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(UK) Woolwich Incident: Two Men Shot By Police After Man...'Hacked to Death’ By Machetes
Metro UK News ^ | Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Posted on 05/22/2013 9:09:56 AM PDT by kristinn

A man wearing a Help For Heroes T-shirt has reportedly been hacked to death by two machete-wielding assailants in broad daylight in south-east London.

The two knifemen are understood to have been shot by armed police, although Scotland Yard will still only confirm officers had been called to reports of ‘an assault’ on John Wilson Street at around 2.20pm.

SNIP

Eyewitness James Heneghan told LBC 97.3 he and his wife had witnessed two men hacking at a third with two large kitchen knives.

‘We saw the whole incident,’ he said fighting back tears. ‘They were hacking at this poor guy, hacking him, chopping him.’

Mr Heneghan claimed one of the suspects had pointed a gun at his wife before they jumped back into his car and called the police.

He went on to claim that after the men had attacked the victim they dragged him into the middle of the street ‘like a piece of meat’.

A group of women then rushed to the victim to shield him from further attacks, Mr Heneghan continued, as the two knifemen stopped a passing bus and encouraged passengers to take pictures of them while they posed with their knives.

Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said that he understood the victim to be a serving soldier from Woolwich Barracks.

‘I’ll be talking to everyone who is involved, we will be trying to do everything possible to try and ensure calm in the area. People will be very, very shocked,’ he told BBC Radio 5 Live.

‘We think a serving soldier was the victim. We don’t know the circumstances surrounding the incident.

‘We do know a number of weapons have been seized. They include a gun, various knives, and a machete, apparently.

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: helpforheroes; islam; jihad; muslim; woolwich
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To: kristinn
Apparently a couple of blokes missed the knife turn-in bin located in their neighborhood.


21 posted on 05/22/2013 9:36:43 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: kristinn; All

From the article:

“the two knifemen stopped a passing bus and encouraged passengers to take pictures of them while they posed with their knives.”

WOW.


22 posted on 05/22/2013 9:36:49 AM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Stoat

Sky sources: attached was likely a politically motivated islamist terrorist attack.


23 posted on 05/22/2013 9:37:49 AM PDT by UKrepublican
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One witness, identified as James, says he and his partner saw two black men attack the young victim with knives, including a meat cleaver. The witness tells LBC: "They were hacking at this poor guy, literally. They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him. They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there."
24 posted on 05/22/2013 9:38:43 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: UKrepublican

Sky News is actually identifying them as Islamic? WOW. So many American “news” sources would only refer to them as “youths” or “disadvantaged locals”


25 posted on 05/22/2013 9:40:09 AM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: kristinn

Probably muzzies.


26 posted on 05/22/2013 9:40:56 AM PDT by expat2
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To: skeeter

More likely Cornish, or Welsh.


27 posted on 05/22/2013 9:41:08 AM PDT by steve8714 (Any homosexual man can marry any woman he wants. Just like the President.)
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To: kristinn

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022511/posts

Are we seeing a trend?


28 posted on 05/22/2013 9:41:58 AM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: Stoat

Yeah is a bit surprising!


29 posted on 05/22/2013 9:42:52 AM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: Stoat

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d0f_1369235265

Live leak says Somalians.


30 posted on 05/22/2013 9:43:12 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: kristinn

BBC Confirm...2 men who beheaded soldier shouted Allah Akbar.


31 posted on 05/22/2013 9:44:20 AM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: az_gila

The term “black” is often used also for dark brown folks like Pakistanis in the UK.


32 posted on 05/22/2013 9:44:20 AM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2

Self-radicalized, no doubt.


33 posted on 05/22/2013 9:46:50 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: kristinn
A group of women then rushed to the victim to shield him from further attacks, Mr Heneghan continued, as the two knifemen stopped a passing bus and encouraged passengers to take pictures of them while they posed with their knives. Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said that he understood the victim to be a serving soldier from Woolwich Barracks. Happily posing for pictures after these unidentified attackers cut up and beheaded a British solider? Yea, I would say jihadis. England is lousy with Islamists and it seems the British govt likes it that way, seeing as how they want to go to war all the time to support Islamic movements around the world from Bosnia to Syria.
34 posted on 05/22/2013 9:47:54 AM PDT by IXNK (Isus Xristos Nikas!)
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To: kristinn

How are those Twitter comments reposted by the Guardian even considered English?


35 posted on 05/22/2013 9:47:54 AM PDT by IXNK (Isus Xristos Nikas!)
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To: expat2
The term “black” is often used also for dark brown folks like Pakistanis in the UK.


Yes, I know, I was born in the UK....:^)

My post #30 updates it to Somalians, and Live Leak also says a beheading.

36 posted on 05/22/2013 9:52:44 AM PDT by az_gila
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BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the police view is that the the attack may have been filmed and footage may exist.

People carrying out the attack were of Muslim appearance and cries of God is Great or Allahu Akbar were heard, said our political editor.

 

BBC News - Man dead in Woolwich 'machete attack'

37 posted on 05/22/2013 9:56:11 AM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: kristinn

‘Sadly one patient, a man, was dead at the scene.’
What?!? whaddya mean ‘sadly’?
This is the hacker! It is dead! Good!

Not a word about the kind of creature that did this! Obviously the press has something to hide. They don’t want to alarm the brits and get them thinking that there are massive hordes of formerly-bearded savages who would gladly chop their heads off.


38 posted on 05/22/2013 10:02:00 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: UKrepublican; All
BBC article here:

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said the police view is that the the attack may have been filmed and footage may exist.

People carrying out the attack were of Muslim appearance and cries of God is Great or Allahu Akbar were heard, said our political editor.

39 posted on 05/22/2013 10:04:36 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: Stoat

Oops. Just saw we posted the same thing.


40 posted on 05/22/2013 10:05:54 AM PDT by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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