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Many of their fellow officers have been killed in u.s. missile strikes and u.s. drone strikes, whether thats in somalia or yemen or syria or iraq. and so they already have plenty of reasons to go after the united states. isis is already encouraged lone wolves in the united states to try and launch attacks. so i dont think this is significantly going to increase the potential of a terrorist attack here, wolf. >> you wont be surprised that the former vice president dick cheney is suggesting that t...

Delete anything that could draw attention from violent extremists. chief intelligence correspondent live from washington with more. what is this all about? >> federal law enforcement and homeland security sources confirm a bulletin from the fbi and dhs sent out warning the military review and scrub social media profiles giving credible threat from isis. it is first by fox reads in part "the fbi and dhs recommend members of the military review online social media accounts with information that co...

Could can be teaming up? maybe theyre not joined but we heard in the report you have fighters coming over from aqap to be with isis. what do we make of this? >> a formal alliance probably not. but working loosely together as he said, exchanging techniques and tactics, having some advance trainers swap back and forth, all kinds of jihadist groups do this. we shouldnt be surprised these twos franchises former franchise in one case and aqap the most capable al qaeda franchise are talking to each ot...

Three or four or five years ago but were still trying to do something, chris. >> weve been told, youve said it to me on this show, al qaeda has become somewhat of a brand now. dont read any extension of al qaeda as the original organization growing, its just being borrowed by new groups. and yet when people hear this information, paul, theyre going to say are we losing? is that what this means? does this mean were losing because the threat is growing faster than our ability to stop it? whats the...

Attacks? i sense its a delicate situation in the country right now. >> theres real, real concern about some of these rallies, the violence against the muslim community. everybodys worse nightmare, a sort of vicious cycle of violence with these extremist groups on the islamist side, but also the far right nationalist side feeding off each other. thats really everybodys nightmare, and british authorities want to do everything possible for that not to be the case, wolf. >> big picture, lets wrap it...

Or three or four individuals often acting in al qaedas name. so significant part of the future. >> theyve been telling followers, dont get trained by us, but stay home and launch attacks at home. if you look over the united states, youve had several dozen islamist terrorist cases, most of those have been of the lone wolf variety. at the same time it would be wrong to discount the possibility of larger, more sophisticated attacks from al qaeda again hitting the united states in the future. theres...

Grown terrorists are conducting their work these days and that makes it that much harder for authorities there to try and tackle? >> absolutely. theres this emerging trend of lone wolf terrorism. al qaeda itself is encouraging this. this is a group which is under pressure from drone strikes in pakistan and yemen. they say dont come train with us. stay home and launch attacks over there. and so very, very difficult to detect plots when you have one or two or three individuals that are not connect...

So just how powerful is this online radical jihady community? and what can the government do or not do maybe the operative word, to track down people who are surfing jihadist web sites? tom foreman has an "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: the accused ft. hood shooter, convicted dc snipers and now the suspected bombers in boston, these faces represent what some security analysts call a particularly dangerous trend in the war on terror. >> theyre self radicalized individuals. >> self radicali...

>> eric: you know what they are called at the dnc? delegates. >> andrea: traditionally the opposing party stays quiet in convention. they let the party get their own media and have a positive week. this time around, democrats span to spoil it and launch attacks. michelle obama going on "letterman." that is desperate. >> dana: biden is going to tampa. what could go wrong? >> andrea: cant wait for that. coming up, why do some people around the world flat-out that it united states? greg has the ans...

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