next two days." "Hazna was also under surveillance as she rented this flat in Saint Denis." "It was to be Abaaoud's final hiding place." "Five days after the Paris attacks, with Hazna, Abaaoud and another attacker inside, the police stormed the building." "Despite 5000 bullets being fired by the police, and their claims of a long firefight, there was only one gun in the flat." "This police photo revealed it was this nine millimetres pistol." "The siege ended when the cell member standing beside Abaaoud and Hazna detonated his suicide vest." "It killed all of them." "This week's bloodshed in Brussels shows that IS's ability to hit Europe did not die with Abaaoud." "Just as in Paris, these attacks were carefully coordinated." "Multiple civilian targets struck in quick succession." "It is going to be hard for the security forces to mobilise quickly, coordinate, so it is a difficult situation for a vendor to deal with, it creates a lot of uncertainty, panic, fear, exactly the things that terrorists" "are keen to achieve." "For the future, the outlook is bleak." "TRANSLATION:" "We are going towards events even more serious, several cities and other countries could be attacked." "The problem for the security services is that no one knows how many operatives are still out there ready to die for their cause." "The big question now is, can" "ISP stopped?" "It is likely and probable that things like that will happen again, and I fear that in the West, Belgium included, we will have to live for the coming years with the threat of that kind of terrorism." "The fight against the so-called Islamic State is not yet over."