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Some of the alleged cell members are said to have tie to osama bin laden. the cell is liked to a massacre in pakistan and suspected human trafficking. ill speak live with our correspondents analysts and guests with full coverage. lets get all of the very latest. pamela brown joins us with that. >> aitalian police say the 18 suspected al qaeda terrorists being arrested for plotting to possibly launch a devastating attack on the vatican during pope benedicts rain in 2010. thousands of people go to...

Were all fearful, but the pope is very calm. that was a direct quote. mean tile the italian prosecutor did not explain what was behind the timing of the arrest. as i mentioned, wolf they had been monitoring the cell for ten years. >> suspicious stuff, but important, thanks very much. tonight a new promise by president obama to identify and fix what went wrong when a u.s. drone strike accidentally killed two al qaeda hostages including an american. were learning more about the failed efforts to...

Before carrying out the attack. its unclear why the group pulled the plug. but the prosecutor say they may have been spooked, caught on the fact that police were tracking them. police began investigating this terror cell in 2005. the cell they said had an abundance of weapons and cash but by 2012 the group changed communication tactics and the investigation slowed down until today. two of the suspects arrested allegedly had direct ties to osama bin laden security detail and were involved in an a...

No love lost between these two groups but al qaeda and yemen grow in strength in the country because of all this sectarian tension. theyre recruiting greater numbers of sunni tribals. more resources than almost anytime before and the most active group when it comes to plots against the u.s. homeland. they have bomb makers building more and more sophisticated devices to try to target u.s. aviation. >> its interesting. lets look at the attack in tunisia that occurred two days ago right before this...

All of the atrocities going on in guantanamo bay and those kinds of things. with that he believes he was sent to do this. bill: he went to high school in ohio, correct? >> he did. bill: hes age 20 now and behind bars for who knows how long and his daughter says hes in more trouble now for talking to you. he could be described as a sleeper cell but how much contact does he have with others? >> i asked him that. he has a phone first off. he has a phone. he can call anybody he wants at any time of ...

Muslims stand for. what makes you so different. >> he said no in fact this is what we stand for. this is who we are. i am a member of the islamic state. this is what i want to do. and we are all over america. we have sleeper cells everywhere. we are in ohio. we are in washington, d.c. we are all over the place. we are quiet right now. just waiting for the moment to strike. >> if he is going to sit and do this whats this sort of thing about sitting around in ohio. why didnt he go off to syria and...

You hire this man? he is accused of belonging to a sleeper cell. he was cleared but still people are going to ask that question. >> completely cleared. in my world, that means judicial jihad. when you say were not hiring you especially in canada which has experience where people in islamic world allege mistreatment well say i have been discriminated against because im muslim. so we have the jihad in syria and judicial jihad who are cleared and can get a position like this because if theyre not h...

The bomb would be more powerful than this, the so-called underwear and shoe bombs which u.s. authorities replicated and exploded. the instructions even include where to sit on a plane to maximize damage. but what most alarmed u.s. security officials is that the device, with no metal parts is specifically designed to get through standard airport magnetometers and only be detected by full body scanner machines, which are not present in many smaller airports. through this large loophole, the instru...

Mornings are better with friends. watch this animation. >> hey, this is john ratzenberger and youre watching "fox & friends". >> so cheers to you and of course, on mondays, we always bring in bret baier live from our nations capitol. >> good morning. >> how about this report out of britain that islamic sleeper cell terrorists would like to blow up five passenger planes from european cities just in time for christmas? >> yeah. so were just getting word, catherine herridge put something in the sys...

Sleeper cell busted in america, and once again, russia is involved. you remember anna chapman and her friends climbing up the new york social ladder until their arrests just a couple years ago. and then to further complicate americas relationship with russia, moscow grants asylum to edward snowden, now fast forward to this. the justice department exposing a new spy ring. this one involved russian diplomats and fraud. evan perez broke this development, and he joins me now. evan, if these guys wer...