often they will not no one will claim responsibility if there is a case of a lot of civilian casualties but we don t know anything about casualties just yet. as you reported this is near embassies in kabul and where a lot of ex pats live. do we know whether the security situation is like there? well this is where most foreign embassies and a lot of bigger organizations are based. security here is normally pretty tight. but it is also a high profile area. so this is where a lot of these complex attacks or attacks on guest houses, attacks on hotels and restaurants occur. because there are foreigners around and because there are also afghan officials who live in the area. so security here is probably the tightest in the city, but is also the highest profile area. so it is often target of
what s going on. how does isis i guess through social media, how do they encourage sympathizers to engage in an operation like the one that unfolded in sydney? well, i hate to say it, the lone wolf attack is an easy thing to inspire. they put out the message that those who wish to have affiliation with them should do this kind of attack. outside of that, we re different from the ways where a decade ago, you might imagine bin laden in a cave conducting a training camp in the hills. that s no longer the case. the information is perhaps passed through other means. . this man may have only had one firearm and it s about the use of a particularly high profile area like where that cafe was. that helps generate the panic. i should point out their initial goal when they try to establish this wasn t to attack the west but to create territory for
undertaking. new york city is of course used to hosting large crowds. in this case we re talking about a very large crowd in a very high profile area. super bowl boulevard is expected to attract some 400,000 to 500,000 visitors. it s all happening in times square. that s one reason securing this super bowl is really a job unlike any before. i would say arguably this is the biggest security challenge the city has ever faced. reporter: ed hartnet, a former nypd intelligence commander has overseen some of the most high profile, high security moments in new york city s history. but he says the nypd s latest mission, securing super bowl boulevard, a 13-block stretch in the middle of manhattan, could be even tougher. hartnet thinks of it as new year s eve going on for days with all the same challenges. those challenges magnified now, hartnet says, following threats made on the olympic games in sochi. if you recall before 9/11 a lot of the so-called chatter was about a big event that wo
well, this is a group resident in somalia. they had a real cause celebre in the u.s. they were trying to get a lot of recruits to fight for them. they re really fractured right now. there s one faction that wants to work only in somalia. and there s another that wants to go in a global jihad. but the reason their attack in kenya is because kenya has been supporting the somalia government to eradicate these people. so striking out against kenya makes perfect sense. going after this mall makes perfect sense. this is a soft target. it s in a high profile area. there s going to be a lot of foreigners there, a lot of wealthy there. this is this was well-planned and well-thought out. you know, we talk about kenya, many people may think this is far away and removed from the united states, but there actually is a strong link between the united states and kenya. and terrorism going back to 1998. oh, absolutely. you know, we ve been involved in
it was a homemade car bomb inside. police aren t saying what they learned from the owner. they are also examining video of a man they can see changing his shirt near the suv. lance orton joins me now for his first cable news interview. it s good to see you. in the city, anybody who rides around the subways sees these signs that say, if you see something, say something. but for you, you take it very literally. sure i do. i always do. being a veteran and working in high profile area, you have to pay attention to everything. so take me back to saturday night in times square. when did you first realize something was wrong? actually, it was in the afternoon. usually, i m a stickler for