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At the press conference and say, all right, we have a lot of different agencies involved. we are all working together. that is why you saw so many people behind the governor, they wanted to show unity. what i think they did not do, that is because they are bees transparent about it, they did not inspire confidence they had any clue how this happened. they didn t hear the chatter, i would be awfully surprised some big news back. i hope there are intelligence trails that they are using, but if you are in any major city right now and you have heightened terrorism alert, watching that press conference, i don t know if my government is able to protect me from whoever these terrorists are who would use us to achieve their political aims. that is the worst. you have to have the government calm people down. greg: when you hear that poor ....
And with this terrorism alert at that we got 48 hours ago that they might try to hit somebody with a truck bomb or car bomb might try to hit new york or washington reminds us that al-qaeda is still out there somewhere. you know, you re absolutely right. al-qaeda is still out there. it s a different beast than it was ten years ago in many ways, we ve made it harder for them to operate, fund raise, train, recruit, those sorts of things, but they re still out there in a fashion which can be dangerous as well and they re not the only ones. on the anniversaries, i try not to look back, but look ahead. okay, what were we thinking about before 9/11, 2001, what should we be looking around, what kind of imagination do we have to predict and try to he prevent the next one. steve: exactly right. 2001 before it happened, i think one of the main things we were worried about in this country, mad cow disease. ....
Members of al qaeda. investigators say the men posed an imminent and concrete danger, their words. police caught all three suspects in germany with two of the arrests coming in the city of western city dusseldorf. they carried out bags and boxes of possible evidence from the building. back with jonathan hunt now. any word what the suspects might have been planning or one of these we caught bad guys. not giving specifics on what may or may not have been the target, shep. they are saying this was a very real threat. several reports in general media carrying chemical substances which could be quote useful in building explosives when they were arrested. germany has been on heightened state of alert since november. apparently these suspects have been under surveillance since that terrorism alert in europe was raised. according to former cia covert operations officer this is standard operating procedure to ....
Well, first, as was mentioned, there are a ton of cameras all over times square. while they couldn t see into the car itself, they do have pictures of the car but it had tinted windows. there s a decent chance that the perpetrator will be caught on camera one way or another. second, we are very good, this is federal, but the federal government, nsa and others, are very good at monitoring the electronic air waves. and so when there s a worldwide terrorism alert, when terrorists in pakistan or somalia, al qaeda or anybody else try to do something, we re pretty much on top of that. can t be 100% but it s darn good. and they had no prior knowledge of anything happening. so the odds, not a certainty because the investigation isn t concluded, but the odds are quite high that this was a lone wolf. could it have been a lone wolf connected to some terrorist organization? possibly. probably not. could it have been a lone wolf who had that ideology and was ....
as the senior senator, are there things about this investigation that you can tell us that have gone on, how close they may be, how long this may take? right. well, first, as was mentioned, there are a ton of cameras all over times square. while they couldn t see into the car itself, they do have pictures of the car, but it had tinted windows. there s a decent chance that the perpetrator will be caught on camera one way or another. second, we are very good, this is federal, but the federal government, nsa and others, are very good at monitoring the electronic air waves. and so when there s a worldwide terrorism alert, when terrorists in pakistan or somalia, al qaeda or anybody else try to do something, we re pretty much on top of that. can t be 100% but it s darn good. and they had no prior knowledge of anything happening. so the odds, not a certainty ....