Bunker Hostage Ala, FBI Find Bomb

Onerous to firmly imagine that which was going across the mind of jimmy lee dykes. however cbs news has learned he had stored homemade bombs during underground bunker where he held a five-year-old boy hostage. dykes was killed outside midland town, alabama late monday when an fbi assault team attacked the bunker on dykes property and rescued the hostage. the boy, whose first name is ethan was taken last tuesday after dykes attacked a faculty bus in search of hostages and killed the bus driver.

Within the course as to the standoff, the fbi and dykes developed a routine. hed indicate provides, and theyd leave them with the entrance of his underground bunker. the fbis hostage rescue team exploited that routine to firmly finish the standoff.

Sources tell cbs news when dykes climbed the eight-foot ladder to firmly get provides monday, and reached up to firmly open the door, he was off-balance and vulnerable. agents believed ethan could well be far from the ladder and relatively protected.

When rescue team members on top of dykes saw the door open, they will dropped 2 stun-grenades. the noise and blinding flashes disoriented him.

At intervals seconds, four team members entered the bunker. officers believe he fired an endeavor at them however missed. they will returned fire multiple times, killing dykes and rescuing the boy.

Recent photos show ethan with his mother. she released a statement of thanks tuesday. it same : i woke up this morning towards the most beautiful sight : my sweet very little boy. i cant describe how incredible it's to firmly hold him once more.

Ethans relatives feel that physically he appears fine, however theyre worried regarding long-term emotional injuries. he was released due to hospital tuesday simply in time for their sixth birthday wednesday.

Cbs news senior correspondent john miller, a former assistant director as to the fbi, reported that bombs were found within the bunker. as soon clearly as the hostage rescue operators were from there, the fbi bomb technicians went in and started a really careful search and located variety of crude homemade explosive devices.

Miller more added that authorities were already aware of such devices as a result of that they'd managed to firmly sneak a camera within. that they'd an audio feed therefore they will may see and hear what he was doing. connecting hostage negotiators dealing with him, the fbi profilers within the background were obtaining increasingly worried as dykes became a lot of and a lot of unglued that he would either booby-trap the only real entrance which will build a rescue try extraordinarily difficult, or probably blow himself and his hostage up.

As for why dykes did all this, miller same that the suspect was a survivalist and anti-federal government activist. he added that dykes in all probability understood a month-and-a-half after the newtown massacre if he wished to firmly get inside the national stage, kidnapping 2 children off a faculty bus was his set up -- he no more than got one -- and holding them hostage would really offer him a platform where he may press on the media and say his piece. he really asked obtain a tv reporter to firmly speak to firmly and thats exactly what were talking regarding for all those days.