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Investigating two different attacks. the first one the explosion of a letter at the office of the imf, the international monetary fund in paris. they say a homemade device like a firecracker of sorts blew up in a persons face injuring them slightly before a presidential election and a militant group claimed responsibility for package bombs sent to the finance minister and another story. police are looking for a possible second attacker in a school shooting in southern france that left at least t...

Might not be able to hand delivered. ted kaczynski delivered some and mailed some as well. bill: interesting. >> right. bill: is this sophisticated bomb? does it take a while to figure out how to do it? >> you need to train to learn how to use any of these explosives like something the boston bomber used or ted kaczynski used or in this case this homemade bomb. bill: it doesnt -- >> it doesnt take a lot of skill but take as lot of practice and you can kill yourself in making these. that is evide...

speech or impact or lack of impact in the hot spots of the middle east and north africa. dominique strauss-kahn is out on bail and under indictment now on charges he tried to rape a new york hotel maid. >> the relationship, well, frosty to begin with and the president struck a new nerve it seemwise this assessment near the end of thinks big middle east speech. >> we believe the borders of ace rail israel and palestinian should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swats s...

Months has twice attempted to attack the united states. we saw on christmas day 2009 an attempt to take down an airliner coming into detroit, and we saw in october 2010 an attempt to bring down two cargo jets going towards the united states with package bombs, dhl and ups-type packages, brook. >> and apparently these e-mails february and january of 2010, weeks after the failed terror plot into detroit so this is all constant, week after week after week. paul, if youre coming at this from the per...

What are you learning about this threat? >> for the last several weeks fbi and nypd officials have been briefing bank executives and security officials, concerned based on pieces of evidence that package bombs or the like could be sent directly to bank executives at major financial institutions. they stress theres no specific threat information or any specific assassination plot under way, but they remain concerned that based on "inspire" magazine, an english langua language al qaeda publication...

Officials are warning wall street banks that al qaeda might be trying to plan acts against them or their officials. operatives have expressed a desire to mail package bombs to u.s. bankers snoop john huntsman is resigning his post ahead of what washington insiders will be a republican run for president in 2012. in a letter submitted to president obama yesterday, the former governor of utah says hes planning to leave by the end of april. a japanese volcano that roared back to life last week had...

33 past the hour. welcome back to "morning joe." a quick look at the news. security officials are warning major wall street banks that al qaeda terrorists in yemen may be trying to plan attacks against those institutions or their executives. according to intelligence officials, operatives have expressed a desire to mail package bombs or biological hazards to bankers. the banks have been told to be extra vigilant in screening their mail. new york governor andrew cuomo unveils his first budget p...

Jihadist web postings to information they have that several bank executives may have, their names may have come up amid some of the terror operatives. >> in spite of being this english language online, its -- >> its put out by al qaeda which is meant to inspire terror attacks here in the west. all of those factors combined has the joint terrorism task force here in new york concerned and so they have now gone out and briefed the major banks, morgan stanley, jpmorgan chase, goldman sachs, citiban...

Qaeda may be planning to attack big banks or their top executive. new yorks wnbc reports that al qaeda figures in yemen have expressed a desire to attract financial sector with package bombs or biological hazards like anthrax. the threats are general in nature but officials are urging banks to increase security around mail rooms and be vigilant about screening their mail. jon huntsman who is currently the u.s. ambassador to china, has submitted his letter of resignation from the white house sa...

Since 2001? >> well, everybodys i think saw this coming. it hasnt been used since 2006 as you said. but if you look at the last three big terror attack attempts, you had the christmas day bombing attempt the end of christmas 2009, the attempted car bombing in times square, then the package bombs discovered on cargo planes last fall. none of those times was the terror threat level changed. what i think homeland security believes here is that its outlived its usefulness. maybe it was the right res...