surveillance camera captures him going into a men s room. he s in there for a few minutes. a short time later he comes out wearing a wig and disguise. again, the cameras rolling as they are throughout the hotel where the hit took place. dubai s government blaming the israeli mossad and it s causing a big backlash today in a lot of countries. details ahead. joe johns digging on those questions and more. he joins us shortly. first up, though, breaking news. austin, texas, a small plane loaded with fuel slamming into a local irs office building full of federal offices. the initial fear, of course, was terrorism. the reality, more homegrown but no less troubling. angry man apparently arguing with his wife, then burns down his house, gets in his plane, takes off on a murder/suicide mission. against the government he blames basically for ruining his life. his name is joseph stack. 53 years old. that s the picture of him. he least a long diatribe online
a plan. cnn s abby beau drew picks up the story. reporter: the 12 suspected spies were held in this small building on base. i decided that i needed to break protocol and interrogate them myself. i took three gentlemen outside. sat them down. walked away. fired my weapon in the ground three times hoping that the men on the inside left to their own imagination would think that they really needed to talk. reporter: meaning that maybe you killed these men? or hurt them. i really did not consider what they would think. i just knew it would gain a reaction. reporter: you thought it would scare them? yes. that s all i was concerned about. i needed that intelligence. what happened? fired three rounds into the ground. walked back inside. and sure enough some of the detainees started to talk. reporter: what the detainees told him inside this building was ultimately enough to convince the afghans to take all
i think people are going to say it is terrorism. he had an ideology. he had a political dogma and point to make. he used violence to further that political agenda and was willing to kill himself and innocents to do it. so in that sense yes, it is terrorism. certainly if you re inside a building and see a plane coming at you, you are terrified. it s not part of a larger group but has all the feeling and all the indications of terrorism. so is this, i mean, would he be considered a lone wolf? the government put out a report a while back that caused some controversy about lone wolfs. would he fit into that profile even though he s not part of some group? i do think he falls into the category of a lone wolf. you ve heard terrorism experts talk about how difficult it is to identify them. we re learning he was working on this sort of thing for days. we re going to have to understand if he was working on it for days and it was posted on the internet, what are the kinds of things we can do
big backlash today in a lot of countries. details ahead. joe johns digging on those questions and more. he joins us shortly. first up, though, breaking news. austin, texas, a small plane loaded with fuel slamming into a local irs office building full of federal offices. the initial fear, of course, was terrorism. the reality, more homegrown but no less troubling. angry man apparently arguing with his wife, then burns down his house, gets in his plane, takes off on a murder/suicide mission. his name is joseph stack. 53 years old. that s the picture of him. me left online writing, quote, well mr. big brother irs man, let s try something different. take my pound of flesh and sleep well. one person in the office building died. apparently along with stack. two others badly hurt. the question as always is live. david mattingly is live in stack s neighborhood, talking to
that s what makes this so disturbing, reminiscent of 9/11. he had a very clear target. he got up in that plane and put that plane into a particular building on purpose. that s really disturbing. i think investigators are going to want to focus on why was that? why the irs? well, certainly if his online diatribe is any indication it becomes pretty clear he had a long history of problems with the irs. one part of the note i want to read, he writes nothing changes unless there is a body count, unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows that the government trough and government full of hypocrites from top to bottom. life is cheap. david mattingly, do we know when he wrote this online? reporter: he had been working on it from what we have been able to understand. we had someone at cnn who knows a lot about these things look into the website and how often he s been going on there.