1 00:00:02,219 --> 00:00:03,351 [Pete]: Times Square on a beautiful Saturday, 2 00:00:03,394 --> 00:00:06,093 it is packed. There was a T-shirt vendor 3 00:00:06,136 --> 00:00:08,007 who saw an individual get out of a car, 4 00:00:08,051 --> 00:00:10,836 and take a lighter and toss it in the passenger seat. 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,274 - And then you heard this little pop-pop-pop-pop. 6 00:00:17,147 --> 00:00:20,368 - All that glass, all those bits and shards 7 00:00:20,411 --> 00:00:23,675 that are from 20 stories, 30 stories high. 8 00:00:23,719 --> 00:00:25,764 They're going to come crashing to the ground. 9 00:00:25,808 --> 00:00:27,070 [Greg]: This is a bomber. 10 00:00:27,114 --> 00:00:29,333 Are they going to activate some other bombs? 11 00:00:29,377 --> 00:00:31,988 [Rich]: Find the guy. Stop the next act. 12 00:00:32,031 --> 00:00:34,556 - We need to pull every single camera. 13 00:00:34,599 --> 00:00:36,471 [Rich]: He's on a plane. 14 00:00:36,514 --> 00:00:39,691 - Clock is ticking. - Get that plane back now! 15 00:00:41,693 --> 00:00:44,957 [narrator]: In the FBI, we make a lot of headlines. 16 00:00:48,352 --> 00:00:51,181 Drug busts, mob stings, 17 00:00:52,704 --> 00:00:54,271 terrorist takedowns. 18 00:00:54,315 --> 00:00:56,099 [shouting] 19 00:00:56,143 --> 00:00:59,015 We understand why people want to tell stories about us. 20 00:00:59,059 --> 00:01:00,669 - Mark it. - Freeze! 21 00:01:00,712 --> 00:01:02,279 - FBI. - FBI! 22 00:01:02,323 --> 00:01:03,541 - Action! 23 00:01:03,585 --> 00:01:05,239 - But they don't know the half of it. 24 00:01:06,805 --> 00:01:08,068 What really goes down? 25 00:01:09,069 --> 00:01:11,027 We save that for each other, 26 00:01:11,071 --> 00:01:13,073 when we're talking agent to agent. 27 00:01:16,337 --> 00:01:19,514 This is FBI True. 28 00:01:19,557 --> 00:01:21,864 [tense music] 29 00:01:24,649 --> 00:01:26,129 - Guys, it's so great to see you. 30 00:01:26,173 --> 00:01:28,349 Haven't seen you in, like, a minute. 31 00:01:28,392 --> 00:01:32,309 - Kristy Kottis is a 24-year veteran of the FB. 32 00:01:32,353 --> 00:01:35,443 She worked gangs, crimes against children, 33 00:01:35,485 --> 00:01:38,054 as well as human and drug trafficking. 34 00:01:39,055 --> 00:01:41,926 - Pete where were you on May 1st, 2010? 35 00:01:41,971 --> 00:01:44,104 - I was in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. 36 00:01:44,930 --> 00:01:48,543 - Peter Licata was one of the FBI's top bomb experts. 37 00:01:48,586 --> 00:01:52,199 He dealt with more than 300 Improvised Explosive Devices 38 00:01:52,241 --> 00:01:54,026 on missions to Iraq. 39 00:01:54,070 --> 00:01:57,378 In 2010, he led the Weapons of Mass Destruction 40 00:01:57,420 --> 00:01:59,293 Squad for New York City. 41 00:01:59,336 --> 00:02:01,295 [tense music] 42 00:02:02,774 --> 00:02:04,646 [Pete]: My counterparts in the NYPD bomb squad, 43 00:02:04,689 --> 00:02:06,517 they tell me we got a thing going on Times Square. 44 00:02:06,561 --> 00:02:08,650 You probably want to start rolling this way. 45 00:02:10,390 --> 00:02:12,262 [Greg]: I got a call, not unusual 46 00:02:12,306 --> 00:02:14,569 because it always happens either on a Friday or Saturday 47 00:02:14,612 --> 00:02:16,005 when you're getting ready to relax. 48 00:02:16,048 --> 00:02:18,399 The assistant special agent in charge called up, 49 00:02:18,442 --> 00:02:20,401 "Can you respond as the on-scene commander?" 50 00:02:20,444 --> 00:02:23,273 - Greg Ehrie was recruited from the US Air Force 51 00:02:23,317 --> 00:02:24,840 to join the FBI, 52 00:02:24,883 --> 00:02:28,670 where he worked organized crime and intelligence cases. 53 00:02:28,713 --> 00:02:31,107 In 2010, he was Supervisory Special Agent 54 00:02:31,151 --> 00:02:34,197 for the New York Domestic Terrorism Squad. 55 00:02:34,241 --> 00:02:36,939 - At this point, we had been doing a lot of bomb threats 56 00:02:36,982 --> 00:02:38,506 - We've been through this before. 57 00:02:38,549 --> 00:02:40,029 This is not our first time. 58 00:02:40,072 --> 00:02:42,074 And so everyone knows what their mission is. 59 00:02:42,118 --> 00:02:44,816 - Richard Frankel got his start in the FBI 60 00:02:44,860 --> 00:02:47,515 investigating the infamous Gambino crime family. 61 00:02:47,558 --> 00:02:49,473 After the attacks on 9/11, 62 00:02:49,517 --> 00:02:51,562 he moved into national securit. 63 00:02:51,606 --> 00:02:54,043 By 2009, Frankel was responsible 64 00:02:54,086 --> 00:02:55,697 for domestic terrorist threats 65 00:02:55,740 --> 00:02:57,742 for the FBI's New York field office. 66 00:02:57,786 --> 00:02:59,831 - So you're first on scene. What do you see? 67 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:02,094 - It's Times Square on a beautiful Saturday, 68 00:03:02,138 --> 00:03:04,227 right around when shows are letting out, 69 00:03:04,271 --> 00:03:05,968 shows are coming in, it is packed. 70 00:03:06,011 --> 00:03:08,362 [tense music] 71 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:12,192 I look for my team. I look for my counterparts, 72 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:13,758 and the first thing goes, what do we have here? 73 00:03:13,802 --> 00:03:16,152 And what they tell me is there was a T-shirt vendor 74 00:03:16,196 --> 00:03:17,762 right on the corner of 45th and Broadway 75 00:03:17,806 --> 00:03:21,201 who saw an individual get out of a car, a Nissan Pathfinder, 76 00:03:23,072 --> 00:03:25,988 and take a lighter and toss it in the passenger seat. 77 00:03:26,031 --> 00:03:28,469 - And then you heard this little pop-pop-pop-pop! 78 00:03:28,512 --> 00:03:30,035 Which was almost like a firecracker 79 00:03:30,079 --> 00:03:32,995 going off and stuff. And then sparks inside the car, 80 00:03:33,038 --> 00:03:34,039 you could see them. 81 00:03:34,083 --> 00:03:35,780 - At that point, the T-shirt vendor 82 00:03:35,824 --> 00:03:38,043 sees a fire start to engulf the car. 83 00:03:38,087 --> 00:03:40,220 - And when that happened, everyone started running. 84 00:03:40,263 --> 00:03:41,656 [officer]: Go, go! Everybody back up! 85 00:03:41,699 --> 00:03:43,353 Everybody back up! 86 00:03:43,397 --> 00:03:45,877 [screaming] 87 00:03:47,270 --> 00:03:51,231 Come on, keep going back. Just keep moving. 88 00:03:51,274 --> 00:03:53,494 [sirens wailing] 89 00:03:56,714 --> 00:04:00,152 - The FDNY, they see two red, five-gallon gasoline jugs 90 00:04:00,196 --> 00:04:02,242 in the back seat of this of this SUV. 91 00:04:04,983 --> 00:04:07,812 They see some fusing systems. They see some pyrotechnics, 92 00:04:07,856 --> 00:04:10,728 a.k.a. firecrackers, consumer grade firecrackers. 93 00:04:10,772 --> 00:04:14,254 They see three propane tanks in the cargo area of this SUV. 94 00:04:14,297 --> 00:04:16,778 And then they see a really long gun locker. 95 00:04:16,821 --> 00:04:18,867 And they're like, this isn't a normal car fire. 96 00:04:18,910 --> 00:04:20,476 We've got something more. 97 00:04:26,875 --> 00:04:28,659 [sirens wailing] 98 00:04:31,532 --> 00:04:33,273 - So based on your experience as a bomb tech 99 00:04:33,316 --> 00:04:35,057 looking at this device, 100 00:04:35,100 --> 00:04:37,494 you're recognizing how powerful this would have been 101 00:04:37,538 --> 00:04:39,757 if it went off. How powerful are we talking? 102 00:04:39,801 --> 00:04:41,672 - Catastrophic. 103 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,328 You have Times Square. You have 45th Street. 104 00:04:46,590 --> 00:04:48,505 You have to worry about the fragmentation 105 00:04:48,549 --> 00:04:52,161 from the vehicle, the device itself. 106 00:04:52,204 --> 00:04:54,859 And then what we call secondary and tertiary fragmentation. 107 00:04:54,903 --> 00:04:56,644 Which is all that glass. 108 00:04:58,776 --> 00:05:01,431 All those bits and shards that are from 20 stories, 109 00:05:01,475 --> 00:05:02,737 30 stories high. 110 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:04,347 They're going to come crashing to the ground 111 00:05:04,391 --> 00:05:06,784 and not just at 45th and Broadway. 112 00:05:06,828 --> 00:05:09,352 We're talking all the way up the east side on 45th Street. 113 00:05:09,396 --> 00:05:11,006 We're talking around the block 114 00:05:11,049 --> 00:05:13,182 and we're talking all the way back down to the Hudson River, 115 00:05:13,225 --> 00:05:14,966 going down the west Side. 116 00:05:20,798 --> 00:05:25,020 In order to get a view of the device, 117 00:05:25,063 --> 00:05:27,414 you use a remote-controlled robot to do a reconnaissance 118 00:05:27,457 --> 00:05:29,546 for you to get a look at the hazard 119 00:05:29,590 --> 00:05:32,506 without putting a bomb tech in harm's way. 120 00:05:33,724 --> 00:05:35,509 First thing you do is you make the device safe, 121 00:05:35,552 --> 00:05:37,815 a.k.a. render it safe neutralizer, 122 00:05:37,859 --> 00:05:40,252 which means you separate any fusing system 123 00:05:40,296 --> 00:05:43,734 or the switch from the energetic or the explosives. 124 00:05:45,997 --> 00:05:47,564 Then once we have the explosive isolated, 125 00:05:47,608 --> 00:05:49,523 we can put it in a vehicle or a flatbed 126 00:05:49,566 --> 00:05:51,002 and we can haul it out of there. 127 00:05:51,046 --> 00:05:53,440 Whether he was able to set this device off or not, 128 00:05:53,483 --> 00:05:55,703 it doesn't matter. The bomb didn't explode, 129 00:05:55,746 --> 00:05:57,400 but this is still a bomber. 130 00:05:57,444 --> 00:05:59,359 - So all these thoughts are starting to race 131 00:05:59,402 --> 00:06:00,664 through my head. Now the temperature's 132 00:06:00,708 --> 00:06:02,666 gone up even more, because you're thinking, 133 00:06:02,710 --> 00:06:04,799 it's not a pipe bomb, which is damaging enough. 134 00:06:04,842 --> 00:06:06,496 How big could this be? 135 00:06:07,671 --> 00:06:09,238 - It was just a couple of short years ago, 136 00:06:09,281 --> 00:06:10,544 you had the Mexican consulate bombing. 137 00:06:10,587 --> 00:06:12,284 You had a bombing at the Times Square 138 00:06:12,328 --> 00:06:14,286 recruiting station just around the corner. 139 00:06:14,330 --> 00:06:17,420 You had a potential attack on the New York City subway system. 140 00:06:17,464 --> 00:06:20,423 - Our job since 9/11 has been to prevent 141 00:06:20,467 --> 00:06:23,165 an act of terrorism in New York and elsewhere. 142 00:06:23,207 --> 00:06:27,865 And we can't let this happen a second time on our watch. 143 00:06:29,911 --> 00:06:33,480 [screaming] 144 00:06:37,962 --> 00:06:39,616 - I'm starting to think at this point, 145 00:06:39,659 --> 00:06:42,793 okay, where's the subject? Who was driving the car? 146 00:06:42,837 --> 00:06:45,405 Because are they going to activate some other bombs? 147 00:06:45,448 --> 00:06:48,146 And in my head, I literally am thinking of a stopwatch 148 00:06:48,190 --> 00:06:50,845 being clicked. because now, the hunt is on. 149 00:06:52,237 --> 00:06:55,763 [Rich]: The JOC is now completely up and running. 150 00:06:55,806 --> 00:06:58,330 You've got analysts, you've got surveillance teams, 151 00:06:58,374 --> 00:07:02,030 you've got lawyers from both the U.S. Attorney's office 152 00:07:02,073 --> 00:07:03,248 and the FBI. 153 00:07:03,292 --> 00:07:05,860 The entire task force is up and running 154 00:07:05,903 --> 00:07:07,339 and it's 24-7. 155 00:07:07,383 --> 00:07:09,516 I'm on the phone with Greg, with Pete, 156 00:07:09,559 --> 00:07:11,648 with everyone saying, is there any other bomb? 157 00:07:11,692 --> 00:07:14,738 Is there any other actor here in the United States 158 00:07:14,782 --> 00:07:17,654 that we have to worry about? And the mission was, 159 00:07:17,698 --> 00:07:21,179 find the guy. Stop the next act. 160 00:07:21,223 --> 00:07:22,832 Everyone was about the mission 161 00:07:22,877 --> 00:07:24,313 - Remember Times Square, busy. 162 00:07:24,356 --> 00:07:26,533 People are moving around. It's not evacuated yet. 163 00:07:26,576 --> 00:07:28,491 Who came out of that car and went somewhere? 164 00:07:28,535 --> 00:07:30,493 We need to pull every single camera. 165 00:07:30,537 --> 00:07:33,235 You know, I need to see a face. Who came out of that car? 166 00:07:37,935 --> 00:07:40,851 - Wasn't there some information that we ran down 167 00:07:40,895 --> 00:07:45,290 because it was video of a man changing his clothes? 168 00:07:45,334 --> 00:07:48,076 - We are currently examining video that shows 169 00:07:48,119 --> 00:07:50,382 a white male in his 40s 170 00:07:50,426 --> 00:07:53,560 in Shubert Alley, looking back in the direction 171 00:07:53,603 --> 00:07:56,171 of West 45 Street. 172 00:07:56,214 --> 00:07:59,609 He also was seen shedding a dark-coloured shirt, 173 00:07:59,653 --> 00:08:02,482 revealing a red one underneath. 174 00:08:05,397 --> 00:08:07,878 This happened about a half block 175 00:08:07,922 --> 00:08:09,619 from where the vehicle was parked. 176 00:08:14,668 --> 00:08:16,321 - Looks like he's coming from the car. 177 00:08:16,365 --> 00:08:18,193 Very suspicious. Goes down an alley. 178 00:08:18,236 --> 00:08:19,760 - It's a clue. 179 00:08:23,981 --> 00:08:26,418 So we start to focus in on that very quickly. 180 00:08:26,462 --> 00:08:28,159 That became a person of interest. 181 00:08:28,203 --> 00:08:30,597 So we are getting some information that's coming in. 182 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:32,250 The license plate, because it was obvious, 183 00:08:32,294 --> 00:08:33,556 we got that one. 184 00:08:37,691 --> 00:08:38,996 - We run it. What do we get? 185 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:41,563 - Comes back to a body shop over in Brooklyn. 186 00:08:41,607 --> 00:08:43,871 So let's get people out to that body shop, 187 00:08:43,914 --> 00:08:46,090 find out what we know. But remember, everywhere we go, 188 00:08:46,134 --> 00:08:48,223 even if it doesn't look good, you're assuming 189 00:08:48,266 --> 00:08:50,355 this is a terrorism organization. 190 00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:52,749 This is a bomber. This is somebody who's armed. 191 00:08:52,793 --> 00:08:54,534 So you can't just go willy nilly. 192 00:09:03,717 --> 00:09:06,937 I remember them dragging the owner of this body shop 193 00:09:06,981 --> 00:09:09,331 out of bed, you know, and talking to him. 194 00:09:09,374 --> 00:09:13,291 He was able to very quickly say it belonged to a pickup truck 195 00:09:13,335 --> 00:09:16,033 that he still had right there. He said, I thought the plates 196 00:09:16,077 --> 00:09:19,080 were still in the car. So we know that's a dead end. 197 00:09:19,123 --> 00:09:22,083 So I remember banging Pete and his folks hard to say, 198 00:09:22,126 --> 00:09:23,693 "Give me something from here." 199 00:09:23,737 --> 00:09:25,303 There's a set of keys 200 00:09:25,347 --> 00:09:27,479 that somebody had left, didn't know what they were to. 201 00:09:27,523 --> 00:09:29,612 - We're looking for what we call trace evidence, 202 00:09:29,656 --> 00:09:33,181 which are fingerprints, hairs, fibers, any DNA, 203 00:09:33,224 --> 00:09:34,661 the lighter and the keys that are found 204 00:09:34,704 --> 00:09:36,358 on the floorboard of the seat. 205 00:09:36,401 --> 00:09:38,578 - Pete was able to relay to us the VIN number, 206 00:09:38,621 --> 00:09:41,493 the one in the windshield was obliterated. 207 00:09:41,537 --> 00:09:43,626 And at some point, very quickly, when you were going to move 208 00:09:43,670 --> 00:09:45,628 the car, somebody was able to get the VIN 209 00:09:45,672 --> 00:09:47,369 from the frame underneath. 210 00:09:48,979 --> 00:09:51,068 - Finding the VIN... - Huge. 211 00:09:51,112 --> 00:09:54,419 - Huge, and that is almost a turning point in our mind 212 00:09:54,463 --> 00:09:56,596 because we're like, we can solve this. 213 00:09:59,163 --> 00:10:02,166 - The VIN number came back to, I remember, to an 18-year-old 214 00:10:02,210 --> 00:10:04,342 who had sold the car to somebody. 215 00:10:04,386 --> 00:10:06,301 We start sending people out and it was over in... 216 00:10:06,344 --> 00:10:07,476 - Connecticut. - Connecticut, it was up 217 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:08,782 in Connecticut. 218 00:10:08,825 --> 00:10:11,262 [suspenseful music] 219 00:10:14,918 --> 00:10:16,877 So we sent a group of people up there, 220 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,054 and she tells us she got a call from somebody who said, 221 00:10:20,097 --> 00:10:22,056 "I'd like to buy the car." And he looked at it. 222 00:10:22,099 --> 00:10:24,319 He paid cash. But the brother stops 223 00:10:24,362 --> 00:10:26,451 and is talking to our agents and says, 224 00:10:26,495 --> 00:10:28,932 "You know, he never gave us a name." 225 00:10:28,976 --> 00:10:32,370 The person who bought the car did make the mistake. 226 00:10:32,414 --> 00:10:34,938 He gave them a phone number. So we start running that down. 227 00:10:34,982 --> 00:10:37,158 - You've got the phone number, you run it... 228 00:10:37,201 --> 00:10:38,768 - Yeah, numerous calls to Pakistan, 229 00:10:38,812 --> 00:10:41,205 specifically on the... Right before the bomb 230 00:10:41,249 --> 00:10:43,860 was put in place. Now it's, okay. Game is on. 231 00:10:43,904 --> 00:10:45,688 We know this is an act of terror. 232 00:10:45,732 --> 00:10:47,516 The focus now is find this individual 233 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:49,213 and who else is connected. 234 00:10:49,257 --> 00:10:52,260 And then we found a clip of video... 235 00:10:52,303 --> 00:10:54,784 - And you will see that the Muslim war has just started. 236 00:10:59,528 --> 00:11:01,138 - Right now, we have the VIN, 237 00:11:01,182 --> 00:11:02,966 the license plate, the phone number. 238 00:11:03,010 --> 00:11:04,272 - We start running all the numbers 239 00:11:04,315 --> 00:11:07,188 with our other government agency friends. 240 00:11:07,231 --> 00:11:10,191 We run that and we found the person who bought the car 241 00:11:10,234 --> 00:11:12,367 did make numerous calls to Pakistan. 242 00:11:12,410 --> 00:11:15,892 - And during this time, we also have a Pakistani Taliban 243 00:11:15,936 --> 00:11:19,200 group releasing a video taking credit for the bomb, 244 00:11:19,243 --> 00:11:20,897 even though it didn't explode. 245 00:11:20,941 --> 00:11:23,030 [explosion] 246 00:11:23,073 --> 00:11:25,597 [speaking foreign language] 247 00:11:31,168 --> 00:11:33,823 - Up until this point, it's a criminal case. 248 00:11:33,867 --> 00:11:37,740 But once you now see Pakistan and you see it on the phone, 249 00:11:37,784 --> 00:11:41,309 we now have a whole new host of tradecraft 250 00:11:41,352 --> 00:11:42,702 that we can use. 251 00:11:42,745 --> 00:11:44,181 Um, we've got the military there. 252 00:11:44,225 --> 00:11:46,749 You know, their criminal and counterintelligence 253 00:11:46,793 --> 00:11:48,359 investigators are with us. 254 00:11:48,403 --> 00:11:51,101 You can start seeing who on the other side 255 00:11:51,145 --> 00:11:52,407 was being talked to. 256 00:11:52,450 --> 00:11:54,278 And now reverse that 257 00:11:54,322 --> 00:11:57,325 and see who they're talking to in the United States. 258 00:11:57,368 --> 00:12:00,110 - Pete, did this bomb have an IED signature 259 00:12:00,154 --> 00:12:02,547 that you recognized from a certain... 260 00:12:02,591 --> 00:12:04,462 Like, these are used in Afghanistan. 261 00:12:04,506 --> 00:12:05,986 These were used in Pakistan. 262 00:12:06,029 --> 00:12:07,814 - You have a locker that's weighing over about 263 00:12:07,857 --> 00:12:11,774 200 pounds, full of some type of fertilizer mixture 264 00:12:11,818 --> 00:12:13,907 with propane tanks and gasoline cylinders 265 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:15,343 and all this stuff. 266 00:12:15,386 --> 00:12:17,562 A signature of what was happening overseas. 267 00:12:17,606 --> 00:12:20,217 [man speaking foreign language] 268 00:12:20,261 --> 00:12:22,350 [reporter in English]: Al Qaeda has posted several 269 00:12:22,393 --> 00:12:25,005 videos providing step-by-step instructions 270 00:12:25,048 --> 00:12:27,442 on how to construct a car bomb 271 00:12:27,485 --> 00:12:29,749 using propane tanks and gasoline. 272 00:12:33,535 --> 00:12:35,798 - So it's like, okay, what did this guy think 273 00:12:35,842 --> 00:12:37,539 he or she was going to do? 274 00:12:37,582 --> 00:12:41,456 And it's now starting to scale in our mind's eye, 275 00:12:41,499 --> 00:12:45,329 the technical expertise of this individual. 276 00:12:45,373 --> 00:12:47,592 So we went to rural Pennsylvania. 277 00:12:47,636 --> 00:12:49,246 We found a similar vehicle. 278 00:12:49,290 --> 00:12:51,858 We were in an isolated, desolated area, 279 00:12:51,901 --> 00:12:54,556 very rural, not anyone around. And we built a device, 280 00:12:54,599 --> 00:12:57,820 over 200 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil detonating. 281 00:12:58,821 --> 00:13:00,649 [explosion] 282 00:13:05,262 --> 00:13:07,569 It was a devastating device. 283 00:13:07,612 --> 00:13:09,484 Now, you picture that in the middle of Times Square 284 00:13:09,527 --> 00:13:11,268 at six-something on a Saturday. 285 00:13:11,312 --> 00:13:14,228 - When Pete and his team set off that live shot, 286 00:13:14,271 --> 00:13:16,360 that bomb... 287 00:13:16,404 --> 00:13:18,798 we all looked at that and said, "What if?" 288 00:13:23,193 --> 00:13:25,805 [tense eerie music] 289 00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:33,464 - So we've got the phone number. 290 00:13:33,508 --> 00:13:36,424 - We run that, and a young analyst comes up and says, 291 00:13:36,467 --> 00:13:39,688 "Hey, that number was listed on a customs form 292 00:13:39,731 --> 00:13:42,734 a year or two before, and it comes back to somebody." 293 00:13:42,778 --> 00:13:44,736 So in other words, somebody had come into the United States, 294 00:13:44,780 --> 00:13:47,870 gone through customs and listed that number as a contact. 295 00:13:47,914 --> 00:13:49,567 And that was Faisal Shahzad. 296 00:13:58,533 --> 00:14:00,361 - [Bleep]. We got something. 297 00:14:00,404 --> 00:14:03,059 Now we have something real. 298 00:14:05,366 --> 00:14:08,673 The bomb squad. They're still working the bomb 299 00:14:08,717 --> 00:14:11,024 and getting any information that you can. 300 00:14:11,067 --> 00:14:13,678 Analysts now focus on Faisal Shahzad. 301 00:14:13,722 --> 00:14:14,941 Get us everything. 302 00:14:14,984 --> 00:14:16,551 - And there was a clip of video... 303 00:14:16,594 --> 00:14:20,511 - Jihad is the obligate duty in Islam of every Muslim. 304 00:14:20,555 --> 00:14:22,296 This attack on the United States 305 00:14:22,339 --> 00:14:26,735 will also be a revenge attack for all the Mujahideen. 306 00:14:26,778 --> 00:14:30,260 - So now we have oh, this is really 307 00:14:30,304 --> 00:14:31,609 looking like our person, 308 00:14:31,653 --> 00:14:33,785 - We actually went out and found 309 00:14:33,829 --> 00:14:36,527 where the firecrackers were bought. 310 00:14:36,571 --> 00:14:38,921 - We started to receive some of that video feed 311 00:14:38,965 --> 00:14:41,054 and that wound up being Faisal Shahzad. 312 00:14:52,543 --> 00:14:54,458 It was again, collecting that evidence 313 00:14:54,502 --> 00:14:56,025 to get that paper to get him arrested. 314 00:15:01,161 --> 00:15:03,206 - We know who he is. We know where he is. 315 00:15:03,250 --> 00:15:04,860 We've got the surveillance team out there, 316 00:15:04,904 --> 00:15:07,341 and they're following Faisal Shahzad in Connecticut. 317 00:15:09,299 --> 00:15:10,735 - Again, you're looking, is he going to meet 318 00:15:10,779 --> 00:15:12,912 with somebody? Is there somebody else? 319 00:15:12,955 --> 00:15:14,914 Is there another SUV out there that's rigged? 320 00:15:14,957 --> 00:15:16,263 Is there something else out there? 321 00:15:16,306 --> 00:15:17,351 The temperature's rising. 322 00:15:17,394 --> 00:15:19,396 - All the Muslim Arabs 323 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:21,137 that have been martyred, 324 00:15:21,181 --> 00:15:23,661 I will take revenge on their behalf inshallah. 325 00:15:23,705 --> 00:15:26,229 And I really wish that the hearts of the Muslim 326 00:15:26,273 --> 00:15:29,929 will be pleased with this attack and inshallah. 327 00:15:29,972 --> 00:15:31,495 - Surveillance team is following him around 328 00:15:31,539 --> 00:15:33,933 and in the JOC, behind the scenes, 329 00:15:33,976 --> 00:15:35,673 we're talking to Rich. We're talking to the special 330 00:15:35,717 --> 00:15:39,112 agent in charge. And as he's going around, 331 00:15:39,155 --> 00:15:40,678 what if he gets out of a car? 332 00:15:40,722 --> 00:15:42,767 What if he pulls up into a school parking lot? 333 00:15:42,811 --> 00:15:44,639 What if he gets out carrying a backpack? 334 00:15:44,682 --> 00:15:46,946 Do we arrest him? Do we have enough to arrest him? 335 00:15:46,989 --> 00:15:48,338 We have to engage him. 336 00:15:48,382 --> 00:15:50,253 Is this going to be a bomber that we have to stop? 337 00:15:50,297 --> 00:15:51,820 We're putting agents in harm's way. 338 00:15:51,863 --> 00:15:53,213 - Right. - They're going to potentially 339 00:15:53,256 --> 00:15:54,692 come face to face with somebody 340 00:15:54,736 --> 00:15:56,433 who just planted a bomb in Times Square. 341 00:15:56,477 --> 00:15:57,739 So all these thoughts are going on. 342 00:15:57,782 --> 00:15:59,001 And at one point, 343 00:15:59,045 --> 00:16:00,916 he comes out of his residence... 344 00:16:09,229 --> 00:16:13,233 He is in his SUV, a white Isuzu Trooper, 345 00:16:13,276 --> 00:16:15,278 drives to a mall. 346 00:16:15,322 --> 00:16:17,150 He parks in a parking lot. We're making decisions 347 00:16:17,193 --> 00:16:18,978 literally on the spot live. 348 00:16:19,021 --> 00:16:20,675 And he gets out of the car wearing, I think, 349 00:16:20,718 --> 00:16:22,155 shorts and a t-shirt. So our comfort level 350 00:16:22,198 --> 00:16:23,721 at least goes down. 351 00:16:23,765 --> 00:16:25,462 But we come up with the idea, 352 00:16:25,506 --> 00:16:27,508 "Hey, while he's in this mall, we don't know how much 353 00:16:27,551 --> 00:16:29,292 time we have. Get that keychain 354 00:16:29,336 --> 00:16:31,164 that we found in the Nissan Pathfinder 355 00:16:31,207 --> 00:16:32,861 in Times Square. 356 00:16:32,904 --> 00:16:34,602 - You mentioned there was another set of keys. 357 00:16:34,645 --> 00:16:35,733 Were those keys found in the car 358 00:16:35,777 --> 00:16:38,649 or like in the ignition on the seat? 359 00:16:38,693 --> 00:16:40,173 - I think they were found on the floorboards. 360 00:16:40,216 --> 00:16:42,392 He just threw things in the car 361 00:16:42,436 --> 00:16:44,481 in the middle of Times Square. Dumb mistake, right? 362 00:16:44,525 --> 00:16:46,179 - Right. - So we go up to Connecticut 363 00:16:46,222 --> 00:16:48,137 and we try the second set of keys 364 00:16:48,181 --> 00:16:49,530 in the lock of his car. 365 00:16:49,573 --> 00:16:51,401 So now we know the lawyers are happy. 366 00:16:51,445 --> 00:16:52,663 We can arrest this person. 367 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:00,802 - So we're back at the command post 368 00:17:00,845 --> 00:17:02,804 and we know he went back to his residence 369 00:17:02,847 --> 00:17:05,415 and everything our surveillance is telling me, 370 00:17:05,459 --> 00:17:07,983 we know that he's still inside. 371 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:11,204 So we're going to get our FBI SWAT team 372 00:17:11,247 --> 00:17:13,205 stacked at the door, which means they're going to be 373 00:17:13,249 --> 00:17:15,034 ready to go and crash the door. 374 00:17:15,077 --> 00:17:18,079 I actually start the briefing and as I'm briefing, 375 00:17:18,124 --> 00:17:21,605 I get tapped on the shoulder by a member of the JTTF, 376 00:17:21,648 --> 00:17:24,217 the federal air marshal liaison. 377 00:17:24,260 --> 00:17:25,914 He goes, "Rich, I gotta talk to you." 378 00:17:25,957 --> 00:17:27,307 I'm like, "Listen, I can't talk to you now. 379 00:17:27,349 --> 00:17:29,178 We're going to go." I go, "We got surveillance 380 00:17:29,222 --> 00:17:30,919 on him," and we start arguing. 381 00:17:30,962 --> 00:17:34,923 "JTTF, FBI, we think this guy is in the apartment." 382 00:17:34,966 --> 00:17:39,101 He goes, "Faisal Shahzad is not in his room. 383 00:17:39,145 --> 00:17:41,582 He's at the airport. He's on a plane." 384 00:17:47,762 --> 00:17:49,720 Everything our surveillance is telling me, 385 00:17:49,764 --> 00:17:52,375 we know that he's still inside. 386 00:17:52,419 --> 00:17:55,204 Faisal Shahzad is not in his room. 387 00:17:55,248 --> 00:17:57,250 - Somebody says, "Where's the car?" 388 00:17:57,293 --> 00:18:00,296 He's driving a white Isuzu Trooper. It's not there. 389 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:03,821 - I believe there was another white vehicle nearby. 390 00:18:03,865 --> 00:18:06,389 So when the change of the eye happened, 391 00:18:06,433 --> 00:18:08,565 they didn't even think that the vehicle would move 392 00:18:08,609 --> 00:18:10,219 because there's still another white vehicle 393 00:18:10,263 --> 00:18:12,308 in that general location. 394 00:18:12,352 --> 00:18:14,963 So the federal air marshal liaison. 395 00:18:15,006 --> 00:18:16,573 He goes, "Rich, I gotta talk to you. 396 00:18:16,617 --> 00:18:18,532 He's at the airport. He's on a plane." 397 00:18:18,575 --> 00:18:20,751 I got the documentation here. 398 00:18:20,795 --> 00:18:23,537 That's his passport number. That's his date of birth. 399 00:18:23,580 --> 00:18:25,582 The only thing we don't have is the picture." 400 00:18:25,626 --> 00:18:28,455 He's like, "This is the guy. 401 00:18:28,498 --> 00:18:32,285 He's on a plane. Get that plane back now!" 402 00:18:32,328 --> 00:18:34,548 - Inshallah eight years has passed by in Afghanistan 403 00:18:34,591 --> 00:18:38,029 and you'll see that the Muslim war has just started. 404 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:47,256 - I make it from 14th Street to JFK in, like 18 minutes. 405 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:49,389 - Legend. - No, he didn't. 406 00:18:49,432 --> 00:18:51,304 - Greg, you dispute the fact. - I dispute this. 407 00:18:51,347 --> 00:18:53,523 - I made it in 18 minutes. - He got there very fast. 408 00:18:53,567 --> 00:18:55,264 He got there in very good time. - I had troopers 409 00:18:55,308 --> 00:18:57,179 actually tell me I drove well. 410 00:18:57,223 --> 00:18:59,399 A trooper never tells an FBI agent they drove well 411 00:18:59,442 --> 00:19:01,227 unless he did something like that. 412 00:19:05,622 --> 00:19:08,059 So we get out of the car, we all go running in 413 00:19:08,103 --> 00:19:09,670 into Terminal 4, I believe it was. 414 00:19:09,713 --> 00:19:11,976 - it's a footrace now. It's a straight on sprint. 415 00:19:12,020 --> 00:19:15,066 He gets to the airport, he gets on the plane. 416 00:19:15,110 --> 00:19:17,547 They shut the door, - And that plane is, 417 00:19:17,591 --> 00:19:20,028 by all accounts now, 418 00:19:20,071 --> 00:19:23,031 basically going to be entering international space. 419 00:19:23,074 --> 00:19:24,946 We have to know, are there guns? 420 00:19:24,989 --> 00:19:27,427 Are there bombs? Are there any other bad guys? 421 00:19:27,470 --> 00:19:28,906 We have to know this immediately. 422 00:19:28,950 --> 00:19:30,604 - Imagine you're on the plane. You're Faisal Shahzad, 423 00:19:30,647 --> 00:19:33,084 and you think you're home free. Doors close. 424 00:19:33,128 --> 00:19:34,869 You know, please prepare for takeoff. 425 00:19:45,140 --> 00:19:47,447 - Engines wind back down, plane turns around. 426 00:19:47,490 --> 00:19:49,013 You go back to the gate. 427 00:19:49,057 --> 00:19:50,798 - I think it was Customs and Border Protection. 428 00:19:50,841 --> 00:19:52,974 They went on board, I think, with a couple of Port Authority 429 00:19:53,017 --> 00:19:56,456 cops and brought Faisal Shahzad off the plane. 430 00:19:56,499 --> 00:19:59,198 And they've now, for the first time, I think, 431 00:19:59,241 --> 00:20:01,112 in the history of JFK, 432 00:20:01,156 --> 00:20:03,985 taken somebody off of an airplane 433 00:20:04,028 --> 00:20:06,161 that had already left the gate. 434 00:20:09,991 --> 00:20:12,036 So at this point, we have to take care 435 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:13,864 of what's going on in New Haven. 436 00:20:13,908 --> 00:20:16,606 But we want to do it smart and safe 437 00:20:16,650 --> 00:20:18,782 because that place could be wired. 438 00:20:18,826 --> 00:20:20,610 - Bomb techs go ahead and they start 439 00:20:20,654 --> 00:20:24,179 clearing for hazards, tripwires, booby traps. 440 00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:26,137 Then that's passed to the command post, 441 00:20:26,181 --> 00:20:28,749 going, "Alright. We're good." 442 00:20:28,792 --> 00:20:30,359 [tense music] 443 00:20:36,583 --> 00:20:39,847 - And then you got the three suits from, you know, 444 00:20:39,890 --> 00:20:41,370 the Joint Terrorism Task Force, 445 00:20:41,414 --> 00:20:46,332 who then take him into a room to begin the interview. 446 00:20:46,375 --> 00:20:49,944 And again, this is not supposed to be a Mirandaed interview. 447 00:20:49,987 --> 00:20:52,338 The interview basically is public safety. 448 00:20:52,381 --> 00:20:54,514 And I said to the to the agent and the detectives, 449 00:20:54,557 --> 00:20:56,777 "Do not Mirandize him. I want him to waive 450 00:20:56,820 --> 00:20:58,692 presentment to the courts. 451 00:20:58,735 --> 00:21:00,955 I want him to waive the attorney. 452 00:21:00,998 --> 00:21:05,220 I want him to waive everything he can 453 00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:07,962 and that he wants to speak to us in private." 454 00:21:08,005 --> 00:21:11,226 And he goes, they go back in and said, "Yep, he does. 455 00:21:11,270 --> 00:21:13,794 And by the way, we kind of can't shut him up. 456 00:21:13,837 --> 00:21:15,491 He keeps wanting to tell us what's going on." 457 00:21:15,535 --> 00:21:17,232 - So we have the homerun already. 458 00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:18,755 We have, the human being, 459 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:21,062 we have the parts that we believe hr's associated with. 460 00:21:21,105 --> 00:21:23,760 All this does is now put that final nail in the coffin 461 00:21:23,804 --> 00:21:25,849 and put the final, "Happy birthday, Faisal. 462 00:21:25,893 --> 00:21:27,373 We gotcha..." - Exactly. 463 00:21:27,416 --> 00:21:29,418 - ...on the cake for the prosecutor to go, 464 00:21:29,462 --> 00:21:32,203 "We've got our guy, and there's no doubt in anyone's eye. 465 00:21:32,247 --> 00:21:35,119 - A suspect is now in custody 466 00:21:35,163 --> 00:21:37,121 and is being questioned. 467 00:21:37,165 --> 00:21:39,559 The American people can be assured that the FBI 468 00:21:39,602 --> 00:21:41,343 and their partners in this process 469 00:21:41,387 --> 00:21:43,389 have all the tools and experience they need 470 00:21:43,432 --> 00:21:45,608 to learn everything we can. 471 00:21:45,652 --> 00:21:47,306 And that includes what, if any, 472 00:21:47,349 --> 00:21:50,874 connection this individual has to terrorist groups. 473 00:21:53,094 --> 00:21:56,184 [tense music] 474 00:21:58,099 --> 00:22:00,406 [Bob Orr]: Shahzad surprised a NY courtroom, 475 00:22:00,449 --> 00:22:02,886 telling a judge that he wanted to plead guilty 476 00:22:02,930 --> 00:22:05,976 in what was expected to be a routine arraignment. 477 00:22:06,020 --> 00:22:08,892 He said he would plead guilty and 100 times more. 478 00:22:33,874 --> 00:22:39,009 - 53 hours from the lighting the fuse to being under arrest. 479 00:22:39,053 --> 00:22:44,232 The fact that the JTTF worked the way it did. 480 00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:46,669 It was as it should be. 481 00:22:46,713 --> 00:22:48,845 Subtitling: difuze