The streets, nobody s safe. this is when they want to beat people down. this is a moment of fear, so they want to try and strengthen that fear by latching onto terrorist attacks like this. would that not be something that people should maybe take some comfort in knowing? that this isn t a larger plot? or should we be concerned perhaps the opposite, that it is? there s a couple things to keep in mind. first, this is the site that isis has returned to again and again. there was an attack on the london bridge back in june of 2017, there was an attack in the nearby westminster bridge on march 2017. as you all know, the trump administration has destroyed the physical caliphate. but there are roughly 18 to 20,000 isis terrorists who have melted into an insurgency in that syria-iraq battle state. if they still retain some relevance and capability to target the west, their leader,
Apparently the police had seen some sort of hoax expose of device attached to this man s race. a belt. that s when they asked everyone to get off of him, shots were fired, he was killed there at the scene. so now the information is coming and whether he was part of some sort of caliphate, where isis is possibly recruiting others, or if he was a lone wolf or he in fact acted alone. i want to bring everybody back up on the couch. it was very quick that they deemed this a terrorist attack. within moments. terror can be deemed everything. you it don t have to have an islamic terrorist ambition. if you go out and your attempt is to come multiple people, that s an act of terror. this one is a little different. david: they didn t go to a mass attack, which is what we sometimes hear from the u.k. authorities. they went right to terror. i think that is the point. they had identified elements. i think dagen mentioned on one of the brakes, we ve seen this before. very similar elements in the la
I will keep you updated on this as i get more. one thing we do know is that since the death of isis leader al-baghdadi, the group is largely gone underground in iraq and syria and turkey. the head of iraqi intelligence said last week that nine isis chiefs are currently hiding out in turkey trying to regenerate their leadership there. julie? julie: gillian turner, thank you. keep us apprised of any late-breaking info. we ll come back to you. i want to bring in former cia station chief in fox news contributor dan hoffman, who joins us by phone. what is your reaction to gillian turner s reporting that isis is pledging new members dug this london attack? let me remind you, president trump this week talking about how a new leader of isis has not reared its ugly head since baghdadi was killed. in fact, number two didn t come forward, and he joked about there being a number three not wanting to come forward. what does this say about isis? isis continues to be very
Of the police and the emergency services in what they have done. i would urge everybody, of course, to be vigilant. one cannot help but think back to what happened in 2017, in the same part of the city. i hope very much that people will be able, as fast as possible, to go about their normal business. reporter: finally, this happened in the middle of a general election campaign julie: here s an interview with boris johnson, the prime minister, basically saying the terrorist has been contained and that they will not bow down to this kind of terrorism. so it looks as though the situation is under control. the investigation continues. whether or not this lone wolf terrorist worked with anyone else, if he was representing isis, ices has come out and put up pictures and basically saying that they are trying to come and recruit new supporters. at this point, no correlation between the two periods of this
Man could have been working on his own. dagen: this is something the counterterrorism policing team in britain has been aware of, on the lookout for, despite britain lowering the terrorist threat level just earlier this month to substantial from seve severe. neil basu, the head of the counterterrorism policing force, we heard from earlier, said at that point that there were still 800 live counterterrorism investigations at that point. 24 attack plots have been thwarted since the westminster attack back in march of 2017. but they were very concerned about lone wolf attacks. the reason the terror threat had been lowered is because of the advancements against isis and the islamic states, that we and other nations had made in the middle east. their resources have been deprived in britain, but they wilwere still concerned about ts type of lone wolf. david: these are effective for them. this is what keeps them