long, but it felt like i was in slow motion trying to get away from it. very surreal. >> just one of the eyewitnesses there, the asia pacific foundation joins me now in london. what is shocking is that, you know, the lack of shock really about what happened here. this is exactly the sort of attack the intelligence agencies were talking about and preparing for. very much so. i'm afraid they were warning us. they were concerned that the christmas period would result in a spate of plots. there was heightened activity, electronic chatter. i guess it still is disturbing because of the fact when you see a vehicle being turned into a lethal weapon, mowing people down, everyone brings the similarity to the nice attacks on the 14th of july of this year. but there have been a number of other plots involving vehicles which thankfully the authorities have disrupted, but unfortunately they have to be lucky all the time, the terrorist needs to be lucky once, and when it happens it is