suspects, we re heard, in some cases. what do we know about these suspect, where they come from, and what kind of handle our folks have on them. reporter: the information i had last evening about the individuals is that they were actively running down leads for people who may already be inside the country and possibly american citizens or people who may be traveling to the united states. this source pointed specifically to me to the plot last may with faisal shahzhad, the american citizen who traveled to pakistan, got his training and tried to come back and launch that car bomb in times square which fortunately failed to detonate. this is important because i m told the threat information, the source of that is also pakistan, and i think the takeaway for everyone is that we have information point to go 9/11, also information that may specifically deal with american citizens, and that is a seed change in terms of recruitment if that is in fact the case. martha: let s hope everyone is o
begun, consider me the first droplet of the blood that will flow. chilling indeed. special agent at the counterterrorism division joins me. richard, it was truly chill to go hear the words of faisal shahzhad in that courtroom and your thoughts on what he had to say and what it means for the bigger picture of what we re dealing with here. what we re dealing with here, martha, is a large group of people that have the same philosophy as shahzhad, and shahzhad also said in there if i had a thousand lives i would give them all in the name of allah, then the fbi responds to this with the fact that thank goodness now we have shahzhad behind bars, he will no longer pose any harmtous. that s true, however, he s behind bars right now because he s a poor bomb maker, not because we actually did our work as an intelligence community. we missed a couple of big attacks here in the united states, and we re fail to go connect the dots in certain areas. now, granted granted, there are so many
reported attack of its kind this year, texas department of department of public safety saying four heavily armed men boarded two boats then, may sixth, two armed men approach a boat, ten days later, 16th of may, five armed men board a boat on the u.s. side of that lake, august 3rd, a month ago, police say falcon lake pirates teamedd to stop a texas fisherman. martha: fox news alert for you this morning, europe boosting its security right now. france, just issuing a major terror alert for travelers going to britain, and british authorities who say they believe the risk of an attack is, quote, very likely. meanwhile, here in the united states, the times square plotter, faisal shahzhad, sentenced to life in prison for attempt of a deadly attack in times square. these were his chilling words in the courtroom yesterday, brace yourselves, the war are muslims has just
imminent. he also, when asked by the judge why he had taken an oath to america, said, i lied. much more to come on this developing story. faisal shahzhad, to spend the rest of his life in a u.s. prison. jenna: jon, this just in as well, french police arresting 12 suspected islamic militant necessary an antiterror sweep. three of those arrested being linked to a suspected al-qaeda figure. the other nine, accused of trying to obtain guns and explosives. greg palkot is live in london on this story. greg, what do we know? jenna, in the wake of that u.s. terror alert, there are important developments in europe and beyond on a couple of fronts. first, let s go to france. france has been on its own high alert, amid threats against its landmarks, train stations, airports. police are now telling fox news, confirming they ve arrested 12 overnight in raids across the southern part of that country, three linked to a ring facilitating french
generally an unsafe world. we re doing everything we can on the federal level and the state, and certainly this city, i believe we re doing more than any other city in the world. it costs us about $300 million a year for our counterterrorism efforts. but there s no guarantees. and it concerns us. faisal shahzhad was able to drive into midtown manhattan and park on 45th street, and you know, if it had gone well, it would have caused mayhem. rick: we ve been talking a lot about this foiled plot out in europe. these would have been sort of smaller, coordinated attacks. it seems like the tactics have changed, that the bad guys, rather than trying to pull off some kind of a massive 9/11 type of event are now looking at doing sort of smaller, simultaneous events in various places. that has got to force you and your team to change tactics. how so? to a certain extent, you re right, i think there was a belief in the intelligence community a few years ago that one of the, quote spectacular ev