would want to have rules and procedures in place and make sure we weren t sharing sources and methods. this is what every state is cautious about its military, and in some of those states, the militaries are more powerful than the civilian government, and in that region, you showed the arc of the curve up into asia. a lot of countries are enemies. india and pakistan are enemies. india and china are enemies. i want to steal from twitter, because our activity is very high after the political insiders have just left the room. so we still have people chiming in. they have some good questions, jim, so i d like to throw this to you. what would be the sense or motivation for that flight to take the southern route? and you were just talking about what s in either direction. talk to me about that? a great, great question. and unfortunately, i have no good answer, although i will say my twitter handle is dr dr. jimwalsh mit. the reason i say that is that s a big expanse of water. you hear fe
that they received some support, probably in the form of training for reasons that were just mentioned. i personally, in my opinion, believe that they have some support somewhere. i have a tendency to believe that it definitely occurred in his travels to chechnya and russia. as far as his associations here, i think we re still investigating that. the thing i do want to say, don, is that if the fbi, for example, is on the trail or senses that there are associations here, they re not likely to divulge that information. because they re not inclined to tip people off or give them a heads up in the event they re heading in their direction. so, you know, i think you have to let this thing continue to unfold. all right. lou palumbo, jim wall, thank you. thank you. appreciate you guys. next, inside the manhunt for the bombing suspects.
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off the korean peninsula. in a show of solidarity u.s. begins massive military exercises. communist north threatening to block the maneuvers. joint exercises coming on the heels of tough talk from senator hillary clinton. so where is this all headed. jim wall is with an international expert. thank you for talking to us. good to be here and welcome back, julie. julie: thank you very much. it s great to communicate back but unfortunately we re talking about serious war games going on. is korea going to respond with action? i don t think they are going to do it this week while they are in the middle of the naval exercises. they might sponsor a military test because north korea has started a political transition, kim jong-il is going to pass on his position to his youngest
to malaysia talking there. so across the region, people very worried about this, because it would reveal the kind of technology they use, and if that technology was able to pick up exactly where this plane went, that would prove hugely embarrassing, and of course, the nations might not want to give out that kind of technology. it could delay the findings of where exactly flight 370 went. that s really interesting. reminds me of the nsa and that whole scandal and how maybe we didn t want the rest of the world to know how closely we were looking at them, either. thank you. let s learn more about this. jim wall, an international security expert at m.i.t. security studies joins us now. i want to get your reaction to the breaking news tonight, the fact that maybe they re not sharing. yeah, in some ways. i m not surprised. i think dom has put his finger on it in so far as this is mi military related data. nations are relublthant to share their militaryidaty.