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Similarities his location was with the fires that occurred. >> reporter: now police have reportedly given this person of interest a nickname, meat loaf segal because he appears to be a singer meat loaf and actress sieve stren segal. jenna: first time i heard that. that will stick. tell us about the fireses have there been any casual at thises or injuries because of the fires that have been set? >> reporter: unbelievely no. many fires were set in cars or under the engine block and again no fatali...

Up and then looking at what similarities his location was with the fires that occurred. >> reporter: now police have reportedly given this person of interest a nickname, meat loaf segal because he appears to be a singer meat loaf and actress sieve stren segal. jenna: first time i heard that. that will stick. tell us about the fireses have there been any casual at thises or injuries because of the fires that have been set? >> reporter: unbelievely no. many fires were set in cars or under the engi...

"inspire" magazine. that is the al qaeda magazine, an online magazine, which tells interested people how to do these kind of things. we are told by the source that the man had acquired all material and was even going so far as to drill holes in a pipe bomb. he was going to use homemade ingredients in order to detonate this device and the device, had he put it together correctly, would, in fact, have worked. were being told that he planned to target service men, men -- service men and w...

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up support for today, and essentially it would raise the debt ceiling and also save some $917 billion in spending over the course of the next decade, so were keeping an eye on that as always, but first lets get to that developing story for you out of texas. an awol muslim-american soldier has been arrested near ft. hood with what the fbi is saying is a large amount of bomb-making materials. private first class naser abdo is now in custody after a sales clerk at a gun shop alerted polic...

Guys in jail. ideologically these groups are very similar. weve already seen these kinds of groups very recently try to do a similar kind of attack in the times square area. >> in terms of the device, though, that was used. authorities early on were saying look, this is a pretty primitive device. the fertilizener the vehicle wasnt actually explosive grade fertilizer. you know, you see the timing device there. so in terms of the expertise, it doesnt seem like they have -- whoever the group is doe...

>> right. and its utterly indis-christmas nit. and of course, you know, weve had a case in just the last seven months of an afghan with two other residents of the united states trying to attack not only wall street with homemade bombs but also times square by the account of their own, you know, the court proceedings that have put these guys in jail. ideologically these groups are very similar. weve already seen these kinds of groups very recently try to do a similar kind of attack in the times s...

When they are able to put the components together. but we know it had propane tanks. we know there was gasoline and water -- wiring, and the wiring was to a timing device or devices. the fact there were timing device meant it was set to go off at a specific time to cause that explosion and possible devastation. >> thomas, are they going to be cross-referencing the components now that they know what they center will the cross-reference them with other similar incidents that have taken place elsew...

Tanks of gasoline. >> i would be checking on the clocks. that gives you -- thats probably unusual. once i check the label, may may be able to find out who is the droibt tor of that propane type gas. >> were talking about finding a clock inside the car. what kind of clock? whats the purpose? >> its a timing device. it i said it. it works its down to zero. thats when its going to go off. so we may have -- when i say zero, i may have it set to go off at 6:45. hopefully we create a spark and

That was a bomb in the hold of a 747 that blew up over lockerbie, scotland and it was on a timing device so you dont have to be beside a bomb to detonate it so i wonder if this is such a great concern the proper security response probably should be dont put them on the plane whatsoever. i cant imagine that happening in this day and age. >> thats not going to happen, completely eliminate ipads or laptops. >> right. >> but theres no doubt, peter bergen, and youve studied this for a long time, they...