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Connect the dots. they're growing on the ground, growing on the internet, on social media groups. they have a magazine, al qaeda has a magazine called "inspire" we learn about through the boston bombers, learning how to make homemade bombs. they're encouraging lone wolf attacks and the old-school group is still continuing to plan bombs and the new school or younger followers are now trying to recruit other followers -- >> neil: apparent live a lot of -- apparently a lot of them. one thing we discovered in the last few week wes had the prison breaks, hundreds of al qaeda types in and looks like...

Originate? >> reporter: well, brooke, it seems that the threat originates in yemen. there's a lot of concern because it may be linked to the chief bombmaker of the group in yemen, ibrahim asyria. he's the mastermind behind those three attempts against u.s. airliners. three plots against u.s. airliners in recent years. he's been able to build the most sophisticated devices ever seen from al qaeda devices which are very difficult for detection, scanner equipment to pick up. so a lot of concern that he may be linked to this plot. this is a guy who put a bomb inside his own brother in august 2009 ...

U.s. government and its allies aren't taking action. this is an incredibly serious threat. when you've got him discussing this sort of a plot, you know that it's serious. remember, he issued a video statement talking about the muslim brothers around the world who were incarcerated. we've seen these prison breaks. 2000 al qaeda related affiliates have escaped from prison in eight countries throughout the region. there's a lot of activity that have caused them to take this quite seriously. >> you wrote an article about this number two al qaeda leader, and it comes at a time when i just got a pre...

Leader eric cantor on "fox news sunday." congressman trey radle joins us live. congressman, thank you for your time today. >> it's great to be with you. >> based on what you know, what you can share, how credible and detailed is this particular threat? >> in terms of what we can share of some of the classified information, that it was so detailed that august 4th is a date that kept coming up. we know that it is placed regionally, most specifically out of yemen. let's take a look at what's happened in the greater region in that time. we've had several prison breaks in pakistan, libya, and ira...

These embassies. the other thing that they're doing today, i'm told, is homeland security has ordered much tighter airport screenings on flights coming from overseas into the united states. and they do not think that this is related to the prison breaks. but you have to be concerned about the prison breaks in libya, iraq, and pakistan where all of these arrested terrorists are now on the loose. >> so under diminished capacity. >> let's put this in a broader context. one of the debates we're having about these surveillance brams is -- programs is, we are far enough away from 9/11 that we ought ...