who called for attacks against all in the anti-isis coalition, that includes the u.s., uk and australia. since then police have traced the shooting of a canadian, a hatchet attack against police back to fatwa. when you look at this, lone wolfs exceptionally difficult to police and prevent because they re radicalized on their own. plus they plan and carry out attacks on their own, taking advantage of the vast trove of information on the internet, a favorite video is how to make a bomb in your mom s kitchen. they also don t enter the country from abroad where they might be collected by immigration as they come in and they don t have any co-conspirators that they re communicating with. of course, the trouble here is that this assailant in australia did have a history. the challenge for police is
happening now, breaking news. deadly siege. the world watches in horror as grenades and gunfire bring a 16-hour hostage drama to a violent end. the gunman, a self-proclaimed islamic cleric, already charged in other cases. why was he free on bail? lone terrorist. a hatchet attack in new york. a gunman storms the canadian parliament. can they be stopped tens of thousands of people march nationwide. new documents are released in the michael brown case. what questions are they raising about the grand jury testimony? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and let s get right to the breaking news. the climax of a 16-hour hostage
including australia and that s had a deep impact on isis followers around the world. we have seen a string of plots and attacks in north america. also plots in the uk. all these people were devouring this fact that there were religious obligation to launch these kinds of attacks. it s going to be significant concern that there could be a copy cat attack by somebody somewhere the western parts inspired by what they have seen in australia. you remember back in october with that hatchet attack in new york where an attacker went after the nypd. he was inspired by what he saw two days previously in canada with that attack on canadian parliament. concern as we move forward on copy cat attacks, wolf. we re wait iing for a news conference in sydney. police are e getting ready to brief the media. we ll have live coverage. i want all yof you to standby. much more of the breaking nulz. a lot of concern about the so-called lone wolf attacks.
telling isis supporters that it was their religious obligation to launch these attacks. since then, we ve seen a numberer be of plots. two fatal terrorist attacks in canada, then an attempted hatchet attack in new york as well. there have been plots in the europe and uk, john. so a new model of terrorism worrying law enforcement officials because it s so difficult to detect. let s drill down on that further. you don t think of australia is having to deal with these kinds of threats but as you mentioned we saw canada, seen as a fairly peaceful nation i don t just say 245 because i m from there but they have had their shares of terror threats and issues. australia even, they ve raised their terror alert recently, no? that s right. in september that same month there was a beheading lunged back to isis.
including the u.s., the uk, and australia. since then, investigators have traced the shooting of a canadian soldier in ottawa, a hatchet attack on police in new york, and a lot in the uk to shoot police officers back to the isis fatwa. they often do not enter the country from abroad, and they often don t communicate by e-mail or telephone with operational leaders, making them harder for intelligence agencies such as the nsa to track and capture them. while we re never going to stop these kinds of attacks, the good news is they tend to have limited impact. there are fewer victims, fewer dead. and in the end, that may be the standard for success in this new era of terrorism. how do you police these attacks? a big focus now is working with and inside muslim communities.