schools or college campuses instead of malls or workplaces, why is that? three major reasons, the first is that these people nearly always choose symbolic targets, symbols of authorities, and these people are using terrorist tactics. in 9/11 we saw vehicles of government and capitalism and school is the central authority figure in the world for many of them. the second one, though, is practicality and this person, we re not sure whether, at least last i heard i m not sure if he s in the school but a practical matter where it s their turf. they know it very well. they know where the security is, how to get in and out, what will work and what won t where say if you go to a mall, it s a lot of unknown territories. most plans fail so practicality
olympics, where we were able to assure the prime minister, myself and my colleagues at mi5, that we were pretty confident that the london olympics would be terrorism free. and thanks to a lot of hard work, it was. i don t think you could be quite so confident now if a london olympics were in 2016, for example, because of the rise of isis, the way in which terrorist tactics have evolved. they re picking up bombs and taking them into shopping maull and attacking people with knives. much harder to stop and obstruct as an intelligence service. i think we also have the whole cyber dimension, which is creating vulnerabilities for everyone. we don t really have an international process to set the limits for cyber activity or to recognize what would be a justified response to cyber attack. united states has been, both the
adjustment to isis tactics they know they can t gogo toe to toe with an organized military. what you will see here and doesn t surprise me at all you will see the more terrorist tactics that will come out try to get car bombs in and iedss especially towards the american targets. so that s obviously a serious concern. colonel reese what s your reaction to the apparent killing of izzat ibrahim al douri one of the most wanted saddam loyalists, it s been about 12 years since the u.s.-led war against saddam hussein, but apparently they finally got limb him? hat office to the iraqi security forces. i spent several long nights in iraq over the years trying to find this gentleman. he was a slick, very slick guy who we could not capture. joint special operation command forces during that time be deck of 52 cards, they captured or killed roughly 42 members of that deck of cards, but it s a
now, isis obviously has shown with beheadings, burnings enslaving people they d have no hesitation in using chemical weapons. remember syria, the assad regime, judge, where isis is also present there also has a chemical weapons arsenal. look the nightmare scenario is if isis can get their hands on chemical or biological weapons because they have shown they will use them. all right, guys. you know cia chief brennan says isis has snowballed. now recruiting from 90 countries. 9-0 countries around the world. and people in our administration are saying we re winning the war on terror. who s right? erick? well, one of the things that you re seeing, judge is you re actually seeing the spread of this radical islamic ideology and you re seeing not only the spread of the ideology, you re also seeing the spread of these terrorist tactics. so if you look, for example at what s happening in nigeria are boko haram, recently pledged
terrorist tactics. what you have now is not only an ideology that s being shared between isis and boko haram, but you also see tactics that are being shared. the beheading videos are being done the same way. the kidnappings, the terrorist attacks, the suicide cab bombs and truck bombs. all of those tactics you re seeing tactical collation from boko haram and isis. we also saw boko haram getting better at social media. from rudimentary to somewhat sophisticated. if this merger takes place, think about that, that means the presen presence with isis here in afghanistan, iraq, this is their base of operations right here. the fear is of this going through the region. of this connecting both these group sglz what you re starting to see is the spread of a radical ideology, combined with the spread of the same terrorist tactics, same kinds of