what more do we know about them? these rebels were originally ugandan. in the 1990s, they fought against the yoweri museveni government, led by a man called jamil mukulu. at the time, they used to attack communities, attack buses, attack schools. and in 1998, they attacked a technical school, and burnt to death over 80 students, and took about a hundred others at the time. later, they were pushed out of uganda into drc. and they ve been looting, killing and rampaging all these years in that area. and in 2021, they were blamed for a series of suicide bomb attacks in kampala. and at the time, the kinshasa government then invited uganda to go into eastern drc and pursue them. that operation is still going on. but they seem to be still able to carry out these horrific attacks.
what more do we know about them? these rebels were originally ugandan. in the 1990s, they fought against the yoweri museveni government, led by a man called jamil mukulu. at the time, they used to attack communities, attack buses, attack schools. and in 1998, they attacked a technical school, and burnt to death over 80 students, and took about a hundred others at the time. later, they were pushed out of uganda into drc. and they ve been looting, killing and rampaging all these years in that area. and in 2021, they were blamed for a series of suicide bomb attacks in kampala. and at the time, the kinshasa government then invited uganda to go into eastern drc and pursue them. that operation is still going on. but they seem to be still able to carry out these horrific attacks.
on for days to come. mishal husein there. earlier, i spoke to hamish de bretton gordon. he s a former commander of the uk and nato cbrn, that stands for the chemical biological radiological and nuclear defence forces. using his experience in syria, i asked him to describe how the russian forces have been operating in ukraine. it is absolutely the syrian playbook that we are seeing here that the russians went in there five or six years ago when things were going badly. they then seem to aim to attack civilians because if you break the civilians will and morale when they surrender and we saw that so often in serbia but what they did as they attacked hospitals so those civilians knew if they were injured they wouldn t be patched up. the attack schools, which was just unbelievably shocking and they also, and the syrian regime, started to firebomb towns and cities using white phosphorus like some kind of
failure. they were money down the drain. of course, speaking of mental health institutions. what is your response to that, victor? it s a question of whether they will prevent mass shootings. i m not sure it ll make a big dent out of it, but we have 600,000 homeless people. we didn t have that problem in the recessions of the 70s, the recessions of 73 and the early 80s. a restoration of mental health facilities would really help that problem of homelessness. the president would be right. the mass shootings, they are horrific, especially when the attack schools, parents are not supposed to bury their children. children are supposed to bury parents. we look at the statistics, we have about 350 a year out of 11,000 11,000 lethal shootings. you get to that 3%, how do we save that 370 people?
employed online and they did facebook messages from the nightclub during the shooting. that capability exists. i would remind every american right now to keep your head on a swivel during new year s and understand that these guys are going to come at us with all four feet if for no other reason than to reassert their global relevance and they ll do it to hit us where we live, work and play. rick: can we expect a change in tactics? i think what we ll continue to see is we have to stop calling these lone wolf attacks. this is a very coherent strategy. centralized vision and ideology and execution. guidance and inspiration coming from online and then people execute mass killings, attack schools, rock concerts. that s the new distributed form of terror and we have to stop calling it lone wolf attacks and give it the credit it