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A man reported to be a serving soldier is dead and two people have been shot in Woolwich, south east London, after what Sky sources understand is being treated as a terrorist attack. Downing Street has called a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee after the incident in John Wilson Street, which David Cameron described as "truly shocking". Sky sources understand that senior police officers believe the killing was likely to be a politically-motivated Islamist terrorist attack. Dozens of weapons - including a number of knives - and pools of blood could be seen on the ground, where a...

September 11, 2003 at Ground Zero

British authorities are investigating a possible link between the London bombings and an alleged London bomb plot last year involving Canadian Momin Khawaja, now awaiting the first-ever trial under Canada's new anti-terrorism act. British investigators and security intelligence sources in Europe and the United States say Mohamed Sidique Khan, a 30-year-old primary school teacher believed to be a key figure among the four suspected London suicide bombers, was possibly associated with some of the men arrested in and around the British capital in March, 2004. As part of a global investigation dubbed Operation Crevice, British police and security agents say...