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Pro-al-qaeda group known as the imprisoned abdul ram man brigades was involved. >> it was a coordinated, military-style, commando-type raid that had direct and indirect fire, military movements involved in it. this was a well-planned, well-targeted event, no doubt about it. >> and we weren't alone. >> david barton reports it may have been a terrorist strike tied to 9/11. >> this was executed by a group that is either associated with or sympathizes with al-qaeda. >> roughly 9 p.m., president obama mentions the attack but spends most of the time campaigning in nevada. >> now, because nevada is a...

We are using every single asset we can including local law enforcement to help thwart the possibility it could happen. >> joining me is nbc news analyst and terrorism expert roger cressey. what does that mean to us? how does that compare? >> we received this information from a source in the past has been accurate with what they reported. what it means is it's not necessarily true. the issue here is to run down to get corroboration of this threat stream and to determine whether or not in fact it is accurate. what you're seeing is a series of security measures by people in washington and in new ...

Mastermind of those 1998 bombings at the u.s. embassies in africa. he was killed at a check point in somalia over the weekend and in possession of these documents that laid out the as personal plans to carry out a mumbai style attack on a hotel in london, shep. >> shepard: do we have a sense for what such a plot would involve. >> the target was supposed to be the ritz hotel in london we're told. authorities spent yesterday and today briefing hotel industry representatives about the threat stream so they could take precautions in new york and washington as part of the plot operatives would stay...

Does it look like? >> i was able to obtain this homeland security threat assessment that was done months ago and it talks about the evolving threat of terrorism within the united states and it breaks it down in three ways. it says that there are essentially three different threats streams, traditional threat stream which came out of the tribal areas of pakistan, people went there to train and then went off to their countries to dairy out these attack, second threat stream is from the al-qaeda affiliates, we've seen these plots launched from places like yemen, we've also seen the growth of al-q...

Last weekend's incident came after general david petraeus, the top commander responsible for military operations in iraq and afghanistan told the "wall street journal" he believed the times square bombing suspect is a "lone wolf" who did not work with others. the general said 30-year-old faisal shahzad, a naturalized u.s. citizen, was inspired by militants in pakistan and yemen. prior to saturday night, when the bomb was packed in an suv and left in times square, petraeus said there was no spike in communications or chatter which would be an indicator of an overseas link. i didn't see in the i...