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Is just the kind of vehicle versus civilian attack that both isis and al qaeda have encouraged their followers to execute. as nbc's tom costello reports, such attacks are difficult for law enforcement to prevent. >> reporter: it's a growing terror tactic with devastating results. july 2016 a truck on the boardwalk in nice, france plowed through crowds of people on holiday. 86 killed, 200 injured. similar tactics used on the london bridge last may. 8 dead. another 5 killed in march. around the world attacks in barcelona, stockholm, berlin, and in the u.s. last year at ohio state university, 11 ...

Dahlgren in barcelona. let's bring in malcolm nance. you were with me when we first got news of this yesterday and we talked about it yesterday afternoon. it's always very difficult in the initial stages because you're trying to determine whether it was an attack inspired by or directed by a terrorist group. does seem now that this was much more detailed and planned than our initial evaluation was and that's because when we hear about these cars going into crowds or vans going into crowds, it seems like a low tech attack. we're learning different things about it now. >> you're absolutely right...

Another, what seems to be so-called low tech attack in france where they have lost at least 230 people and if this adds to that total 230 people in terror attacks since the nice attack with the truck attack two years ago. steve: six injured, two critically. one report says that the unit that was targeted was a specialized unit that was formed after the charlie ebb dough massacre. dough -- hebdo massacre. city of lights, paris, says it is no doubt it was deliberate. ainsley: can you believe that in the suspect allegedly was waiting on them to come out to get into their vehicles or come towards ...

Police and scotland yard to be hardened jihadist, 20,000 people close to that circle, can you think about the coverage, the monitoring, movements of these individuals, the conversations, even in the most intrusive societies. the scale of the police -- you can be successful 99.9% of the time and you will have the sort of thing you saw the last couple of days. the scale of this problem, the nature of this problem is truly worry make. >> the question, though, why britain? is it the election coming up? >> who knows? return isis fighters. i fear this kind of low tech attack is something that -- i h...

Religious but mainly attitude. it could be misfits, it could be all kinds of reasons people do what they do, brain soup we call it, how do you know they're going to go running with a knife and kill people. they didn't buy bomb equipment. they one day made a decision to let themselves die in a cause that they found themselves taken by, how do you stop that if you're a cop? >> it was low tech and soft targets but in this case it was done by a team of three people. now, that's a lead for investigators because they had to coordinate. they had to communicate, they had to rent a vehicle. >> they did...