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what more can you tell us about that? well, i think the key point here is this could be an al qaeda central plot against the united states. so the intelligence suggests that these individuals coming back to america, including an american citizen are linked to al qaeda central. at this point point it s uncorroborated information. they re not corroborating the information. but it s caused a lot of concern in u.s. counterterrorism cycles right now, brooke. haven t we, when i say we, the u.s. been looking for something like this? didn t the cia in the raid in a bot bad find a notebooks with writings about mounting an attack on such an anniversary as this sunday? well, that s absolutely right. osama bin laden appears to have been somewhat obsessed by attacking the united states ten years after 9/11. he was handwriting some notes about this. he also reportedly was in communication with another al qaeda operative. trying to think through how they could launch this sort of atta
from the secretary janl rasmussen, but we re expecting that nato will be taking command maybe sometime over the weekend. there had been some question as to whether handing over to nato would be problematic in the view of arab countries, countries in the mideast. do you know how that might be resolved? well, this is one of the things that s been the interesting back story, joe, is that the french have said that the arabs don t want nato to take over this command because they feel it would be some kind of western crusade. arabs we ve talked to say they don t have a problem with nato command. a lot of arab states are taking part in afghanistan such as the jordan daynians have a robust role. there s been toing and froing about the french wanting to be in the lead and that wouldn t be the case if they turned it over to nato. the french foreign minister was speaking on the record to some of the news agencies that nato is going to be taking over and like i said, arabs we ve talk
several u.s. cities are being invested and aviation security is being ramped up right now. the president warning that al qaeda and yemen is planning attacks against the united states right now. to our white house core spot dent ed henry. we had this briefing from the senior advisor on homeland security. john brennan. he gave us new information going through what they know and what they don t know. he hinted for the first time that the u.s. had intelligence that tipped them off to the fact that there were packages potentially with explosives on these planes. he said, quote, when ever you pull a string, there s a reason you pull that string. and we had a reason to pull it. he wouldn t go further detail. clearly hinting this was intelligence. this is not just a random check. that s why they wind after it. asked if it was a dry run for a future terror attack or not. and specifically, interestingly, john brennan said, usually with a dry run, there would not be explosives in thes