>> because lars wilks was there, there was a lot of security, similar to an airport. that it might be an issue, although nobody expecting something like this. when i heard the person yell, i thought it was probably an islamic terrorist that wanted to kill lars wilks. i want to bring back bob baer who is on the phone with us. bob, your thoughts? copenhagen is going through a very terrifying situation in the last five hours. >> there is a couple things i'm looking at that have similarities to the attack on charlie hebdo. i think the preliminary information is that lars wilks was the target of the attack. he could not get through the front door, so she sprayed the front of the cultural center. some 200 shots may have been fired. and the paris attack, the second team hit a kosher market. and we're seeing the same thing in kocopenhagen. there is a woman spending time in jail for plotting his assassination as well. i can't tell you if it was an islamic state or al-qaeda, but i would assume it is one. >> bob, these islamic extremists targeting these cartoonists, this is veng

you had the danish security service who were protecting lars wilks.urity service protecting also lars wilks. they had a heavy armed presence inside. but nothing really on the outside. not enough. when he came to the jewish synagogue, he pretended to be drunk. he approached the guard and two police officers who were outside. and he sort of pretended to be drunk and he walked up and shot the guard in the head point-blank. and injured two of the guards. two of the police officers in the arm and the leg. then he disappeared. >> i imagine the uptick in the anti-semitic violence we're seeing what do you think is behind it? it's not just the shooting in copenhagen or in paris, it seems like more and more every other day, there's some kind of incident. >> yes, it's hugely unfortunate. i think europe is reaching a stage where we're reaching a crisis point with our fellow jewish citizens. unfortunately, jihadists, not only are they going for soft targets, but within the soft targets, they are contacting those who symbolize the clash of civilization rhetoric tha

inside controversial swedish artist lars wilkes was holding a talk on free speech and islam. he was unharmed but two others were killed and a police officer injured. hours later, more gunfire, this time at a synagogue. police evacuated a nearby train station and locked down the streets. >> looked out the windows. saw this guy lining the street just on the other side of the pavement. >> reporter: a jewish man guarding the synagogue was killed. two more police officers were wounded. >> we will do everything we can to protect the jewish community in our country. >> reporter: the shootings eerily reminiscent of last month's attacks in paris. cartoonists at french satirical magazine "charlie hebdo" were massacred. hours later 17 were dead. lars wilks was on the same list after drawing the prophet moment as moemd as mohammed as a dog in 2007. his house was firebombed and he was put under police protection. so police at this point still aren't naming this suspect and the questions now of course who was he and what was his motive. was it somehow tied to those paris attacks. also this

it is not that far from the shooting. >> talk about lars wilks.security presence since he depicted the prophet muhammad in a cartoon that was taken as offensive back in 2007. what was happening at the cafe? >> he was doing a speech on the freedom of speech arrangement. he is very controversial. several swedish newspapers showed his drawings where the prophet muhammad was shown as a dog. and after that in 2007 he has been under security. he has had a lot of death threats. 2011 three men were arrested. they were saying they tried to kill wilks. so this guy has been under a lot of death threats for several years. >> do you know how well publicized this event was? and also the extent of security that was present. we have looked at video we have seen from the front of the cafe. it is glass. it would appear to have at least two and a half dozen or maybe more what looks like the effects of an automatic weapon firing shots into those windows. how much security was there? >> i am not sure exactly how much security was there at the event. i know the eyewitn

. >> in reference to lars wilk. he escaped unharmed. do they know whereabouts at this point?> reporter: no i am sure that is a secret. he is always living under ground in sweden and i am sure we are not supposed to know. >> have you heard anything from the denmark security service. they referred to the first event as a terrorist attack? >> reporter: no there are no specifics but that there are police that were shot and another person shot. i don't think they know if it is the same person or another one. >> they were searching door to dorlooking for the first suspect. they are not saying they are related. we don't know because it is all happening pretty much as we speak. they were going to door-to-door looking for the first suspect. do they believe he had an accomplice? >> reporter: they started out saying two and then changed to one. it was just one man with the first shooting and they changed that at 8 o'clock tonight. >> so he abandoned the vehicle and it was found. where was the vehicle found? >> reporter: it was found a mile and half away from the shooting and that's the

window of the cafe which was hosting a freedom of speech event organized by the swedish artist lars wilks in the past he's faced several attempted attacks and death threats for drawing caricatures of the prophet muhammad. danish security forces are calling it a likely terrorist attack just releasing this image of the suspect. >>> welcome to a new hour here in america's news headquarters. >> we'll continue to follow this developing story and bring you updates as we get them. >>> in the meantime new reaction today to a suicide attack against an air base in iraq involving about two dozen isis militants. it happened at the al assad air bass in anbar province where american and coalition troops are training iraqi forces. the pentagon says most of the terrorists were killed either by iraqi troops or by detonating their suicide vests. our peter deesy joins us live from washington with more details. peter, what can you tell us? >> there are still more than 300 americans at the al assad base where there are teaching iraqi soldiers how to fight and military experts are concerned now that more is no