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Was a message from al zawahiri to the leader of the yemen peninsula telling him to, quote, do something. u.s. officials saying there may be several sources of related intelligence including electronic intercept, web postings and interrogating couriers. bottom line, alert still on. 19 embassies staying closed the rest of the week and questions growing about al qaeda's reach. talking about it with former fbi and cia former official and a terrorism analyst. paul, start with you. what do you make of the latest intelligence between al qaeda's top leaders saying, "do something." >> very, very concer...

It. >> and so we don't know in terms of how the interception took place, whether it was stolen from some website or something like that, from some sort of cafe where they were sending these e-mails, if they were e-mails, or if there was an informant or something along those lines, right? >> that's absolutely right. we don't know that for sure at this point, whether it was an electronic intercept or a courier. >> what's your analysis on what's going on right now? how serious is this current threat? because the longer it goes on, the more americans are going to probably say nothing has happened,...

Do we now how specific it is because i'm hearing tonight right now the information is that the major plot is under way, that there is a terrorist team to carry out the plot, it is selected and is in place. do we have any way of knowing whether or not this is a human source telling this or whether it's an electronic intercept? >> well, the intelligent community is not going the let out exactly the nature of their source, but if they have discovered it, they'll have people on the ground working with local liaison services to try to do this. remember also when we close embassies like this, it's n...

Not, it's never been this many. do we now how specific it is because i'm hearing tonight right now the information is that the major plot is under way, that there is a terrorist team to carry out the plot, it is selected and is in place. do we have any way of knowing whether or not this is human source telling this or whether it's an electronic intercept? >> well, the intelligent community is not going the let out exactly the nature of their source, but if they have discovered it, they'll have people on the ground working with local liaison services to try to do this. remember also when we clo...

Not, it's never been this many. do we now how specific it is because i'm hearing tonight right now the information is that the major plot is under way, that there is a terrorist team to carry out the plot, it is selected and is in place. do we have any way of knowing whether or not this is a human source telling this or whether it's an electronic intercept? >> well, the intelligent community is not going the let out exactly the nature of their source, but if they have discovered it, they'll have people on the ground working with local liaison services to try to do this. remember also when we c...