islamic state, claimed responsibility. president joe biden and first lady jill biden paid their respects to the fallen yesterday. joining their families for the dignified transfer of their remains at dover air force base. and on top of that brutal loss, came the news of our retaliation. in response to that act of mass murder, u.s. military launched a drone strike targeting an islamic state car bomb that central command said posed an imminent threat to the airport. that strike killed ten afghan civilians, according to family members. all ten were extended family. and several were small children. an afghan journalist told the bbc the family were planning to come to the united states on special immigrant visas. the family um were expecting an siv. they had received a call that, you know, a car will come and get you to the airport any day now and that s why there were so many people in the they had all relocated to that one house
knew his way around guns with a 45 caliber handgun and extended magazine, this guy went in especially if he had smoke bombs he had planned this. he knew where he was going. he knew the inside. he knew what he would be up against, and he decided to do it anyway, to commit this act of mass murder. and there are reports from eyewitnesses that there were smoke bombs detonated inside that nightclub. and again, at this point investigators poring over social media, poring over those accounts. they re conducting a search at the home right now. is there any way we can identify would be mass killers? is there a better way to identify them than i guess the way we re not doing it right now? yeah, you know, we always have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight afterwards just like in this particular case. you have heard i teach seminars all the time on violence in the
neonazis, anti-immigration activists and i think that s where we are tonight. i want to bring back the senior editor at the islamic monthly. as we re continuing to learn that it appears that there were a lot of muslim people in this area and that many of them were the target of this van that ran into pedestrians that police are now investigating, do you feel that muslims were under attack? it s come out with a public statement saying that some of their worshippers were targeted in this attack and as peter was mentioning, the term terrorism is something that should become to apply to any act of mass murder that s meant to send terror across the population. and i think it s really important to keep in mind had the driver of this van been a
so now it s a manhunt. michael, it s was this person working alone? was this a small network? how far could this person have gotten? what questions are you asking? yeah, those and, i mean, look, if it was the driver working for this polish truck company, this is a guy who then crossed the boarder from a foreign country into berlin, premeditated clearly and got killed in the process of committing this act of mass murder. if it s not then as i said yesterday there s a level of operational security and sophistication here because that means there s an unknown assailant running around who took the decision not only am i going to wage a mass murder but i m going to hijack a truck, not just any truck but a truck with 25 tons of steel in it so it s a batteri ining ram of a vehicle. he will have had to had surveil the truck and found a way to take it over and plow into a bunch of people. that doesn t seem to me like some random crazy
custody, and perhaps anybody who supported them is what was the emotional glue that would enable three people to bind this close. we always deal with this lone white nut who goes in and shoots a place up and commits these verbal acts. we know this is the worst mass shooting in america since sandy hook. so the question we re asking is, you know, we understand, unfortunately, we terribly understand in this country that one person can go in and commit a terrible act like this. but what is the emotional glue that would bond three people together that, you know, you would put your hands on top of each other and say, okay, the three of us are going to go in. we re going to commit an act of mass murder. and we re going to fight to the death. chris, of about 150 mass murderers that the fbi has studied, only two of the 150 had more than one shooter. so there is still pieces that we