sfb. that exchange at the tactical level is going to go on. politically, the administration is going to be careful they don t get caught in a tidal wave. let me go to richard engel for another thought. the worry is what happens next. look at the al qaeda web forums all day, they are celebrating what is going on in boston. they are talking about how much this is costing the city of boston, how americans are, quote, living in fear, how the city is under siege. they are absolutely thrilled by the images that have been on american televisions today. and there is a concern that this could lead to a copycat. someone who could be self-inspired and with a very small amount of expertise and small amount of money can have a very big impact. are they claiming any role? or any solidarity with the action or simply in the result? solidarity, certainly. there s been one chechen group that denied involvement and a group that claimed responsibility in the past. al qaeda in the islamist maghreb
united statess should be particularly concerned about and any areas on our radar we don t talk about right now. the two areas we need to be concerned about are the most obvious ones. number one, north africa, libya, algeria and egypt and number two syria. i think that s the big story here, is syria. up until a few days ago, all the chatter taking place on terrorist web forums and on chat rooms was all about syria. about people going to fight there and waging jihad there. there is this idea among would be al qaeda types that syria is the next afghanistan. now, there s a lot of complexity to that conflict, and i certainly don t want to suggest that everyone who is fighting assad is a terrorist or jihadists. there are a lot of very, very extreme people headed there, and the question is is that what happened after they re done in syria? what happens next? what do they do next? the concern is they could take part in operations across the middle east targeting u.s.
the raptor on the web, in an exclusive interview with foxnews.com he claims to be a grandfather and former member of the military with at least one kid on active duty and his twitter account is active and he seems to take pride in the demise of the radical websites. on march 25th, raptor tweeted all three of al-qaeda s top tier web forums, al shamuk, mu gentleman what deed, tango one, fuzz you, ayman, a reference to the leader, and eight days ago, raptor seemed to tweet the counterterrorism community writing for years intelligence officials are relied on al-qaeda forums to gather insights yet after all these years we re still at war. these websites were down for ten days time, one of the longest periods on record and as the fbi director told congress recently they are the life blood of the new digit it will jihad. most of the arrests that we ve made over the last year, year and a half, have been lone wolves, those individuals who have been radicalize dollars, trained on the internet
capability of developing i.e.d.s, and other mechanisms on the internet. reporter: these web forums are used to spread the hateful ideology of al-qaeda 2. o, the new generation of american recruits. that includes adam gadan, on the left, from california, oman hamai from alabama, anwar alar lackie, the new mexico-born cleric killed by the cia last september, and whoever or whatever may be responsible for taking down these sites, it s very difficult to independently verify the claims from raptor but he seems to subscribe to this view that it s one thing to kill a man and quite another to kill his ideas and what we ve seen from al-awlaki s death, it has inspired terrorism in the united states, jenna. jenna: hard to know anything for sure, he s outside the government, a vigilante, if you will? reporter: this is really a propaganda war, sort of a battle of ideas. he says he s not part of the government. we can t independently verify that, though u.s. government officials have
i m really overwhelmed right now. interviewing the pilot to try to i was looking down from the get some answers about what airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. happened yesterday. jason carroll, thanks so much. the woman who died, that was to what s important for me to say be a part of her 40th birthday is just thank you to everyone celebration who has believed in me who has still ahead a wisconsin man trying to figure out why governor rick perry s office defended me, who has supported my family. deletes its e-mails after 70 days. he s wondering if perry s got secrets. i just want my family is the my name is robin. most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so, thank you for being there for me. cnn s drew griffin was there. this was a very emotional moment for her and her supporters wasn t it, drew? yeah, it was. i think, you know, after hearing that statement again, fred, you could hear in her voice just how unprepar