the al qaeda instructions and inspire magazine, whether it s for a fuse detonation or a remote detonation, is meant to be bomb making for dummies. it s meant to keep it simple. pretty terrifying if that s what happened. stay with me. when we come back, i want to talk to you more about all this. plus joining us is paul wolfowitz on what appears to be a huge intelligence break down and more on what authorities knew about the suspects mother who insists her sons are innocent. i really feel sorry for all of them. really feel sorry for all of them. but i do not want to believe that this were my sons, okay?
because it could be all the answers we re looking for. where did they get the expert training, where were they able to test the device. you re not going to go read up on a device, follow the instructions, make it, put it in a public place, and set it off without first going to see does that detonator work, does the device actually function, somewhere. so that could be all of it. on the other hand, though, if you and they won t but if you take the statements of dzhokhar tsarnaev at face value, this was a plan his brother dreamed up and brought him into just a couple of months ago, that, you know, the instructions match what you would have found in al qaeda s online inspire magazine. if you follow the instructions to a tee and you went out into the woods in massachusetts and you set off a smaller version of the bomb to see if your bomb recipe and your initiator worked, and you did it again, you could pretty much go back and make that happen. and that is not that far-fetched. the al q
on the other hand, though, if you and they won t but if you take the statements of dzhokhar tsarnaev at face value, this was a plan his brother dreamed up and brought him into just a couple of months ago, that, you know, the instructions match what you would have found in al qaeda s online inspire magazine. if you follow the instructions to a tee and you went out into the woods in massachusetts and you set off a smaller version of the bomb to see if your bomb recipe and your initiator worked, and you did it again, you could pretty much go back and make that happen. and that is not that far-fetched. the al qaeda instructions and inspire magazine, whether it s for a fuse detonation or a remote detonation, is meant to be bomb making for dummies. it s meant to keep it simple. pretty terrifying if that s what happened. stay with me. when we come back, i want to talk to you more about all this. plus joining us is paul wolfowitz on what appears to be a huge intelligence break down and m
logan. we re working on details of exactly what was going on there. obviously, there is a heightened sense of alert at major city centers around the world, airports, train stations. it s all clear at laguardia earlier where i was telling you about central terminal evacuated. michael, when we look and learn more details about the devices that we know were detonated on site at the marathon, what are the clues that are going to tip off the analysts about whether or not this was a cell phone detonation, whether or not this was a fuse detonation? the sophistication to then set the trail in place for maybe bigger leads? that is critical part of the information that will be led by fbi and the alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives unit.