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Kind of signature that might correspondent to the signature of the other bombs. >> two things are important in doing the bombing investigations. the first part to your point, anderson, is the signature of the bomber. now, bombs are made up of components, usually a power supply like a battery. there may have been a blasting cap. there's usually some type of explosive, maybe shrapnel like nails, nuts and bolts, and then a switch. people have been erroneously stating all day that this is unibomber 2.0. this is far worse. the urineeun i bomber, was the lodgest case. 16 devices in 17 years. we now,...

An incredible amount. knowing that this guy was moving this quickly, he was bound to make a mistake. >> you spoke about the evolution of the bombing techniques from the packages to the tripwire and then through fedex. what does that tell if you anything about the suspect, and in terms of tracking this suspect, did it make it look more difficult or easier? >> there's four basic opponents, you can't get around these. there's the power source which is usually a battery. an initiator which could be a blasting cap. there are the actual explosives whether it's petn, whatever fragmentation, nails, th...

Them before they injure anybody else. obviously if you put anything in the mail, it's a different type probably or a different type of concern. because they're actively counting down and draining from the power source. still a big threat. >> dana: so the battery issue is important to figuring out how this came together, right? >> yeah, absolutely. when you hear the word "pipe bomb", that is a power trained time fuse president that's wile e coyote with a fuse. a blasting cap is not easy to get ahold or or maybe. so when we hear things like he got a lot of his components or parts from home depot...

Few weeks. you had the pocket package bombs set down there. you have this trip wire device on sunday. and both our affiliates are reporting that this fedex package bomb has shrapnel in it. what does that tell you, three different kinds of devices? >> we're pretty four the first four devices were interrelated. if first one, i caution people in matters that involve the military and law enforcement investigations, early reports are often inaccurate. we have to be careful, but there does seem to be some similarities there. we've heard reports there might have been shrapnel. there's four components...

These are three separate delivery systems. now, when it comes to bombs, every bomber has his own signature. and the device is basically made up of four components, a power source, which can be a battery, you have an initiator which can be a blasting cap, you have the actual explosives and then the shrapnel that could be part of it. and then you have the switch. the issue here is with bombs, which makes it so frightening, is the lethality of them. most people that come in contact with a bomb, most casualties come out of the overpressure that comes out of it. then if there is shrapnel introduced...