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00:06:48Time Square a beautiful Saturday, it is pat, there was a t-shirt
00:06:51vender, you saw an individual get out of a car and take a lighter
00:06:55and toss it in the passenger seat, and then you heard this little pop pop
00:06:58pop,
00:07:03all that glass,
00:07:05all those bits and shards that are from 20 stories, 30 stories
00:07:09high, they're going to come crashing to the ground, this is a...
00:07:12bomber, are they going to activate some other bombs? find the
00:07:16guy, stop the next act. we need to pull every single
00:07:19camera, he's a plane. clock is ticking,
00:07:23get that plane back now.
00:07:27in the FBI, we make lot of
00:07:29headlines,
00:07:33drug busts, mob
00:07:35sticks, terrorist
00:07:38takedowns.
00:07:41we understand. people want to tell stories about us,
00:07:44mark it, fbi, fbi,
00:07:48but they don't know the half of it,
00:07:52what really goes down, we save
00:07:54that for each other when we're talking agent to
00:07:57agent,
00:08:01this is FBI,
00:08:03true
00:08:10guys, it's so great to see you, have a... seen you like a
00:08:13minute. Christie
00:08:17the FBI. She worked gangs, crimes
00:08:20against children as well as human and drug
00:08:23trafficking. Pete, where were you on uh May
00:08:271st, 2010? I was in Bayridge,
00:08:29Brooklyn. Peter Lekata was one of the
00:08:32FBI's top bomb experts. He dealt with more
00:08:36than 300 improvised explosive devices on missions to
00:08:39Iraq. In 2010, he led the weapon.
00:08:42of mass destruction squad for New York
00:08:44City,
00:08:48my counterparts in the NYPD Bomb Squad, they tell me we got a thing going on
00:08:52Times Square, you probably want to start rolling this
00:08:54way,
00:08:56I got a call, not unusual because it always happens either a Friday or Saturday when you're
00:09:00getting ready to relax, the assistant special agent charge called up, can
00:09:04you respond as the unseen commander? Greg eerie was
00:09:07recruited from the US Air Force to join the FBI where he worked
00:09:11organized crime. and intelligence cases.
00:09:14In 2010, he was supervisory special agent for the New
00:09:18York Domestic Terrorism Squad. At this point, we
00:09:21had been doing lot of bomb threats. We've been through this before, this is not
00:09:25our first time, and so everyone knows what their mission is. Richard
00:09:28Frankel got his start in the FBI, investigating the
00:09:31infamous Gambino crime family. After the attacks on
00:09:349/11, he moved into national security. By
00:09:372009, Frankel was responsible for domestic terrorist
00:09:41threats at the FB. New York field office. So your first on scene, what do you
00:09:45see? It's time Square a beautiful Saturday right around
00:09:49when shows are letting out, shows are coming in, it is
00:09:51pack.
00:09:56I look for my team, I look for my counterparts and the first thing he goes, what do we have here? And what
00:10:00they tell me is there was a t-shirt vendor right on the corner of 45th in Broadway, we saw
00:10:04an individual get out of a car, a Nissan
00:10:06Pathfinder
00:10:09and take a lighter and toss it in the passenger seat and... and then you heard
00:10:13this little pop pop pop pop, which was almost like firecracker going off and
00:10:16stuff, and then the sparks inside the car, you could see them. At that
00:10:20point, the t-shirt vendor sees a fire, start engulf the car, and
00:10:24when that happened... everybody just started running,
00:10:36keep
00:10:36moving,
00:10:42the FDNY, they see two red five gallon gasoline jugs in
00:10:46the back seat of this
00:10:47SUV,
00:10:51they see some fusing systems, they see some pirate techniques, aka firecracker.
00:10:55consumer grade firecrackers, they see three propane tanks in the cargo
00:10:59area of this SUV, and then they see a really long gun locker and
00:11:03they're like, this isn't a normal car fire, we've got something more,
00:11:17so based on your experience as bombtech looking at this
00:11:20device, you're recognizing how powerful this would
00:11:23have been if it went off, what? how powerful are we talking?
00:11:26catastrop:
00:11:28you have time square, you have 45th street,
00:11:32you have to worry about the fragmentation from the
00:11:34vehicle,
00:11:37the device itself, and then what we call secondary and tertiary fragmentation,
00:11:41which is all that glass,
00:11:45all those bits and shards that are from 20 stories, 30 stories high,
00:11:48they are going to come crashing to the ground, and not just at 45th and
00:11:52broadway, we're talking all the way up the east side on. 5th street we're talking
00:11:56around the block and we're talking all the way back down to the hudson river going down the
00:12:00west
00:12:00side.
00:12:07in order to get a view of the
00:12:10device, you use a remote control robot to do a reconnaissance for
00:12:13you to get a look at the hazard without putting bombtech in
00:12:17harms way. first thing you do is you you make the device
00:12:21safe, aka render it safe, neutralizer, which means you separate.
00:12:25fusing system or the switch from the energetic or the explosives
00:12:29and
00:12:32once we have the explosives isolated, we can put it in a vehicle or a flat bed and we can
00:12:36haul it out of there, whether he was able to set this device off or not,
00:12:39it doesn't matter, bomb didn't explode, but this is still a
00:12:43bomber, so all these thoughts are starting to race from my head, now the temperature has gone up
00:12:47even more because you're thinking, it's not a pipe bomb which is damaging
00:12:50enough, how big could this be? it was
00:12:53just a couple short years ago. you had the Mexican consulate bombing, you had
00:12:57bombing at the Times Square recruiting station just around the corner, you had a potential
00:13:01attack on the New York City Subway system. Our job
00:13:04since 9/11 has been to prevent an act of
00:13:07terrorism in New York and elsewhere, and we can't let
00:13:10this happen second time on our watch.
00:13:24I'm starting to think of... this point, okay, where's the where's the subject, who is
00:13:28driving the car, because are they going to activate some other bombs? and
00:13:31in my head, i literally i'm thinking of a stopwatch being clicked, buse
00:13:35now the hunt is on.
00:13:38the jock is now completely up and running,
00:13:42you've got analysts, you've got surveillance teams, you've got
00:13:45lawyers from both the US attorney's office and the
00:13:48FBI. the entire task force is up and running and it's
00:13:5224/7. i'm on the phone with gre with Pete, with everyone
00:13:56saying, is there any other bomb? Is there any other actor here in
00:14:00the United States that we have to worry about? And the mission was,
00:14:04find the guy, stop the next act.
00:14:07Everyone was about the mission. Remember, Times Square busy, people are moving
00:14:11around, it's not evacuated yet. Who came out of that car and went somewhere? We need to pull
00:14:15every single camera. Yeah, I need to see face. Who came out of that
00:14:18car?
00:14:24Wasn't there some? information that we ran down because it
00:14:27was video of a man changing his
00:14:30clothes. We're currently examining video that shows a
00:14:34white male in his 40's in Shewbert Alley,
00:14:38looking back in the direction of West
00:14:40405. He also was seen shading a dark
00:14:44colored shirt, revealing a red one
00:14:47underneath.
00:14:51This happened about a half block from where the vehicle..." was
00:14:55f:
00:15:00looks like he's coming from the car, very
00:15:04clue,
00:15:09this is so we start to focus in on that very quickly, that became a person of
00:15:13interest, so we are getting some information, it's coming in uh the license
00:15:17plate buse, it was obvious, we got that
00:15:18one,
00:15:23we run it, what do we get? back to body shop over in Brooklyn,
00:15:27so let's get people out to that body shop, find of what we know, but remember
00:15:31everywhere we go, even if it doesn't look good, you're assuming this is a
00:15:35terrorism organization, this is bomber. "this is somebody who's
00:15:38armed, so you can't just go willy
00:15:40nilly.
00:15:50i remember them dragging the owner of this body shop out of
00:15:53bed, and talking to him, he was able to very
00:15:56quickly say belong to a pickup truck that he still had right
00:16:00there, he said, i thought the plates were still on the car, so we know
00:16:04that's a dead end, so i remember banging Pete and his folks." to
00:16:08say, give me something from here, there's a set of keys that
00:16:11somebody had left, didn't know what they were to, what we're looking for, what we call trace
00:16:15evidence, are fingerprints, hairs fibers, any
00:16:18DNA, the lighter and the keys found on the
00:16:21floorboard of the seat. Pete was able to relay to us the vin number, the
00:16:25one in the windshield was obliterated, and at some point
00:16:28very quickly when you were going to move the car, somebody was able to get the vin
00:16:31from the frame underneath,
00:16:35finding the vin huge,
00:16:37and and that is almost a turning point in our mind, because what
00:16:41we can solve this,
00:16:45been number came back to a remember an 18-year-old who had sold at the
00:16:49car to somebody, we started sending people out and that was over in
00:16:52connect, it was up in
00:16:53connecticut,
00:17:01so we sent a group of people up there and she tells us and she got a
00:17:04call, hey uh from somebody who said like to buy the car and he looked at it, he
00:17:08paid cash, but the brother stops and is talking to our agents and
00:17:12says and you know, he never gave us a name, the person who
00:17:15bought the car did make the mistake, he gave them a phone
00:17:19number, so we start running that down, got the phone number, you run
00:17:22it, yeah, numerous calls to pakistan specifically on
00:17:26the right before the bomb was put in place, now it's okay, game is
00:17:29on, we know this is an act of terror, the focus now is find this
00:17:33individual and who else is
00:17:36clip of video, "and you'll see that the Muslim war
00:17:40has just started,
00:17:43right now we have the Vin, the license plate, phone number, we
00:17:47start running all the numbers with our other government agency
00:17:50friends, we run that and we found the person who bought the
00:17:54car did make numerous calls to Pakistan, and during this
00:17:57time we also have a Pakistani Taliban group releasing a
00:18:01video taking credit for the bomb, even though it didn't
00:18:04explode."
00:18:15up until this point, it's a criminal case, but once you now
00:18:19say Pakistan, and you see it on the phone, we now have a whole
00:18:23new host of tradecraft that we can
00:18:26use, um, we've got the military there, the the the criminal and
00:18:30counter intelligence investigators are with us, you can start seeing who
00:18:33on the other side was being talked to, and now...
00:18:37reverse that and see who they're talking to in the United
00:18:41States, did this bomb have iED signature that you
00:18:44recognized from a certain like these are used in
00:18:47Afghanistan, these were used in Pakistan, you have locker that's
00:18:51weighing over about 200 pounds full of some type
00:18:54of fertilizer mixture with propane tanks and gasoline cylinders
00:18:58and all this stuff and a signature of what was happening
00:19:00overseas.
00:19:07providing step-by-step instructions and how to construct a car
00:19:10bomb using propane tanks and
00:19:13gasoline.
00:19:17so it's like, okay, what did this guy think he or she was going to do? and
00:19:21it's now starting to scale in our mind's
00:19:24eye, the technical
00:19:27expertise of this individual. so we
00:19:34a an isolated, desolated area, very rural, not anyone around. and we
00:19:37built the device, over 200 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil,
00:19:41detonating,
00:19:49it was devastating device, now you picture that in the middle of time square at
00:19:53six something a Saturday, when uh
00:19:56Pete and his team set off that live shot, that bomb,
00:20:00we all looked at that and said, what
00:20:01if?
00:20:16So we've got the phone number, we run that, and young analyst comes up and
00:20:20says, hey, that number was listed a
00:20:22customs form, year or two before, and it comes back to
00:20:26somebody, so in other words, somebody had come into the United States, gone through customs and
00:20:29listed that number as a contact, and that was Faizal
00:20:32Shazar.
00:20:42fucking hey, let's we got something, we now we
00:20:46have something
00:20:49real the... bomb squad, they're still working the bomb and and getting
00:20:53any information that you can, analys, now
00:20:56focus on Faisel Shazad, get us everything, and there was a clip of
00:21:00video, jihad is an obligatory duty in Islam on
00:21:03every Muslim, this attack on the United States will also be
00:21:07a revenge attack from all of for all the
00:21:10mujahidin, so now we have oh, this is
00:21:13this is really looking like our person, we actually went out and
00:21:17found where the firecrackers. were boy, we
00:21:20started to receive some of that video feed and that wound up being faisal shazar.
00:21:36it was again collecting that evidence to get that paper to get him
00:21:39arrested.
00:21:45we know who he is, we know where he is. we've got the surveillance team out there and they're
00:21:49following.
00:21:53and you're looking, is it going to meet with somebody? is there somebody else? is there another
00:21:57SUV out there that's ricked, is there something out there? the temperature is
00:22:01rising, all the muslim arab that have been
00:22:04martered, i will take revenge on their behalf inshallah, and i
00:22:08really wish that the the hearts of the muslim will be will be
00:22:11pleased with this attack and inshallah, surveillance team is following
00:22:15him around and in the jock behind the scenes we're talking to
00:22:18rich, we're talking to special. in charge and as he's going
00:22:21around, what if he gets out of a car, what if he pulls up into a
00:22:25school parking lot, what if he gets out carrying backpack, do we arrest
00:22:29him, do we have enough to arrest him, we have to engage him, is this going to be bomber
00:22:33that we have to stop, we're putting agents and farms away, they're going to go potentially
00:22:37come face to face with somebody who just planted a bond in times square, so all
00:22:41these thoughts are going on, and at one point he comes out of his
00:22:43residence.
00:22:53"he is in his SUV, a white isuzu
00:22:55trooper, drives to mall,
00:22:59parks in a parking lot, we're making decisions literally on the spot
00:23:02live, and he gets out of the car wearing, I think shorts and t-shirt, so our comfort
00:23:06level, at least goes down, but we come up with the idea, hey,
00:23:09while he's in this mall, we don't how much time we have, get that keychain
00:23:13that we found in the Nissan Pfund in Times
00:23:16Square,
00:23:19those keys found and..." car or like in the ignition on the the
00:23:22seat, i think they were found in on on the floor border, he threw, he just threw things
00:23:25in the car in the middle of time square, dumb mistake, right? right, so we go up
00:23:29to connecticut and we tried the second set of keys in the lock of the his
00:23:33car, so now we know the lawyers are happy, we can arrest this
00:23:36person,
00:23:43so we're back at command post, and we know he went in the
00:23:46residence, and for everything our surveillance is telling me,
00:23:49we... know that he's still inside, so we're going to
00:23:53get our FBI swat team stacked at the door, which means they're going
00:23:57to be ready to go and crash the door. i actually start the
00:24:00briefing and as i'm briefing i get tapped on the shoulder
00:24:04by member of the JTTF, the federal air marshall uh
00:24:07leason, he goes rich, i got to talk to you, i'm like listen, i can't talk to you now, we're going
00:24:11to go, i go, we got surveillance on, and we start arguing a little
00:24:15bit, jttf, fbi, we think this guy is in the
00:24:18apartment, he goes, Faisal Shazaid is not in his
00:24:22room, he's at the airport, he's a plane. It was
00:24:25a shocking
00:24:27moment.
00:24:32Everything our surveillance is telling me, we know that he's still
00:24:35inside, but Faizal Shazaid is not in his
00:24:38room. Somebody says, where's the car? He's driving a white Isuzu
00:24:42trooper, it's not there, and I believe there was another
00:24:46white vehicle nearby, so when the change of the eye.
00:24:50happened, they didn't even think that the vehicle would move because there's still another
00:24:54white vehicle in that general location, so the federal air
00:24:57mar's on, he goes rich, i got to talk to you, he's at the airport,
00:25:01he's a plane, i got the documentation here,
00:25:05that's his passport number, that's his date of birth, the only thing we don't have is the
00:25:09picture, he's like, this is the guy,
00:25:12he's a plane, get that plane back now,
00:25:16insallah, eight years has passed by Afghanistan and you'll see.
00:25:20that the Muslim war has just
00:25:21started,
00:25:26I make it from 14th street to JFK
00:25:29in like 18 minutes. legend, no, so
00:25:33you just greg, you disbut the fact very fast, he
00:25:37got there in very good, I had troopers actually tell me
00:25:40I drove well, a trooper never tells an FBI, they drove well unless he did
00:25:44something like
00:25:44that,
00:25:49so... "we get out of the car, we all go running in into terminal four, I believe it
00:25:53was, it's a foot race now, it's straight on sprint, he gets to the
00:25:56airport, he gets on the plane, they shut the
00:25:59door, and that plane is by..." under
00:26:03all counts now basically going to be entering international
00:26:06space, we have to know are there guns, are there bombs, are there
00:26:10any other bad guys? we have to know this immediately. imagine you're on the plane, your
00:26:14five shows out right, and you think you're home free, doors closed, please
00:26:17prepare for take off 2020 runway
00:26:2122 right positioning, actually i have message for you to go back to the gate
00:26:24immediately, so make the left turn one
00:26:26able,
00:26:29engines wine back down, plane turns around you go back to the...
00:26:32believe it was customs and border protection, they went on board, i
00:26:35think with a couple of port authority cops and brought faisel
00:26:39shazad off the plane, and they've now for the first time, think
00:26:43in the history of JFK,
00:26:45taken somebody off of an airplane that had
00:26:48already left the
00:26:49gate,
00:26:54so at this point we have to take care of what's going on in New
00:26:57Haven, we want to do it smart and safe, because
00:27:01that place could be wired. "bombtex go ahead and they start clearing
00:27:05for hazards, trip wires, booby traps, and then
00:27:08that's passed back to the command post going, all right, we're
00:27:12good,
00:27:21and then you got the three suits from you, the
00:27:24joint terrorism task force who then take him into
00:27:27a room to begin the interview, and again
00:27:31this is not supposed to be..." um a miranded interview, the interview
00:27:34basically is public safety, and I said to the agent and the
00:27:38detectives, do not mirandize him, I want him to wave
00:27:41presentment to the courts, I want him to wave the
00:27:44attorney, I want him to wave uh um
00:27:47everything he can, and that he wants to speak to us
00:27:51in private, and he goes, they go back in, they said, yep, he
00:27:55does, and by the way, we kind of can't shut him up, he keeps wanting to tell us
00:27:59what's going on, so we have the home runner ready, we have the human.
00:28:02being we have the parts that we believe is associated with, all this does is
00:28:06now put that final nail in a coffin and put the final happy birthday
00:28:09fizel, we got you on the cake for for the prosecutor to go, we've
00:28:13got our guy and there's no doubt in anyone who's eye, suspect
00:28:17is now in custody and is being questioned, the
00:28:21American people can be assured that the FBI and their partners in this
00:28:25process have all the tools and experience they need to learn everything we
00:28:28can, and that includes what if any connection uh
00:28:33this individual has to terrorist
00:28:34groups.
00:28:42Shazad surprised the New York courtroom telling a judge that he wanted to
00:28:46plead guilty during what was expected to be routine
00:28:48arraignment. He said he would plead guilty in 100 times more.
00:29:1853 hours from the lighting the fuse
00:29:21to being under arrest, uh the fact
00:29:25that the JTTF worked the way it did, it
00:29:28was as it should be.