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Terms of the shooter, the dead shooter in chattanooga, tennessee, this is what the fbi has said so far. he's a 24-year-old man, mohammod youssuf abdulazeez. officials say he lived in the nearby town of hickson, tennessee. he's the son of a chattanooga city employee. he's a natural citizen of kuwait. he graduated with a degree in electrical engineer. the tennessee valley authority confirmed this evening that he was an intern there in engineering about five years ago. officials confirmed to nbc news tonight that he was not on federal law enforcement radar for any reason before this attack today....

Overseas. authorities confirm the brothers' mother was placed on a terrorism database 18 months before the bombings because of her son tamerlan. the list consists of hundreds of thousands of names, but being added to the list doesn't mean proof of terrorist activity. a u.s. official tells nbc news russian authorities passed along information to the cia, stating both tamerlan and his mother were showing signs of increasing radicalization. >> they already are talking about that we are terrorists. i am terrorist -- >> reporter: accusations the mother denied nbc news learned that another early acc...

Starting today, airlines will have to check that list two hours after it updates. the botched bombing reminiscent of another attack that went wrong on christmas day abdulmutallab, accused of hide ag bomb in his underwear to bring down a plane. his own father told u.s. officials his son was a radical. the suspect was in a terrorism database but not a no-fly list. michael isikoff senior reporter joining us from washington. michael, the newsweek article you contributed to, it points out fbi surveillance of shahzad broke down. he spent three hours at jfk, three hours there with no one watching him...

Trump's speech on islam seemed to zero in on the problem when he said -- >> no discussion of stamping out this threat would be complete without mentioning the government that gives terrorists all three -- safe harbor, financial backing and the social standing needed for recruitment. >> but trump, it turns out, was talking not about his host, saudi arabia, but rather, iran. now, to be clear, iran is a destabilizing force in the middle east and supports some very bad actors. but it is wildly inaccurate to describe it as the source of jihadi terror. according to the global analysis of terrorism d...

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