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Throwing out the rule book. and it seems like the attitude has lasted. >> we had this theory it was by all means necessary, do what you have to do to make sure this never happens again. the thinking is al qaeda will get to these guys first. so we get to them first before al qaeda gets to them. so let's find anybody who might go along with a terrorist plot p but it's a ridiculous argument. they can do drug dealing, gun running, anything. so to create a fake terrorist ring should outrage everybody. >> and doesn't it also go to our legal counter terror incentives. if you say to cops you need to c...

I spoke to their defense lawyers. i said, you know, what do you think of the case? he said, first of all, my client is an absolute idiot. nobody is going to say these guys are angels. this is not but i think they should be be pardoned at this point because they're entrapped in such egregious ways. but it's not that they're innocent. what is going on, the fbi is using people vulnerable in our society as pawns in a pr game for themselves. and it's a really chilling prospect. when the fbi's mission is to ferret out crime and instead finds impoverished people, dangled money in front of them, fake ...

Crisis that happened and may happen again. it's terrorism in a post 9/11 world. so this does have an impact on the market. it has been contained because we don't know all the developments, if this is a massive al qaeda terrorist ring. we don't know exactly how this went down, and also they're been other issues to worry about, and this is not like a 9/11 where the markets were closed down for a week. >> neil: if it was linked to al qaeda or islamic extremists, that it shows something more global in nature, terror cells in the united states, fed from abroad. that i imagine would be a bigger worr...

Egyptian vice president omar suleiman blames the muslim brotherhood for the violence in cairo but who are they? how dangerous are they? i'll ask peter bergen, cnn national security analyst and the author of "the longest war." peter, what are the answers? tell me about the muslim brotherhood. i hear all sorts of opinions about them in your expert opinion how extremist are they, how dangerous are they? >> well, i don't think they're very dangerous at all, piers. you know, this is a group that's been around since the 1920s, certainly when it was founded in opposition to the british and certainly ...

How dangerous are they? >> well, i don't think they're very dangerous at all, piers. you know, this is a group that's been around since the 1920s. certainly when it was founded in opposition to the british, and certainly it had a terrorist ring in the 1950s, but over time this is a group that has increasingly just engaged in normal politics, and certainly, you know, some militants have been muslim brotherhood -- brothers initially and have gone on to terrorist groups, but somebody like ayman al zawahiri, the number two in al qaeda, has written a book, an entire book criticizing the muslim brot...