Attack Simpson News Today

Jihadists overseas. theyre now trying to determine if he was trying to get the jihadists attention or plotting with them. the use of social media by terrorists is a daunting challenge. >> it allows like never before for overseas groups to reach into oir communities to recruit, to radicalize as well as to target our citizens. all in a very simple easy-to-use way. >> reporter: back on april 10th in a private twitter message intercepted by the u.s. cnn is told that simpson discussed with others how...

Standpoint what is difficult is to move that quickly and to arrest them when its not entirely clear that he is going to do it. we have a lot of people on social media saying these kinds of things. >> simpson apparently had public exchanges with a fighter in somalia. just a week before the attack simpson tweeted in reference to the event, when will they ever learn, and hassan retweeted his tweet. and he travelled to somalia to join the terrorists group al shabaab, and simpson wanted to join the j...

Before the attack simpson tweeted a reference to the controversial event, when will they ever learn. hasan retweeted his tweet and said the brothers from the "charlie hebdo" attack did their part its time for the brothers in the u.s. to do their part. according to court documents hasan traveled to somalia from minneapolis in 2008 to join the terror group al shabaab. and simpson also wanted to joy the jihad in somalia around the same time but it is not known whether simpson and hasan knew each ot...