radicalized. what are you thinking happened here? i m not sure what happened, brianna and you re exactly right. a degree of derangement on his part to say, i don t like the fact that people think of muslims as possibly terrorists. so i m going to become a terrorist, or become, you know, violent to try to murder people. so i think in a way it makes no sense. we don t know, and in a way the authorities may never completely be sure of what exactly triggered him to do this yesterday. to all of a sudden decide, i m going to drive my car and run people over. i m going to try to stab them with a knife. even though there have been story after story of that type of thing happening all over the world. including september 20th. the mall attack in saint cloud, minnesota, where a somali, you know, person, attacked people, tried to stab them in the mall and an off-duty police officer shot and killed him. almost playing out a similar scenario, only this time using the car and people on the street.
witnesses say the attackers were shouting alla akbar and claim the attack was for syria. there are reports of other deadly attacks including another cafe and shopping mall but we re having trouble getting hard information concerning the cafe. there is word the mall attack may have been a false alarm altogether. we have team fox coverage, a correspondent from global radio news is live in front of the theater where the worst attacks took place. and we have response if the white house and concerns about safety at home. we begin with benjiman hall. the information is clearly trickling if. we are finding not all of it is reliable. right? we have been covering this
some of our rights to be protected from the terror within. it s more inconvenient to be dead than surveilled. in terms of once the folks have become radicalized in a red online how to carry-on an attack. you spent a lot of time protecting folks. how difficult is to protect the soflt targets. we saw the mall attack in kenya. the latest attack at the university. is there a way to protect the soft target from the attacks or not? there s a way to protect. one term you use is eliminate the threat. right now what happens in the gun free zones. because it s a political statement instead of reality. if we don t have guns here we re going to be safe. who is the first person they call? the guys with the guns. we need to be smart about what we re doing. the world is smaller than we think. the terrorists are real. whether or not we re fighting them, they re fighting us. they certainly are. as we ve seen so many more are joining by the today.
peter is with the atlanta council and international affairs think tank. the first targets at the university college was a lecture hall where christians met in the morning for voluntary prayer. they also went through the rooms and people to separate themselves. this has been a pattern in recent attacks. reporter: witnesses say the same thing happened during the mall attack in nairobi in 2013. some security analysts say other extremists are clearly going after christians. isis has been tied to massacres of christians. how many is unclear but dozens this year alone. that makes places like kenya prime targets. this nation is 85% christian and muslims here have long complained it being treated unfairly. that feeds the terrorist narrative. such brutal attacks are mainly about protecting a beleaguered
sony is monitoring the latest for us. this is just such a horrific story, especially considering what the people of kenya went through with the mall attack and now this. it has been a sad day yesterday for kenya. it was as you say, more like a replay of what happened only worse this time for most people because a lot of these students were hopeful on how the other border towns of kenya and a lot of talk that a lesson was learned and that the security force would be swifter and more empower empowered. that they would be able to respond faster and better and intelligence would be improved.