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Were not being used by any terrorists, but more likely and probably being used by some kind of dry run drug smuggling operation? >> yeah. and another alternative is dry run for another terrorist event and we've seen dry runs take place in the past. for instance, there was a ramzi yousef, the mastermind of the first trade center attack, he blew up a bomb on a plane flying in the pacific and he killed a japanese tourist, and he was really using that as basically an experiment to then go blow up another 12 planes, but again, we just don't know, and i'm not an expert on stolen passports, i guess t...

Leaving the door open, not to those passports being a terrorist event. because that's the same information we have been getting since yesterday, that it fit a pattern, u.s. intelligence officials have told me, of human smuggling, rather than tied to any terror event. so to be clear, the cia director, leaving though open another tip, possible terror connection, separate from those two iranians traveling on those stolen passports. just another point i would make on that, wolf. i spent a lot of time in iran. you do meet a lot of young people there who want to get out of the country and are desper...

There were two people traveling on stolen passports, is it more likely, given what we now know about the lack of checks with interpol backup system and so on, that the stolen passports were not being used by any terrorists, but more likely and probably being used by some kind of dry run drug smuggling operation? >> yeah. and another alternative is dry run for another terrorist event and we've seen dry runs take place in the past. for instance, there was a ramzi yousef, the mastermind of the first trade center attack, he blew up a bomb on a plane flying in the pacific and he killed a japanese t...

The baggage could have been contaminated inside the terminal and just not picked up and put on the plane and it discharges at 35,000 or 37,000 feet by an detonator. there's so many things to figure in here. but when you start listing all of the pros in terms of being a terrorist event, they way out number the negatives. doesn't mean it is. but it's quick, it's devastating, it's gone. what bothers me a lot right now why there's no, no debris. and, you know, in the last few years there's also been things happening in the cockpit that caused problems. so every element has to be looked at here. >>...

Quite a while before we have any real understanding as to what has happened here. they will need to find the wreckage, obviously, they will need to -- if it went down over water they will need to start recovering the wreckage. if there was an explosive situation of some kind, whatever the origin, that should show up fairly quickly. obviously, again, the black b boxes would tell a lot, you know, it really -- to really sum this up you're going to be looking at whether or not there was some sort of structural failure, mechanical failure, some sort of terrorist event. or even the prospect of thepi...