since 2011, it s been six as far as the count. how about the other four were they high ranking operatives? reporter: what they ll tell you, we don t know about farouq but we to know he was not specifically targeted. only one of those six of specifically targeted. and that s anwar al awlaki, the american who had some role in the underwear bomber case. his son was killed, 16 years old, not a big deal. another one of those who was killed again inadvertently was a fighter who had been indicted twice in plots involving u.s. target. and sami kahn killed with awlaki was author and editor of inspire magazine which is provides a lot of recipes for attacks.
then police came and moved us off the rooftop pretty quickly. it is the end. it is the end of this massive manhunt that has been going on now, this operation that began 10:00 last night with the first reports of a robbery at a convenience store in cambridge, massachusetts. what a 23-hour period this has been. tom fuentes, formerly with the fbi, is standing by monitoring all of this with us as well. tom, your thoughts at this moment? well, i just wanted to give you one possible scenario which actually occurred in the abdul metalleb underwear bomber case. after he was taken off that airplane in detroit, he was provided his miranda rights by fbi agents who were going to begin the interrogation. he waived his rights so they began to interview him. he required medical care because he had burned his legs in the process of trying to set off the device so they accompanied him to the hospital. he got all the medical treatment
body-worn explosive. that s common tactic over in afghanistan, when you re concerned that that might be the case, and it makes a lot of sense to do it here when you re worried about it. from a tactical standpoint, is there any way to prevent that? i ve always been told a head shot is the only way, but when you re trying to capture him alive, to get the information that you really do want to get, one of the things you can do is you can make good use of canines, explosion detection canines. you can send a canine up there. i have trained canines that are good enough to go off leash and go up there and they will sit on him if he is wearing an explosive, they will alert on it. so that will also give you an indicator that there s an explosive involved. i know they got some good canines in this town and that s a possibility as well. you have no doubt, given the lack of information that everybody has about the suspect at this point, they would like to capture him alive, not only from a
our boston police have just tweeted suspect in custody. let me repeat that. around 8:45 p.m., boston police department has just tweeted that the suspect is in fact in custody. this seems to verify what elizabeth cohen witnessed, neighbors yelling at police did you get him, police officers saying yes as the vehicle drove off. safe to assume that the suspect is in that vehicle. what happens now? well, now we re in the sort of usual criminal legal process. this is a big debate in counterterrorism, whether our courts can handle terrorism cases. they can. this is going to be a long legal proceeding with lots of evidence, if he is well enough to survive whatever happened, it sounds like he was. so part two is now the continuing investigation and now the legal case which will be a year or two ahead.
officials, city officials, as far back as the justice department, the fbi in washington, trying to coordinate now the next move. yes, they believe they have a tactical advantage. they brought in extra units, military style vehicles in case there are explosives there. they have lighting and night vision equipment and the like if they decide to use that. and the question now is they believe time is theirs, that they have him trapped. however, they also have memories of what happened last night. i want to bring in a security consultant formerly with the fbi and former cia counterterrorism official. the authorities, if they have a perimeter set up, they can take their time on this. exactly. what s the rush at this point. fools rush in. don t need to do that. we talked earlier about waning light. that s actually an advantage to the security forces. they get to pick, do we want to use bright light, do we want to completely take the light away from the entire block and take advantage of o