Thats being tested now down stairs so the mail room area is contained while we go through the various steps to test that. On a field test. Package it up safely for removal and decon that area and anybody that came in contact with it. Im going to take just keep in mind it happened a couple of hours ago and still ongoing and going to take some questions and not going too deep into it. Yes . Can you talk about how concerned you are the connection of these targets . People who have been criticized by the president well, take a look at whos being targeted here and thats why were doing it proactively. Reaching out to people in the city. People that do their security and making sure that the mail rooms follow proper protocol and of concern to us and reaching out to the right people. Yes . Hold on. Mayor or governor, earlier
this week, president assaulting a journalist. All sorts of threats to journalists. Do you have a particular message to President Trump in light of what happened at cnn or
somebody to pick up the mail and bring it in. yes. as to whether that person or persons gone to that extent and the thought process. the idea here is that to find out very quickly, are these devices capable of exploding? your point of none of them went off. good. were they capable of going off? if so, why did they not? quha what was the detonation mechanism? a lot to be learned from that identifying who, singular or who plural created them. and then, again, for what purpose? the political issue is one that s certainly raised. there you have all of the people clearly identified as activist democrats. the president is going to be asked that, first question to come off the lips of the reporters down there that do you feel any blame for when s going on here with your attacks on all these people? so that s going to be another element to come into play here.
that may be much bigger. what we see, the last three, four, five years is that there is emerged between the jihadi radical world and between the criminal world. lots of jihadists meet with criminals in prison. prison. i think with these young people it s like a mental detonation mechanism. so some of them are hard core jihadists socialized in this branch of islam since they were young. but some of them are not that muslim at all. that appears to be the case for the man who operated this bar. ibrahim abdeslam was known as a petty criminal here. the bar he ran shut down just a week before the paris attacks because of drugs and other illicit activity. family fraends say his involvement in radical islam came as a shock.
can be purchased on the belgian black market for as little as $1,000. you are getting a good deal here. there is another problem that may be much bigger. what we see the last three, four, five years, is that there is a merge between the jihadi radical world and the criminal world. lots of jihadists meet with criminals in prison. i think the role of the branch of islam with these young people is that it is like a mental detonation mechanism. some of them are hard core jihaddys who were socialized in this branch of islam since they were young. some of them are not that muslim at all. that appears to be the case for the man who operated this bar, ibrahim abdeslam was known
terror trap. big black weapons come from europe and the balcan countries and it s very easy for criminal gangs or terrorist groupings to find weapons, even war weapons here in our city. reporter: he says kalashnikov rifles, the gun of choice in recent attacks can be purchased on the belgium black market for as little as a thousand dollars. reporter: you are actually getting good money, price. indeed, yeah. reporter: that s a problem. and there the another problem, he says, that may be much bigger? what we see the last three, four five years is that there is a merge between the jihadi radical world and between the criminal world. because lots of jihadists meet with criminals in prison. i think the role of islam with these young people is that it s like a mental detonation mechanism. so some of them are hard core