the last significant al qaeda attack was five years. the last centrally directed isis attack in the west, was the turkish nightclub, three years ago, and before that, paris and brussels. attacks are down. the u.s. has had one this past year and roughly a half dozen in europe, both numbers lower than previous years. while capabilities ebb and flow, we've seen isis struggle to sustain success. there's been tremendous military and intelligence efforts in iraq and syria to eliminate the caliphate. many operatives have been captured and killed and that has had many second order effects. it's not just iraq and syria. we have removed leadership from around the globe. dhs, fbi and state have pushed borders out and made the homeland much less hospitable to terrorists. we've seen global efforts to improve border security. we've seen a growing partnership with the private sector to make cyber space less hospitable and services around the globe are working together against terrorism. u.s. continues to pass on lessons learned to interested foreign p

thank you. >> there is both and isis and al qaeda presence in sinai. to answer your question it is a little bit of both. there is an underlying cause of the issue but we have seen the isis element inside i, to the new head of isis i think we have got an existing terrorist cells that are conducting attacks on the northern part of sinai. on the second question, unfortunately i think globally we are seeing prisons the incubators for radicalization and terrorism. i don't think anyone has broken the code on how you deal with it. we have individuals in united states prisons who have gotten out who are as radical as when they got it. our european partners have this problem in spades. because of the length of prison sentences we are because missing hundreds to thousands of people come out that were radicalized when the window got radicalized when they went in. i take your point the we have a lot of work to do but there have been sort of debates about whether you put these prisoners together or try to break them up. european partners have gone back and forth on

terrorist who's responsible some of bin laden the leader of al qaeda. and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men women and children or for the murder of thousands of innocent men women and children deja vu doesn't do this just this big bad bin laden heidi deja vu doesn't do this just this big bad bin laden hiding out in pakistan a friendly nation that washington liberally sprinkled not in pakistan a friendly nation that washington liberally sprinkles with billions in aid big bad bug duggy i did got in it with billions in aid big bad bug duggy i did got in easily a bastion of us supported rebels which up until 2000 bastion of us supported rebels which up until 2007 seed washington liberally supplied with guns adn you need 1017 washington liberally supplied with guns ammunition and missiles it is the last the major rebels and missiles it is the last a major rebel stronghold in the north of syria the last rebel stronghold of in that one of the hold in the north of syria the last rebel stronghold of in that one of the last

we have al qaeda. it, too, has a command structure and a half dozen affiliates. we see growing connections and coordination between and among its affiliates. there are also a full range of shia-related threats, surely hezbollah and the iranian kuds force and a concern for shia militant groups in iraq. the various strands of islamists extremism weren't complicated enough, we're also seeing a global threat of particularly extreme right-wing-related terrorism. more on that later. terrorists around the globe are proving very capable at exploiting technology. they're good at it. they're innovative. the use of encrypted communications for operational planning, social media to spread propaganda and transfer knowledge between and amongst individuals and networks. drones for swarm attacks, explosive delivery means, and even assassination attempts. high-quality fraudulent travel documents that undermine name space screening and watch listing system and threaten border security. cryptocurrencies to fund operations. and the potential terrorist use of chemical and biological

thank you. >> there is both an isis and al qaeda presence in sinai. to test your question there is the underlying cause is issue we have seen the element in sinai has sworn allegiance so we have existing terror cells conducting attacks in the northern part of sinai. unfortunately globally we are seeing prisons be incubators for radicalization of terrorism i don't think anyone has broken the code of individuals of united states prisons our european partners had this problem in spades and because the prison sentences around the cusp to see hundreds of thousands of people come out that were very radicalized or not when they went in but we have a lot of work to do but there have been debates about put all these prisoners together or break them up the european partners are going back and forth with this there is not a lot of success stories of people coming out prison if not the radicalized at least disengaged. >> george mason university. one of the points you made was the intersection of national crime intelligence but of your strategy you didn't talk abo

but isis is not al-qaeda.an show like al-qaeda where osama bin laden was everything. when he disappeared, al-qaeda weakened completely, lost most of its branches. no, isis is different. isis is actually ideology and very strong ideology and they managed to create a precedent in the middle east and the islamic world, to create first a state with a population of more than 7 million. the size of the state is bigger than britain. it used to have about $1 million income from the oil and gas of syria, so they still have branches in afghanistan and north africa, iraq and syria. the most dangerous thing, isis is still there — the corruption, the lack of good governance and the sectarianism, the anarchy. if you see, there is uprising in iraq and lebanon. we will come back to all of that because there is a lot to unpack there. butjust on this individual, the us president says he knows everything about the successor to al—baghdadi. what do you think about the role that he has played here? if we ask ourselves the question

al shabaab, al qaeda.en more now is lone wolf homegrown violent extremism individuals inspired by but not specifically affiliated with one particular organization. whether we're talking about a white supremacist organization or a group like isis, that can be a young kid who has some sort of grievance in their basement, or that can be a racist in a van that wants to carry out some attack. >> which is harder to combat? the terrorist cells or lone wolves conspireing to commit violence? >> it's much harder for law enforcement to detect one individual that's radicalizing on their own and mobilizing potentially to violence than it is to monitor and look at what's going on with a group of people. so law enforcement is definitely be challenged in ways that they haven't before. >> local police departments have turned to experts like courtney to learn what motivates extremists before they commit and act of violence. >> recruiters know exactly what they're doing. they prey on those grievances and make it seem like it

that's of course al qaeda affiliate which is fought against a rear al sham knots of course on al qaeda affiliate which is fought against the eyes old have been numerous battles between the 2 in the past does that tell us anything about this guy's old have been numerous battles between the 2 in the past does that tell us anything about this well before they were enemies they were allies you know when you consider that the rich well before they were enemies they were allies you know when you consider that the original i would became eisel rose from al-qaeda in iraq most interesting to me you know i would became eisel rose from al-qaeda in iraq more most interesting to me is that groups like al shabab or all nusra however they were called before me is that groups like al shabab or all nusra however they were called before were presented in the western media as these moderate rebels who are going to help the u.s. and the coalition were presented in the western media as these moderate rebels who are going to help the u.s. and the coalition defeat isis and talk of a sudden you know that that

in iraq more most interesting to me is that groups like was from al qaeda. iraq more most interesting to me is that groups like al shaab more on looser or however they were called before were presented in the western media. however they were called before were presented in the western media as these moderate rebels who are going to help the u.s. and the coalition defeat isis intolerable such as these moderate rebels who are going to help the u.s. and the coalition defeat isis and talk of a sudden you know that that bubble has completely been exploded just like finding bin laden you know that that bubble has completely been exploded just like finding bin laden in pakistan as opposed to tora bora where ever nobody saw that coming at leiden in pakistan as opposed to tora bora where ever nobody saw that coming except people who do the region same thing would be hiding in adlib people who do the region same thing would be hiding in adlib poku here right now it's u.s. policy in syria it's risk and i still reserve a coherent right now it's u.s. policy in syria it's

the joke of wonders for you personally authorize the only way to get rid of al qaeda. arguably backed by britain and the united states the only way to get rid of them was aerial bombardment we definitely and we succeeded in some area through we we captured without war we made negotiations with those groups and they left they left that area and then we need to produce in the pictures and we presume we say those pictures are true of the destruction in east aleppo because that really the only way to defeat al qaeda is the groups. those groups in eastern alipore used to bombard the civilians on daily basis and kill. hundreds of thousands of people in aleppo so the mission of the army and the mission of the heat is to protect the civilians from those terrorists how can we do that without attacking the terrorists that small children media and later nations they should bear in your defense but what about the use of double tap strikes by the syrian desert and the russian air force where you bomb part of east aleppo and then emergency workers go in when you bomb again there are

erdogan is the gatekeeper of al qaeda or she hottie terrorists. every time europeans try to do something he comes out and says i want to let the refugees meaning i want to let the terrorists go to europe so he can't consult the europeans that they are almost 4 million syrian refugees in turkey and he is against -- >> they are not all of them terrorists. >> but beyond that terrorism. >> it's not like they want to welcome the refugees. do you think turkey is still a partner to the values and prince balls that shape the nato alliance? >> i think we should separate between turkey and erdogan. erdogan is not -- but under him we see a very swift and fast change so if we are late we will lose turkey as well. >> this is something i'm going to bring up again in the other panel but it's very easy to point the finger at president erdogan and blame him for the shift we are staying in turkey but did it start with him and what other influences or attitudes that turkey received weather it is from the united states or the european union have drifted turkey in thi

i mean i want to get on in a bit to the british and american defacto backing for isis al-qaeda in your country but how would you what would you say to a russian family that had lost a russian soldier who had risked and that sacrificed their life. for for a dictator for a release dictator what would you say to them as to why. glad to be a putin should be sending in soldiers to help your government you mention very important point even in theory no one would die for a person people would die but surely. for cause and this cause the defending of their country finding their existence their future. little somebody coming from another country could a 4th person whether he's a dictator or whatever you want to call it so this is not realistic this is again the logic that somebody would come for because the president put his name to die for another person or even. president put him put to put all the interest of his country. for one person this is against the logic actually of russia according to what they said i mean president putin level and the others they are defending their interest in dif

al qaeda safe haven since $911.00 killing bin laden didn't stop al qaeda the arguably even since 911 killing bin laden didn't stop al qaida they arguably grew since then now a week after trump of baghdadi grew since then now a week after trump off the baghdadi isis has already proclaimed the new key live but hey at least isis has already proclaimed the new key live but hey at least both a bomb and trump got absolutely blood that pictures to both a bomb and trump got absolutely blood that pictures totally commanders in chief. commanders in chief. it was supposed to be a treat for many in britain this thursday as the u.k. was due to leave the euro place supposed to be a treat for many in britain this thursday as the u.k. was due to leave the european union on october 31st halloween however thanks to parliamentary tricks the body a new union on october 31st halloween however thanks to parliamentary tricks boris johnson was forced to ask for another extension to the braggs it deadline with the patellar stance and was forced to ask for another extension to the braggs it deadline with the

in 2009 without a aqap, al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, as a regional threat. in christmas day 2009, they attempted to blow up a flight over detroit. in 2010 reviewed the pakistani taliban as a regionally based south asia threat, and yet they train faisal shahzad the winter temp obama in new york city's times square. think about the broader array of people and networks and their ability to exploit technology, and with more than a few challenges. at the macro level as we just took pointers to other threats there is no question that intelligence resources, collection and analytics will be shifted away from terrorism to other priorities. actions have consequences. what do we stop focusing on? what is the associate a risk? as we draw done military forces we will have less human and intelligence surveillance reconnaissance assets capable in theater. there will be less liaison with on the ground partners. those are simply fax. with those facts, degree of risk and we need to determine how great that risk is whether it can be compensated for, and so forth. and then at

there will be eulogies, even from al qaeda. we will see calls for attacks against western interests. typically that doesn't amount to a great deal in the near term. then we'll see requests for the branches and the affiliates to swear allegiance to the new leader. that's what we'll be watching carefully to see how this individual consolidates control moving forward. >> during this period of time before that happens, how effective do you think isis will be at carrying out attacks? or do you think they'll be in a pause period? >> i don't think it will have much impact. if there were significant attacks that were in the planning, that planning will continue. it won't have that much effect. >> can you give the committee about how large a number of fighters comprise isis and how many of those are in prisons? >> as i mentioned, there are 20 odd isis branches and affiliates around the globe. they may be as few as hundreds, they maybe have as many of thousands. we believe that within syria and iraq there are at least 14,000 isis fighter

killing bin laden didn't stop al qaeda they are googly grew since then now didn't stop al qaida they are googly grew since then now a week after trump off baghdadi isis has already proclaimed the new week off the trump off baghdadi isis has already proclaimed the nuke a live but hey at least both a bomb and trump got absolutely live but hey at least both a bomb and trump got absolutely bad ass pictures to 30 commanders in chief bad ass pictures to 30 commanders in chief. in the way you know spoke with r.t. america correspondent bush of mileage they discussed what is the way you know spoke with r.t. america correspondent bush of mileage they discussed what's next the fight against terror. assuming i'll buy daddy's next the fight against terror. assuming. it is dead how significant a development is that what it did how significant a development is that what extent will i still be weakened well they've lost the territory long ago will i still be weakened well they've lost the territory long ago i mean what we're dealing with for all intents and purposes are small bands of i mean what we

that in the next 18 years al qaeda would never successfully attack the u.s.homeland again, or that four of the 18th anniversary of 9/11 his successor would invite the taliban to camp david. that sort of both of those facts would seem completely inconceivable to him, on the morning of 9/12. and that support -- sort of trying to go back and capture that confusion, that fear, i think is the story that we need to make sure that we remember as we talk about 9/11 going forward, and try to hand off to a new generation the world that we created out of that emotion. leave it there, and i can take a couple of questions. and dive a little deeper into any of this as you all would like. [applause] >> we have microphone over here if anyone has a question. >> just a chance for the mic to run over. i'll repeat. >> awesome presentation, and very emotional. you talk about the luck and the fate that people experienced. how about your conversations that i think you had with some of the folks, for example, at logan, that interacted with the terrorists. >> yeah. so, this is -- the

in terms of its organizational levels, it is well behind al qaeda.t is said to be powerful in somalia. i can tell you it is not. that is part of the power that it is trying the get hold of is to create itself as a boogeyman in excess of its actual capabilities. of course the capabilities, whether they come from al qaeda, people who claim to be -- followers of the so-called islamic state, don't really matter when the relatively speaking for low investment they can do some pretty atrocious acts right around the world and have done. . >> all right. sam kiley, thank you for your reporting on this. >>> michael weiss is co author of "isis inside the army of terroror." he spoke about the evolution of isis across africa and the middle east. >> reporter: well, this is an organization that existed for 16 years and has suffered already major strategic defeats. the last one before the collapse of the so-called caliphate a year ago was in 2010, 2011 when they were essentially cast out of iraq. they had to go to the badlands region of anbar province, the desert, i

in fact who carries out an operation against from the city with the al qaeda to help the al qaeda? >> to simplify what you are saying here, describing one hand of the turkish government trying to operate against isis, but the other hand of the turkish government be the judiciary and then you have the regime who collaborate. >> yes. 2014. the operation brought by police chief. all the important people in the judiciary. judges for the people. police chief. some of the most intelligent sources make sure that those operations would not be interrupted. today called the mit instruct. the introduction of police. the people have justified themselves as the intelligence. the medicine to syria. they ordered a search. what they found all the military grade weapons in those trucks. firing all of the people. the police officer chief. even the judges who signed off the search warrant. arrested journalists who wrote about these weapons in his newspaper. >> what happened to the prosecutor?and on back. >> by these actions that you are describing, is the wand able to sway the public opinion in his f

unlike al qaeda, unlike the al qaeda state declared foreign terrorist organizations, giving the fbi particular investigative tools in which they could use to get leverage over individuals, intelligence tools, penetrate the organization, for the most part, these groups have not been categorized the same way. some of these groups are in fact transnational. one could argue they have done this with their group of sweden. you could actually call them. in fact, i think house homeland security committee has come out in favor of declaring some of these transnational groups as fto's. thereby neighboring the task force to have the same tools and investigate those organizations. when you get the strictly domestic u.s. organizations that do not have international presence, you get to one level more complicated because they will not fit into that fto box. and then the question, can u.s. to go government declare it as a domestic terrorist organization? there has been resistance to do that. there is another countervailing argument. domestic organizations doesn't interfere with free speech. a pure state. i do

from al qaeda. and the next remember them much more to the maximum right in the open and. i would like to do not by. so i guess that we haven't made a new list of. most of. those really the. going to have a while the work. you're going to don't progress if you were to lose by 2004 he was in hiding in china where he felt he was coming under surveillance a go between gave him a new study could seek asylum in the u.k. . but on their journey to britain and its wife were detained in malaysia for having false passports. according to their lawyers it's here that the secret documents found in tripoli begin to the british government's involvement in their unlawful rendition. which he tripoli documents that have been to your case. start with. what appears to have been a fax sent from the intelligence services which tips off the libyans that along with his wife belle had she was also by the state and. was being held in a malaysian detention center eventually in fact team ever told they could travel to london but by now the cia to have got involved it's a fax from the cia to libyan in

al qaeda committed the 9/11 attack.true, but what happened to al qaeda is over time, the leadership learned that restraint -- initially, bin laden did not understand that, but what happened was that the affiliate in iraq, al qaeda in iraq, began using violence very indiscriminately, basically blowing up anything that moved. and bin laden was a student of militancy. and what he understood was that this indiscriminate violence against civilian targets was counterproductive. so, increasingly towards the end of his life, he began telling -- operatives, no, use violence more selectively. only strike against government and military targets, et cetera. now, it will be interesting to see whether islamic state also undergoes a similar learning process, but i've seen no signs of that. >> well, that's good news, very good news. we hope what you're saying comes true, that isis doesn't have its act together i think's the bottom line. we hope not. max abrams, thanks so much for your expertise. >> any time. >>> well, firefighters are

that isn't the full answer, but an al qaeda terrorist is going to make up stories all day long. that isn't the point. the real point is the analytic effort i mentioned earlier call targeting. you cannot have a successful interrogation of the prisoner unless you know so much about the prisoner, not a mid-level or lower-level so much because you have been following for so long that you can come up with in concert with other experts, physicians, psychologists, interrogators you can come up with a package of questions over weeks when the detainee starts to realize these guys know a lot more than i know. when he starts to realize he can't lie his way outcome you start to get answers. some answers never came, for example vocational information about osama bin laden. but you get what we call compliance. someone will try to give you bits and pieces of information that they think are less valuable. those bits and pieces are in valuable gold for the intel. if a prisoner is compliant and gives you what he thinks is throwaway information about somebody that trained a german, french and, i'm

a man who would later become a leader in an organization called al qaeda. >> i have an office in thatg. i will lead my people back into that office. that will be our message to whoever did this. whatever you were trying to achieve, you failed. >> for the fbi the lesson was that these guys, while dangerous, were not at the same level as the terrorists of the late '80s. they were wannabes. that of course would be a complete misunderstanding. >> for the first time since the bombing, tower 2 will reopen for business, two weeks ahead of schedule. >> and that, says new york's mayor, is a testament to a city that conquered the use of fear as a weapon. the only ones who should be fearful now, he says, are the terrorists themselves. >>> good morning, everybody. we begin this time around at waco, texas, where dozens of federal agents are surrounding the headquarters of a religious cult. >> february 28th, i got a call saying get down to waco, there's been some kind of shootout. [ gunfire ] this religious group, the branch davidians have this compound. they have been buying parts that would conve

actually ended with two more radical, more bloody, more brittle organisations, which is al—nusra and al-qaedaadical organisation. the third point is that i am really surprised, the americans are now changing the equation. now they are bidding those mujahideen are terrorists in the sea. in the beginning, they used to parade them. the son of saddam hussein, when they we re the son of saddam hussein, when they were killed, we saw their dead bodies. at the same thing when gaddafi was killed, ok, they buried his body, but we have seen him. now, with the american a new diversion, we can see that the killed hamza bin laden and we have not seen his body and al—baghdadi's body. and they are bedded osama bin laden at sea. why are we not seeing those bodies cosmic —— they are burying osama bin laden at sea. you do not parade bodies on sticks. i think they're not doing that. you can bury them, but why in the sea? i want trump to a nswer but why in the sea? i want trump to answer that. if we step back from the particulars of this rather awful encounter, scratch my encounter in the deserts of northern syri

and likewise with al qaeda. we are down to a very small number. and the taliban wants to make a deal. we will see if they make a deal. if they do, they do. if they don't, they don't. and you know, for a period of time, we wanted to make a deal. we did not want to do it because of what they did, that is not a good thing they did with killing a soldier. an american soldier from puerto rico. and they killed him. they killed a united nations soldier, and they killed -- they killed a total of 12 people. they said it was good negotiating power. i said no, that was bad negotiating power. that was not good what they did. since then we hit them hard. they have never been hit this hard. in the history of the war they have never been hit this hard, so now they want to make a deal and we will see what happens. if they make it, fine. if they do not make it, that is not fine. we will be doing everything we are doing and actually more. at the same time, we are bringing down the number of troops substantially. but we are able to, because of the weaponry and the f

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of course al qaeda affiliate which is affiliate itself folded i think. it was between the 2 in the past humorous battles between the 2 in the past. and they thought about this would be funny thing about this were over and in for sir they were are were enemies they were allies you know when you consider. a rose from al-qaeda in iraq more most interesting to me is that groups like al shabab or all new stalk more most interesting to me is that groups like al shabab or all nuestro however they were cultural however they were called different for. were were presented put in the weather system into the it in as the order from the rubble as these moderate rebels who once were we are going to have to help the u.s. and the coalition says nixon volta side mission and if you know that isis and talk of a sudden you know that we. would expect but it just like just fine like in the. just in dhaka stuff as opposed to just a tour of the tora bora where ever where ever we would. get all excited to come in who don't get to accept people who do read region. same thing with

that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda and a terrorist who's old osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men women and sure sponsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men women and children deja vu doesn't do this just this big bad bin laden older days yahoo doesn't do this just this big bad bin laden hiding out in pakistan a friendly nation that washington liberally hiding out in pakistan a friendly nation that washington liberally sprinkles with billions in aid big bad baghdadi i sprinkles with billions in aid big bad baghdadi idea gotten even live a bastion of u.s. supported rebels which operating out in the evening a bastion of u.s. supported rebels which up until 2007 seed washington liberally supplied with guns been till 2017 washington liberally supplied with guns ad munition and missiles it is the last m h s ad munition and missiles it is the last a major rebel stronghold in the north of syria the last rebel stronghold of in that rebel

in arabic, al qaeda means the base. also, far-right groups have glorified bin laden as a symbol. jesse: it is very complicated as a discussion, and one that needs more research, but effectively we have three primary research. this is in the far-right, and some degree, the far-left as well. you have this notion that the community is under threat or the white race is attacked. that is essentially the demarcating characteristic of violence extremism to preserve yourself from the violence. -- from the violence, violence is justified. then, you have this real issue with the extremist mindset that is resistant to change and alteration and preserves traditionalism as a way to defend themselves from that and we see that with regard to this idea of the white ethnostate or returning back to something akin to such. with regard to islam, it wants to return back to a caliphate. essentially, the third demarcating characteristic is a return to a utopian past. sometimes we overplay it because utopian past -- it is a utopian past that g

the last significant al qaeda directed attack in the west was charlie hebdo five years ago. alas isis attack in the west was three years ago and before that pair is in brussels. homeland violent extremist attacks are down and the u.s. has had one this past year and roughly half a dozen in europe both numbers substantially lower than previous years. capabilities ebb and flow. we have seen ice struggle to contain success for incidents in libya or the franchise is not doing very well. none of this happens by accident. there has been tremendous military and intelligence efforts in iraq and syria to eliminate the so-called caliphate. many operatives have been captured and killed and that has had many second-order effects. /sophisticated messaging, there's swelling and morale issues. it's not just iraq and syria. we viewed leadership from around the globe. dhs has pushed borders out and given the homeland much more to the terrace. it also seemed woeful reference to improve local security particularly after paris and brussels. we have seen a great partnership in the private sector

some pay bayat or homage to al qaeda. some to boca haram or isis. we have repeatedly seen boca haram in that they call smaller areas where isis lay claim to in africa. whether or not those are harder to discern. particularly in mali in general where the whole concept of islamic state or al qaeda is tied up with efforts to get tribal autonomy and old-fashioned criminal activity, natalie. . >> all right. we appreciate it. sam kiley reporting from abu dhabi. >>> michael weiss is co author of "inside terror." he spoke with us about isis across the middle east. >> well, this is an organization that persisted for 16 years and suffered already major strategic defeats. the last one before the collapse of the caliphate a year ago was in 2010, 2011, when they were cast out of iraq. they had to go to the badlands region of anbar province, the desert, in essence. and then we saw in three years's time they came back with a vengeance. the caliphate was a rallying cry for jihadists around the world to come and join up with this global phenomenon. i call it the jih

or was he, in fact, being directed by a cell or by isis or al qaeda, the two most prominent terrorist groups? hopefully the metropolitan police will have the ability to quickly put out information that calms people down. it's an isolated event rather than like what happened in paris. part of what they're trying to do is put out as much accurate information as possible, as quickly as possible. >> stand by for us, if you get more apprecia. >>> the mayor of london, sad deke kahn, the metropolitan police confirmed the horrendous incident at london bridge is being treated as if terrorist related. it has been confirmed that people were injured in the atting that. my heart goes out to them, their families and all affected. thank you for our brave emergency services who responded to today's horrific attack. every day they put their lives on the line for us running towards danger in order to keep london safe. we must and we will stay resolute in other determination to stand strong and united in the face of terror. those who seek to attack us and divide us will never succeed. the london bridge