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And when the fingerprint expert at the state crime lab started processing that 3-year-old parking receipt, a wondrous thing happened for tommy ray s blossoming theory of the case. lynn called up and said, tommy, i ve got some fantastic news. the fantastic news was that we had prints of nelson serrano. reporter: the fingerprint proves that serrano was in florida on december 3rd, 1997, just an hour and a half drive away from erie manufacturing. not in a hotel room in atlanta nursing a migraine. i knew at that point, that was more than enough for an arrest and an indictment against nelson serrano. reporter: and in may 2002, almost 4 1/2 years after the murders, tommy ray finally got his indictment, four counts of first-degree murder against nelson serrano. but there s a problem. you can t arrest him, right? nelson fled to ecuador. reporter: federal officials said the chances of extraditing serrano, an ecuadorian national, would be slim to none. ....
Not at war when it looks like a shooting war, and we are nato, nato is us. no question. when american when we are involved in any way in a foreign conflict, it s always tough to say we re not at war. can we walk that line? can he do it? and the speech will will be 7:30, not prime time, not in the oval office, as national defense university here at washington. thank you very much, chris cillizza. we ll talk about it tomorrow. meanwhile, former president jimmy carter and his wife are in havana today, the unofficial visit on behalf of the carter center. the former president meeting with president castro. he s expected to work on the release of alan gross, a state department contracted arrested in 2009, convicts of crimes against the state. carter last visited cuba, may 2002. he attended a baseball game with castro, the former president, now former president. that does it for us for this ....
The next one we heard a lot about, may 2002. he was arrested later convicted of supporting terror. when you hear about jose padilla, you might be thinking of the term dirty bomb. he was originally accused of trying to set off these dirty bombs in america. he was ultimately convicted of something he, of conspiracy and supporting terrorism. let s bang through a few more. the lackawanna six arrested september 2002, later convicted of providing material support to al qaeda. that was up near buffalo, new york. iyman faris arrested in may 2003 in a plot to destroy the brooklyn bridge. another purported attempt on new york. this was when seven men were arrested june 2006 in a plot that apparently was going to begin with an effort to attack the sears tower in chicago. the liquid explosives plot, jumps up to 2006 also when 24 men were arrested attempting to carry on basically liquids that would create an explosion on the plane. we all remember this very well ....
Soil. josh levs joins me now with a timeline. josh? ever since this happened it s been on my mind. we ve been thinking about this too often, far too often, the stories of potential terrorism on the united states. we re taking a look back at our own reporting to see some of the big examples since 9/11. i can t tell you all of them because, unfortunately, there are too many, but here are some that will stick out in your mind as they stick out in mine. we will start with richard reid which was not long after 9/11. richard reid, the shoebomber, that was in december 2001. let s jump ahead to the next year. jose padilla. a aim you remember well, he was arrested in may 2002. you might think of the words dirty bomb. he was accused of setting radio active and dirty bombs and was arrested for supporting terrorism. this is in the area of buffalo, new york, and this group was later convicted of providing material support to al qaeda. let s go to the next one here. ....
Jon: newly declassified documents on the christ s use of enhanced interrogation techniques raising new questions today about what house speaker nancy pelosi was told about the controversial issue and when. steve centanni has more on that live from washington. steve. reporter: hi jon. the speaker has said she was briefed one time about harsh interrogation techniques, including water boarding, and that was in september of 2002, but these new documents show she attended another earlier briefing in april of that same year. the documents say the subject of the briefing was, quote, ongoing interrogations of abu zadayda, the document doesn t say what kind of interrogation was involved, zabayda, the palestinian who was the al-qaeda operations director, was captured in pakistan in may 2002. ....