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National origin, i think everybody knows that during the 9/11 terrorist situation -- >> the majority of attempted terrorist attacks on this country have come from radicalized muslims who have tried to attack the country. >> absolutely. and if you're going to talk about religion, let's say the christian identity movement, is it irrelevant, their religious beliefs how they view christianity is not relevant to the terrorist profile? of course it is, if you talk about the boston bombers, we know they went to a mosque with ties to bombing. you have to put the two together, travel in chechnya or afg...

>> no signs of what you would see from a terrorist profile. not a loner. he had a good group of friends. >> tamerlan, however, had a profile of a different sort. on its website, the fbi says it received information from a foreign country in 2011 that in the fbi's words he was a follower of radical islam and a strong believer and that he had changed drastically since 2010. we now know that country was russia. and at russia's request, the fbi interviewed tamerlan but apparently found no cause for concern. >> got involved in the religion, you know, religious politics five years ago. so he started...

You went to high school with this younger brother. tell us about him. >> what i can tell you, he was a good kid. just a regular normal kid, if you will. no signs of what you would see from a terrorist profile. you know, not a loner. he had a good group of friends. and he would constantly be at parties. >> he's now 19 years old. and you never suspected there was anything strange or scary or weird about him? >> not while i knew him in high school. i mean, yeah, nothing. >> when you heard about these -- that he is a suspect in doing, allegedly, what he did at the boston marathon, what did you thi...

free after being accused of throwing fire bombs during recent violent protests in cairo. we are monitoring their moves. also this morning, an american journalist, we'll get back to our jason carroll there in just a second. the other story i need to tell you about, also in egypt. someone you have seen on our air here at cnn a number of times. an american journalist who has appeared here with us says she was blindfolded, beaten and sexually assaulted by egyptian police. she is now free and speaking out. we will be live in cairo in just a minute. but, back home, here on this thanksgivin...

>> joining me now from washington, jack rice, former cia officer and criminal defense attorney. how does that change the investigation if there's the suspicion is taliban prompted the attack? >> if we know there's a connection, you can reach back, follow the logistics behind this. if this was one guy by himself in new york, it stops there, but if there's a connection and you can establish it. now, we're talking about training, funding. all of those other people who may have touched this operation may be able to be picked up. >> it looks as though this also has the potential for influencing how...