member of the fbi terror task force and of course terry turchie, counter terrorism division of the fbi. this is wild t took the fbi 20 years to track down the uni bomber. how the heck did they find this guy so quickly? terry. laura: well this is a very interesting week. we ve heard all kinds of theories and everything. all of this reminded people it s really tremendous when you can find intact devices. also on any case no matter how complicated you have to make sure you stay with shoe leather and police work. and pay attention to the tedious. what do we hear now today? we hear on one of these devices the fbi lab was able to pull a fingerprint. you know theodore kozinski was never arrested and fingerprinted. this man was arrested, off and on, spend time in prison. they were able to start the ball rolling with. that that was a big break.
it would have taken much longer to find him. it most likely would have. fortunately, if you have to have crimes committed, package bombs, bombs put in the mail are crimes that can be solved pretty fast in the tradition and history is that they are. we have an agency we don t talk about very much. we came to have the greatest respect for these people during uni bomber and that was the postal inspection service. they can look at an envelope and you would be amazed at the kind of things they can tell you from the surface of the envelope, from the stamps to the time it was sent to when it was put in the mail stream. you go back and try to re-create. that in any crime using the mail it began when it was placed in the mail stream. you make up a lot of ground and the postal service helps do that. in this day and age you can have cameras back at the origination.
tremendous public safety issue 50. public safety first. forgive me if i have to break off for the president, but the former fbi profiler helped apprehend the unibomber. i don t want to equate these two. that was over years and this was over several days. you are sitting across from somebody who you believe has been responsible for the domestic terror attacks and additional investigations. after we lured him out of his cabin, he put up a bit of a fight and brought down to the another cabin that had been prepared to hopefully interrogate him. he was handcuffed behind his back when he sat down at this pine table. a rustic scene. my supervisor said to him, ted, we are concerned about anyone being hurt as mr. fuentes said.
second of all, why would a bomber, suspected bomber, put a switch that is a timer in a piece of mail? those are typically booby trap initiated. you set a timer on it, you don t know where it s going to be. one of the top five most dangerous per capita violent crime rate cities, not in florida, in the country, did this come from there? i don t think so because i think going back there, as far as the uni-bomber, he traveled from san francisco to montana to mail his packages. the fact that there was a stamp similar to the unibomber, he used to stamp his devices. it is almost like these people want to put their signature so that ultimately they re looking and craving that type of attention.
attacks in 2001. that was a true scare. the first of its kind. i think about the sniper in washington, d.c. in the fall of 2002. or the unibomber. bill: you had people being shot and killed. no one has been injured or killed thankfully. and if you are questioning whether or not the panic has ensued, i feel as the more we see this, the more people are saying well, what s next and what s this all about? and you wonder if the person is responsible or persons just know the system so well that they can evade capture in four days. it s an amazing thing. we ve never quite seen it before. is this person really cagey or just really good? or really amateurish. one of the possibilities other