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Peroxide is very easy to obtain in the beauty salon, as you said. and its a matter of having a better practice with these things at making detonators and theyre getting this experience in syria and iraq and places like that where theyve got ranges where they can show them how to make this. so this is isnt like buying explosives. you can get the manufacturer and the suppliers, anybody can make this stuff. >> buck, i want to ask you about how long this may have taken to plan. because obviously fre...

A pipe bomb. does that shake your faith that there were others involved? >> oh, no, not at all. ive made so many of these myself that its really hard to make the detonators work and electronics. you need practice. if you do this stuff on your own, yes. if you do this as a job, work with your hands, yes, but i dont think neither of these two men did. but on the other hand, theres no explosives expert will tell you need hands-on practice for a very long time, especially when youre making these thi...

Myself that its really hard to make the detonators work and electronics. you need practice. if you do this stuff on your own, yes. if you do this as a job, work with your hands, yes, but i dont think neither of these two men did. but on the other hand, theres no explosives expert will tell you need hands-on practice for a very long time, especially when youre making these things go off under pressure like a gun fight, or youre placing bombs. you just cant count on people -- >> youve actually mad...

Are. he goes for an extended period to russia, in the same region where he is. there is terrorist activity going on. there is a known radicalizer who is there. when he come backs from russia, he puts a video of abu dujan on youtube. to connect the dots as an unsophisticated untrained eye in this regard, doesnt that seem like something that is suspicious? >> chris, it is. i spent a couple of years in prisons interviewing suicide bombers and their networks. and ive yet to see one of them, one of t...