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At this time of year, documents found at bin laden's compound in abbottabad show he was talking about launching attacks in the christmas period, the holiday period, on christmas day, even july 4, a sort of cloj squall reason. also they realize a lot of people are traveling at that time. but in general, these terrorist plots have been launched when the terrorists are ready rather than at any particular time of year. but there is additional concern this holiday period because isis now has this safe haven in syria and iraq and they've called for lone wolf attacks in the west. we've seen attacks i...

In november, mr. henry bought this gun on a delta commercial airliner to new york. there's also an ar-15 and assault weapon he smuggled on the plane. what i want to do is walk you through in detail. and we're going to answer your questions about how this happened and how long this is going on. but in order to do so, i have to go over to the charts. i'm going to show you. so what we have here is mark henry the former delta airlines employee. he worked for delta between 2007 and 2010. he was a baggage handler. he was fired in 2010. his mother had worked for delta for many years. first with pan a...

In atlanta to jfk new york. weapons included ak-47s and ar-15s and what's more, some of them were actually loaded. the arrest warrant calls the operation "one of the biggest security breaches in recent years." cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh joins me live to talk more about this. rene, the question i guess is on a lot of people's minds, how could a guy get guns onto flights in a carry-on backpack? how can this happen today? >> that is the big question, and really, when you hear the details, it's an alarming breach in airport security. here's how it happened according to investigators. th...

He worked with the current delta employee, eugene harvey. eugene harvey is currently a baggage handler down at the airport in atlanta. henry would meet with harvey sometimes at harvey's house in atlanta and give him guns that harvey was to smuggle into the airport. sometimes they met at henry's mother's house or other locations down in atlanta. henry would give harvey the g s guns. now this is critical. the problem down with this -- at this airport in atlanta is that the employees don't have to go through screening. and so when the employees arrive at the airport, they can get into the termina...

>> it's always backlogged that the delays create. it's also a big part of the problem too. gabe, thank you. also developing right now, the atlanta airport is in the spotlight after a smuggling scheme was uncovered behind the scenes. two men, one of them a delta airlines baggage handler arrested charged with repeatedly smuggling guns aboard delta flights. pete williams is nbc's legal correspondent. how did this scheme work? >> first of all, the guns were never on the street. they were all bought by undercover officers in new york tracing illegal flow of guns into the city. a 31-year-old baggage...