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Blasting cap and put something together to make it look -- i talked to special agent bomb technicians from the fbi in quantico, those packages screamed for attention, like somebody wanted you to know there was a bomb there. >> let's put up the x-ray images of them. here they are. what does it tell you when you look at this. >> first of all, the package, right, so the packaging there. pvc pipe. there's two types of casing for this. one is pvc pipe, stuffed with nails or nuts or bolts or use a cast iron pipe. the package becomes a shrapnel. four components. a power supply, typically a battery, i...

Even to the untrained mind that means there's similar constructions, similar points of origin. what do you see in the details? >> in some of the pipe bombs and ieds i saw in afghanistan, the pvc pipe, there are going to be shards that come off that, that's not like nails or if they used a cast iron pipe, with threaded end pieces they screwed together, where the packaging backs a fragmentation. three things from the bomb that can kill you, overpressure, soft tissue damage. fragmentation. if it's a pvc pipe, they're packed with nails and nuts and bolts, and third, what happens when the bomb expl...

There was a bomb there. >> let's put up the x-ray images of them. here they are. what does it tell you when you look at this. >> first of all, the package, right, so the packaging there. pvc pipe. there's two types of casing for this. one is pvc pipe, stuffed with nails or nuts or bolts or use a cast iron pipe. the package becomes a shrapnel. four components. a power supply, typically a battery, initiator, typically a blasting cap, the shrapnel, the things stuffed inside of it and fourth would be the switch. was it electrical fuse, a trip wire or was it possibly a key fob or cell phone somebod...

Can kill you, overpressure, fragmentation. if it's a pvc pipe, they're packed with nails and nuts and bolts, and third, what happens when the bomb explodes, it causes a fire that burns a person that's handling it or causes a fire and people die from asphyxiation. >> we have the kbom, and then we have the man or the men and women who did it? >> that's the first question, the fbi, the secret service, postal service and others are going to form a task force and they're going to start hunting down the individual or individuals or group that caused this that sent these bombs. part of that is going ...

You have the components of the devices themselves, some of the devices, they didn't have to go through the formal process of trying to render them safe and dismantling of that device through either a countercharge or a disrupter. you have fairly intact devices that will be able to provide a lot of clues. you have potential serial numbers on the electronics, whether it's the battery, the digital timer. and as well as information from the actual possibility of the pvc pipe providing information. on the exterior of the package, there's always, of course, the potential for physical evidence like d...