are the links that they have established or are at least investigating to some type of international terrorism group or at least international connections that take us to pakistan. earlier today, we reported through pakistani intelligence sources that at least one arrest had been made in pakistan, it was in karachi. now we understand that others had been made. this suspect met with faisal shahzhad in july 2009 and that s consistent with what we understand about his travel to that region. jon expwhronts away from that news conference. catherine herridge in washington, thanks. jane: shahzhad is from connecticut. we ve been telling you that investigators have been on the scene of his home there, going through it and we re learning from the associated press they have taken out, among other things, a box of fireworks labeled silver salute , similar to the m-88 they found in the back ofith yor the suv. more details after the break.
an experienced bomb make wore have had some sort of initiator that would have worked that set this thing off. experts have told me if the propane tanks had gone off, the kill radius would have been 30 to 50 feet. there would have been a lot of dead people at times square. if it is amateurish, does it belie, harry, any international conspiracy involvement, in your opinion? i suspect no. i isn t it is local. again, my crystal ball is as good as anyone else s. the one thing that was not done that should have been done, in fact if he knew what was doing, is turn the gas valve on on the propane. then if you had an m-80 or m-88, whatever firecracker he had to innish yates, we have had the initiation of a combustible, that would have as bob said hurricane a radius of about 50 feet. larry: so they are effective, when done right? effective but they have divided baghdad, essentially, car bombs it started a civil war in iraq it slided lebanon in the 80s.
was totally reasonable and logical. the big question is where did he put them together? we understand that a search warrant was executed overnight and the bridgeport police did have a statement, that was essentially we ll make a statement later but according to some of the eyewitnesses in the neighborhood who we ve spoken to earlier, the police have been seen taking bags of stuff out of the house. obviously, they want to know whether or not there was any bombmaking stuff in there, you know, and any of the m-88 s, were there any propane tanks but also, they want to take his computer because essentially, the thing that led the police to this guy was the fact that the pathfinder which was taken into custody on saturday night, he tried to file off a v.i.n. number there on the dash, but a vehicle these days has a dozen v.i.n. numbers on it. they were able to trace it back to a woman, a college student who sold it to this person she met on craig s list for $1300, $1800 and that s how they
nypd. sheriff you got your bomb squad guys here. what are your assessments of what the device consisted of. you have to look and hear people saying it s amateurs. when you have that type of explosives and you are in an area like this it s no longer an amateur a bomb is made to explode and the devastatidevast. the components of detonation. guys, how are you doing? thanks for coming. i want to say mutual friend bernie kerik former commissioner is watching right now. did you ever hear of any one using firecrackers, m 88 s or m 80s to detonate something bigger? no, i haven t heard of that before. tr trying to compromise that container. wouldn t it have detonated
effectively is the success here and the lesson we ought to take from this disruption. bomber incompetent? absolutely. the only way you identify, thwart, disrupt these attacks is by community-based efforts. bomber incompetent, to stick on that term, means bomber who left a lot more evidence? sure. it would be one thing if, let s say the fertilizer was properly treated with fuel oil, then you still need a detonator to set it off. an m-88 is not a significant detonator. if they used the traditional, al qaeda, explosive of choice, tapt. it s found in traces of the underwear bomber in december and the shoe bomber, richard reid s shoes back in 2001. so that is a highly volatile explosive. that could actually be detonated even by dropping something. so, there are signatures and it just it strikes me as odd. we could find out what this was,