object to that but experts say it s almost unheard of unheard of from the prosecutor to, raising questions as to why in this case. i just was flabbergasted. i didn t believe it at first. brian terry died in a shootout near the mexican border, his family wants those responsible brought to justice from the man who allegedly fired the gun to the one who bought it. our number one goal is to pursue the prosecution of all the killers of brian. reporter: but in a surprise move this week arizona s u.s. attorney opposed a routine motion to list the terry family as a crime victim. it s mystifying to see the government try to deny the family of this fallen hero the basic respect and compassion they are entitled to as crime victims. in a motion u.s. attorney dennis burg says the family was not directly or proximately harmed by the illegal purchase of the murder help weapon, that the real victim is not any particular person, but
unfold this hour, a bomb threat has forced a continental commuter flight to be diverted to north carolina, the passengers we re told have been taken off, the flight heading from houston to d.c. we ll bring you more when we get it. on the bottom, former first lady lauraa bush defending her husband saying the new orleans flyover after hurricane katrina was in the best interest of the victims and the aide workers a major ring of mexican drug smugglers uncovered in arizona, the feds say they moved at least 20 tons of marijuana over the border, using some very sophisticated counter surveillance measures to evade detection. twenty-six suspects are indicted on federal charges, 13 face state charges, six of the key players, you see five of them in an upcoming photo, are still at large, and believed to be in mexico let s talk about it with dennis burg, u.s. attorney for the district of arizona. he s joining us on the phone from mexico city.
we re looking at the five fugitives, dennis. tell us about these guys and how you hope to go about apprehending them. some of them are part of the main organizers of this operation, and they re possibly here in mexico, where i am right now. we have great relationships with mexico now, better than we have ever had before with the guards to extradition, and with assistance in actually locating suspects so that their assistance will be key in seeing if we can locate the individuals here in mexico and have them extradited to the u.s. for justice. jon: this was using sophisticated techs neeks techniques, using ramps to actually drive trucks over the border fence, that kind of thing? yeah, they would pull up ramps to the fence and have stolen vehicles load it full of marijuana, and roll them right over the fencing. they were using scanners, two-way radios, they were remarkably adept at counter surveillance, and at one