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Couriers are often sent to internet cafe on public computers where they encrypt the message and send it through an e-mail account set up specifically for that one message and no other. minutes later the whole trail d disappears. some security analysts say the combination of technology, social media sites and internet anonymity is the backbone of terrorist communications. flash point global partners says it works well. >> i think they allow such groups to flourish. they certainly give the means f...

Weve been there for a number of years. there are 60,000 troops in the country. there are military bases all over the place, sometimes big, sometimes small, outposts, all potential targets, and they get about $4.6 billion in aid as they talk with the taliban there trying to strike some kind of deal, but at the same time there have been increased attacks already. so thats a reason that afghanistan might be the place to be worried about, and what about a wildcard like jordan up here by syria? here ...

Said he has -- essentially willing to put himself at the hands of the courts and the people of hong kong. >> are there any mor leaks coming, do you think? >> certainly, security analysts believe that theres the real potential for it, and he himself has said that, while he had access to all this security data, he had access, for example, to the names, locations, and roles of cia operatives around the world, the stations that they operated out of, and even covert operatives. but he has said that h...

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...

Outfront. >> reporter: when the fbi release the these vote yoez during the search for the boston suspects, there is hope that computers might help as they do on shows like "csi," comparing facial features with existing data and coming up with a name. >> hello, harry. >> reporter: but even though pictures of both brothers were in public data bases, the computers that searched that data missed them and came up empty. the government has been working on facial identification software since the 1960s...

>> reporter: when the fbi release the these vote yoez during the search for the boston suspects, there is hope that computers might help as they do on shows like "csi," comparing facial features with existing data and coming up with a name. >> hello, harry. >> reporter: but even though pictures of both brothers were in public data bases, the computers that searched that data missed them and came up empty. the government has been working on facial identification software since the 1960s and compa...

Say who are these two men? so why didnt the technology work? tom foreman investigates "outfront." >> reporter: when the fbi release the these vote yoez during the search for the boston suspects, there is hope that computers might help as they do on shows like "csi," comparing facial features with existing data and coming up with a name. >> hello, harry. >> reporter: but even though pictures of both brothers were in public data bases, the computers that searched that data missed them and came up ...

>> of course any information that they may be able to get from that is critical for authorities. one security analysts told cnn for the investigation, the deleted accounts are the most significant. could a bomb-sniffing dog presented the boston marathon attacks or could a machine? new technology is pitting highly trained k-9s against man-made detecters. >> technology is coming that experts hope will keep everybody safe. from the boston marathon to u.s. troops on patrol in afghanistan, in the l...

Did they act alone? thats the question so many people are asking at this hour. our security analysts told anderson cooper its very likely the brothers had help carrying out their plan. >> i think its very interesting that they were able to detonate two bombs almost simultaneously. i think thats pretty hard. it suggests either practice in the united states or training elsewhere or perhaps both. we have had terrorists who have gone overseas and tried to detonate bombs in the united states, for exa...

Great lengths to plan and execute this attack to get all the component pieces, to put it together successfully and plant it and to have it go off, we have to presume, and im sure the fbi does, that they had an escape plan. >> the top of the hour. i just want to reset for our viewers here in the united states and around the world who might just be tuning in, im wolf blitzer. were watching this dramatic situation here in "the situation room," breaking news this hour. here are the headlines. the fb...