detonate but the concern here is that there could be more out there and that s why the president came out and wanted to directly address the american people and make sure everyone is vigilant. larry: these 13 more are on the u.p.s. and fedex planes? reporter: they re not sure where they are. that is one of the scary parts that they are trying to sift through. just a few days before the midterm elections, this year has been dominated on domestic issues, economy, health care, jobs and all of a sudden a chilling remind for this white house and for this country terror can hijack the agenda. they don t know where the packages are and the other significant piece is having potentially a connection to yemen where the packages started but potentially a connection to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. that s the same terror group that was behind the underwear bomber and had ties to him back on christmas day when they tried to bring down that jetliner over detroit. this is a big, big story.
information sharing and action upon that information worked very effectively. as some of your reporters commented earlier, if they truly believe and if the intelligence says there are another 13 packages out there, then you wonder how complete the intelligence was because at this juncture they were available to intervene and secure a couple of them but apparently there s at least a dozen or more out there. again, the intelligence may vary in terms of authenticity. the number may not be correct. it s good news. at the end of the day what s the source? who s the individual? right now i m sure there s frenzied activity in many jurisdictions in many countries within the intelligence and law enforcement community. so far this is a sign that when we get intelligence and at the end of the day that s the toughest part of combatting these terrorists. we can act. it remains to be seen whether the intelligence is completely correct and whether or not we ll have sufficient time to act upon it. l
we don t know what was the intended target here, but just a tiny, be tiny amount and we re seeing the size of these devices here, can do a huge amount of damage. the underpants bomber we were talking about a few minutes ago who tried to bring down that plane over detroit, he had about 80 grams of this explosive. it s very hard to detect. it s easy to transport because it won t just suddenly go off. it s highly destructive when you detonate it properly, larry. larry: nic, unless the sender was a name known to the synagogue, wouldn t they have immediately been suspicious? that s one of the strangest things about this. a package being sent from yemen with everything we know about yemen to a synagogue in the united states, you have to believe that s going to raise red flags. there are many assessments that must be going on at this time. ed talked about 13 other packages.
that there could be more out there and that s why the president came out and wanted to directly address the american people and make sure everyone is vigilant. larry: these 13 more are on the u.p.s. and fedex planes? reporter: they re not sure where they are. that is one of the scary parts that they are trying to sift through. just a few days before the midterm elections, this year has been dominated on domestic issues, economy, health care, jobs and all of a sudden a chilling remind for this white house and for this country terror can hijack the agenda. they don t know where the packages are and the other significant piece is having potentially a connection to yemen where the packages started but potentially a connection to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. that s the same terror group that was behind the underwear bomber and had ties to him back on christmas day when they tried to bring down that jetliner over detroit. this is a big, big story. larry: the yemen government
tiny, be tiny amount and we re seeing the size of these devices here, can do a huge amount of damage. the underpants bomber we were talking about a few minutes ago who tried to bring down that plane over detroit, he had about 80 grams of this explosive. it s very hard to detect. it s easy to transport because it won t just suddenly go off. it s highly destructive when you detonate it properly, larry. larry: nic, unless the sender was a name known to the synagogue, wouldn t they have immediately been suspicious? that s one of the strangest things about this. a package being sent from yemen with everything we know about yemen to a synagogue in the united states, you have to believe that s going to raise red flags. there are many assessments that must be going on at this time. ed talked about 13 other packages. we don t know where those may have been sent to. these may be the easy ones to find. the red herrings that were