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Necessarily mean al-qaeda or taliban, but given the claimdit of credit early on, that's the direction the authorities would be looking.e? true?reg, >> yes. what we are hearing is the suggestion that there may havetr been some support mechanismtecha here in the u.s. so was he acting on his own? apparently not is what we are picking up now.se ithe apparently there is something else in the water, and that ofr, course raises the threat ofrt some sort of sleeper cell. i don't think from what we know so far that anybody would identify him as an agent of al-qaeda or the taliban. the question is wheth...

>> larry: one more question for deborah feyerick in new york.any possibility, any word yet about an international connection to this? >> well, you know, larry, that is what some of our counterterrorism folks are telling us in washington. they are investigating now, the focus of the investigation shifting overseas to see whether, in fact this person or people involved in this attempted attack, whether they traveled overseas whether they communicated, did they have any sort of ties to any radical groups over there or were they influenced by radical jihadi websites. all of that under investigatio...

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...

>> larry: one more question for deborah feyerick in new york.any possibility, any word yet about an international connection to this? >> well, you know, larry, that is what some of our counterterrorism folks are telling us in washington. they are investigating now, the focus of the investigation shifting overseas to see whether, in fact this person or people involved in this attempted attack, whether they traveled overseas whether they communicated, did they have any sort of ties to any radical groups over there or were they influenced by radical jihadi websites. all of that under investigatio...

Connect to the taliban, wouldn't he get out immediately? to wait a day, 24 or 48 hours technically, wouldn't he have gotten out sooner? he has to know that jfk airport, of all airports, there would be advanced security there? >> reporter: you are exactly right. that being a real center, that's an excellent point. good point. that is a center of international travel in all the united states. but this raises a troubling question in my mind: could it be then that he had protection? here in the united states? that he felt that he was somehow secure here, rather than immediately seeking to leave th...