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Casualties at the scene. i think what is significant is that there are also multiple reports, that there is counterterrorism police officers and armed police officers at the scene. indicates, while the authorities are not saying that this is terror. or deliberate, they are looking at a possible motiving a of this, one quick note, mood there according to our contacts, that weve been talking to people, it is getting angry, people consider this on ground, some kind of an attack on the people there ...

When a man named khalid masood who used a sedan car and crashed into pedestrians on westminster bridge, got out of his car, stabbed to death a police officer before he was shot to death himself. so again, this is starting to look like something like a copycat attack. but with more people involved. the fact that there were three people here, ali, means that the police are going to be looking for even more witnesses. in all of these incidents, all of these european terror attacks, it always looks ...

Vest with the canisters in there. doesnt it lead you to think that the authorities were saying this was well organized and thought out because of that bomb. this one was just canisters, knives, and a van. >> yes and it couldve been one was well organize and plan, plotted from abroad. i dont know if weve actually taken out the bomb maker which is a critical asset because theyre highly trained and prized individuals. this could have been a copycat attack of homegrown radicals there were trying to ...

This country. and no matter how quick and robust the response is and as weve seen last night a very swift and effective response from the police, ultimately people in society need to ap extent police with a small p themselves to try to rule out the ideology that fuels hate and extremism and violence. >> brian dill on, former head of the london metropolitan police response unit. we appreciate your insight. why were bombers -- excuse me, why were attackers wearing what was now considered to be the...

This carpet of flowers, not far away from where this attack happened. of course, still growing. fears still, you know, around that there could be a second attack. police worried about two things. that salman abedi could have accomplices who are ready to launch another attack, but theyre also worried about the possibility of a copycat attack. that someone with a knife, with a car, a low level way, might try to repeat this kind of killing. the intelligence agency saying they have actually foiled f...

The militant group that runs gaza praising the attacker, but stopping short of taking responsibility. obviously, israeli security forces will be looking into whether this was a copycat attack of what we saw most recently in berlin and nice. >> okay, lucy, i know well check in with you next on this developing story. thank you so much for that. meantime, terminal 2 is now open in the aftermath of the attack that killed five people. this new video shows is the baggage claim area where that shooti...

Triggers terrorism. he was taken out by police. we have paul cruickshank. we also want to bring in with jim bittermann, jean paul burier. hes a counterterrorism official. as youve been hearing the talks, jean paul, this is the looks of a copycat. it doesnt take much to get involved in this and it could have very dangerous implications. >> yes, it could have very dangerous implications, but what you think when you say copycat attack, with that guy, it was exactly the same scenario that we saw las...

Or 5 inch long wound on the mans neck. it required five hours of surgery. he threatened other people before the plies finolice final and tasered him and subdued him. they apparently questioned him, looked at his phone. on his phone, they found isis-related material, as well as isis flags. material relating to the san bernardino attacks, as well as the paris attacks, also. >> wow. that is big news. fred pleitgen, thank you so much. to talk about this is cnn terrorism analyst, paul cro crookshank....

And he had images related to the paris attacks and content and religious information about attacks in san bernardino, and tho is a copycat attack inspired by what he saw play out in california last week. there is a lot of concern now in the united states that you could also see copycat attacks from the extremists in the united states that 900 of them being investigated by the fbi now, and of course, some out there that are not on the fbi radar screen just like that koum last week, joh john. >> y...

Bernardino. after these stunning revelations just out of london in this last hour, prosecutors say images of california-san bernardino rampage were found on the cell phone of this weekends parent knife attacker. describing that attack at the tube as an act of terror, as dramatic new video of his takedown surfaces. >> witnesses say shouts of, this is for syria, could be heard during that attack. fred pleitgen is in europe. is this being looked as as a copycat attack? >> reporter: they did find ap...