cooperating with authorities. in all leads, officials suspect saipov may be a lone wolf, a single individual inspired by terrorist organizations but not directly working for one. he knew terrorist tactics, are the lone wolves who commit an act of terror. reporter: last year three attacks were carried out by lone wolves in the u.s., according to authorities. a bombing in the chelsea neighborhood of new york injuring 31 people. police say ahmed rahimi was a lone wolf. and the lone wolf attacker was a somali refugee inspired by propaganda. now investigators will piece together a timeline of what happened. we know at 2:00 yesterday, he drove a minivan to a home depot in new jersey.
what we do know is that isis has been losing ground and they ve been calling for these types of attacks, when you look at their propaganda and messaging, they re calling for people to carry out these low tech style attacks, that s a shift from previous terrorist tactics. and you also know that you ve seen the proliferation of their messaging on online platforms. i was just on the hill today about russian interfering on these platforms, but also extremist and terrorist content. this is the trend that we have been seeing as they lose ground, as they start spreading their message online and around the globe, and they call on individuals who might have their own problems as well. but to grasp on to their ideology as well. it looks like a lot of these other cases that malcolm mentioned previously. so i wouldn t be surprised that
to be very real. our thoughts and prayers are with all of them. our first responders did an extraordinary job, the nypd, the fdny, fbi, new york state police, ems. we have the finest security on the globe. to see them in action today prove that once again. the new terrorist tactics which they have called for publicly are these lone wolves who commit an act of terror. this is all very preliminary. it s only been a couple hours but at this point, there s no evidence to suggest a wider plot or a wider scheme. but the actions of one individual who meant to cause pain and harm and probably death and the resulting terror.
the gunfire. that could have been five, ten minutes after the critical incident, we just don t know. with westminster being an unfortunate parallel, is this in the, if you will, isis guide book? is this in the terrorism attack guide book? oh, yes. this has been you know, this has been in the pantheon of terrorist tactics for decades. what we re seeing now, certainly with isis, and to a lesser extent with al qaeda, al qaeda was the first one to actually publish this in a manual to use a vehicle what we call vehicle as weapon system. and that s where you just take your car and run over people. armed edged weapons attacks knife attacks were popularized by al qaeda also. however, the place where we saw these happening all the time was israel. there were over 50 attacks like this in israel with palestinians just using, as we said, suicide
kind of just worse than anything imaginable. this is ariana grande. her fan base is teenaged girls. teenagers. and you re coming out of a concert. it s a terrific time. you re not thinking of situational awareness and all those adult concerns. well, the terrorist tactics are evolving with time. and as he just pointed out, why go through the risk of being detected, trying to get into a stadium? we saw that in the incident in france, paris a while back. the soft target outside. there might be security out there. but you re not prevented from carrying a bag or rolling a piece of luggage, particularly near a transportation center. and my understanding from where this occurred, it s directly across from the entrance to the victoria station. so a lot of the early reporting was from the transit police. because evidently, they were right there. so the idea is that manchester