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More planning. they realize theyd have to face a very tough israel air defense system. within the realm of possibilities. >> this is videotape that weve obtained we believe two pilots going through security. you can see a brief pat down. peter i want to ask you. if youre going to hijack a plane why not do it in someplace closer to israel so you can just go over and attack israel? >> there are plots that are foiled megan. if its a terrorist plot and idea of nieing with big bags of fuel into an is...

Logistics involved with it. a lot more planning. they realize that they would have to face a very tough israel air defense system. but certainly will the realm of possibilities of potential targets out there. >> this is videotape that we have obtained that we believe is the two pilots going through security. you can see a brief patdown before they boarded this flight 370. peter, i want to ask you, if youre going to hijack a plane in order to use it against israel why not do it in some place clos...

Couple miles from jerusalem to tel aviv. no one is saying this is a likely scenario but one theyre planning for. as one security official told me they said until the plane is found we have to view it as a phone shall weapon. >> wow. thank you. >> want to bring in peter crooks and our panel back with us now. peter let me start with you on this. your thoughts on the likelihood of israel facing a threat because of this? >> there has been talk of an act like this. that could be perpetrated against i...

Mystery. >> the pilot and co pilot should have been the focus from the start. it would have been investor reprocedures. interpole should have been called in. malaysia isnt cooperating at all. they were reluctant to lay it out on the cable. >> they have cooperation based on the in am of xon trees the flight could have passed over. back do you guys. >> with all of this spec technology. >> we know it was not an accident. new evidence shows it was intentional and deliberate brat act to bring down th...

990. you dont know individuals motivations and whether they will act on the motivations. >> the part of this that does not make sense to me, if this was a terrorist plot or hijacking, it all seems to have been done in this very careful way with the handoff and transponders being turned off right after that handoff between malaysian and vietnam and the course correction. but why would someone hijack a plane, play it for seven hours, and then just crash it in the ocean without anyone taking respon...

The authorities, whether they be military or civilian, in the countries involved to come up with any kind of answer, and obviously thus far, we dont have any answers for them. its extremely odd. >> yeah. it is -- well, the more that ive talked to folks around aviation, the more ive heard that phrase, it is extremely odd. captain latane campbell. thanks for your time tonight. really appreciate it. >> youre welcome. thanks for having me. the other big new piece of information about the missing f...

Passports. but malaysian authorities said today the iranians were unlikely to have been involved in any kind of terrorist plot. >> we have now learned from the malaysian police authorities that one of the holders of these stolen passports was a 19-year-old iranian man and they have named him as pouri nour mohammadi. they ruled him out as a terrorist suspect. what he was trying to do was ultimately get to frankfurt, germany, probably to migrate to the country. the other extraordinary twist in the...

If it was a deliberate act, wouldnt an that have happened? >> we would have to figure out, was it a pilot who was disgruntled? were there psychological issues or was this an actual terrorist plot, you would think if it was a terrorist plot, that would be some claim of propaganda, some claim of responsibility. the group we were talking about last night, the uighur group or the east turkmenistan independence movement, those groups have conducted terrorist operations against china. im not so the en...

Understand who is behind this. or they may take time to claim responsibility. there is no real surprise here, that only one group nobody has ever heard of has claimed responsibility. >> what do you make of the fact that you have these two guys through an iranian middleman, paid cash for their tickets within 24 hours of the flight. and yet, they seem to be suggesting that this mr. ali, this iranian guy, according to the travel agent that dealt with him, he did it many times and would just get on ...

This or may take time to cham responsibility. there is no real surprise here nobody claimed responsibility. >> what do you make of the fact that two guys through an iranian middleman paid for one way tickets within 24 hours of the flight the authorities seem to be suggesting this mr. ali, according to the travel agent she said he did it many times, just get them on any flight that will take them into europe. this for smuggling illegal immigrants into europe. >> well, there is lots of red flags a...