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Tonight on 360°, the story of how a young American from Long Island, New York, became an al-Qaeda terrorist. Nic Robertson and his team spent almost a year uncovering how and why Bryant Neal Vinas went from a quiet teenager who grew up in suburbia to a jihadist. Our team has tracked Vinas’ story across three continents.
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Great show tonight.
I would say getting a TV show for your antics is a big reward.
I freaking love Betty White she is awesome did a wonderful job on SNL...
alright good night everyone have a good one...
all the best Miranda
How about a new TV show once they get out of jail? Bling, Ring and handcuffs?
@nancy-oregon
agree about watching the girl's show-it would be supporing her behavior.
something really needs to be done about publishing maps to ANYone's home....it's not right!
If the Bling Ring is our future I'm scared!
Why is the Bling ring a story?
Young thieves rob rich poeple's houses?
Seems like a headline from the 1950's
She's charming indeed, Mr. Cooper.
This Bling-Ring needs a good long time in jail. 6 months is not enough for stealing over $2 million worth of goods.
Neither I or my grown children know any people in L.A. like the kids we've just seen. I must be hanging out with the out-crowd. (Not the in-crowd.)
I hate to ask this, but where have their parents been all this time?
She must learn own lesson what she have done. She is no rights to steal stars home.... what she was thinking????? Good job Ted!
That guy seems somehow lost- if he would have been able to stay in the army-or any other stabile job- he might have got control of his life-no he is controlled by some terrorist leaders.
A very charming young lady indeed! ; )
Yes Anderson, she does, just like that Lawyer you interviewed! 😛
As long as they are being rewarded for their crimes these kids will never learn.
lexy don't need to go to the bing
She will look good in stripes and her bebe shoes
This put me in mind of Sharon Tate, but they took her life!
What desperate needs for attention these kids have...wow.
This story of Al Qaeda in America is frightening. It just makes me wonder how many are here just waiting for the right moment to kill and injure innocent people. Our way of life as we knew it seems to be changing real fast.
The "Bling-Ring" has WAY too much Free Time Pardon the pun)!
Goodevening again all,
I keep wondering how they 'Bling Ringers' got past the probably million dollar security systems in those homes-security personnel and all? No one is safe!
Sounds like a good idea to find another hiding place for the key. Under the doormat is so cliche.
LOL, came to the arraignment wearing stolen goods. Oh so must have forgotten she stole it.
@Jo Ann,
Did you happen to hear if the Government is having BP sign a contract agreeing to pay for cleaning up this mess? It clearly is only getting worse, since that dorm didn't work...
dear sir to stop the oil leak place a hot water heating coil in the dome it will melt the ice crystals and the oil will flow.
"Another day in the hood of Hollywood!"
Rich kids gone wild. I wonder how many years they will give them. Correction: months... days...
I love Paris Hilton but I also love alexxis and I think she didn't do anything
Good night all. Great show tonight.
Bling Ring girl...6 months? that all she gets?
looks like she will ringing a different door!
Surprised how someone could change from altar boy to Al Qaeda terrorist. What people are when they are young they may not be when they grow up. As youths and later adults there are those who are highly religious also others who are promising people with a good future, some of them from affluent families who later change for the worst. This occurs all the time. It is simple why some people change from good to evil, bad company corrupts.
My Uncle a Geo Eng. Has a method to stop the oil leak with liquid Nitrogen. Freeze it until the releif well is drilled. But he doesn't know who to talk to about it. At 5k ft water temp is 30 degrees.
It doesn't make sense to me how reading the Quran transformed this kid into a Jihadist. There are hundreds of millions of Muslims who read it everyday and want nothing but peace. Their are thousands of Muslim converts who do not turn violent, Why not focus on them?
If people watch her show, they are supporting her behavior.
@ Ray (Arkansas) yes the oil companies should pay completely.
They can and should pass those costs to consumers. That would reduce consuption which is the reason for the drilling and the accidents.
Poor owner lost his dog, when dog rode on the plane way to detroit from Mexico..... I think it is so sad dog ran away.... Ouch! Not good day for me heard bad news. Hope he will be found reunion with owner. 🙂
Concering the oil spill: I do not know how high the blow out preventer is above the sea flooor. In some demolition work they use very large hydraulic shears to cut pipe, tanks and etc. Sometimes iIn the airconditing business they will use a pinch off device to stop refergerant leaks, they look like a pair of vice grips. They work very well in stopping a leak, short term or perment. If there is enough room below the blow out preventer, instead of a shear they may have a type of a pinch off device to seal the pipe off. I know that there are some smart people working on this problem, but I believe a large hydraulic pinch off device could solve the problem, if there is room.
The birthers are mad crazy. Period. There agenda and platform makes no sense.
I wonder if someone like this guy became a "terrorist" in part, because in a twisted way, he really liked everything that America offered & stood for, yet it just wasn't going his way...and felt like he had to get revenge?!
It's SO out there...trying to make 'sense' of what doesn't, at least to me.
What I don't understand about Bryant Neal Vinas is how, after experiencing a spur of patriotism following 9/11, he would convert to Islam and join jihadists, the very people who organized and carried out the attacks?
I think we almost make Celebrityism into a Nirvana state sometimes so of course needy people, young and old, are drawn to it like moths to light. In part, it's all our doing-by supporting the Celebrity Marketplace.
I wonder what Maj. Nidal Hasan's excuse was for turning into a murderer?
" Amercian Al Qaeda" – Great story by Nick Robertson. Will definitely watch it
How could he have seen the destruction in NYC and join the very people who caused it?
i seen this story before
Good Evening Anderson! I am late joining but have recorded your show today! 🙂 Let me catch up on the bloggers' comments. Nice to visit here every day.
Stuff like this Anderson, gets on my last nerves. Tell us what the folks did, but stop showing everybody our vulnerabilities.
NYPD, FBI, CIA needs to start with the folks preaching on the streets... like the guy interviewed recently, against the US. Those people end up brainwashing good kids.
Lonely people are drawn to some desperate situations.