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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I left off the /s. FR needs a sarcasm font...
*Pig In A Pant Suit
Lock up your kitchen utensils. They’ll be coming for them...
Yup. Typo
Warn them once, keep your psychos on a leash or else. If they light off a firecracker within 500’ of a X-ray machine, nuke medina. They pull anymore crap nuke Mecca. Then systematically start bombing Middle East cities until we feel better. I think we shoulda started bombing crap after 9/11
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