this was in broad daylight in a well-trafficked area, lots of pedestrians around. there s a primary school nearby. some of the people who witnessed this attack are said to be parents picking up their kids at the end of the school day. look at this photo, though, this is one of the men who s thought to be one of the assailants. you can see he s holding a knife still in this photo. he has been approached by a passerby who is standing right next to him seemingly calmly having a conversation with him. another passerby with a camera shot a cell phone video of what seems to be the other assailant in the case. he is covered in blood and holding what looks to be two knives, two weapons, and he, fairly calmly, explains the whole thing to the guy who s filming him. he blames british soldiers for killing muslims and says it is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. he says by the almighty allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. so what if we want to live by shia. rathe
the footage shows a man clutching a knife in his bloody hand and claims it was in real tags of british soldiers killing muslims. back with this bizarre twist of tamerlan tsarnaev. they believe he was involved in a triple murder a couple of years ago. i want to bring in a counterterrorism official. good morning. good morning, chris. i want to start with the bigger picture and the changing face in the war on terror. we know since 9/11 it s been constantly a changing target. where are we now in this war and the president is reassessing how we protect ourselves? how different does that reassessment look? are we pushing the reset button, essentially? i think you re going to see the president talk about a counterterrorism strategy that reflects the success of the bush
of the pressure from our troops, from our intelligence professionals, how frustrated he was that he and his movement kept killing muslims, and it was us who was calling him out on that. and obviously, also, how he was having a very hard time getting his message out. so i m not going to get into any intelligence matters other than those declassified things. but any signal we want to send won t, al-qaeda will not have to interpret. they re going to hear from us, they re going to hear from us the way they have now for two-and-a-half years. we re going to stay on the offense, be that in afghanistan, pakistan, in yemen, in somalia, in southeast asia or elsewhere. again, we re not in the signal-sending business, we re in the strength business, and we re going to keep the heat on them. jenna: what message do you think you are sending, though, saying that troops are coming out and that we re going to be done, essentially, by 2014 in afghanistan? i think the first thing is exactly what the pr
already led the united states to underestimate and back foolish schemes to counter it. we ll need to get acquainted with the islamic state s intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it but self-immolate it in its own zeal. some things we ve done wrong. for instance? we treat it identical to al qaeda. although they both trace their lineage to osama bin laden there are big differences between the group. al qaeda has been trying to fly planes into new york, attack the west. where islamic state s focus is on muslims who live near it. that s what they to want do more than anything else is purify the land contiguous with the islamic state, mostly killing sunnis. you have a group rather than being one that s reaching across oceans to kill americans although they will certainly try to do that, i promise you, they are really focusing on killing
something like this happening here? huge. it s not just someone going on a computer and becoming radicalized and acting on their own accord, they have people in the united states that are radicalizing individuals and arranging their travel and smuggling people in over the mexican border. there are state sponsors helping al shabab. there are indications that iran and sudan are also involved with them. are you concerned about a broader rise of extremism? we keep hearing that al qaeda, from the administration, is on the run. we have decapitated its leadership but we see these large scale attacks in countries popping up in africa, of course, in the continent of africa and around europe. right. that s because the ideology hasn t been destroyed. al qaeda has done a lot of damage themselves, by killing muslims, being defeated on the battlefield, until you kill the radical ideology, you ll keep having these type of terrorists