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Now, the full details of this are not immediately clear, ali, but it does bear the hallmarks of recent terrorist attacks we have seen where people have used vehicles as a weapon. since 2016, some 100 people have been killed in vehicle attacks in nice, berlin, london and stockholm. it is very worrying that this has happened. the local authorities in spain are telling people to avoid the area, they have shut down all of the local transport links in the area. they have cordened it off, there is a massive police and emergency services presence in the area and they're treating some of the injured p...

Helpful and closes by saying the united states is in solidarity with spain and at times like this, cowardly attacks target the innocent. there was an on going travel warning warning about these type of attacks, soft targets, unsafe streets, stating vehicle attacks citing what happened in france and germany at a christmas market this year and to update that in barcelona. >> shep: this information, this updated information coming in, we talked about the suspect. the police put out his picture, gave us his name. he was not the suspect. as a newspaper in barcelona put it, he was supplanted by his

On the sophistication or otherwise of this latest terrorist attack in western europe. >> well, i think my first reaction was probably pretty similar to a lot of other people's. this isn't a great surprise. we have seen a series of attacks in western european major cities over the last couple of years. particularly vehicle attacks. not surprising at all. we saw the nice attack, berlin attack and also the london bridge attack most recently. one the striking things is that two decades jihaddists have been looking for ways for ordinary, unskilled sympathizers to conduct very impactful attacks with...

Police command are dealing with right now. once they tamp down the issues, then they layer on the heavy intelligence, you know, who he is, who are his confederates, like michael and malcolm were talking about. they put the intel guys into overdrive and see what the connections are. like we find in so many of these, the attackers are known to the police. they come up in the police databases before, sometimes they've been interviewed before and sometimes they have criminal arrest records. i wouldn't be surprised to see that here either. this is terrorism in the near term. we keep seeing these ve...

Return from iraq to syria according to the french government. that is more than the total number of spaniards who have gone to fight in iraq and syria which as paul pointed out is in the sort of 135 range. so relatively small number of spaniards have gone to fight. in fact, this is somewhat surprising in the sense that we haven't had a jihaddest terror attack in spain since 2004 which was the al qaeda linked inspired attack on madrid commuter trains that killed 191 people. spain has been somewhat immune to the plague of violence that we have seen in france and belgium either inspired by isis o...