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ISIS Claims Responsibility for London Attack

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An armed police officer (R) stands on duty near to London Bridge in London on June 4, 2017, as police continue their investigations following the June 3 terror attack. Seven people were killed in a terror attack on Saturday by three assailants on London Bridge and in the bustling Borough Market nightlife district, the chief of London's police force said on Sunday. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images))

The Islamic State is claiming credit for an attack in London which
left seven people dead and at least 48 injured. On Saturday night,
assailants plowed over pedestrians with a van on London Bridge
and then went on a stabbing rampage at a nearby market. Police
shot and killed the attackers, who wore what turned out to be fake
suicide vests. The incident comes less than two weeks after a
deadly bombing at a concert in Manchester. We’ll talk with New
Yorker journalist and terrorism expert Robin Wright about the
attack.

Guests:
Robin Wright, joint fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; contributing writer, The New Yorker; author, “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World”

Rich Preston, reporter, BBC

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