world that is dangerous for other reasons as well. he talked about the growth of extreme right wing activity and also hostile states. he talked about espionage and interference. a sense of the breadth of the work mis is faced with at the moment. of the work m15 is faced with at the moment. ,., ., ., ,, i. we can speak now to sir ivor roberts, who s a former diplomat and uk counter terrorism chief. he is now a senior adviser to the counter extremism project, a new york based think tank. thank you forjoining us on bbc news this morning. first off, i don t know if you heard the interview on radio four this morning, but what do you make of today s terrorism threats? i you make of today s terrorism threats? ~ you make of today s terrorism threats? ,, ., you make of today s terrorism threats? ~ ., . ~ threats? i think we are back where we were 20 threats? i think we are back where we were 20 years threats? i think we are back where we were 20 years ago, threats? i think we are back whe
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more bullets. he was trying to shoot more people. two men according to the sheriff grabbed the gun away from loughner and tackled him and that is when was in custody with authorities soon after that. as for the second person they are esectionly discounting that he was a part of the shooting but do want to talk to him because he showed up in the photograph walking into the safeway near gerald lee loughner. we are back with former counter terrorism chief with the fbi steve pomerantz and stuart baker a former official in the department of homeland security. stuart, you listened to that, barring the political stuff, this investigation is digging deep. they are going to go into e-mails, they are really going to try to dig into who this character has come in contact with? we, the worst says here is if it were a terrorist conspiracy. not much evidence of that but all the leads have to be
the fbi director alluding to possibly some exchange that loughner may have had with the congress woman there saying it will be in the formal charges this afternoon. also that he purchased the gun that he used november of last year in tucson, 2010. joining me now with more on the investigation and to interpret what we just heard, former counter terrorism chief with the fbi steve pomerantz and stuart baker. former official in the department of homeland security. welcome to you both. steve, first to you. you just listened to all of that. how do you interpret it and secondly how is it that an fbi director is at the command center? interesting that you ask me that question because i m going back four years in my recollection and 40 years of service i never remember an fbi director will take command at the scene.
explosive we saw in the underwear bomb last december that failed. it was made by the same bomb maker in yemen who built the device that tried saudi counter terrorism chief in the summer of 2009. critical link is anwar al-awlaki. why the president stopped short of tieing today s devices to the group, u.s. counter terrorism officials tell fox all signs point to the al qaeda affiliate in yemen. al awlaki lived in the u.s. for 21 years. next picture is mugshot soliciting prostitutes in san diego in 1997. as fox was first to report nearly a year ago, al awlaki has gone operational. that means is he actively plotting attacks against the u.s. at the very least this is a real wakeup call as to how real this threat is. the threat from al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and it shows how they can penetrate and we have to constantly be on our guard. a source briefed on the investigation tells fox that there is potential lay puzzling