tonight is that at least seven people are dead, innocent people whose lives were claimed by the three terrorists. another 48 people are injured and isis is now claiming responsibility for the attack. joining us to discuss, cnn intelligence and security analyst and former cia operative, bob bear and cnn global affairs analyst kimberly doeshier. so this attack was so low tech, a van, some knives. does this strike you that the terrorists are adapting yet again? an yashgs it does. look, we had the attack in nice last year. we had the attack in berlin at the christmas market. now london. we had another attack on a bridge. you know, you can trace people buying explosives, peroxide, people with know how. it s easy to identify them. people, for instance, on the manchester attack went back to libya possibly syria to get training.
kimberly, what do you make of the fact that three attacks happened in the uk in just three months time and prime minister teresa may says they are not connected? what s going nont uk that there s this increase number of events? well, part of it is the number of militants who traveled from the uk, served with isis in iraq or syria or other parts of the middle east and have come back. they re also many other sympathizers within the british society that british security is tracking. so you have a collection of individuals like minded with the skills or the will to carry something out. but you also have this sort of virus spreading of people seeing these attacks and n. places like nice in france where more than 80 people were killed. they re seeing the simple tactics work.
program, any one of these people could have come to the united states fairly easy. if he were on a no fly list and carried out the same attack. so this problem is very complex and nobody has a completely simple solution to it. and kimberly, i want to get your take about the approach now by law enforcement and by intelligence agencies to try to stop to get out ahead of these terrorists and the ideology. well, there are people that they re already watching in the uk. so you can redouble your efforts in terms of continuing to monitor their communications, maybe even put more people into the effort. but in terms of tackling the ideology, there is a strong effort under way within britain where you have former jihadists who are trying to work with local city officials and reach into some of these communities