Investigators, and you can see the different shirt. so there s both local and federal going down into the station, searching the area. tell us the latest of what you re seeing right there? so what makes this different, john, and why the jtt would be involved was because of that device. whether it was a smoke device, whether it was some kind of more sinister device that was meant to go off and didn t. all indications are, obviously, that this was a smoke device. but when you think about the location, given that it s the subway, the train here in new york city, which has been a terrorism target, and it s one of these things that obviously what officials are always concerned about, attacks in the subway. so that s why you re seeing this kind of response, as well, because of what was used. that smoke device. and given the number of people shot, so, you know, normally when you have shootings, sadly, there s been so many shootings here in the subways and attacks here in the subway, you w
Of eight operatives, sent here to support hezbollah and if activated to carry out a terrorist attack. so we had assembled our de facto joint task force. everyone had expertise working together to further develop this terrorism investigation. and the case was called operation smoke screen. it s a manpower intensive effort to conduct a physical surveillance of a terrorism target. a number of people doing different things in order to stay on a target and not get exposed. one of the things we did was to rent the house across the street from mohammed hammoud. we needed fbi agents portraying themselves as a young married couple to monitor that residence 24 hours a day to find out who is coming in there, at what time, what s happening there? mohammed hammoud was sort of
1997. the charlotte cell was made up of eight operatives, sent here to activate hezbollah if and when to carry out a terrorist attack. so we had assembled our defact so joint task force. everyone had expertise working together to further develop this terrorism investigation. and the case was called operation smoke screen. it s a man power intensive effort to conduct a physical surveillance of a terrorism target. a number of people doing different things in order to stay on a target and not get exposed. one of the things we did was to rent the house across the street from mohammed hamoud. we needed people to monitor that residence 24 hours a day to find out who is coming in there, at what time, what s happening there? mohammed hammoud grew up in hezbollah, knew the leadership.
Bus. you turn it into a terrorism target. really? yeah. i mean i think that guy should have to resign. that s a good point. pamela geller, i don t know if i would want to hang out with her. you wouldn t. i wouldn t? i wouldn t want to be within a blast radius. i am glad she is out there. she is stirring things up. i am split on this becauseviously i am kind of a first amendment guy. i like when you can be kind of i sort of support the first amendment which is hilarious when people say that. i do support the first amendment. but when you see something like this and you have to deal with actual destruction and death, that they may rot on a bus. i prefer na, na, na mohamed airlines they are trying to get started. it is a target on a bus. i don t think it is being easy
Bus. you turn it into a terrorism target. really? yeah. i mean i think that guy should have to resign. that s a good point. pamela geller, i don t know if i would want to hang out with her. you wouldn t. i wouldn t? i wouldn t want to be within a blast radius. i am glad she is out there. she is stirring things up. i am split on this because obviously i am kind of a first amendment guy. i like when you can be kind of i sort of support the first amendment which is hilarious when people say that. i do support the first amendment. but when you see something like this and you have to deal with actual destruction and death, that they may rot on a bus. i prefer na, na, na mohamed airlines they are trying to get started. it is a target on a bus. i don t think it is being easy