explosives. more now from evan perez. reporter: according to the fbi, he checked the bag and in routine screening happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the fbi, this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap, they found fuses. powder appears to be from commercial grade fireworks. and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this. the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested that evening on monday by the fbi. the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that, something obviously that the fbi was focused on the last couple of days. nothing like that appears to have emerged in that investigation. this is a very serious thing obviously. if you read the court documents, the fbi says that this powder that was included in this
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former cia director john brennan. we now know it had a powder and there was in that nevl pyrotechnic power believed to be from a pipe bomb. anything that tells you about the suspect? that s readily available. people have, you know, fireworks. they can use those in these devices. for law enforcement, that s a real problem. actually, commercially made explosives are actually more reliable and easier to deal with. in fact, the only atf employee i know ever killed in a bombing situation was killed dealing with the detonation of fireworks. so that is just basically fireworks powder? it could be. we ll have to see. that s why we ve got it, it hasn t exploded. we won t eventually have to guess about that. the laboratory will in fact know exactly the device. some fireworks, there s a small amount of gun powder.
improvised explosive devices we are familiar with that concept in part because of the times square bomber. remember he used fireworks powder in his own poorly designed explosives that failed to detonate in times square in 2010. he had reportedly been trained in person in pakistan by militant groups there. powder recovered from fireworks is also described in the instructions for assembling improvised devices that were published in the al qaeda magazine inspire published online. during his interrogation in the hospital, the surviving suspect in the bombings in boston is reported to have said he and his brother, quote, read the instructions at that al qaeda magazine. indeed, the whole how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom thing, that was not an essay about bomb making and why it s a good idea but a set of very specific detailed instructions. the by line was a pakistani american guy writing in relatively accessible
that is the word from that company official. in terms of fireworks being a source of explosive material for improvised explosive devices we are familiar with that concept in part because of the times square bomber. remember he used fireworks powder in his own poorly designed explosives that failed to detonate in times square in 2010. he had reportedly been trained in person in pakistan by militant groups there. powder recovered from fireworks is also described in the instructions for assembling improvised devices that were published in the al qaeda magazine inspire published online. during his interrogation in the hospital, the surviving suspect in the bombings in boston is reported to have said he and his brother, quote, read the instructions at that al qaeda magazine. indeed, the whole how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom thing, that was not an essay about bomb making and why it s a