A moment of silence in honor of the victims. Also ahead strict restrictions are imposed across europe as a surge in the coronavirus impacts life on the council. We begin then with continuing coverage of the knife attack in france 3 people have been killed at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured or was wounded by police that is in custody in hospital. Frances antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the mayor of nice says that it was a terror attack and is called for a crackdown on what he describes as islamofascism. Looking for the use we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side i want to say that with exonerating the laws of peace in our country we will wipe out islamofascism just as david chase has on the line now from nice stated describe the scene there right now. Adrian yes im a few 100 yards away
delivered and this terrorist leader is no more. people around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer. al zawahiri, the second in command to osama bin laden during the 9/11 attacks as well as the attack on u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 and the uss cole in 2000, killing 17 service members, took over the terrorist organization after bin laden s death in 2011 and was killed on the balcony of a taliban-linked safehouse in kabul, afghanistan. to those around the world who continue to seek to harm the united states, hear me now. we will always remain vigilant and we will act and we will always do what is necessary to ensure the safety and security of americans at home and around the globe. i ll be joined this hour by white house homeland security adviser elizabeth sherwood randall and intelligence committee chairman senator mark warner for more on this major national security development and the future of al qaeda and the taliban. a
Returning foreign fighters. Held by the Washington Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the Washington Institute for mideast policy. Im not let it, i directed the program on counterterrorism and intelligence at the institute and im pleased to welcome you all for the latest in our stein counterterrorism lecture series. Today were going to discuss islamic terrorism in the west and we have a fantastic panel for you. We will start with dick schoof who served as National Coordinator for security and counterterrorism in the netherlands since spring 2013. His responsibility for crisis management, Cyber Security and related efforts and briefly served as director general of the police force and played a role in creating European Unions roadmap to information sharing. We then have some comments by myself and by my two friends from colleagues, muhammad fraserrahim and Farah Pandith. Mohammed is the new executive director for north america for the londonbased
George Washington University recently held a form on fighting online radicalization and extremism with tech experts and government officials. This portion included a keynote address. Introductions were made by the Extremism Program director. Want to extend a welcome to our guests from the International Diplomatic corporate officials of the no Space Government including representatives from the department of state, justice and Homeland Security and the federal bureau of investigation. Also officials from allied governments and guests from technology, internet, and media sectors. This conference was two years in the planning and i originally discussed the idea with our alumni, surely after she was appointed minister of internet safety and security for the United Kingdom and may 2015. Youll have the privilege of hearing from her in a few moments. The idea we discussed was convene a global conference to bring together governments with conversations with experts in the field about the chall
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