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
by it teacher? joining us is fox news terrorist analyst and expert dr. whalid ferris. thank you for coming in today. sure. what do we know or think about whether abdulmutallab was a lone wolf? a lone wolf is never alone. it is an army of lone wolfs. that is what al-qaeda would like us to understand so we do not go to the mothership and detroy who is recruiting and indocktry nateing them. if that person in the past has posted and said words and basically indicated there is an ideology this is where we should begin to act. we understand he has attended conferences and different things. one led by a pan who was american born and is described by many people as being rather moderate. play sound recently that we are getting from him. no system of government, no
where you would let me break the news to you charles. we have made such progress in terms of breaking down al-qaeda in terms of getting them in terms of their structure to malfunction there are now more lone wolfs. there was no evidence that this man juan had come from an al-qaeda training cam. he said he was from yemen. once you hear that. if you alerted the cia, they had intercepts with his name. remember, his father had gone to the embassy. if you are a responsible person you immediately let the cia on intelligence people know. you don t mirandaize him. the president and others said there was a systemic fail. who is accountable? eric holder is now accountable for all intelligence failures including by the british and everybody else who didn t underand it what abdulmutallab was up to?
malfunction there are now more lone wolfs. there was no evidence that this man juan had come from an al-qaeda training cam. he said he was from yemen. once you hear that. if you alerted the cia, they had intercepts with his name. remember, his father had gone to the embassy. if you are a responsible person you immediately let the cia on intelligence people know. you don t mirandaize him. the president and others said there was a systemic fail. who is accountable? eric holder is now accountable for all intelligence failures including by the british and everybody else who didn t underand it what abdulmutallab was up to? that seems to me to be political and try to beat up
terms of their structure to malfunction there are now more lone wolfs. there was no evidence that this man juan had come from an al-qaeda training cam. he said he was from yemen. once you hear that. if you alerted the cia, they had intercepts with his name. remember, his father had gone to the embassy. if you are a responsible person you immediately let the cia on intelligence people know. you don t mirandaize him. the president and others said there was a systemic fail. who is accountable? eric holder is now accountable for all intelligence failures including by the british and everybody else who didn t underand it what abdulmutallab was up to? that seems to me to be political and try to beat up