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Death of europe. and you write, doug, that europe is committing suicide. is this an example of it? >> im afraid i think its just the latest chapter in whats going to be a very long and very bloody story. just also today its worth just noting that there were two attacks in france. one a knife wielding attack on a soldier in paris and the other a hammer wielding attack shouting aloe akbar who attacked two women on the street. we are getting sort of used to this in europe. but whether or not its so...

Of this book, "the strange death of europe." and you write, doug, that europe is committing suicide. is this an example of it? >> im afraid i think its just the latest chapter in whats going to be a very long and very bloody story. just also today its worth just noting that there were two attacks in france. one a knife wielding attack on a soldier in paris and the other a hammer wielding attack shouting allah akbar who attacked two women on the street. we are getting sort of used to this in euro...

Nice, france, 86 people lost their lives, nearly 500 500 wee hurt when a french man drove the truck down the promenade in that city through a crowd celebrating the steel day. we know both isis and al qaeda have called for this attack as well as her knife attacks, and isis magazine including an article called "just terror tactics." encourages followers to rent or steal vehicles. mentioning denise attack saying "vehicles are like knives as they are extremely easy to acquire." the al qaeda magazine...

Hurt when a french man drove the truck down the promenade in that city through a crowd celebrating bastile day. we know both isis and al qaedaav have called for this attack as well as knife attacks, and isis magazine including an article called "just terror tactics." encourages followers to rent or steal vehicles. mentioning the nice attack saying "vehicles are like knives as they are extremely easy to acquire." the al qaeda magazine inspire had similar messaging with westerners calling pickup t...

Their lives, nearly 500 500 wee hurt when a french man drove the truck down the promenade in that city through a crowd celebrating the steel day. we know both isis and al qaeda have called for this attack as well as her knife attacks, and isis magazine including an article called "just terror tactics." encourages followers to rent or steal vehicles. mentioning denise attack saying "vehicles are like knives as they are extremely easy to acquire." the al qaeda magazine inspire had similar messagin...

As he mentioned, one person was killed. ten people are still injured from that attack. and the suspect is in custody. with that, id like to go to nbcs lucy kafanov, who is on the ground in london, in finsbury park. lucy, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, dara, as you heard neil basu telling us there, this is still the early stages of this investigation. police are asking the public for help with any information they might have in tracking down more details about what took place just a few...

How were you successful in that? >> there is a loft terrorism in israel. people get killed and its very frequent. i responded -- ainsley: is it working then? >> yeah. we prevent hundreds and hundreds of attacks a year. brian: didnt stop the series of knife attacks. >> just like general diane said you cant protect every bridge and pipeline here is the overalmack crow plan exexact a very high price. the only thing we learned jihadis are afraid of is fear. there is a psychology involved here. and w...

Killed, or at least shot at, because the police now are on very high alert. theres been a number of attacks here against police officers, including one fatal one, but theres also been some knife attacks on police officers, one over at the lourve, for example, and now this one at notre dame, which wasnt a knife, but it was a hammer. still, its the kind of thing that the police are going to respond and its becoming clear that if you go at the police with any kind of a weapon, be it a hammer or a k...

Engaged on that front with some requirements passed last year. so i think this is going to be one of the biggest stories coming out of this. its prime minister mays belief that physical safe havens are important but online safe havens are sort of dominating in this stage of counter-terrorism. and thats going to require us to relook at things, of course, the u.s. first amendment may make it much more difficult but she wants this to be an international effort. >> now, manchester was different but ...

The gunfire. that could have been five, ten minutes after the critical incident, we just dont know. >> with westminster being an unfortunate parallel, is this in the, if you will, isis guide book? is this in the terrorism attack guide book? >> oh, yes. this has been -- you know, this has been in the pantheon of terrorist tactics for decades. what were seeing now, certainly with isis, and to a lesser extent with al qaeda, al qaeda was the first one to actually publish this in a manual to use a ve...