for possible lone wolves to communicate with actual groups. offer themselves as potential terrorists. reporter: need proof? prosecutors say the men accused of the boston bombings used jihadi websites for inspiration and bomb building advice. security analysts say anwar al alawki exchanged e-mails with nadal hasan. and khalid shaikh mohammed is believed to have used a hotmail account. al qaeda started with one a decade ago. we have at least a dozen al qaeda web forums that host thousands of individuals. reporter: a few years back when the hunt for osama bin laden was still raging, some intelligence forces believed al qaeda was even developing its own intranet that was
communicate with actual groups. offer themselves as potential terrorists. reporter: need proof? prosecutors say the men accused of the boston bombings used jihadi websites for inspiration and bomb building advice. security analysts say anwar al alawki exchanged e-mails with nadal hasan. and khalid shaikh mohammed is believed to have used a hotmail account. al qaeda started with one a decade ago. we have at least a dozen al qaeda web forums that host thousands of individuals. reporter: a few years back when the hunt for osama bin laden was still raging, some intelligence forces believed al qaeda was even developing its own intranet that was electronically hidden behind jihadi websites and accessible to only a few people.
and bomb building advice. security analysts say anwar al alawki. and ka limb sheikh mohamed is believed to have used a hotmail account. al qaeda started with one a decade ago. we have at least a dozen al qaeda web forums that host thousands of individuals. reporter: a few years back when the hunt for osama bin laden was still raging, some intelligence forces believed al qaeda was even developing its own intranet that was electronically hidden behind jihadi websites and accessible to only a few people. whether they succeeded or such a system still exists like much of the communication structure remains shrouded in mystery. tom foreman, washington. of course the great irony using so much american innovation to try to destroy
there is word a u.s. drone strike has killed five militants in yemen. they said the strike happened in a s@und together of the capital. the target, two local al-qaeda leaders who reportedly survived. katheryn is live in washington. what do we know about the guys that got away? many government officials tell us both men are connected through marriage al-alawki. at least one studied under the cleric. today s drone strike is part of a broader pattern, one where proteges of the cleric or members of course his families have been tilled. his 16-year-old son was killed in a drone strike and the man on the right was also killed.
to be a hypocrite. you can actually have someone within our system of laws and elicit information without becoming the thing we re fighting against. to this related issue, this policy that blair mentioned yesterday allowing the targeted killing of americans outside the country, no one would look at a known terrorist like al alawki and have sim ympathy there. but is the fact that this is on the books troubling from a legal point of view? what s troubling is it s not on the books. the problem is that this is something that president bush developed. we actually saw the bush administration kill an american citizen in 2002 with the predator strike and we knew that he was a u.s. citizen. we knew he was in the car because we were monitoring his phone. and took him out. and the obama administration once again seems to be morphing into the bush administration and adopting the same principle.