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Plot against the iranian embassy in bangkok and that came through kuala lumpur. state department says equal law lumper is transit point and operational planning point for terrorist operations in southeast asia. the philippines in that part of the world has an islamist insure againsy that has al qaeda roots in it. so there's a lot of reasons to be concerned. hezbollah is operating in that part of the world. so i don't want to rule it out. we just don't have enough evidence at this point. i think we have to include that in when we're looking what may have happened. jon: for all of the complaints...

Operated through malaysia, which is a transit point as well as a pl planning point for terrorist operations in southeast asia. we also have other terrorist groups active in southeast asia such as al-qaeda. i remember one group responsible for the bali bombing in 2002 and a number of other plots. hezbollah is active in southeast asia, and of course, if you want to tie china in to this, you have the stabbings, the number of people in china. there is an al-qaeda-linked terrorist group called the east turkistan-islamist movement that is active in china. >> scott, what do you think happened here? >...

Israeli interests malaysia is a transit point for terrorist activities in southeast asia. we have al qaeda. a member was responsible for bali bombing in 2002 ask a number of other plots hezbollah is active in southeast asia. if you want to tie china into this, we had a terrible terrorist attack with stabbings of a number of people in china. there is an al qaeda linked terrorist group called east turkistan islamic movement active in china? >> scott, what do you think happened here? >> i think there was a criminal act. 777 is such a reliable airplane i can't imagine there was a malfunction that ...

About what is playing out in ukraine and crimea. >> let me ask about malaysia airlines, you were ambassador in china and know how intelligence and just the whole terror threats in that part of the world. here you've got an airliner disappearing, we don't know what caused it. obviously the intelligence communities are looking but there's been no chatter or hint of anything to indicate a terror plot, but malaysia in the past was an al qaeda strong hold and heading for beijing, possibly now we learned today as a transit point for europe. what would you as ambassador in the field, what would your ...

To airline and transportation security officials. what should have happened is when they checked in or bought the ticket with those stolen passport numbers, that should have said off a red flag in the malaysian system that should have said these passports are stolen. let's look out for these guys or don't let them on board. that system totally broke down here. where the breakdown occurred we're not sure but that will be part of the investigation. >> one of the reasons why intelligence analysts said this may not be so suspicious if beijing was the destination because there's been no experience ...