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Was a message from al zawahiri to the leader of the yemen peninsula telling him to, quote, do something. u.s. officials saying there may be several sources of related intelligence including electronic intercept, web postings and interrogating couriers. bottom line, alert still on. 19 embassies staying closed the rest of the week and questions growing about al qaedas reach. talking about it with former fbi and cia former official and a terrorism analyst. paul, start with you. what do you make of ...

It. >> and so we dont know in terms of how the interception took place, whether it was stolen from some website or something like that, from some sort of cafe where they were sending these e-mails, if they were e-mails, or if there was an informant or something along those lines, right? >> thats absolutely right. we dont know that for sure at this point, whether it was an electronic intercept or a courier. >> whats your analysis on whats going on right now? how serious is this current threat? be...

Do we now how specific it is because im hearing tonight right now the information is that the major plot is under way, that there is a terrorist team to carry out the plot, it is selected and is in place. do we have any way of knowing whether or not this is a human source telling this or whether its an electronic intercept? >> well, the intelligent community is not going the let out exactly the nature of their source, but if they have discovered it, theyll have people on the ground working with ...

Not, its never been this many. do we now how specific it is because im hearing tonight right now the information is that the major plot is under way, that there is a terrorist team to carry out the plot, it is selected and is in place. do we have any way of knowing whether or not this is human source telling this or whether its an electronic intercept? >> well, the intelligent community is not going the let out exactly the nature of their source, but if they have discovered it, theyll have peopl...

Not, its never been this many. do we now how specific it is because im hearing tonight right now the information is that the major plot is under way, that there is a terrorist team to carry out the plot, it is selected and is in place. do we have any way of knowing whether or not this is a human source telling this or whether its an electronic intercept? >> well, the intelligent community is not going the let out exactly the nature of their source, but if they have discovered it, theyll have peo...

Pervez musharraf says this is a gross violation of pakistani authority. >> reporter: he has quite early on seeming to want to show pakistans cooperation in this, talking about their alliance and how this operation this morning was the result of communication between the two sides. pakistani intelligence officials from very early on trying to suggest there were pakistani intelligence operatives on the ground while it happened. that was deeply quickly denied by u.s. officials and then actually ret...

U.s. trainers have been training these so-called commando units for about six years now. their tactical kit is excellent. it is interesting. they are a nonsectarian group, jamie, in the fact they are shias, sunnis and kurds all in the same organization and have a strong allegiance to the nation. but what they are lacking is helicopters, drones, electronic intercept, the ability to do the very quick intelligence analysis to go out and get ahead of these bad guys, intercept them and take them down...