terrorism experts say the move has become signature for the terrorist group. they use the aftermath of the terrorist attacks to spread hate. one guest who was at the wedding described the scene. the expression happened near the stage where the musicians were. all the youth, children and all the people who were there were killed. some are wounded. and others are dead. reporter: president trump convened a meeting with his national security team this weekend. afghanistan s president meanwhile is making the case that the taliban isn t to be trusted. the taliban cannot absolve themselves of responsibility. they provide the platform for terror. some some of president trump s strongest supporters in the senate are opposed to the idea of a drawdown.
all different sides of society here. now one of the challenges that some muslim community leaders have raised is that some of them say that they were warning about what they saw as a rise of islam phobia, of rhetoric targeting muslims in the years coming up to these terrible attacks. and some of them saying that government officials didn t listen to their warnings. that is something that new zealand will probably have to wrestle with. that is also a message that is landing on the shores of other countries that have also been witness to acts of right-wing white nationalist terrorism and violence. and hopefully something a lesson that people will take away from these tragic events here, natalie. right. one of the terrorism experts that you interviewed earlier talked about the fact that more and more people were seeing the rise of white nationalists around the world. something definitely that needs to be explored.
experts say u.s. intelligence agencies need to make it a priority. authorities in new zealand say the gunman charged with these attacks was inspired in part by other white nationalists who used violence in the past and security experts say this is a sign of the global spread of this kind of extremism. police are stepping up patrols around mosques nationwide from new york to los angeles, no known threat here, they say, strictly a precaution. our message to them is one of we are here with you. reporter: but terrorism experts say white extremism has become a global threat. we ve seen white supremacists move from the margins to the mainstreams and cleverly use social media and other forms of technology to spread across borders. reporter: adl says right-wing extremism caused 50 deaths last year. authorities in new zealand say the gunman there drew inspiration from other white
what did he receive instructions while on the ground from i guess and therefore what plans did he have when he came back here and we really don t know much about that and those are going to be some very interesting details we hope will be coming out in the prosecution s case and this is really a big first because on bases the first trial of an alleged islamic state attorney here in europe just walk us through why that is so important. well yes he was the first known attacker. as an islamic state returning so this is really key and from speaking with terrorism experts they really want to know more details because this seemed to have been a fairly uncomplicated attack he had the weapons it s not known whether he had a larger network here whether he got funding from islamic state there is a very interesting detail that we know about him and that is that some french journalists who were taken hostage in syria identified. as one of their jailers
well yes he was the first known attacker. as an islamic state returning so this is really key and from speaking with terrorism experts they really want to know more details because this seemed to have been a fairly uncomplicated attack he had the weapons it s not known whether he had a larger network here whether he got funding from islamic state there is a very interesting detail that we know about him and that is that some french journalists who were taken hostage in syria identified. as one of their jailers a particularly sadistic one in fact and they also identified as another jailer a man who later went on allegedly to commit the brussels attack. so in fact we do know that he had connections to this brussels cell and those are going to be things that terrorism experts are very much going to want to unravel as this trial goes on so yes everyone i ve spoken with says this is