Posted on 06/10/2017 9:00:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Butt rented a white Renault van in the evening instead, using a recently activated mobile phone.
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Met Police confirmed to CNN that Butt was out on bail at the time of the attacks, having been arrested in a low-level fraud offense in October 2016.
He wasn’t charged and was about to be released from bail because of insufficient evidence, the police said.
Two British counter-terrorism sources told CNN that the arrest was part of a drive by British police and the MI5 intelligence agency to take known Islamist extremists “off the streets” by going after them for crimes unrelated to terrorism. That drive was initiated two years previously.
An official involved in the efforts said the arrests focused on members of the pro-ISIS group al Muhajiroun and likened it to “going after Al Capone for tax evasion.”
The police and other counter-terrorism agencies have come under scrutiny after it emerged that Butt was under investigation when he carried out the attack.
Police have released images of three pink ceramic kitchen knives found on or near the assailants. The Ernesto brand knives are 12 inches long, and were found with tape wrapped around the handles and leather straps attached to them to keep the weapons on the attackers’ wrists.
“We’ve been working round the clock to understand what these men did in the lead-up to the attack but we need to know more about these unusual knives. Where have they come from? Where might the attackers have bought them from?” the Met’s counter-terrorism command chief Dean Haydon said, calling on the public to contact police if they had any information on the weapons.
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“Two British counter-terrorism sources told CNN that the arrest was part of a drive by British police and the MI5 intelligence agency to take known Islamist extremists “off the streets” by going after them for crimes unrelated to terrorism. That drive was initiated two years previously.”
Doesn’t sound like an “in-it-to-win-it” strategy.
They bring a knife and “we” bring a court order on an unrelated charge that eventually gets dismissed.
Looks like they may be ceramic knives.
ceramic = i.e. would not show up in a metal detector.
PINK KNIVES? That probably didn’t go over very well with the Profit when they joined him in down there.
“ceramic = i.e. would not show up in a metal detector.”
I suspect they’re not that easy to get through...or they likely wouldn’t sell them. They probably have metal particles mixed in so that they lay out their shape in luggage scanners...but not sure whether they trip an old-style metal detector.
Great knives too - they don’t know how to go dull.
“Police have released images of three pink ceramic kitchen knives found on or near the assailants.”
The knives, though pointed and sharp, look to be porous *perhaps stone, pink stone). Additional uses for duct tape - no longer just used to repair upholstery. Aliens?
I should have read the entire story.
Note to all snowflakes: appeasement doesn't work!
“Doesn’t sound like an “in-it-to-win-it” strategy.”
Sounds like Giuliano’s anti-crime policy.
First flight of insight...
Amazon...
Wallmart...
Bed Bath and beyond (or the Brit equivalent)
Dollar Store (or the Brit equivalent)
Moving right along...
Pink Knives Matter!
They do, however, evidently easily chip under normal killer koranimal use...
Yup
aka "Mexican Epoxy."
Whut??
Outlaw all kitchen utensils?
It's bad enough that, rather than kill them on the spot, we have literally spent tens of trillions$ restructuring our daily lives, modifying travel terminals of every kind, surrounding our outdoor beautiful public monuments with hideous "protective" fences, humiliating hundreds of millions of our traveling citizens, and sacrificing random citizens to gruesome deaths, someone, somewhere chose rather all that to a blanket prohibition of entry into our country of all Killer Koranimals and their enablers and sympathizers.
Because "We are better than that." *
WTF???
* One of the three dumbest, mindless, ineffectual, stupid, foolish gratuitous, senseless,. silly, thoughtless, unmindful, asinine, platitudes ever created by defective human minds.
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