religious views. howeverish the fo however, the focus of attention is on a visit faisal shahzad took last year, starting last summer, summer of 2009, and ending in the fall, the fall of 2010. it was during this visit he apparently made contact with several people with ties to extremist groups, one of them in karachi. this appears to have been his main contact, a person in e-mail contact in karachi, and then from there went on to wazirstan to apparently learn how to make bombs. >> richard engel, chief foreign correspondent in islamabad giving us a sense of how far this man's tentacles reached into the terror business in pakistan. thank you. attempted times square bombing attack is the subject of a hearing under way right now. senate security committee holding a hearing on ways to prevent terrorists from using guns to carry out attacks here