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Shooters, learn from prevention incidents and study them and unfortunately this seems to be a mix of two different tactics. the vehicle attack that kills or maims quite a number of people and then essentially setting up a barricade, siege situation inside of a restaurant, and sort of sustaining the media coverage for as long as possible, because they, unfortunately, will likely take hostages and try and spin this out for as long as possible. >> all right. those are the details we're trying to get. you're listening to the voice of peter bergen, our cnn terrorism analyst. peter notes we are told...

Spain and official sources quoted by news organizations in spain, it looks as if from what we're able to piece together this looks more like a terrible -- another terrible act, another terrible deliberate act and not something that has happened accidentally. >> and, keir, joining us now, jim cavanaugh, msnbc law enforcement analyst. jim, this has all the earmarks of something very, very terrible. with this low tech weapon of a van. >> well, right, andrea. this vehicle attack has become the crime du jour of terrorists worldwide. stockholm, nice, london, berlin, barcelona, charlottesville. and t...

Incidents. the thing about a vehicle attack requires no special training and it's very hard to deter. unfortunately, we have seen 128 victims of these attacks just in the last three years. >> you are absolutely right. no special training simply to drive a vehicle into a crowd of innocent people. there is specialized training if you escape from that and do a get away. it looks like there was some sort of escape plan. i want you to stand by and get back to you. i want to bring in congressman democrat on the intelligence and foreign affairs committee. congressm congressman, we know that isis has ...

Obviously, his facebook page, as evan reported, has already been taken down. i'm sure they have all that information. associates, which part of the -- spain did he come from, was he actually from spain or was he a individual that came back from fighting in the middle east back to this particular area. so, they have a ton of information already that we don't know, and i find it interesting that there's a complete lack of info actually coming, you know, we've seen one press conference so far from the mayor. >> actually, art, let me cut you off because we did just get a little bit of information....

Certainly they've been incurringing followers to do, encouraging their followers in europe to launch multiphase attacks where first they attack with vehicles and then get out of the vehicles and carry on the attack either with blades or with guns. we saw that modus op pran deran out with the bridge in london in march of this year. saw that modus operandi more recently in london in june when three attackers in the evening launched a vehicle attack and then went out and started stabbing people in the market. all of those attacks believed to have been inspired at the very least by isis. it's earl...