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Is there enough for them to communicate? >> i would say sort of. they shipped in the past and i can tell you having watched them for years, they have american citizens in the area. they will read newspaper and internet and the problem is the communication between them can be very difficult because hes so isolated and pressure on him is so high. they will listen to this and read news reports tonight, but not like they can call them up and be like lets change code, code words tomorrow. the communi...

Burgin and phillip mud. what do you make of this? >> in more than a decade since 9/11, weve come to understand the sorts of words, code words thaw use. you learn from them people you captured and surveillance and foreign intelligence services and weve gotten much better and we listen for that. you load surveillance systems to trigger the system to alert analysts when they capture those sorts of words. this is an indication weve matured in terms of intelligence capability to identify the threat a...

The u.s. intelligence community contained essentially code words, which the intelligence community interpreted correctly, it appears, as being a coded message among al qaeda oftives for signaling a potentially imminent attack. it was those code words, piers, that sparked the warning to close some 22 embassies and consulates because the u.s. had direct -- direct sense, a direct knowledge that the code words pointed to imminent, an imminent attack. what they didnt have was a good understanding at ...

Attention. the first leader of al qaeda outlining a possible attack. the second, said to be a response from an al qaeda leader and two weeks leader the u.s. snagged a third message from him appointing a deputy. a u.s. official declined to discuss specific code words but said quote was there a sense of imminence, the overall area at risk and known actors. there was this, officials said, great concern and we know in audition to the em bbassy closings, drones launched an attack that abc news is kil...

Broke the story. barbara, tell me what you discovered. >> well, piers, in talking to someone who has a very immediate understanding of what transpired, they told me that these messages, these intercepted al qaeda messages by the u.s. intelligence community contained essentially code words, which the intelligence community interpreted correctly, it appears, as being a coded message among al qaeda oftives for signaling a potentially imminent attack. it was those code words, piers, that sparked the...

Advisory boards. also is peter bergen and on the phone, former fbi official philip mudd. fran, what are you hearing? >> look, more than a decade since 9/11, we have come to understand the sorts of words, code words, that they use. you learn them from people who you captured, from surveillance and foreign intelligence services and weve gotten much better. we listen for that. you know, you load surveillance systems to trigger the system to alert analysts when they capture those sorts of words. and...

Overall area at risk and the known actors." there was this, officials said, of great concern. u.s. drones launched a series of attacks on al qaeda, including one over the weekend in yemen, which killed four suspected al qaeda operatives associated with the embassy closings. u.s. officials are not comments on that. fran townsend joins us now. fran serves on the cia and homeland security externaled a vitzry boards. also is peter bergen and on the phone, former fbi official phillip mudd. fran, what...

Good evening, everyone. it is 10:00 here on the east coast. we have a hostage situation playing out in a bank in louisiana. first, though, late new word on the intercepted al qaeda messages that sparked the closings of 19 emba sis around the world. a source telling cnns barbara starr that u.s. code breakers recognized a number of specific words that signalled the attack. three intercepts got their attention. the first was from the leader of the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula group. the seco...

Fred townson, barbara starr who broke the story. barbara, tell me what you discovered. >> well, piers, in talking to someone who has a very immediate understanding of what transpired, they told me that these messages, these intercepted al qaeda messages by the u.s. intelligence community contained essentially code words, which the intelligence community interpreted correctly, it appears, as being a coded message among al qaeda oftives for signaling a potentially imminent attack. it was those cod...

Those intercepts led to the unprecedented closing of 19 u.s. embassies and consulates around the world. barbara starr broke the news and shes at the pentagon tonight. barbara, what more can you tell us? >> good evening, they are not only intercepts but those intercepts by all accounts now contain code words that signaled an attack might be imminent, this according to a u.s. sos who has an understanding and access to the latest intelligence about all of this. code words that signaled an attack mi...