united kingdom.ac there are at least 500 active counterterrorism investigations being conducted at this time. so the scale of the threat is absolutely huge. but no doubt about it that we are sort of reaching theourlwind in the u.k. and europe of decades of mass immigration, and now, of course, authorities are responding to concerted attacks across -- or concerted attempts to attack across europe at this stage. so it is inevitable that we would see this kind of attack today in london. certainly i think that, you know, the british government is determined to defeat the islamic terror threat. this is war. this is not a law and order. >> bill: you are saying that because britain, for a long time, has had very liberal immigration policies and has attracted millions of people from the middle east, and they have come, and they have legally come, many of them, because once you get to europe, there are no borders. you can go where you want to go if you have a validf passport. that because of the numbers, you're going to have some bad guys who are going to be tied into isis and al qaeda. is that pretty much why you're seeing the attacks? >> i think that is a big part of it. and certainly isis, al qaeda,