in berlin and northeast, france. former brexit party leader nigel farage is r. in england as police warning about christmas terror attacks. we don t know to reiterate we don t know the motives of what happened when wisconsin just yet. i don t want to make connections where they might not yet exist. here is one thing we can observe very objectively. these kind of mask-gatherings become vulnerable targets for those who wish to do ill. and you have seen that already in europe. nigel. yes. of course. you know, we had the truck bombings of christmas markets when large number of families were gathered together having a nice evening out. you are right, the bigger the crowd in a sense the easier the target they are. now, we had a failed terrorist attempt that took place here on sunday the 14th of november, somebody strapped to a suicide bomb vest and it went off, it
terror group this was, if it was a group or lone offender. number one priority right now, determining were there any accomplices to this. that doesn t just mean someone working directly with this attacker, but whether or not this attacker was inspired or directed by some other type of extremist group. as far as the investigation, what needs to happen before anything can be reopened? first of all, london bridge. the ira bombed it in 1992. you and i sat on set one weekend together, june 3, 2017 there was a terror attack that had marked similarities to this one. it was a vehicle attack, this one doesn t appear to have been a vehicle attack, but a knife was used, an edged weapon and a hoax bomb vest, the suicide bomb vest. right now authority also have to keep significant portion of that bridge closed. they ll have to do everything they can to harvest as much forensic evidence as they can. and then this is the 21st
square just a few blocks from here in manhattan. and seeking the means to do it. justice correspondent pete williams following the story. what can you tell us? they emphasize there s no active threat to times square saying this man from queens, new york, is closely monitored for sometime now with the help of an undercover operative. he was questioned overnight the result of an investigation of the joint terrorism task force in new york that involves both nypd and the fbi. law enforcement officials say he was arrested after he tried to buy guns that had the serial numbers removed. so they d be harder to trace. investigators say he also talked about wanting to get hand grenades or a suicide bomb vest and no indication that he got his hands on any explosives. he then shifted they say to talking of a shooting attack. times square, of course, one of the most popular and crowded spotteds in new york. been a target before, nine years
they have quartered off a vast portion of the area around the bridge. blocks and blocks. the van, suspect man, continued on to borough market where witnesses say that suspects jumped out of the car, carrying 12-inch nice. the attacks coming less than two weeks after the bombing of the manchester arena which killed 22 people and left more than 100 others injured. i want to bring back in former michigan congressman pete hoekstra is a former member of the, shared the house to tell the committee and congressman, we talked earlier about the weapon choice. the van and the nights. they were wearing these fake suicide bomb vest. what you make of that? clearly, this is what isis has been encouraging their devotees to use. in some places, these are the only weapons that are available to them or easily available to them. weapons that are not very easily tracked. yet, can do significant damages as were seen tonight.
is this other suspect out there, mohammad abrini, believed to have been with abdeslam the two days before the attack, seen driving that vehicle. what s your take-away about word of this other suspect? well, it s not surprising. during the actual attack, i recall as we were going through each of the scenarios, i came up with a team of eight to 11 attackers. there s a whole base of mobility that was just not accounted for during that attack. also, we see this we now have one suicide bomb vest in our custody from someone who was clearly having a crisis of faith, dropped his bomb off. you still have to go from point to point. so it s quite possible that abdelhamid abaaoud had a driver whose job it was to bring him around while he was doing these attacks, drop him in saint-denis, then go off and continue moving logistics and other personnel to and from their bomb factories or wherever their safe houses were. we will talk a little about