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Im not surprised to learn were getting more information about the air strike that killed the radical al qaeda cleric anwar al awlaki. lets bring nbc news chief investigative producer bob windram your sources always as good as anybody in our news organization. tell us more about the strike. >> first of all, chuck, were hearing just moments ago that among the others who were killed with al awlaki this morning was someone named samir kahn who is also an american who was the editor of "inspire" maga...

V.q. day, his words, victory over al qaeda day. is that going a little too triumphant? >> it may be a little triumphant but i think the critical point here is that we have reached a turning point in that the united states is able to go out on a regular basis and take out people not only at the top leadership but people at the next level of leadership who are aspiring to be al qaeda leaders and that has an effect of essentially causing fewer and fewer al qaeda leaders to raise their hand and say,...

Virginia. developing now, the justice minister in cyprus says he believes an alleged russian spy has indeed fled that mediterranean island. christopher metsos is believed to have supplied money to an alleged spy ring here in the united states. he was arrested in cyprus but released on bail. u.s. officials were concerned he might escape the island and now it appears hes done it. meanwhile here on u.s. soil, more bail hearings for some of the ten suspects in custody. two more of them admitted us...

Something to send back. it doesnt always have to be classified. one of the big things is is it current because youre not always sure whats online is current, and i think that thats part of it as well. its hard to -- for us to figure right now just how important it was to them, whether it was -- whether it was something that was giving them any benefit, but right now in terms of classified information, no. >> ive got to let this -- ive got to wrap this up. do we have a bureaucracy like this in ot...

Classified information back to moscow which led me to pond they are morning whether these were actual spies or people that were playing spy but not actually coming up with anything. the information they were tasked with collecting like political policy and gossip could in fact have been more easily found with a google search perhaps than by virtue of spending spies all over, and this youtube video showing one of the suspected spies doesnt exactly cry out espionage as its posted on a public site ...

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Groups operate as individual cells, and they dont want the extensive contacts with other cells because that essential would infect them and tleed to their arrest. >> bob, thank you very much. thank you very much, sir. well, failed time square bomber faisal shahzad will spend the rest of his life in jail. today he was sentenced to six life terms in prison. in court a federal judge told shahzad hell have plenty of time to think about whether the koran wants you to kill a lot of people. in june f...

Tamron? >> stephanie gosk live for us in london. now lets bring in bob windram. this may be linged to an arrest in maples. were not clear if the drone attack and the arrest of the germans has anything to do with the travel alert. >> certainly at this point theres heightened security throughout europe. certainly if there has been in the past any links to people, those are now being reviewed, and certainly people are being picked up if they believe they are a threat. france is very aggressive in g...