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This was not someone who was led along by law enforcement. and they say that this young man,ç khalid ali-m aldawsari, o is 20 years old, had come to the united states in 2008 with already the intention formed in his mind to carry out some kind of terror attack in the u.s. now, according to documents that were found in a search of his house, the fbi says, he had written a diary indicating that he started to think about jihad when he was still in high school in saudi arabia, and that he sought out scholarships so that he could come to the united states, study english, study chemical engineerin...

Will understand why. >> reporter: traveling across country, al awlaki became a prominent eman in falls church, virginia, and one of the hijackers followed him there and another would soon join. he set out pursuing a ph.d. at george washington university. >> what is scary is that he is adapting best business practices to terrorist process. >> reporter: imam here who arrived at falls church after he left says that the radical cleric subverts the faith, and preys on the followers. >> if you look at the statistics most of the people who are so-called radicalized, they know very little about their ...

He is supposed to be a friend of shahzad who played a crucial role in introducing shahzad to the suicide bomber trainer in north waziristan where he learned how to -- where he learned the art of building bombs. also shahzad's father-in-law has been arrested, who is a naturalized american citizen. his wife, authorities believe, is in pakistan also. shahzad comes from a wealthy and well-educated family background. their neighbors in a town northwest of pakistan say that his family is well reputed, respected, and has no connections to militants. interior minister that electric said today there ma...

In front of us and whether or not that gives us any idea of who this could be linked to? >> look, calling as a bomb might be giving the folks who built this a little too much credit. there is no explosive device in this. -- but it's a glorified molotov cocktail. not deadly, no ingenuity, no bomb, no explosive. gas canisters were wrapped around a fuse. it doesn't take much expertise to build that. you don't have to go through a terrorist training camp to build something like that. al qaeda operatives in the past tend to use explosives, ie, bombs, they were building explosives out of acetone per...

Some of them are more junior in the league. if you look at zazi here, he was going to fabricate real explosives. this attempting car bombing, there was no explosive. it was an insaid insidiary device, sure. it was good for planting flowers with, not good for building bombs with. >> amateur or not, since 9/11 in new york, if they are sophisticated enough to fly planes into buildings, what is stopping them from doing a more sophisticated version of what we saw saturday night, which is just to drive a car bomb or a suitcase or whatever it is right into the heart of manhattan? >> i think the answe...