successful attack here? there s a couple combinations. one we didn t have the form fighter recruitment to syria and that s indicative of the inspiration as well. former foreign fighters are the best recruiters of other former fighters and inspiring people locally. this neighborhood seems like it was a libyan background, some people in that neighborhood might have gone to libya and future fought after the arab spring. the other thing we don t have on a wide scale is community, groups of guys that are into this ideology and attack patterns. how do you combat an ideology? you can throw out as much security as you can to places, but as you said everywhere is a soft target. ultimately you have to combat the ideology. as somebody who was the commissioner of the police in a diverse place like new york, what does the nypd do in order to make sure that certain communities don t feel alienated, don t have the and are they doing a good enough job, don t have the impetus to
larger plot. i ve spent a lot of time in the middle east with some experts on bomb making, and the city of nablus where a lot of bomb makers are trained, 40% of them have accidents when making explosives, so i can t get my arms around a couple who is making explosive devices in their garage and were successful enough to not have an accident and make a mistake. that s another component here. i think again another very important key to this investigation is did they have help, were there resources was there intelligence, were they financed? how large does the scope of this plot? and finally, because you ve done so much extensive research on foreign fighter recruitment, from what you know from the facts out there, are these the type of people who are susceptible to recruitment, to recruitment from terror groups? well, this certainly is going to be a slight aberration of what we ve seen. i will say this. the group of people that are