the country because he s not an american citizen. adam this is just such a terrible and horrific case police saying this family was targeted so this was not random according to their theory of the case. tell us about the family s connection to this man and how did police track him down? reporter: hi, ari, we know wint worked at american iron works from 2003 to 2005 as a welder. we also know that they tracked him through his phone, tracking him to brooklyn and back down to d.c. that s how they were able to end the two-day manhunt capturing him 11:00 in washington, d.c. now charged with first degree murder. the marshall who made the arrest said he was stoic and gave himself up peacefully. let s take you back to wednesday night. through his phone he was visiting his girlfriend and likely knew they were on his tail so he made his way back to d.c., last night they tracked him to a howard johnson s express in college park maryland. they came in with a fugitive task force, 20 cars a
so, doug, this is quite a different story than what we ve been told about al-awlaki in the past. why are we just learning about this now? reporter: sure seems to be a very, very different story, jenna. these documents obtained by judicial watch through a freedom of information request, before anwar al-awlaki was killed in the missile strike in yemen they had numerous contacts. protected him in some ways and surveiled him i should say for years. tracking him through washington, d.c. s metro system to the front doors of the pentagon where they broke off the surveillance and he went in and had a high-level meeting with pentagon officials there. reporter: that meeting occurred just months after the 9/11 attack on the pentagon. hard to believe, but high-level pentagon firms listened to a speech by anwar al-awlaki about muslim outreach at the pentagon even as al-awlaki was under surveillance by the fbi and imam at a mosque in fall s church, virginia, some analysts
totality of the circumstances. look at the uncontroverted facts, the uncontroverted fact was there was a person with a gun. trayvon martin was walking by himself, eating candy, talking to somebody on the phone. yet somebody was stalking him, tracking him, hunting him. that person armed himself with a gun and made absolutely sure that he was going to pick a fight. and by god, he did. and what and a young man ends up dead. so that is how you do it. you paint the picture what do you do about a witness like john good who says trayvon martin was on top, zimmerman was on the bottom yelling for help? because 20 minutes earlier he said i m not sure if the orange jacket was on top or bottom, and i know that both of them were flailing. we know there was a fight. you don t dig down so deeply
read out of the dhs. tonight, six people are dead, three others are fighting for their lives and a community is left to pick up the pieces. let s turn tonight to mark potok, southern poverty law center. good to have you with us on the ed show this evening. your group has been reported tracking wade michael page for a decade. tracking him. what does that mean? well, basically, what it means is that we noticed him when he joined the white power music scene. in the year 2000, it turns out, he left his native state of colorado on his motorcycle, as he told one interview on a white supremacist website out there and basically headed into the music scene. he started to act as lead singer and guitarist for a number of these different of these hate rock n roll groups. some of them very well known groups, groups like intimidation one and another group called
lives and a community is left to pick up the pieces. let s turn to mark potack. good to have you with us on the ed show this evening. your group has been reported, tracking wade michael page for a decade. tracking him. what does that mean? well, basically, what it means is that we noticed him when he joined the white power music scene. in the year 2000, it turns out, he left his native state of colorado on his motorcycle, as he told one interview on a white supremacist website and headed into the music scene. he started to act as lead singer and guitarist for a number of these different hate rock n roll groups. some of them very well known groups. groups like intimidation one and another group called blue eyed devils. what in some ways was most interesting is when in 2005 he started his own group, this