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The state capture inquiry chair, acting chief justice Raymond Zondo, has recommended law enforcement agencies further investigate and charge former Transnet boss Brian Molefe for unduly paying R20m to a company owned by a former minister, Gen Siphiwe Nyanda.

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Guys on the train who ended up having to step in. how do you have these kinds of failures? >> leland, you know, all the reports arent in yet, but this does demonstrate how difficult it is to track people such as this. now, theres 5,000 people at least on that list. theres been thousands of people from france who have gone to syria, and its very difficult to follow them all. the only way it can be done, i believe, is through increased surveillance, surveillance this the muslim communities. the sa...

Law. a problem of potential radicalization, people associated with jihadist movements. its so broad, you cannot survey them all. >> then you get to the reality of what happened on the train. you are not always going to have these three men. theres a french american citizen in the hospital. other nationalities involved that stepped up. doesnt always happen. trains are vulnerable. theres no security going on and off. should that change or choose convenience over 100% safety? >> its a great questio...

Communities, infiltrating the moss -- mosques or listening to folks phone calls and twitter accounts? >> im talking about all of the above. and the nsa does not listen to anyones phone calls, all they do is monitor phone numbers that are made from overseas into the united states. nobody can listen to anyones phone calls without a court order, and the nsa doesnt do that. the main thing i would say in situations like this would be on-the-ground intelligence, people in the community, getting inform...

Going in and out of stations and the like. but we also need tract detention equipment as we are building high peed rail networks, hopefully those types of technologies can be built in to find tampering at the switches and the like. grants are being spent on rail security. americans need to understand these are inherently vulnerable transportation systems especially mass transit, much less amtrak. you have to be realistic about what is achievable here. jon: we saw what happened in places like lon...

Security has gotten better? >> reporter: i think its both. i think experts will tell you its effective and determined counterterrorism efforts on the parts of the u.s. and its diminishing resources in al qaeda. and now you have bin ladens death. so theres a lot of questions. what al qaeda can do. you can be sure that al qaeda and its affiliates will continue to deliver these threats, as theyve done over the past couple of days on the heels of the killing of bin laden. but its crucial, i think, t...

He wants added funding for rail security and train monitoring and inspections. hes calling on the department of homeland security to expand its secure flight monitoring program to include the nations trains. >> you can walk on any train with shoes, bags, no questions asked. >> the two congressmen from new york think some of the $25 million bounty on bin ladens head should be used to help victims of the 9/11 attacks, announced yesterday at a news conference at ground zero. congressman weiner and ...

13 minutes past the hour now. holed up in a compound in pakistan for five years, time spent plotting moves in, perhaps, his reign of terror. a law enforcement source says al qaeda was plotting to try to attack trains here in the united states. homeland security department has issued an alert about rail security. joining us now from washington, our d.c. bureau is peter brooks, former deputy assistant secretary of defense and senior fellow with the heritage foundation. thanks for being with us. >>...