they may have never heard of bangladesh. why bangladesh? why has isis been so keen on trying to establish a foothold in this particular country over the past year? we know that since november, they had an issue of dabiq magazine that spelled this out, that talked about it. but why? >> they've been very clear about their designs on bangladesh. they have this strategy of looking for countries that have strong muslim majorities, as bangladesh does, and that are also inherently unstable. bangladesh's government is not one of the ones that we could point to that we could say is really on the firmest footing. so isis looks at governments like that and says, we would like to attack places where we can show that the government is even less stable than it appears to be at first. they want to be able to say that the government here can't provide security. it can't provide stability. and then they want to be able to point to their own state in syria and iraq and say, look, stability is what we do best. we were able to do this in a war zone. so if bang

capital of bangladesh. they have staked their claim in an area traditionally al qaeda's. al qaeda -- it shows isis as being pressured throughout the world are now activating their smaller level affiliates and carrying out big scale operations. >> jim cavanaugh, if you're with u i want to talk to you if we can about this operation from your expertise as a hostage negotiator as well as a special agent of the atf. talk to us about how this unfolded in terms of the element of surprise. when we began our coverage we were both a little bit surprised that the police, the bangladesh police and their special police, decided to launch this operation during daylight hours and not with the the advantage of perhaps nighttime darkness. it seems by the results that we're seeing now this may have worked to their advantage. >> right. and they could have had listening devices inside. if they were doing this appropriately, listening devices inside. the long rifle teams watching through the scopes, closing the perimeter, debri

they may have never heard of bangladesh. why bangladesh? why has isis been so keen on trying to establish a foothold in this particular country over the past year? we know that since november, they had an issue of dabiq magazine that spelled this out, that talked about it. but why? >> they've been very clear about their designs on bangladesh. they have this strategy of looking for countries that have strong muslim majorities, as bangladesh does, and that are also inherently unstable. bangladesh's government is not one of the ones that we could point to that we could say is really on the firmest footing. so isis looks at governments like that and says, we would like to attack places where we can show that the government is even less stable than it appears to be at first. they want to be able to say that the government here can't provide security. it can't provide stability. and then they want to be able to point to their own state in syria and iraq and say, look, stability is what we do best. we were able to do this in a war zone. so if bang

the army in bangladesh, the police force in bangladesh is a condescription force. it's not the most professionally trained force. again, the equipment they use is not to western standards by any means. thee guys, the border police they are seemingly better trained again because there is a real concern in bangladesh about refugee situations with the neighboring countries. >>> cal perri thank you. joining me now seth with liberty south asia. you lived and worked in bangladesh and now you live and work with a group in that region. your observations as we are just getting information in about what is happening over there. what we know right now four officers apparently killed. some 40 hostages. that number keeps fluctuating and a very fluid situation. surprised? >> unfortunately i'm not surprised. in fact, i think that this has been something that has been simmering for some time. myself and my completion, doctor christine fairer at georgetown university wrote last august warning that you know we were seeing this slow rise in islamic extremism in bangladesh. this is no

ambassador to bangladesh, james moriarty. i want to go to a resident who lives down the street from where this is going on. what are you seeing? what have you heard? >> hi. by heard -- woke up in the night here in dhaka. and around 9:30 we heard what we thought were just like cars backfiring. and it turned out to be fun geyer. since then, intermittently there have been various explosions, blasts, and gunfire coming from down the street where holey is. we've also seen a lot of tactical vehicles and police cars, rapid action battalion coming down our street over the last couple of hours. >> all right. so what's a friday night typically like in dhaka? how many people would be out? is this the height of dinnertime for folks? >> yeah. when this went down, a lot of people would be out. holey is a pretty popular restaurant. and popular for this area, a lot of bangladeshis as well as expats would typically -- it's typically a very full restaurant on a friday ooechks evening. >> when it comes to this neighborhood and security patrols,

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taking place in bangladesh. obviously this raises alarms because given so many of the concerns here about security following the attacks in orlando and in istanbul, while it's too early to know the basis of this attack, while it's in effect perhaps a one offer or whether this is some sort effort to target western locations throughout different regions of the world, we simply don't know, but given the backdrop of the terror that we witnessed around the globe in recent months and weeks it obviously raises real concern which is why the president is being alerted to this situation right now. cal, while you were speaking, i was just going online and looking up what is called a holey artisan bakery. just with one quick look by googling it, frankly you get a sense that this is an upscale kind of place. the kind of places like westernerers would certainly frequent even the pictures show as much. >> and in a place that is a third world country. westernerers are going to gravitate to these areas, especially on the weekend

to give you a look at the statistics, hindus and christians in bangladesh make up about 10% of bangladesh's 160 million people population. kimberly? >> unbelievable detail. some positive things to report, that all u.s. officials, diplomats with respect to the u.s. embassy have been accounted for and are safe. that's a very important development. they want to make sure anybody within that region, anyone working in that area, any americans registered with the embassy in bangladesh have also been accounted for. benjamin hall is following this from london and has some new information and developments in this evolving terror shooting. >> reporter: yeah, kimberly, looking at twitter accounts, one is live tweeting the attacks. this account, which has been connected with al qaeda in the past, who is next. aqis is al qaeda in the indian subcontinent. just on thursday, the u.s. classified it as a foreign terrorist organization and put its leader on one of its most wanted lists. this just happening, al qaeda in the indian subcontinent. a couple of hours ago they tweeted, operation is under way. so som

: we don't want these terrorists in bangladesh. this is a first in bangladesh. until now, they were committing individual murders. suddenly they created this type of situation. what they did here was a very heinous act. >> cnn's andrew stevens is following it all live in hong kong. the details have been slow to come out of bangladesh since this attack. but now learning again that 20 civilians killed attackers using sharp weapons. what more do you know? >> little more at this stage, george. but horrific scenes inside that restaurant, as you can only imagine. when the police did storm the restaurant around about 12 hours after the siege began, there was a period of intense gunfire, followed by silence. the next thing we heard were explosions most likely connected to security forces securing the area. but they have made this horribly grisly find of 20 of the hostages all dead, hacked to death, as you say. i'm just looking at the line here. they were all killed due to sharp weapons. that is coming from the military, who just finished a

so al qaeda has long had a network present in bangladesh. there's been an outflow of people into pakistan. it's been said in your reporting that this is the first major attack that could be attributed possibly to the islamic state. i think it will be attributed to the islamic state, but last fall they struck at a shia mosque in dhaka. so they have executed more than a dozen attacks in bangladesh over the past eight months and many of them are targeted, assassination-style attacks going after a japanese businessman or going after a christian missionary from italy or buddhists and quasi political leaders and this is not the first attack if it is the islamic state that would be something they've conducted in the country, sdpi think we can see a lot more of this coming. as bob will tell you and others will tell you, after 9/11 one of the problems with bangladesh became a blind spot for the united states intelligence community and it wasn't high on the priority list even though there was an awareness of a massive jihadi scene there and there are

bangladesh. this restaurant is located in a pretty upscale neighborhood of dhaka. there are a number of embassies, cafes, restaurants. we've been talking to people who have been in bangladesh recently saying a lot of ex-pats and foreigners live in this particular area. i mentioned the police outside. let's get to that. we know there is an elite police bomb disposal unit there on standby. they're ready to go. the u.s. embassy in dhaka warned of this situation taking to twitter and writing this. "reports of shooting and hostage situation in gulshan 2, dhaka. please shelter in place and monitor news." we've got a lot of voices to weigh in here. our new delhi correspondent joins me by phone. tell me what you know right now. >> reporter: as one of our guests earlier pointed out, this area called gulshan is really the epicenter of wealth in bangladesh. this is where a lot of the embassies are based, restaurants, cafes. it is a huge neighborhood really, particularly given this time, ramadan, around even

citizen in bangladesh. so really coming on to the u.s. radar very recently and that is one of the candidates at this point. they're not certain who could be carrying out this kind of attack. the thing about these groups, and this is a sad fact, is that they don't really take hostages. let's be honest here. they might want to stretch out an attack, but they don't negotiate. >> or they want money or something. >> yeah, or they want a statement or political concession. these are groups that are very -- their mo, their goal is to kill. and to kill in the most public and brutal way possible. and the sad fact is that that is more likely the msm .o. of a gr like think than anything else. >> and if they want to draw pligs into something -- >> perhaps, and they have already killed two police officers, but also lengthen the attack. it is about striking fear in as many people's hearts as possible. the more you do it, frankly, the more the world listens and watches. they are lengthenning this terror attack. and that is a sad fact. and just when we th

bangladesh. we know that they have launched an operation that freed five of the hostages that are being held in the neighborhood. it began 12 hours ago and then we saw thank tanks moving in and got reports of gunfires and explosions at the scene. what we know now is nine gunman stormed last night local time and dozens of people were inside of the vehicle and according to restaurant employees that are able to escape. more than a hundred commanders assist in the opposition. it's unclear if at any point police were able to negotiate with the ataerks before storming. isis has taken credit for the siege but they have not yet to confirm the claim. >> yes, i want to give events of the time line. 10:15 eastern time is when the raid started and ten for 20 minutes there was a hail hof gunfire and screams reported from the scene and explosions. we also understand that this was car rid by the rapid action battalion and that was now placed there ahead of the raid and of course the concern is the unexploded de

it's important to understand that this attack in bangladesh today is really unprecedented in bangladesh both in the scope and the scale, but it's not something that really comes as a surprise. in fact, bangladesh much unlike turkey has had a political situation where the government under the prime minister has been really making an effort to restore secularism to the country and to reverse islamization that took place under prior military generals, military dictators. this has infuriated local islamist groups who have been really carrying out political attacks against the government, calling them anti-islam, saying they are trying to cleanse the country of muslims, which echoes the rhetoric put out by groups like isis and al qaeda in their propaganda. the effect there is that these local islamist groups are mainstreaming this radical extremism and the idea that the government, by promoting secularism, is somehow a threat to islam. in fact, during a recent supreme court case with the bangladesh supreme court, it was considering whether or not to keep islam as the official religion of ban

bangladesh. 2:00 a.m. there in dhaka where there is an active hostage situation nearing its fifth hour right now. as many asinine gunmen taking siege of a popular eatery. it happened 9:20, 10:00 their time this evening in a diplomatic zone in the capital city of bangladesh. police believe there are as many as 40 hostages. that's the number police are using inside that bakery. you just heard a resident use an even higher number. they are initial and unfortunately all over the place. attackers were armed with guns and bombed as they entered. they have exchanged gunfire. the isis-affiliated news agency said isis is taking responsibility for the attack. lucy kavanaugh joins me now from our london newsroom. we are getting numbers all over the place. the resident said she thought there might be as many as 80 people. >> absolutely, kate. the only certainty is that there is no certainty. it is an evening of absolute terror in dhaka, gulshan neighborhood. a 15-minute walk roughly to the u.s. embassy. sour

bangladesh. on going hostage situation. pictures from the bangladesh capital. an ex pat area where there are a number of embassies, foreigners living there, socializing, working there. these hostage takers are in a restaurant with dozens of hostages, at least some of them foreigners, and we don't know who the hostage-takers are and a number of terrorist groups have been operating out of bangladesh for some time. this is a tweet from the state department. it is saying that this is at a bakery in the diplomatic enclave. local news should be monitored. we are getting new information by the moment. we'll take a quick break and be back with more in a moment. # a long day, jen stops working, but her aleve doesn't. hey mom! because aleve can last 4 hours longer than tylenol 8 hour. what will you do with your aleve hours? our mission at clover is to highest quality dairy products. clover has relationships with 27 different family farms. the environment is who clover is. without it, we're nothing. pg&e's been a great partner. they're the energy experts, we're the milk g

and yes, bangladesh certainly needs assistance. part of the problem has been that the bangladesh government, the present government is elected unopposed because the opposition boycotted the election. since then because of this complicated political standoff between the two main political party, what has happened is that these attacks, two were blamed on what the prime minister kept describing as terrorism by the opposition. and in fact when we said that no, there is difference between violence to protests, which are also part objected to and these kind of attacks, the government did not quite take it seriously. and therefore these groups don't exist, al qaeda doesn't exist and isis doesn't. and it's possible that none of these groups exist. right now as we can see from around the world, these attacks are happening. people are claiming all kinds of affiliation. we do not know enough. but what we do know is these are dangerous groups, and their way of thinking has to be challenged instead of just imagining that this is some sort of a

bangladesh is not turkey. it's not like kenya, you can see how ill equipped we are to handle this situation. i mean, there's been nothing that this story has been developing all day. we're seeing tanks roll in. we don't have the resources and the equipment to deal with such a large sophisticated attack. it's terrifying and worrying. forget about my family who i can't reach. the bakery is owned by family friends, i'm getting what's up messages and texts and e-mails on my phone. there's conflicting about maybe some of the owners inside, people we may know. >> talk to us, when we use the word, s.w.a.t. and police forces, we expect the best of the best, we saw the heroism of the police security forces who shot and, you know, crippled one of the bombers before he was able to get cloeszer to civilians. what can you tell us about the security forces that are currently operating there, you know, the rapid action battalion, is that considered an elite squad of the police force? how are they trained, are they conscripts

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you've had lots of killings in bangladesh. most of them have been against single targets, but the forces of jihadism are very strong there and the way this attack was executed strongly suggests that it's not just the attackers who are concerned but that there is a broader net work that was involved in helping them to execute this. >> daveed gartenstein-ross, thank you for talking with us. >> thank you. >> after an intense gunfight, an operation is said to still be ongoing. perhaps there are questions about who else may still be in that building. but the gunfight is over, the gunmen may have been accounted for and there are at first report, yet to be confirmed, there are reportedly survivors. let's go to cnn's andrew stevens. andrew, what are you learning? >> jonathan, we're not getting a great deal more information than what you've been reporting just then. we're still waiting for any official line from the government on actual numbers. i mean, the news that there are -- that there could be 10 to 12 hostages taken out of that

terrorists in bangladesh. this type of situation is a first in bangladesh. until now they were committing individual murders. but now suddenly they created this type of situation. what they did here was a very heinous act. >> the prime minister last hour. let's go to cnn's andrew stevens. he has been helping us with all the developments from hong kong. and a first statement from the government, andrew, after many, many hours of having to deal with this. >> that's right, natalie. there had been a media blackout for a long time during that siege, which went off at 12 hours before the authorities or the police stormed the restaurants. so there had been a media blackout. and details have been very, very hard to fix, including how many attackers there were, and indeed how many hostages there were as well. but sheikh hasina underlying the fact that bangladesh hasn't seen anything like this in its past. there have been several attacks. al those attacks have targeted individuals, and they've been fairly crude attacks

japanese ambassador to bangladesh was also in attendance. family members of the seven japanese victims are in dhaka. they plan to leave bangladesh to repatriate the bodies of their loved ones as early as monday night. the relatives were taken to a military facility with the remains of the victims were kept. some were seen wiping away tears when they left the facility. the japanese victims were in dhaka working on infrastructure development projects. their families say their hopes to contribute to a better life there were cut short. tanaka was a veteran engineer working on development of roadway projects. he started an international consulting business. >> translator: my brother passionately said he wanted to work for bangladesh before departure. it's a great pity he was involved in the attack being so dedicated to his work there. this man helping authorities to find ways to alleviate traffic congestion. his parents spoke of their loss. >> translator: since he was a child, he never caused trouble. it's more regrettable for paren parents. >> n

people from bangladesh. even talking about how they want to escalate attacks there because they see it as a place that they can create ethnic tensions and the fact that they claimed responsibility for this, which is yet to be properly confirmed, illustrates how quickly they want to get ahold of the situation. and it will be interesting to see how al qaeda react. some people are suggesting that they may have played a role in this. again, you see there is a lack of proper information as to what's happening on the ground and also this competition between al qaeda and isis and, unfortunately, innocent people are caught in the middle. >> absolutely. so you say this is a vulnerable area to be trying to fight back al qaeda and isis influence. but it is main wli a secular country. it's, what was over 90% muslim. but this is kind of a new turn for this country. this isn't something it's seen before. well, bangladesh, as you said, is very much a secular country. it has representation across various religious minoritie

a former ambassador to bangladesh. when you heard of where it was, because you're familiar with that area, what did you think? >> well, i was obviously saddened but in a way i wasn't totally surprised in the sense that the terrorists have been looking to up their game. and i think a lot of people who look at the situation in bangladesh closely are expecting a more spectacular attack. and this obviously can be that. >> the bangladesh government, at one point, blamed an opposition party. they are denying that isis exists in that country. do you believe that there are factions of isis in bangladesh and that they could have pulled this off? >> i believe that there are people who clearly have affiliation with isis in bangladesh. whether that means they've gone off to syria or iraq to fight in the isis cause there, or whether they're doing this by internet with friends overseas, i'm not clear. i don't have that degree of knowledge. but i think it's kind of hard to say that people-o that there aren't a small number of people

citizens in bangladesh. we know that isis has claimed responsibility for this ongoing attack in bangladesh, and presumably because they are isis, their goal is to grab the attention of the world media with a spectacular attack, which grabs the global media attention as they're getting now, and to terrorize the world. so in that sense, the attack has already been a huge success for them. but bangladesh is a country where 90% of the people are muslim. and it's recently seen a huge upsurge in isis-related violence. just this morning, isis claimed responsibility for the hacking death of a hindu priest in dhaka. three men with matcheties attacked and killed a priest as he was preparing for morning prayers. three weeks ago, a priest was attacked by three men. weeks after that, a christian man murdered on the street, isis claimed responsibility. at the end of april, isis hacked to death a hindu tailor. a week before that, it was a university professor, who was teaching english. he made his way to school, he was att

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you've had lots of killings in bangladesh. most of them have been against single targets, but the forces of jihadism are very strong there and the way this attack was executed strongly suggests that it is not just the attackers who are of concern but there that there is a broader network involved in helping them to execute this. >> daveed gartenstein ross speaking to us earlier. the coverage of the dhaka siege continues after this. o: [ ghost voice ] oooo! [ laughs ] jaaaaamie, the name your price tool can show you coverage options to fit your budget. tell me something i don't know -- oh-- ohhh! ahh! this is probably more of a breakroom activity. ya think? ♪ >>> welcome back. the hostage crisis in dhaka, bangladesh dragged on for more than 13 hours. the hostage taking is over, the security operation continues. japanese government officials say 12 hostages have been rescued. terrorists were holding as many as 20 people inside of a popular cafe in dhaka's diplomatic quarter. the exact number is still not known. atn news is rep

we are start tonight with breaking news out of bangladesh. gunmen have stormed a popular cafe in the captain, dhaka. several people are being held hostage, among them several foreigners. islamic state is taking credit. hure is our report. >> the attack has taken place in dhaka's main diplomatic area, in a cafe pop layer with ex--pats. several foreigners were inside the cafe when the gunmen stormed in. this man was working in the restaurant and describes what happened. >> i was working in the pizza kitchen and saw two men begin their attack. people ducked for cover or started to run. i managed to make it on to the roof of the building. they were throwing bombs, and the windows were shaking. >> and then explosions, apparently set off by the attackers. several people have been injured and have been rushed to the hospital. elite police units have now been deployed and are attempting to negotiate with the gunmen. in washington, d.c., a stapleton official said they were keeping a close watch on the situation. >> they are also in constant touch with

a hostage situation is still unfolding at this hour in bangladesh. and isis claims its recruits are behind the attack. witnesses say as many as nine gunmen stormed a restaurant frequented by foreign diplomats. two police officers are dead and it's believed the terrorists are holding several hostages. we're following the situation very closely. correspondent kevin cork's at the white house f the administration's response to this attack. but we begin with correspondent benjamin hall with the latest on bangladesh coming to us from london. good evening, benjamin. >> yeah, good evening, bret. even before isis claimed responsibility for this, it had all the hallmarks of an isis attack. multiple gunmen with explosives and weapons attacking a soft target. and this was a soft target. it was a baker during the day. it was a spanish restaurant at night. frequented by foreigners in the up market district, where the embassies are based. it was around 8:45 local time, when the nine attackers went in. they were shouting allah al akbar as they set off homemade grena

bangladesh has a very particular history. it became independent 45 years ago, precisely because it rejected the notion of religion being a sufficient binding force to build a nation. it consciously, i think, this country, bangladesh, has a secular identity and i think we still have an we're safeguarding the tacit remains of our secular identity and values. bangladesh i think has a do -- is a distinct race in the world because we have achieved what remarkable changes in terms of development. a you look at our profile, muslim majority country, but i think for many of us, we would not see that is our defining characteristic. we see ourselves as a developing coununtry where incrcredible sol changes happen i in a short tim. women have fought for and won a space. they have not been a things to work in with moderate muslim groups. they had been part of civil society groups. they have been part of benefiting from government policies that have been pro-poor, pro-women, and pro-secularism. forces,ed against other battled against the mi

they'll have the latest on the attack in bangladesh. have a good night, everyone. >>> this is a fox news alert. isis claiming responsibility for yet another terror attack. this time, in bangladesh. a hostage situation is currently under way. nine armed men stormed a restaurant popular with foreigners. they were reportedly armed with guns and explosives. two officers were killed by the attackers, and of course, the world is on high alert following the attacks in turkey. this incident, another soft target. chief intelligence correspondent catherine heritage is here. >> thank you. as you mentioned, the claim of responsibility by isis by the media organization, they said isis

the prime minister of bangladesh has just spoken to the public in bangladesh announcing two days of mourning. >> let's talk more about the claim of responsibility here from isis. which came very early on. and there are still u.s. officials who question the validity of that claim. first, is isis in the business? is it their m.o. to claim responsibility for attacks that they have no affiliation with? and why are we seeing this question from u.s. officials? >> reporter: well, in the context of bangladesh, isis has often claimed responsibility for quite a number of attacks. these were attacks against individuals in the past two years individuals like bloggers, athei atheists, hindu priests, writers. for instance one italian expat as well. it's not uncommon for isis to claim responsibility in bangladesh. but every time they've done so, the bangladeshi government has come out and said that isis is not present in bangladesh. that's exactly why the u.s. officials that also voiced some concern are saying that isis doesn't have a presence in the indian subcontinent and bangladesh. in effect the al qae

we saw bangladesh as a potential target for isis recruiting. they announced that in november of last year. so we knew that this was coming. and with political oppression rife and a lot of unemployed youth, the local communities that would have adherence to probably any terrorist ideology that let them express anger and hatred, because they're so frustrated with their community lives, if it's not al qaeda, it's isis. and if it's not isis, it's the next isis. we have to get to the real root cause of the problems and not necessarily those who are tweeting from iraq and syria. though, as you mentioned, chris, isis has claimed responsibility, and they claim they have killed 24 people and wounded 40, which suggests they have information from kind of the inside of the attack. so there could be kind of a coordination mechanism, as you mentioned the bali bombings, i'll mention the recent jakarta attack against police in the starbucks there. those attackers were mentored over the phone from iraq and syria. there could be some relationship like that. agai

bangladesh, hostage siege in bangladesh is over but not without a costly toll. the attack on the restaurant in dhaka left at least 20 civilians dead. military officials say six attackers have been killed. isis claiming responsibility for the siege according to an isis news agency. joining me now foreign policy and analyst, let's talk about bangladesh. why choose bangladesh? it's a muslim country? why should that be isis target? >> isis picks its targets to achieve a couple goals. in order to still put it's self on the map as a terrorist organization, to claim that sort of relevance, isis would like to carry on the attacks outside of iraq and syria and the immediate neighborhood. what we saw in istanbul this week was an act of terror planned, coordinated and organized by isis central, what i like to call isis central. that is the actual core isis that operates inside iraq and syria. but to say and be able to claim they can be effective outside the middle east, outside their backyard, they do carry out attacks in places such as europe or in places like asia. bangl

ambassador to bangladesh says the attackers, who are believed to be bangladesh, picked their targets carefully and were trying to send two messages, they don't kildee vat muslims and the bangladesh cannot protect people in the country. cornell bernard is live in perkily with more. >> reporter: friends of tarishi jain will hold a memorial village only tuesday to remember a young woman who was well on her way to helping others. >> i mean i just came back from indiana yesterday and i woke up to this tragic news. >> reporter: the news was painful for cal students to hear their friend, 19-year-old sophomore, tarishi jain was one of 20 hostages killed at a bangladesh restaurant by isil militants. >> it could happen to any of us. >> tarishi was an indian citizen on vacation in bangladesh, visiting her father who owns a been. friends say despite her young age she was becoming a real humanitarian who wanted to give back. >> every time i met her it was evident, very ambitious, very strong. >> to risha was involved in a company called ethical apparel, the company's marketing vp told us to risha

this is a bar bake attack on secular bangladesh. ban two students attending emory university were killed in the ta 9 year old indian national, a a student at uc berkley was also killed. the restaurant that was targeted was a popular spot.pot. around 35 hostages were taken in the calf kay on friday evening.i there h were sounds of sirens. i thought it was some sort of entertainment. they were firing in the air. more than 100 police stormed the building after a 10-hour stand off. gunmen were killed, but by the time police intervene many p hostages were deadol.ages the white house has release a rl statement the attack calling it a despicable attack of terrorism. bangladesh's prime minister is pling with islamic extremists ts stop killing in the name of religionment islam is a piece loving religion, stop killing people in the name of islam. is prime minister that s declared two days of morning. all the attacks were bangladesh citizens some of whom police tried to arrest before. in new york, bryan llenas, fox news. still come the anacost

we don't know what the connection is in bangladesh. they may be a local cell with no direct orders from isis central. but they may have acted as part of isis through the web. so what isis does is they launch an attack like the bataclan theater. they get copy cat attacks that happen around the world that makes them look more and more powerful. looking to look powerful and to dominate. even when they get into the restaurant in bangladesh, they want to hack people apart and then put the pictures all over the worrell on the web. it makes them look powerful. you can't stop us. we can get you anywhere. so they're using the web, internet connections. they're also using the gap that the world has against a war against isis in reality, in traditionally declared war and criminal law. that's why this one-armed guy slips through. >> i do want touch ow this. it's the fourth of july holiday. there is going to be no potential attacks here and possibly we can stave these off here. what's your take on that? >> i have great confidence in our police and

but it's not unusual in bangladesh. they a bit more guarded about making comments especially something like this that has so much of an international spotlight on it in a sense. so there are usually a lot of very, very guarded. in terms of speaking to their people, perhaps a little bit surprising, but again this is unprecedented. they'd be very careful about what they say. you know, we've been talking through the nights and the government's been very adamant that there are no, you are know, isis, al qaeda cells locally in the country. you know, they blame the recent attacks of the past couple of years on local groups, having said that, they've also, as we've heard from a few minutes ago, they had this massive sweep in the past month in which they picked up some 14,000 people who they said was connected to some form of extremism. so there is an issue, they have to deal with it. some people say that they haven't addressed it, they've been in denial, so they're going to be very careful about what they say. so it's perhaps

she had been visiting her father in bangladesh. two students killed were enrolled at emory university. one of them was a junior from dhaka. the other, abinta kabir, was from miami, and about to begin her sophomore year. two bangladeshi police officers were shot and killed in the standoff. the restaurant is in a neighborhood filled with embassies. the u.s. embassy is just a mile away. in its claim of responsibility, isis said it had targeted citizens of "crusader countries." survivors say the attackers shouted "allahu akbar," the arabic phrase for "god is great," and spared hostages who could recite verses from the koran. in a televised address, the prime minister of bangladesh called the attack barbaric and said her government would always fight islamic extremists on her soil. >> ( translated ): they don't have a religion. terrorism is their religion, that's what i believe. the people of bangladesh will always fight against terrorism. i will always tell the people to stand against terrorism and if they do, then terrorism will never

bangladesh does have various militant groups. in terms of the nature, the profile, the characteristics, very similar to other isis attacks in which individuals storm a venue, predominant in nature by western frequenters if you will or patrongoers like an airport, cafe, cosmo pal tan areas with explosives, multiple attackers. very well coordinated, chuck. >> unfortunately like the club in orlando. i know you're staying on top of this. we'll come back if there is news to report. >> meanwhile, in this war against these terrorists, the white house made good on a promise of transparency concerning the unmanned drone program. they released a report on u.s. drone strikes. the report shows between 64 and 116 noncombatants, translation civilians, were killed in 473 air strikes of these unmanned drones since january 2009. most of the counter terror operations were targeting al qaeda targets in pakistan, yemen and somalia. president obama signed an executive order that calls for an annual disclosure of civilian deaths from drone strikes. th

now after turkey and bangladesh. the question that the white house gets is what does it mean for their capability. what about the u.s. risk following one of these attacks. what they say is yes, isis does have the capability to carry out attacks like this. they understand that risk. these are the most difficult kinds of attacks to stop. they target soft targets and civilians and they feel these could be a response. they said this is what keeps them up at night, and they said there is currently no credible throughout to the u.s. u.s. officials speaking on a different topic. they said it is about u.s. drone strikes overseas. they said while the u.s. goes above and beyond, they do happen, but they go to extraordinary lengths to prevent that. they see the enemy and terror groups deliberately striking. we're seeing the pictures play out in front of us. another one of these attacks happening within days of the last one, jim. they target soft targets. i want to talk to glenn, what can officials do to identify these men that