before they were killed by police, khuram butt, rachid redouane and youssef zaghba rammed a hired vanattacked others with knives. they wore fake suicide belts and had a stash of home—made bombs. do you think encrypted applications were used in the terrorist atrocities at the beginning of the year? there was definitely usage of encrypted communications between planners and terrorists and people that carried out some of those dreadful attacks. that i am afraid is common throughout every one of these incidents and there is also a role of watching videos online to either prepare themselves or train themselves. i think that they are both, i am afraid, current occurrences in these terrorist attacks. the police have yet to uncover any personal ties between thejune 3rd attackers and isis, but a pattern is emerging from our investigation, where the group's online directives are being mirrored in actual terror attacks. it's a pattern that is being reflected both here and abroad. one of the best examples was last year in the summer of 2016. both of the plots that happened in germany, both in wol