all the questions are going to come up, not in the actual detective work that found him which was brilliant but what happened after that? that s where all the questions are going to come up. you know, we do know and he told investigators that he did get bombmaking know how in pakistan in that area that we have targeted with the drones but, you know, he did pick up enough stuff to try to cover his tracks. for instance, we had a graphic up a moment ago, for instance, he did pay he peeled off 13 $100 bills to pay for the pathfinder. he didn t want a paper trail. that s why he did not take a bill of sale for the purchase of it. the windows were tinted and he used some prepaid cell phones like they did on 24. jack bower in the last episode i watched bought five of them and he used those cell phones to call a pennsylvania fireworks store to find out whether or not they had m-88 s and he also used the cell phone to contact emirates air rather than use his computer. he thought the govern
things you would imagine a driver would touch, the door handle, the steering wheel, those were removed from the car and sent in for careful fingerprint analysis. then the kpoepts components of, the gasoline canisters, the propane tanks, the 16-ounce can that was full of m-88 fire crackers, the wires, the two clocks. a big metal gun lockup cabinet, the bags of what turned out to be fertilizer in it, and a bird s nest mass of wires were all sent down here, flown down to the fbi crime lab just outside of washington in quantico, virginia for further and more careful analysis. it s not unusual to truck things like this or ship them in wholesale. i remember after the oklahoma city bombing after or rather after the atlanta bombing, by the way, i m now told that they re saying that the justice
the passengers side door is facing down. they appear to be connected by a line and between the two gas cans you ll see a dark spot, it was an m-88, also called a silver salute fireworks. they found some of these not long ago we are told by the associated press at the home of the suspect in bringport, connecticut. the firework is not one so much for a show although it produces a very bright flash, but it also creates a very loud boom and a quick explosion. and then further back you ll notice the three round gray things back there. those are the propane tanks that were all lined up in that area, and then there s a smaller round thing toward the passenger s side way near the back. that is another m-88 of some sort here. so, the question is how, how would this bomb have worked? initially there was a notion that it was a crude bomb. i have to tell you as i look at this, this bears a little slight resemblance to what the kids at columbine tried to do with propane tanks there.
this is a little more sophisticated but not much. depending on how he tried to use it. if they were counting on this m-88 to blow up between the gas cans, for that to fire off an explosion which would then create enough heat to light the propane tanks, i think the odds of that are not good. likewise the m-88 back by the propane tanks, i don t see any reason to believe that an explosive like that would penetrate tanks like that. however, and this is the important part, if the idea was that these propane tanks were supposed to be open filling the car with propane and then these things went off, then you would have had a pretty horrific explosion combining both the propane and the fuel, the gasoline, inside of there. so, this was the design of this whole thing. i don t yet quite know what the ignition system was, unless this was actually wired into the car s ignition system to light off these silver salutes, the m-88s that should have started the whole thing. this is a rare look. you ofte
investigators or these police departments trying to protect any city. we live in a free society you can t. everything he bought, you can buy legally. can t buy fireworks in new york, you can in pennsylvania. but relatively easy to get your hands on. no one will stop you coming out of pennsylvania and ask if you have an m-88. it s that kinds of freedom that we have that you can just drive nobody checked the back of his truck when he was coming into manhattan. what about the detective work over the last 72 hours? it s extraordinary how we got to this point as you said. we didn t know a whole lot about this guy. nobody knew he existed potentially. new york is the target in all of these terror attacks. the jttf force is the best there is because of this. they are constantly they are not training, they are