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The Colorado Springs Airport was involved in a string of attacks that targeted airport websites across the nation Monday morning.

So we know and i have said this before that i believe this is a death warrant for those people because the taliban has demonstrated the result to come after those folks who have been at where within the last 20 years. >> trace: yeah, it is a very scary situation, congressman, thank you for coming on. we appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. >> trace: still ahead, who are the people responsible for carrying out the airport attacks? next, we will explore the terrorist group isis k. and wha...

The innereds of the darn things. >> i have some ideas on how this might be done. i dont want to get into it. youre right. it will have to be a more sophisticated screening. its not enough just to turn the machine on. >> one of the things that you mentioned, must be in response to intelligence, you know, homeland security secretary kelly has intimated as much, that theres a security crackdown going on. so say what you will, something is feared happening at airports on airlines or both. weve had a...

Magnets, walk over a bridge and then you would get into the stadium. the stadium felt like such a safe place, but as you were walking over that bridge, you would turn around and looked down at the huge tent they had a set up and literally thousands of people in line. that stadium was protected and it was a fantastic event, there were no incidents, if somebody wanted to do something like this before that line got started where people were lined up by the thousands, the fact is that they could. >>...

Has been done after istanbul and other airport attacks, theyre never going to be fully protected, but i think thats why a lot of us are sort of curious, was there some triggering aspect on the plane ride or in baggage claim that led to this attack, because he picked a hard way, not a hard way, but the most difficult way to pull off something that would be relatively easy if he just walked in to baggage claim. >> we dont know why he would have been heading to ft. lauderdale, whether this was some...

Continuing him to own a gun, tom? >> it takes more than a red flag to deny someone of their constitutional right to own a weapon. he has to be judged mentally ill by a competent authority and/or convicted of a felony and if thats not the case, as happened in this case apparently, when he checks himself back out of the hospital and hes not been judged as mentally ill, the police have no choice but to return his property to him which happens to be a firearm. and in this case, we just so many menta...

A little bit different, you know, could have blocked him. >> something weve talked about in the past, when you compare airport attacks, thinking about brussels, istanbul, multiple attacks hitting some of the soft targets of the airport. does this attack and your expertise highlight one of the vulnerabilities that we have at our airports across the country, the baggage claim area, the ticketing check-in? where do you see the vulnerabilities as a result of this attack? >> yes. vulnerability a at a...

Official talks between the u.s. and the taliban were called in 2012, but optimists were hopeful the group was turning a new page, albeit small. they negotiated indirectly with the u.s. threw qatar for bowe bergdahl for the return of five guantanamo bay detainees. the u.s. military was prepared for the worst. chuck hagel called it a possible opening. today the taliban is back at it. the group says theyre behind this weeks airport attacks in karachi, pakistan, the nations busiest airport, killing ...

in tripoli as opposition forces continue their manhunt for the fugitive muammar gadhafi. and hurricane irene churning up the u.s. east coast. hundreds of thousands have already fled. 16 million americans are in the path of this monster storm. weve got all the angles covered on both stories. right now on world report. its early morning in tripoli where rebel forces control most but not all of the capital city. theres sporadic but fierce fighting in several parts of tripoli. cnn jour...

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