saw in tunisia? yes. historically that s been the case. it s much more likely just based on statistics that if there is an attack here in the homeland of course 9/11 and others notwithstanding, they tend to be lower level casualty attacks, not always the case. we tend to see individuals who self-radicalize and don t have the kind of training that was on display with this person who had some tactics and techniques he used in tunisia to shoot a bunch of people on a beach and unarmed. he obviously had rehearsed some of this and had some understanding what he was going to do. he didn t just grab the nearest sharp object and try to stab somebody something we have seen on u.s. oilsoil. there is always a sense of heightened risk when there s a big holiday this time of year. they have no specific threat planning means exactly that. it is a period because it is ramadan and jihadists say that s a time there should be an enhanced effort of jihad. it is also near the one year anniversary of th
mostly an attack would be along the smaller scale. at least we hope so. you wrote in your op-ed what we saw unfold on friday just a remarkable three terror attacks in the span of hours, that s what we can expect going forward. why does this have to be the new norm? well i don t mean that we are going to see multiple terror attacks in three countries on a given day going forward. but the kinds of tactics and the kind of targets we saw are what we can expect in the future. if there s an extremist in europe who wants to attack the united states it s a lot easier to attack an obscure factory owned by an american company in france as we saw. so really more about the tactics and selection of targets. the shiite target the western tourists the american target the kinds of casualties the kinds of recruits we are seeing that s the kind of mix we are going to see going forward. in tunisia, yet another attack on that tourism industry that is so critical to that
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and lone wolves are behind it all. there is a common thread here of extremists. i don t believe we have seen any evidence of tactical coordination. reporter: but one u.s. official tells cnn we are in a heightened period of concern. fbi and counterterrorism officials issued a bulletin to law enforcement across the u.s. warning of possible terrorist threats around the july 4th holiday, though nothing specific. but there are worrisome indicators. it s currently the islamic holy month of ramadan. isis official spokesman has called for fighters to rush over to jihad and rise up, a call to killing. it s been a year since isis leader al baghdadi emerged from hiding to declare his caliphate. in tunisia, nearly 40 people many western tourists, killed when gunmen attacked. we went to our left and hid
what seems to be a home-grown radicalized individual who probably had no direct contact with the islamic state but the islamic state s call to wage your own form of jihad in the west is something he took upon himself. these are the different layers of conflict that isis is constantly engaged in. each one of these target sets really represents the different spheres of isis attack. peter, you just wrote this fascinating op-ed on cnn.com about exactly that. you say quote, this underlines the diversity of global jihadist terrorism today. how has the picture changed? well i mean just sort of adding to what buck said if you look at the tactics in the three different attacks, they are representative the tactics we will see going forward. the home-grown extremist in france with no seeming links to isis doing a relatively low impact attack that kills one person a much more well-organized attack in tunisia with people who undoubtedly had some form of training which ended up killing a lot of