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Information. we want to examine the question of safety in the upcoming olympic games. national security analyst fran town accepted talks about this via skype ca in new york. lets talk first about volgograd, about 620 miles from sochi where the olympics will be held. thats a distance from say atlanta to miami basically. but it is a major rail hub and a lot of people will be traveling from all parts of russia to get to the olympics. theyre going to have to go through that city. so how do they even...

Show any outward signs of any sort of suffocation. nevertheless, the syrian government is saying it wants the united nations to look at these incidents, as well and possibly stay in the country longer. of course, delaying any sort of report that would come out. anderson. >> fred, is it known how much long they are u.n. team plans to be on the ground? >> well, the word we are getting is another four days. there are some sites they want to look at. we have to keep in mind, on tuesday they werent a...

We can go to the phone companies when necessary. >> our industry security analyst peter bergen, whos written extensively about al qaeda, and fran town, a former homeland security adviser to president bush and also member of the cia external advisory board. thank you both for being here. let me just throw this out there for all of you. if you are an american traveling abroad and someone says to you, hey, theres a global terrorist alert here, be careful. i can just imagine sitting there in my hote...

no, just kidding. he was tired yesterday. we start with this. he was bent on jihad and he is no dummy. thats what the feds are saying after they arrested a man in an alleged plot to dive bomb the pentagon with remote controlled planes like these. the planes would be packed with explosi explosives. the suspect is an american muslim with a physics degree. brian todd with more on how his plot was foiled. >> federal authorities arrest ad 26-year-old man from ashland, massachusetts. in an a...

not been corroborated. i want to stress that. it is credible, but it has not been corroborated. but we do live in a world where must take these threats seriously, and we certainly will. the nypd is deploying additional resources around the city and taking other steps to keep our city safe. >> we want to be very careful what we tell you tonight. with that in mind a senior intelligence official tells us the plot was to involve three individual, one of them an american citizen. the offici...

Combined with bin ladens death could open up room for negotiations by the end of the year. wolf? >> chris lawrence at the pentagon, thank you. lets dig deep other this important question. joining me are -- cnn national security analyst peter gatheringen. and fran town sends. fran serves on the homeland security and cia external advisory boards. peter, with bin laden gone, where does it leave the taliban in afghanistan? >> this is a tremendous opportunity for the taliban to do something they have...

this hour, concerns that there are potential targets at risk by cutting homeland security funds. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." we begin with deadly new clashes today in syria as security forces try to break up anti-government protests in a number of cities. human rights activists say that at least 34 people were killed. they say to end the crackdown or get out of the way. here is arwa damon. >> reporter: wolf, when we see the images coming out of syria, the path th...

Necessary to prevent terrorist attacks. lets get insight from candy crowley and from cnn national security contributor fran town send and former fbi tom fuentes. how is this playing out? do you think, if you can, game this out, are there winners or losers or provocative conversation taking place, some insights were gaining? >> certainly its provocative information thats taking place and its interesting listening while youre doing the news and listening to these hearings. you heard the anger. you...

To dubai, authorities there would have held on to him and made him available to the u.s. but im just guessing. >> i would agree. this has been a good story so far and weve had other arrests of foreign nationals who were trying to attack both inside the american homeland and abroad. jihad jane comes to mind but there were also two others. zazi and david headily who was casing targets abroad. >> another pakistani-american. >> let me just say one other thing about miranda rights because now the cha...