isis and kurdish militants, suicide bombings jumped from five in 2015 to 21 last year. western europe was also a suicide bombing target. is the islamic state loses in the middle east, there is a higher probability of taking actions in western countries. mainly, you re up. the report doesn t include other types of terrorist attacks such as shootings or vehicle attacks like those in europe and the recent one here in jerusalem. a final note on the findings, 10% of the bombings last year were carried out by female attackers, less than previous years, but happening in more countries. bret. bret: john huddy and her middle eastern news. john, thank you. what could be the main event in the unarmed capitol hill combat known as the trump cabin and confirmation hearings gets underway tomorrow. secretary of state rex tillerson is easily the president-elect s most controversial and perhaps come out of the box, selection.
this attack. they re doing all their forensics on the trump cabin. they are hoping perhaps to find a match of some of those forensics, fingerprints with databases they have that are disposable. of course, they may not be in those databases. they re also asking the general public to hand over as much video as possible of people shooting video on their smartphones before, during and after the attack. perhaps there could be some clues there. of course, in the boston bombings investigation a few years ago, that video from security cameras, other sources, was absolutely crucial, and they put in just huge amounts of man hours in that boston investigation to try to identify, and they actually were then able to get grainy images of the attackers which they re able to hand out to the public. we ll see if that happens in this case. so far nothing has been provided