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Okay, hes chinese. he says at one point chinese are very friendly to muslims. danny said we are so friendly to muslims and all that human connection, if you like, seems to have saved his life which enabled him to get to the police which enabled the rest to follow. amazing. >> which prevented them from taking off and we dont know what would have happened, and we dont know if they were serious, we have to take them at their word. but could have prevented a lot of killings here in times square. >> ...

Had, but then they all come together, theyre all in his mercedes, and hes fearing for his life. at what stage does he get away from them? >> well, they go from brighton to summerville to cambridge looking for gasoline because apparently there was this plan cooked up to go to new york city and the tank only had about a quarter full. so they double back to cambridge and all the while, dannys trying to find the right time to escape. he recognized that he may not see tomorrow and he had to do someth...

Danny told the boston globe in his own words because its quite extraordinary. hes there, hes at gunpoint with these two brothers, he knows theyve done the boston bombings, he knows theyve killed a policeman, and he says i was thinking, i must do two things. unfasten my seat belt and open the door and jump out as quick as i can. if i didnt make it, he would kill me right out. he would kill me right away. i just did it. i did it very fast, using my left hand and right hand simultaneously to open t...

Doing it. and i dont know if they appreciat appreciated, meaning the two brothers, how critical a witness they left behind. they made a confession to him. this whole miranda issue were worried about and talking about is almost irrelevant given the fact that they made a confession, a spontaneous confession, far more credible, really, to me, than a law enforcement confession. >> this is an amazing bit of detail again in the globe piece where at one stage, dannys iphone buzzes and its his roommate ...

Was in his car driving along quite happily when he suddenly gets carjacked. tell me about it. we will call him danny. its his american name. hes a chinese student who doesnt want to have his chinese name known. but tell me about this man and what he went through. >> well, 90 harrowing minutes of trying to survive. he immediately, the older brother approached him and told him do you know who i am, have you heard about the boston bombings. he said he did. he said well, i did that and i just killed...

Fast with the police. after i told the police what happened -- what happened, they told me okay, lets talk with the guy. so i move very slowly, go to the back area along the door, opened the door and i give the guy the phone to talk with them. i come back -- i come back to the front -- to the front area, i want to appear as if nothing wrong, everything normal. less than five minutes, all the area was protected with the police. >> professor fox, obviously tarek, this is an incredible situation he...