people can self radicalise and do this almost entirely in secret, alone in their house, and do that online. and some of their activity when they then leave their house presents an opportunity for us and the public, maybe, to work together and identify their behaviour. harbi ali considered attacking cabinet ministers, but settled on this man, sir david amess, mp for southend west. he d advertised his constituency surgery on twitter and, lying that he was local, harbi ali fixed an appointment, e mailing to say, i don t think i ll take too long. ali harbi ali arrived here at the old bailey a self confessed terrorist killer, but he then taunted sir david s family, declaring that he d done nothing wrong. he said he d killed to protect muslims in syria. but the judge said that was no defence to the crime of murder, and the jury tookjust 18 minutes to convict him. he literally did something that you can t even imagine. and it doesn t heal, itjust hurts.
people can self radicalise and do this almost entirely in secret, alone in their house, and do that online. and some of their activity when they then leave their house presents an opportunity for us and the public, maybe, to work together and identify their behaviour. harbi ali considered attacking cabinet ministers, but settled on this man, sir david amess, mp for southend west. he d advertised his constituency surgery on twitter and, lying that he was local, harbi ali fixed an appointment, e mailing to say, i don t think i ll take too long. ali harbi ali arrived here at the old bailey a self confessed terrorist killer, but he then taunted sir david s family, declaring that he d done nothing wrong. he said he d killed to protect muslims in syria. but the judge said that was no defence to the crime of murder,
forward throughout the day. there are about 150 rental truck agencies throughout the new york city area that apparently starting two years ago the nypd is saying they went to all these rental agencies and told them to look out for certain indicators. indicators of those who might be up to nefarious means. clearly this is one of them. what signs did they have? we don t have answers on that. could they have been tipped off? we don t know that just yet. we re waiting on those answers so far today. u haul, rider, home depot. when you think about the christmas attack in berlin and the a tack in nice as the crowd of thousands were moving away from the fireworks display and the terrorist killer was coming the other direction with a several ton refrigerated truck trying to hit as many people as possible in his way.
good morning to you. what more are we learning about the suspect? reporter: good morning. the latest revelations from this sprawling investigation are that khalid masood, the perpetrate, to visited saudi arabia three times, most recently in 2015. today soul searching in britain, a nation pondering how a popular boy became a terrorist killer. he was always very friendly to everybody. i think he wanted to be liked. reporter: one uk can paper this morning calling him the middle class jihaddy. masokhalid masood was shot dead after running over three people on a bridge, including kurt cochran, an american celebrate willing his wedding anniversary. he then stabbed to death a police guard. he went by several aliases and did time in multiple prisons. that s where he s thought to have converted to iz lachlslam. investigators poring over the
khalid masood had a work visa and traveled to saudi arabia to teach english in the past according to an associated press report. nbc s matt bradley is in london with the details. what more have we learned about the suspect? reporter: thomas, that s right. he actually lived in saudi arabia for a total of two years and he visited most recently in 2015. today soul searching in britain, a nation pondering how a popular boy became a terrorist killer. he always seemed quite happy. he was always very friendly to everybody. i think, you know, he wanted to be liked. reporter: one uk paper this morning calling him the middle-class jihadi. khalid masood was shot dead wednesday after running over three people on a bridge including curt cochran, an american man celebrating his wedding anniversary. masood then stabbed to death a parliament police guard. he went by several aliases and did time in multiple prisons.