Posted on 05/22/2013 10:41:45 AM PDT by Eurotwit
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 man wearing a Help for Heroes T-shirt is said to have been attacked by two men.
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You’re welcome Tomkat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22644857
23 May 2013 Last updated at 18:07 ET
“The murdered soldier has been named as 25-year-old Drummer Lee Rigby”
SNIPPET: “The soldier killed in an attack in London has been named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
Drummer Rigby, 25, from Manchester, leaves behind a two-year-old son.
Two suspects shot by police after Wednesday’s attack in Woolwich remain under arrest. A further two people have been arrested on conspiracy to murder.
The suspects, one of whom is said to be Islamist protester Michael Adebolajo, were known to security services.
Scotland Yard said the latest arrests were of a man and woman, both aged 29.
Drummer Rigby’s family issued a statement on Thursday, saying: “Lee was lovely. He would do anything for anybody, he always looked after his sisters and always protected them. He took a ‘big brother’ role with everyone.
“All he wanted to do from when he was a little boy, was be in the Army.
“He wanted to live life and enjoy himself. His family meant everything to him. He was a loving son, husband, father, brother, and uncle, and a friend to many.””
"The suspects, one of whom is said to be Islamist protester Michael Adebolajo, were known to security services."
Thanks for your reasoned points. My apologies if I responded beforehand in an excitable manner, not how I normally go about things.
I appreciate your response. I would again suggest that there is no ‘official’ Sharia court or Law in the UK. It does not supercede Common Law anywhere.
However the authority they gain is from the local culture/society. If they are willing to subsume themselves within a non-democratic misogynistic dictat, then they can and indeed do so.
That there are ‘courts’ in the UK that practice and implement Sharia law is an issue, and largely down to the laissez faire approach to multiculturalism UK governments have adopted over the past couple of generations. I would again stress, that we are talking about 5% of the country (UK) as being a problem.
Recent UK immigration figures have us at a record (and talking over a 10-15 year period) low, indeed we have closed many loop holes for foreigners to come in and abuse our land. There are many battles left to fight, but progress of sorts is being made.
Unofficial Sharia ‘courts’ or judgements are a problem our Home Secretary has to tackle. I do believe however that she is capable of perhaps doing a better job than her predecessors. We shall see...
Again, thanks for your point, apologies if I reacted out of hand. Discussion is never a bad thing and raising difficult questions, if we want to hear them or not, if one of the cornerstones of our (shared) culture. Thanks.
Eh?.
OK,so is that to say that these courts,like other British courts,have legally recognized powers but their decisions are ultimately reviewable by the nation's Supreme Court (as is the case with *our* lower courts)?
Whether the PM/Milliband does will of course be for the family to decide. If they say yes, there would be outrage if they didnt.
Of course they'd get the OK from the family.It's hard to imagine the family refusing if asked but I suppose it's possible.I was wondering whether they're likely to deem the service to be "important" enough for them to attend.
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“Woolwich attack: why was suspect Michael Adebolajo free to kill?”
By Tom Whitehead, David Barrett and Steven Swinford
10:07PM BST 23 May 2013
SNIPPET: “Michael Adebolajo, 28, was the man videoed by witnesses with his hands red with blood following the killing of the soldier, who was named as Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, the father of a two-year-old son.”
SNIPPET: “The Telegraph has learnt that six years ago Adebolajo was arrested after being involved in violent protests by extremists outside the Old Bailey. He was a regular member of a small group of hardcore fanatics who regularly protested alongside some of Britain’s most notorious hate clerics. He was seen preaching anti-Western rhetoric in Woolwich as recently as last week. At one stage he is believed to have tried to travel to Somalia to join the terrorist network Al-Shabaab, but was forced to return to Britain.
Anjem Choudary, the former leader of banned radical group al-Muhajiroun, said Adebolajo regularly attended meetings and demonstrations held by his group and successor organisations.
Omar Bakri Mohammed, a hate preacher banned from Britain, claimed he had converted Adebolajo himself.
The disclosure of his close association with some of Britain’s most notorious Islamic extremists is likely to raise further questions about why he was not deemed a serious threat by the security services.
The second attacker has not been identified but investigators are examining whether he had a criminal past.”
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http://news.sky.com/story/1094560/woolwich-suspects-known-to-security-services
“Woolwich Suspects ‘Known to Security Services’”
4:52pm UK, Thursday 23 May 2013
I can imagine that at least some things about this country are confusing to Europeans...even ones with whom we share a language.I promise you that the reverse is also true.The bottom line is that both our nations have suffered greatly at the hand of the Religion of Peace (or at least one branch of it).After having recently watched Mrs Thatcher's funeral on the tube I know that Brits take seriously the duty of honoring those who've served the nation well.I'll be interested to see what comes of this incident.I watch Prime Minister's Question Time quite regularly and I'm sure it will be mentioned...probably in some detail.And I suspect that the Home Secretary might make some sort of statement in the Commons as well.
Jihadi Propaganda on Twitter:
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Exactly.....
I didnt understand what you meant by that post, I am curious as to what you meant.
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Woolwich Attack: NEW Shocking Video of Terrorists Charging at Police Car in Attempt to Kill WPC
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Published on May 23, 2013
The footage obtained by the Daily Mirror reveals how, after beheading the soldier, they hatched a plot to ambush and murder the first police officers to come to his aid. The brave WPC first on the scene at the Woolwich beheading comes within inches of death, a dramatic Daily Mirror video shows.
The driver, unable to draw her firearm, is saved by a male colleague in the back who fires his machine-gun through his window at a suspect who is charging at her.
The callous Islamic extremists had lured police to the scene by dragging the body of the murdered fusilier — named yesterday as Lee Rigby, 25 — into the middle of the road.
When they see the first police car arrive, the pair split up.
Blade-wielding Michael Adebolajo, 28, runs at officers head-on and his accomplice, named locally as 22-year-old Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, advances alongside, aiming his gun at them.
The film of the 10 seconds of terror shows how Adebolajo got within two feet of the WPC who was driving the armed response BMW X5.
As he is sent sprawling to the ground by the force of the two shots, two officers jump out to cover him.
They appear not to see Adebowale aiming a handgun at them.
But a third SO19 marksman from the specialist Trojan unit spots him and he is brought to the ground as six more shots ring out in the suburban South East London street.
After seeing the Mirror’s exclusive video, Former Det Ch Insp Peter Kirkham, an expert in firearms tactics, said last night: “I have never seen anything like this before, or even heard of it happening.
“For two suspects to carry out a brutal attack like this then stand around in plain sight waiting for the police is crazy.”
The dramatic climax to the horrific attack — in which dad of one Lee, from Manchester, was hacked to death — was filmed by a resident in a tower block overlooking the scene in Artillery Road, Woolwich.
The footage reveals how, after beheading the soldier, they set up their ambush bid to murder the first police officers to arrive.
For eight minutes before that, the suspects are seen talking to passers-by and three women who try to help the victim.
But as soon they see the patrol car turn the corner the suspects spring into action, in a move designed to give the gunman time to target officers.
The 15-minute 50-second footage was filmed 100ft up from the windows of a flat as calls flooded in to police at 2.20pm on Wednesday.
Scotland Yard assigned an armed response unit four minutes later. And it arrived 10 minutes after that.
At one point an ambulance drives towards Lee’s body and swerves round him when the two armed suspects are seen standing nearby.
Eight minutes 21 seconds into the video, the men sprint towards the police BMW X5 which comes round the corner and skids to a halt.
Adebolajo, in a charcoal hooded top and black woolly hat, charges head-long towards the driver’s side of the marked silver patrol car, in an apparent attempt to attack officers.
He drops one of his blades and moves the other into his right hand as he rushes wildly at the vehicle.
Just as he is within touching distance, two shots ring out and he is sent sprawling.
The officers took a split-second decision to open fire with hollow point bullets while they were sitting in the car, either through open windows or partially opened doors.
Adebowale immediately takes off with a handgun, running past the three officers as they emerge from the car.
In his light-coloured trench coat he can be seen pointing the revolver at the officers as they tackle Adebolajo.
As he disappears briefly behind a tree four more shots ring out, including one from him according to some witnesses, and he stumbles and falls near a road sign.
As the cops advance on the blade maniac, the female driver can be seen carrying a bright yellow Taser.
She is flanked by two male colleagues who run out from either side of the car, with Heckler and Koch MP5 submachine guns.
The female officer drops her Taser and pulls out a handgun and covers the knifeman as he lays prone.
The man who filmed the footage said: “I got my camera phone out and started filming as I thought it was a robbery or a kidnapping.”
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“Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has praised firearms officers following this week’s attack in Woolwich”
25 May 2013
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“Woolwich attack: soldier’s ‘killer’ in dock on terror link three years ago
One of the alleged killers of Drummer Lee Rigby appeared in court in Kenya suspected of leading a group of Islamists trying to join terrorists in Somalia.”
By Zoe Flood in Nairobi, Tom Whitehead, David Barrett
9:00PM BST 25 May 2013
PHOTO CAPTION: “Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo, 2nd right, in the dock in Kenya in 2010.”
SNIPPET: “The Sunday Telegraph can disclose that Michael Adebolajo was held by police close to the Somali border with a band of “radicalised” Muslim youths who wanted to join the notorious al-Shabaab group.
He was deported to Britain after he appeared in court in Mombasa in November 2010.”
SNIPPET: “On Saturday night a further three men, aged 21, 24 and 28, were arrested in south-east London on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. Police used Tasers to detain two of them and were searching four addresses.”
“PM launches anti-terror task force”
25 MAY 2013
SNIPPET: “David Cameron is launching a new terror task force to crack down on extremism in the wake of the horrific murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, Downing Street has confirmed.”
SNIPPET: “The Cabinet level group, which will also bring in intelligence and police chiefs when needed, will focus on radical preachers who target potential recruits in jails, schools, colleges and mosques. It will monitor trends in radicalisation and tackle “poisonous narratives”, No 10 said.”
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“Woolwich attack: Islamists’ campaign to recruit street gangs
Supporters of Omar Bakri Mohammed, the exiled Islamist cleric who claimed to have converted Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo, sought to recruit members of violent street gangs and encourage them to ‘die for Islam’.”
By Matthew Holehouse
12:47PM BST 27 May 2013
SNIPPET: “Convert2Islam, a radical group run by Abu Rumaysah, a follower of Bakri and a spokesman for an offshoot of Al-Muhajiroun, ran a series of ‘roadshows’ in the poorest areas of south and east London in order to recruit teenagers from broken homes involved in gun and knife crime
It is claimed Anjem Choudary, who led Al Muhajiroun after Bakri was barred from Britain by the Home Office, also attended the recruitment drives.
Rumaysah today told the Daily Telegraph he knew Adebolajo, whom he called ‘Mujahid’, well but could ‘not remember’ if he attended the events.”
SNIPPET: “Adebolajo, 28, the son of devout Nigerian Christians, turned to radical Islam after becoming involved in drug dealing and street robbery.
Similarly his alleged accomplice, Michael Adebowale, was a drug dealer and a member of the Woolwich Boys, a street gang dominated by youths of Somali origin.”
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AQAP reacts pretty fast...London knife attacker and Boston bomber are in the new issue of “Inspire” magazine
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“Lee Rigby funeral: Thousands gather to remember”
Daily Mirror ^ | Brian Reade
Posted on July 12, 2013 1:10:19 PM PDT by LSUfan
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“My daddy, my hero’: Two-year-old son of murdered soldier attends funeral.”
The daily mail ^
Posted on July 12, 2013 6:10:47 AM PDT by marthemaria
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“British Muslims Tape Themselves Laughing at Beheading of Lee Rigby (Video)”
Gateway ^ | June 9, 2013 | Jim Hoft
Posted on June 9, 2013 7:28:09 PM PDT by george76
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