of, this new kind of attack. since last july when we saw the dreadful attacks in nice where a lone man had gotten into a truck and plowed into a crowd of people watching the 14th of july attack, sort of garnered the more coordinated, larger-scale attacks we saw in france on november 15th, for instance, when 130 epeople were killed in different locations, highly coordinated attacks from syria. we haven t seen any of those in a while. what we have seen are a much smaller scale over the course of the last few months attacks, but one a month, and specifically attacking security forces and often with the crudest of means, and that appears to be what we re seeing today, those images from outside notre dame. of course, heavily policed. the streets of france really are heavily policed these days. there are so many extra policemen, extra military personnel on the streets. we re still in a state of emergency and we re going to remain in a state of emergency in france until july. that s what s pl
getting, swedish broadcasters saying that shots have been fired as well peer from home and toward which a target, we don t know, but this is an image, one of the first we are getting from our sister network sky news working the story. it is late in the afternoon, just a bit before 4:00 on a friday and stockholm, sweden. remember it was just about two weeks ago when the vehicle went into parliament in london. last july, think about the big refrigerator truck and nice, france, at the end of this liberation of the steel, the 14th of july. isis has committed gated online to encourage these relatively simple attacks. this could be another one just like it. it bears the hallmarks but none of that right now is confirmed. sky news is on it. we will dip in there any moment when they come back to the broadcast to figure out what sort of images and facts we can gather now from this story. if we have that broadcast, go ahead and bring it up. if not, i will tell you what we know because we don t ha
long, but it felt like i was in slow motion trying to get away from it. very surreal. just one of the eyewitnesses there, the asia pacific foundation joins me now in london. what is shocking is that, you know, the lack of shock really about what happened here. this is exactly the sort of attack the intelligence agencies were talking about and preparing for. very much so. i m afraid they were warning us. they were concerned that the christmas period would result in a spate of plots. there was heightened activity, electronic chatter. i guess it still is disturbing because of the fact when you see a vehicle being turned into a lethal weapon, mowing people down, everyone brings the similarity to the nice attacks on the 14th of july of this year. but there have been a number of other plots involving vehicles which thankfully the authorities have disrupted, but unfortunately they have to be lucky all the time, the terrorist needs to be lucky once, and when it happens it is
implemented a policy which works to get ahead of these folks. we have lost momentum. gaining ground in mosul and iraq, look, the rest of the world is on fire. so and as pete said, we have got to be very concerned about our own upcoming events. christmas, new year s eve and the inauguration are three targets. be hoens. the techniques of isis employing, the so-called lone wolves, they re not. you can go online and we could be a radical to train ourselves and this is a program. they re doing this with great forethought and now we know that through the somali refugees that attacked with knives and twice now in europe. 14th of july, they used a truck to similar effect and this is a valid technique of terror. so, we ve got to get ahead of this. we have to study this hard. we have to do two things rapidly. figure out how to better use intelligence and then use that intelligence to be proactive. we cannot take chances and
although in the past i ve consulted, for example, on the rose parade in pasadena. we were quite concerned about the type of attack we saw on the 14th of july in nice, where an individual took a truck and drove it through a crowd and killed 87 people. you know, when you have an inauguration route that is going to be used when the president is sworn in, you have got to do more to protect the side streets approaching. i mean, physical barriers. this is going to be something, and dwoent have to worry about just one person. you have to worry about perhaps a cell of people, who after all, on 9/11, we had multiple aircraft. imagine this, somebody tries to come in through a side street using a large vehicle. hard to stop. maybe able to threaten the motorcade. you might have a secret service vehicle ta sacrifice fises itself to block or take that out and get out of the kill zone. but what about two side streets down or a third site streed down? we ve run our assets quickly.