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Times in the interview with me. he said these are al qaeda. al qaeda sleeper cell operating in the country which he hadn't been aware of and he actually called for the west to show more support and solidarity with him, with libya in fight is these al qaeda fighters, and that was quite a surreal experience but that was the line he was sticking to and not budging from that. >> nick kristof wrote about that last week in the "new york times" when he invited female journalists back in the '80s and '90s and well known for propositioning them after granting them interviews. was he flirting with you a...

We've got to be careful not to the paint a broad brush of one student on a student visa comes to the united states, there are all applicants are suspect. this is one individual. but lynn, what really is problematic about it is that he came into this with full intention, premeditated approach coming to the united states to conduct an attack. it's almost like he was a self-selected sleeper cell. and that is impossible to identify because there's not a jihad box on the student visa application. soets you do not identify a person like this till they actually start planning and start the operationa...

>> see, again, he was off already. they went to get the other two guys off so they thought they were cleared. they weren't. he turned around. here's what i'm thinking, if i'm on the plane, i'm worried if i'm an f.b.i. agent, when they realize the plane is turning around, if you are indeed a sleeper cell, if you are indeed a terrorist -- >> this is the time to make your move. >> this is the time to make your move. you have a box cutter, something on you and all those people are on jeopardy. if they put a gang plank, jetway, you walk back and they hook it up and you open the door. as soon as tha...

Necessarily mean al qaeda or taliban. but given the claim of credit early on, clearly, that's a direction that authorities would be looking. true? >> reporter: yeah. which i think, greg, what we are hearing from the washington post report is the suggestion that there may have been been some support mechanism here in the u.s. so was shahzad faisal acting on his own? apparently not is what we are picking up now. apparently, there is something else in the water. and that, of course, raises the threat of some sort of sleeper cell. i don't think, from what we know so far that anybody would identify...

About that? >> not quite sure about the people taken off the flights but he did have a recent trip to pack, he -- in pakistan, he came back in february. it's a hot bed for terrorism, you have al-qaeda, taliban, let, the mom buy attacks were the responsibility of let members. juliet: he has family there? >> has family in southern karachi. there's a lot of training catches in southern pakistan. the question is when did he become radicalized, is this an individual who was radicalized, came to the country, was kind of like a sleeper cell, maybe a lone wolf, though i doubt that, i think there are o...