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Speaker 1: Jonathan Cursley, US correspondence with that's aller Jonathan, Hello Heather.

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Speaker 2: Happy Friday to all of your listeners. As we edge

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Speaker 2: another day closer to the festive period.

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Speaker 1: Of cannot come soon enough, Jonathan. It's pretty ballsy of

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Speaker 1: the pin to gone to go and blow up another

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Speaker 1: boat while they're still in trouble over the last boat,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean so some would argue they're carrying on with

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Speaker 2: mission objective, and that is to try and stop drug

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Speaker 2: trafficking into the United States of America. The Pentagon announcing

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Speaker 2: earlier today, Yes another boat has been struck, and yes

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Speaker 2: four more people have been killed. But still the questions

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Speaker 2: remain over what happened on this September two strike, the

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Speaker 2: first when there were survivors reportedly seen clinging to the vessel,

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Speaker 2: and then the second strike order that killed them. We

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Speaker 2: saw Admiral Frank Brady Bradley, who was up at Capitol

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Speaker 2: Hill today. Yeah, he was giving close door briefings to

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Speaker 2: members of Congress, senior members of Congress about what took place.

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Speaker 2: And so some of the feedback from that is there

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Speaker 2: was a Democratic congressman who said he'd never seen anything

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Speaker 2: like it. So there are still plenty of questions exactly

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Speaker 2: who ordered what on that day. We've heard the Defense

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Speaker 2: Secretary's defense in this case that he wasn't there for

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Speaker 2: the second strike, but he stands by the Pentagon. But

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Speaker 2: there are still plenty of questions swirling and plenty of

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Speaker 2: demands for answers. Yet the Pentagon, the Department of War

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Speaker 2: as it is now called here, is carrying on with

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Speaker 2: the mission as it sees fit, and that is that

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Speaker 2: it wants to stop these Venezuelan boats from getting towards

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Speaker 2: the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: Now, how is it that four years on from the

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Speaker 1: pipe bombing they've arrested somebody who they think is related

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Speaker 1: to it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this really is quite extraordinary. This has been a

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Speaker 2: manhunt that's gone almost five years to the day. It

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Speaker 2: was January five, twenty twenty one, when a suspect dressed

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Speaker 2: in a hoodie and wearing some Nike Airmax sneakers, as

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Speaker 2: it always later revealed, planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters

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Speaker 2: of the Republican Democratic Parties in Washington, d C. On

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Speaker 2: the eve of the January sixth insurrection at the Capitol.

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Speaker 2: You're fast forward all of these years and despite the

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Speaker 2: reward of five hundred thousand US dollars that have been

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Speaker 2: put forward and repeated please for help to try and

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Speaker 2: track down this person, there'd been nothing come forward. And

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Speaker 2: that was until today when we saw the FBI and

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Speaker 2: the Attorney General Panbody stand alongside each other and announced

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Speaker 2: that yes, they had arrested their suspect. They had arrested

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Speaker 2: a thirty year old man who lived in Virginia with

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Speaker 2: his parents, and they have charged him with crimes that

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Speaker 2: carrier maximum combined of thirty years in prison. He will

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Speaker 2: front of court tomorrow. He worked at a bail bond company.

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Speaker 2: A little more detail has been released. There is not

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Speaker 2: a clear idea yet on his motive, despite the fact

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Speaker 2: that it was political targets that were very much in

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Speaker 2: his frame, nor was there much detail on how they

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Speaker 2: actually got to the information leading to this arrest. Today

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Speaker 2: they simply said there was no new tips, there was

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Speaker 2: no new information that came forward. It was just good,

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Speaker 2: diligent police work and prosecutorial work. So hopefully the court

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Speaker 2: herea tomorrow gleans a little bit more answers as to

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Speaker 2: how the FBI managed to get one of America's most

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Speaker 2: wanted brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for running us through a Jonathan, look after yourself

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Speaker 1: and enjoy the face of season. Jonathan Kurzley are US correspondent.

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