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Specifically facebook. adding that investigators are looking for potential contacts with the american cleric anwar al-awlaki who has seen part of this new generation of digital jihadists who inspire attacks from the web. facebook site references to holy war and unbeliever. afraid of islam and spread and rather we believe in santa claus. of course, all that web traffic and his friends on that site are being looked at pretty hard, shep. shepard: what are german investigators saying they are most concerned about here? well, they are making a very interesting point tonight by saying that if the evidence pans out, that this was a shooting by a lone gunman who was in some way self-radicalized, this, to my memory, would be the very first case of homegrown terrorism in that country. traditionally what we have seen in germany and other parts of europe is that operatives travel to the tribal areas of pakistan. once in pakistan, they get that training. then they come back to europe to launch ....
Specifically targeted the united states in the last 18 months, and what you see with both of these men is they use the internet as a driver for their ideas. you can go to the internet, you can involve yourself in chat rooms, you can go through the radicalization process. you can receive training, you can receive funding, you can receive operational guidance, and you can receive your orders to execute all virtually without ever having to meet those that radicalized or recruited you. reporter: the former cia directer told me at one point they believed there a had to be direct contact between a recruiter or someone who inspires in the case of the christmas day underwear bomber. what we ve seen increasingly is that that personal contact or connection be you want to call it the mentoring thing just doesn t need to exist anymore. and you can call this new generation of al-qaeda 2.0 in many ways they re the new digital jihadists, gregg. gregg: all right. catherine herridge live in ....