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Certainly potentially less lethal than the experience of 9/11 with the 3,000 deaths there. but their propaganda value to the terrorists, still very, very significant. so john's going to have a very highly trained unit of 450 officers specially equipped that can help defend but in the event if we were to have an incident, to quickly overcome that incident and deal with it very effectively. >> all right, mr. commissioner, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. bill bratton and deputy commissioner john miller. thank you so much as well. we'd love to have you come into the studio and have you t...

People have fatigue about terrorists attacks and all this kind of stuff. this is not the boy who cried wolf. this weekend people need to have their heads on a swivel. pay attention. if you see something, you really do need to say something. >> the propaganda value to nem in attacking on u.s. soil and in particular on the july fourth weekend would obviously be -- >> it's huge. and dates are very significant, particularly for islamic terrorists. they love it. they would love nothing more than to hit us on the fourth of july. it would have great play all around the middle east and a great propaga...

Also a fear that the momentum has switched. the propaganda value will not be lost for isis. many fear what may happen in the weeks ahead in ramadi and to the north in baghdad as well. >> what did isis do? look at kobani and tyikrit. what was the driving force to take this particular city? >> reporter: it may well be the narrative of isis on the backfoot was a little too pervasive and within the iraqi government. the victory the iraqi government had in tikrit. the violence has been unrelenting and the refugees away from it. this was pretty well telegraphed as a failure. many have been surprised...

Military in the midst of that drop in a tweet that talks about a military target. >> and other tweets out there, bob bair in recent weeks, listing the names and addresses of about 100 u.s. military personnel who served in syria or iraq. i'm sure that raised a lot of alarm bells? >> yeah. wolf i agree totally with phil. they're after the military. anybody in a uniform, because they want to characterize the war in iraq and ceia as a war against the united states government not a war against the american people. a war against combatants is important for them and they gelt a lot more propaganda va...

These lone wolf kind of attacks that could be sitting anywhere in the western world and interacting and engaging with followers anywhere in the world and feeling that they now want to be inspired by the organization and carry out those attacks. so there is this propaganda value of something like what we saw in gramland, what we saw in "charlie hebdo" and elsewhere. it turns around and says we are capable of inspiring others to carry out these types of attack and that is the real challenge for law enforcement officials to try and prevent those individuals. from being inspired of carries out att...