that whether or not it s an organized group, whether it s a lone wolf, this is not somebody that looks like they have a high degree of training, but that doesn t mean that they don t have the intent to kill. and that s what we have to find out where this person is. i think you remember in 2007 after the failed tiger nightclub bombings, the guys who were behind that, the first thing they did was pile all their gear, all their remaining equipment into their car, drive straight up to glasgow airport and crash their vehicle through the front gates to have airport, set themselves on fire and attempt again, that s the concern is that, you know, if that was the scenario back then with a very similar device, then what are we looking at here? where are the people that put this here? what are they up to now? what are they going to try to do in the future, and how can we stop them from that? so there is a tremendous manhunt right now because, you know, the concern is that this person is still r
once they know where this vehicle came from, they re going to be able to start tracking this down. obviously, if it was stolen that s going to make it a little more difficult, but at least they ll figure out where it was stolen from. if it s not a stolen vehicle, it will lead to the perpetrators, who apparently were trying to hide some of the vin numbers, but there are many vin numbers on a vehicle, and they have identified some of them and that s going to bring them back. that combined with partial prints, partial photos, that s the main lead they re going to be following. yeah. and the type of bomb that this was, what does your gut tell you, michael? do you think this is something as having been claimed by an al qaeda branchoff group from pakistan? is this likely the result of their handiwork or more a lone wolf? it could be. it could be. i m a little suspicious of this taliban claim. we ll have to see if they have any knowledge of this that would indicate maybe they did have som
mullah masood, who s claimed credit for this attack in new york. we have to be careful because the pakistani taliban has also claimed credit for various different incidences that have occurred in the united states which are clearly not linked to terrorism, but it is interesting that already we are seeing terrorist organizations step up trying to get a piece of the pie in terms of publicity, anyway. i m curious what you think about that. is that actual lay credible claim in your mind given the way this bomb, this explosive device, however it wants to be described right now, was really rudiment arily created? it was amateurish. it is important to understand this kind of explosive is not the kind of device built by someone who went through a terrorist training camp. that being said, just two years ago in barcelona, in spain, spanish authorities intercepted a group of people who seemed very amateurish in that they were trying to carry out some kind of bomb attack in barcelona. and sure
for that aborted operation that failed, but there s a good amount of evidence that they were involved in it. so it s possible that a group like the pakistani taliban, a group that doesn t have the kind of training and experience that al qaeda might might have mounted this. but regardless of who it was, this was not a very expertly carried out operation. this explosive device, the way it was carried out, everything was very amateurish. it was not done by someone with a lot of experience, obviously, in building these devices or deploying them, and that does tend to suggest, anyway, it s a homegrown extremist or somebody who even if they d been mobilized by a terrorist group, they are homegrown themselves. yeah. okay. but you and i spent time back in 2007 talking tact glasgow, scotland, airport attack, which wasn t propane used as either a propellant or yeah. so you think about that, there could be copycats of that kind of incident. right. i mean, that was connected to an actu