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Or three or four individuals often acting in al qaeda's name. so significant part of the future. >> they've been telling followers, don't get trained by us, but stay home and launch attacks at home. if you look over the united states, you've had several dozen islamist terrorist cases, most of those have been of the lone wolf variety. at the same time it would be wrong to discount the possibility of larger, more sophisticated attacks from al qaeda again hitting the united states in the future. there's still this yemeni affiliate of al qaeda, which has come close to bombing airplanes over the un...

Grown terrorists are conducting their work these days and that makes it that much harder for authorities there to try and tackle? >> absolutely. there's this emerging trend of lone wolf terrorism. al qaeda itself is encouraging this. this is a group which is under pressure from drone strikes in pakistan and yemen. they say don't come train with us. stay home and launch attacks over there. and so very, very difficult to detect plots when you have one or two or three individuals that are not connecting with overseas terrorist groups. they are not in touch with a lot of people over phone or e-mai...

So just how powerful is this online radical jihady community? and what can the government do or not do maybe the operative word, to track down people who are surfing jihadist web sites? tom foreman has an "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: the accused ft. hood shooter, convicted dc snipers and now the suspected bombers in boston, these faces represent what some security analysts call a particularly dangerous trend in the war on terror. >> they're self radicalized individuals. >> self radicalized is a term for individuals that surf jihady web sites, collecting information and launch attacks...

>> eric: you know what they are called at the dnc? delegates. >> andrea: traditionally the opposing party stays quiet in convention. they let the party get their own media and have a positive week. this time around, democrats span to spoil it and launch attacks. michelle obama going on "letterman." that is desperate. >> dana: biden is going to tampa. what could go wrong? >> andrea: can't wait for that. coming up, why do some people around the world flat-out that it united states? greg has the answer when we come back. ♪ ♪

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