built near ground zero. confused yet? a lot of us are but we re trying to wade through this as best we can. also, take a look at the larger implications for violence because of this very, very charged and upsetting debate that s going on right now. we learn that he did get a personal call from the defense secretary robert gates and we also heard from president obama asking him to call off the koran burning stunt saying that it would jeopardize u.s. troops abroad. joining us from london a terrorist analyst, and in d.c. cnn national security analyst peter bergen. thanks to both of you for being with us this morning. peter, it s just interesting how as we ve described it you can really hijack a debate when thousands of people across the world are putting their lives at risk for one reason or another. but in the end to have peace between nations and peace between religions, how did it get to the point where this reverend of a small congregation in florida is able to
now, to craig with a special report on the men behind the money used to bank roll the failed bombing. what did you discover? federal agents conducted a series of raids in connection with the attempted car bombing right here in new york city s times square. the spreading investigation is to see if the times square terrorist shahzad was in fact a lone wolf or was he working with a terrorist organization. whalid is a fox news terrorist analyst and has been investigating the case. tell me about the ring. this is what we are looking at here. the agents could have been the ground zero of urban jihaddism in america. on thursday, nearly two dozen gun toting agents busted two pakistani men on immigration charges in suburban massachusetts. a third man arrested in maine and another in pakistan with admitted ties to the may 1st
now, to craig with a special report on the men behind the money used to bank roll the failed bombing. what did you discover? federal agents conducted a series of raids in connection with the attempted car bombing right here in new york city s times square. the spreading investigation is to see if the times square terrorist shahzad was in fact a lone wolf or was he working with a terrorist organization. whalid is a fox news terrorist analyst and has been investigating the case. tell me about the ring. this is what we are looking at here. the agents could have been the ground zero of urban jihaddism in america. on thursday, nearly two dozen gun toting agents busted two pakistani men on immigration charges in suburban massachusetts. a third man arrested in maine and another in pakistan with admitted ties to the may 1st
he is not a lone wolf, more like a lonely wolf. that is part of a club of other wolfs. it is unclear where he got the money from but authorities suspect that the three pakistani guys that were picked up on immigration charges at least funneled the money to him as well as the cell phone that he used in the operation. the question is whether or not they knew what that money was going to. that is the key. and bringing in jonathan, this was his job, follow the money. u.s. treasury department former terrorist analyst. it is very as a former prosecutor i know you can follow the money trail and that can lead you to a whole host of suspects and people that are involved in this terror ring. well, certainly that is always the case and that is one of the keys to this case. it is very important to point out here that there are an estimated 200,000 operating in the country right now. only about 40,000 are
incident that i truly regret. i ll bet. the boy s family is suing davis and the school. the latest rage in the times square bomb plot. friends and co work ersz of the pakistani men can t believe the three men were involved in anything sinister. investigators say the men may not have known what the money was going to be used for. we have a terrorist analyst. welcome on a saturday morning. good morning, alex. how can they be accused of getting money to him but not knowing about a plot? they have to be giving some money for some purpose. wouldn t they know? this is the biggest lead, money in pakistan, money to shahzad. they also have some immigration problems which have them in detention, so they ll find out