CBS News offers an interview with John Miller, the NYPD deputy head of counterterrorsm. Miller, a former journalist who once interviewed Osama bin Laden, offers his take on the mass murder terrorist attack in New Zealand.
New Zealand's prime minister said this is one
of her country's "darkest days," after 49 people were killed in an attack on Muslims at prayer.
Worshipers at two mosques were gunned down Friday in Christchurch, the
country's second largest city.
The main suspect is a white Australian man who has been
identified as Brenton Tarrant. He has been charged with murder. Three others
have also been taken into custody in connection with the deadliest mass
shooting in New Zealand's history.
Video that was apparently livestreamed on social media by
the shooter shows the attack in horrifying detail. New York's deputy head of
counterterrorism John Miller told "CBS This Morning" this attack
bears many similarities to ISIS.
"You can see that the neo-fascist groups, white
supremacists are borrowing from the ISIS playbook," Miller said. "In
this attack you see the phenomenon that we coined the phrase in the NYPD 'dying
live.' This was an ISIS tactic where they said if you're going to do a mass
casualty attack, you should live stream it over social media. We've seen them
adopting many of the tactics, the terrorist tactics you would see in things
like ISIS' Rumiyah magazine or Al Qaeda's magazines in terms of
instruction."
You can read the rest of the piece and watch
the interview video clip via the below link:
Note: The above photo is of Miller
interviewing bin Laden.
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