There is no question the horrific day of shootings in the Canadian capital of Ottawa was a terrorist attack — and a wake-up call for both Canada and the United States, according to Steve Emerson, founder of The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
"It's clear it was a terrorist attack, the only question is, who perpetrated it?" Emerson said Wednesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
Newsmax TV.
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"All the practice drills in the world don't mean anything until the real thing and here they hit the vulnerability spots by actually carrying out an attack.
"Fortunately, there wasn't a lot of loss of blood, of life, but yesterday they lost a policeman and today soldiers were shot and it definitely points to the weakness in the security system."
Emerson — author of
“Jihad Incorporated: A Guide to Militant Islam in the U.S.”, published by Prometheus Books — added:
"This is a wake-up call in terms of our vulnerability and the need to recalculate how we protect our government officials and our institutions."
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