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All of these plots either conceived or partially carried out. none deadly. until now. miguel marquez, cnn. >> with me now, cnn national security analyst peter bergen as well as cnn terrorism analyst paul cruickshank. peter, clearly there have been a number of close calls in new york city, obviously since 9/11, plots foiled, attackers caught. none of those attempts had been like this attack today, however. >> yeah, a number of the attacks in that piece were informant driven. the two serious attacks in 2009, 2010, they were al qaeda and pakistani taliban trained. luckily they didn't pan out. it ...

There was high explosive in that case. but now we've seen a terrorist attack get through. about a year ago, isis put out an issue of their magazine calling for exactly these kind of vehicle attacks, even in the macy's day parade in new york. there's a striking similarity between what we saw in manhattan this afternoon and the advice given in that magazine right down to an isis claim of affiliation written on paper. one of the things the investigators are going to be looking at is whether this individual had accessed that particular issue of the isis magazine. i think there's a high degree of l...

Uzbek and one extra note is that there was an uzbek national that was responsible for a deadly truck attack in stockholm this year which killed a number of people in the swedish capital. so there is a track record of uzbeks getting involved in these kind of plots and uzbek groups having links to terror plots in the west, in fact, there was a plot all the way back in 2007 against a u.s. air force base, the ramstein base in germany, linked back to an al qaeda affiliate uzbek group in the tribal areas of pakistan, anderson. >> and peter, just in terms of vehicle attacks like this, i mean, there r...

Them with a butcher knife, injuring 11. not only is isis calling for vehicle attacks, it is also suggesting sympathizers rent their attack vehicles causing the nypd to do extensive outreach to truck rental businesses in the new york area. watch. >> after attacks on the german market, after an nice, we repeated those visits two more times either by making telephone contact, email, or going back to the same places. the industry has had a high level of awareness on this matter from the nypd. >> high level of awareness, but tonight police are at a home depot in passaic new jersey investigating the...

Then worked as a truck driver. his only run-ins in the law were the traffic infractions, a couple in pennsylvania, perhaps out in ohio as well. and spending time in florida. i don't have clarity yet on the tampa connection except he spent some time living and perhaps working down there. most of the information we're having right now is from what has taken place up here in new york. >> jonathan dienst, i know it's been an incredibly busy day for you. nobody works the cases like you do. we really appreciate you joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> we're joined now by jim cavanaugh, a retired atf...