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That. but the investigation will proceed. they will look at the forensics at some of these recovered devices and they may be able to see the signature of the explosives, are they similar to the type of bombs used by say al qaeda or other groups. that may start to provide some answers. >> i heard you say earlier the fact these werent big devices would perhaps suggest it isnt an al qaeda operation, that they would go for a more dramatic impact with the devices. also, there are these ball bearings ...

The signatures, the way that these devices were put together, how they were made, but also the unexploded devices because they could have fingerprints. they could look for the make of these devices to try to trace where the items came from that put it together, the containers they were in and that kind of thing. so a lot of work going on right now by investigators. anderson? >> interesting, interesting. couple different theories there from law enforcement personnel. appreciate that. fran, in ter...

Theres any indicators from past intelligence or current reporting that might give investigators a better sense of who is behind this. >> and what can you tell us about the explosive devices themselves? were they sophisticated? were they crude? and can we infer anything at all about who did this from the kind of device they used? >> its difficult to say right now just from the pictures. but what is clear is that these were probably -- and i say very generally probably, that these were mid-sized b...

Of fomenting the uprising against him. saying the young protesters were given hallucinogenic drugs by osama bin laden, that something was slipped into their nescafe coffee. we met many protesters, young and old, steadfast in their demands. >> we want him to banish. he killed our brothers. he killed our families. he arrested our people. >> reporter: despite the fury being directed at gadhafi by these protesters for decades of oppression, this is very much a celebration. these people feel like the...

Afzali pleaded guilty about phone conversations, with this man who im sure you recognize, naijbullah zazi, accused of planning to detonate backpack bombs and weve gotten many details about exactly how extensive the plot was and they say it was the most serious plot since september 11th, and it would have explode bombs in new york city subways and, this man is connected to that, the authorities believe and two other men, suspected to have been part of the plot already pleaded not guilty. bill: in...

Years about the suitcase bombs, the backpack bombs? is that the kind of thing this loose nuclear material out there constitutes? >> right. well, theyre actually talking about detonating a nuclear weapon. not the dirty bomb that has the radioactive material that can be exploded and sort of spread and carried by the wind and do some damage in an immediate area. theyre talking about an explosion, a detonation. its really quite sobering talk, and again, the justification for this unprecedented meeti...

Possibility of suitcase bombs and backpack bombs. is that the kind of material youre talking about? >> yeah, exactly. the united states and russia have 90% of the worlds nuclear material. and of course when the soviet union broke up, there was a lot of concern about what happened to the soviet nuclear stockpile. so keeping track of all of the missing pieces, things that have, you know, landed in soviet socialist -- former soviet sociali socialist republics, things like that, each country is goin...

The same question, how do we manage to avoid attacks so far? >> reporter: a lot of credit goes to police work. in new york city alone, they foiled five plots against transit systems since 1997, the most recent, many people obviously remember najibullah zazi who authorities say was plotting to put eight backpack bombs on new york citys subway cars. police used a variety of tactics to thwart the attacks, including the surge that we saw in new york city this morning, where hundreds of heavily armed...

Why? >> that is what i want to know. for what? the problem that i dont understand, we have presidents coming to this town all the time. we dont shut down. when a president comes here we should down one block. megyn: the difference between that . we have a much bigger security package for an him. were going to have a big frozen area. someone with a backpack bombs so instead theyre going to go to times square? megyn: forget mayor bloomberg. we are getting caught up in the hysteria. >> we handle bi...

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