Posted by Eight minutes of hell on Sun, 04 Jun 2017 09:02 | #

Telegraph, “Who are the suspects behind the attack?”, 4 June 2017.

Eight minutes of hell

Police say the attack lasted around eight minutes before armed officers attended the scene and took down the assailants.

One eyewitness spoke of the men shouting “this is for Allah” as they stabbed indiscriminately.

Telegraph, “London attacks latest: 7 dead in London Bridge and Borough Market van and knife terror”, 4 June 2017:

Seven people have been killed and almost 50 people injured in a “rampage” in central London, the third terrorist attack to hit the UK in less than three months. 

Three attackers were shot dead by police in the attack on London Bridge and Borough Market. Police said they believed there were no more than three attackers.

Six were initially reported to have been killed, before Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said the number of victims from had risen to seven.

A white transit van ploughed into a crowd of people on the bridge at speed shortly after 10pm. The three men then stabbed people with 12-inch knives at nearby Borough Market, with a transport police officer among those injured.

The London Ambulance Service said 48 people had been taken to five hospitals across the capital and a number of other people were treated at the scene.

The major parties have suspended their national campaigning for the General Election in the wake of the attack.

Prime Minister Theresa May, who was understood to be at her Maidenhead constituency when she was alerted to the news, will chair a Cobra meeting first thing on Sunday morning.

As dawn broke over the capital, a large area on the south bank of the River Thames remained cordoned off and police told people to avoid the area, leaving tourists and revellers struggling to get home.

Timeline | How events in London unfolded

  10.07pm Ambulance services were called to reports of a vehicle ploughing through pedestrians on London Bridge, arriving within six minutes.
  10.08pm Police are called to the scene. Officers then attended a second incident at nearby Borough Market after reports of stabbings.
  10.16pm Within eight minutes, three male suspects were shot dead in Borough Market by police marksman. The men were wearing what looked like explosive vests but these were later found to be hoaxes.
  12.25am on Sunday Both incidents were declared by the Metropolitan Police as terror attacks.
  4am Police confirm six people were killed in the rampage.
  9.30am Seven people have died, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick confirms

Other key information

  At least 48 patients were taken to five hospitals, London Ambulance Service said, with more than 80 medics having been sent to the scene
  A third incident at Vauxhall was a stabbing and unrelated, Scotland Yard said.

Bursts of gunfire had echoed through the streets - likely from armed police - and at least three blasts rang out as police performed controlled explosions.

One picture from the Borough Market area showed a man lying on the ground with canisters apparently strapped to him. Police later said the men were wearing hoax suicide vests.

Within minutes there were reports of a second incident at Borough Market on the south bank of the Thames. One cab driver said three men ran towards the market stabbing people - including a young girl - as they ran.

An eyewitness on London Bridge, told the BBC he saw three men stabbing people indiscriminately, shouting “this is for Allah” in a “rampage”.

Police entered bars and restaurants in the Southwark area around 11pm and told customers to get down on the floor amid reports that the incident was still ongoing. People outdoors were told by yelling police officers to run from the area as the atmosphere turned to one of “hysteria”.

Shortly before midnight police said they were attending a third incident in the Vauxhall area, but later said it was not connected.

The attack comes less than a fortnight after the Manchester suicide bombing and just three months after a terrorist ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing a policeman to death at Parliament.

Posted by "This was for Allah" on Sun, 04 Jun 2017 13:54 | #

Telegraph, “London Bridge attack - everything we know”, 4 June 2017:

Seven people have been killed and 48 injured, many of them stabbed, following a confirmed terrorist attack at two sites in London - London Bridge and Borough Market.

A van drove into pedestrians on the bridge and two separate eyewitnesses - one named Eric, another named Gerard - told the BBC that they saw men stabbing people in both sites, and heard them shouting: “This is for Allah”.

The three attackers have also been shot and killed - dying within eight minutes of the first call, police said. Police said that they believe there are no more attackers on the run.even people have been killed and 48 injured, many of them stabbed, following a confirmed terrorist attack at two sites in London - London Bridge and Borough Market.

A van drove into pedestrians on the bridge and two separate eyewitnesses - one named Eric, another named Gerard - told the BBC that they saw men stabbing people in both sites, and heard them shouting: “This is for Allah”.

The three attackers have also been shot and killed - dying within eight minutes of the first call, police said. Police said that they believe there are no more attackers on the run.

Posted by 12 arrested.. on Sun, 04 Jun 2017 15:49 | #

DM, “Armed police arrest 12 at East London tower block in connection with terror attack that killed seven and injured nearly 50 as officers pore over scene at London Bridge and Borough Market for clues”, 4 June 2017:

- Twelve people were arrested at a block of flats in Barking, east London, in connection with last night’s attack
- Armed police placed the complex on lock down and several men were pictured handcuffed on the ground
- Women wearing burkas were among those taken into police custody in the dramatic morning raid today
- One of the three terrorists responsible for last night’s attack is believed to have lived in a ground-floor flat
- Police officers and forensic teams have arrived at London Bridge and Borough Market to scour for clues
- Theresa May said at No 10 today that the atrocity was not linked to the Manchester or Westminster attacks
- Seven people were killed and 48 others were injured in the attack. Twenty one remain in a critical condition

Posted by The London Attackers on Tue, 06 Jun 2017 22:32 | #

           

Vice, “What we know about the suspected London attackers”, 6 June 2017:

U.K. police on Tuesday named the third London Bridge attacker as Youssef Zaghba, which creates more problems for the authorities: Reports say British intelligence agencies had been warned by their Italian counterparts that Zaghba posed a threat after they managed to prevent him from traveling to Syria. This revelation will increase the pressure on U.K. authorities – already under fire after it emerged that another attacker, Khuram Shazad Butt, was investigated by counterterrorism police as recently as 2015.

Reports that there may have been opportunities to stop the attackers have led London Mayor Sadiq Khan to question why the police didn’t act on any information they may have had. “Not unreasonably, these questions are being asked. I’m sure the police will look into what they knew, what they could have done, what they did do and if anything could have been done differently,” the mayor said in a BBC interview.

Police named Zaghba as the third man who took part in the attack on Saturday night in central London, when attackers drove a white van across London Bridge hitting pedestrians before they got out and went on to stab members of the public. Seven people were killed and 48 injured before police shot dead all three attackers.

Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian man, was born in the city of Fez. Italian media reports suggest Italian authorities had warned British and Moroccan police about the dangers he posed, after he was stopped at Bologna airport in 2016 attempting to make his way to Syria. Police reportedly found Islamic State group propaganda on Zaghba’s phone but did not have enough evidence to hold him.

Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reports that in 2016 Zaghba was charged with international terrorism, but this was later dropped. He was nonetheless still considered a “risk,” the paper reports. In a statement identifying Zaghba, the Metropolitan Police said, “He was not a police or MI5 subject of interest.”

Another attacker, 27-year-old father of two Khuram Shazad Butt, was also known to the police. Butt was born in Pakistan but his family moved to the capital in 1988, when he was a toddler. In 2015, the police and MI5 opened an investigation into his activities as a supporter of the banned extremist group al-Muhajiroun and its leader Anjem Choudary.

Months later, a member of the public contacted the anti-terrorism hotline with information about Butt’s extremism. According to the U.K.’s top counter-terrorism officer Mark Rowley, the investigation was later dropped because of a lack of evidence and intelligence that any attack was being planned.

Rowley said he had “seen nothing yet that a poor decision was made” in relation to why detectives dropped Butt’s case.

The third attacker, Rachid Radouane, 30, also from Barking, was not known to the security services.

Posted by Barking Mahdi on Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:09 | #

Revenge is a duty in Islam and a sin in Christianity. Who will win ?

Posted by Kristy Boden on Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:54 | #

Kirsty Boden, 28-year-old nurse, was murdered in London on 3rd June 2017 in an Islamic terror attack.

Kirsty risked her life as she ran on to London Bridge in order to help other people. Brave lady. But she shouldn’t have to have done this.

Defend Europa@DefendEvropa

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Posted by Usman Khan, Friend of Anjem Choudary on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 15:22 | #

London Bridge attack: Usman Khan was student and personal friend of Anjem Choudary

The Telegraph 30 Nov 2019:

- Who was Usman Khan? What we know about the suspect

- London Bridge attack: police identify convicted terrorist who murdered two victims ​

- ‘I kicked terrorist in the head’, says hero bystander

[url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/30/london-bridge-attack-prisoner-confronted-terrorist-not-hero/]- Prisoner who confronted terrorist is not a hero, say family of the woman he murdered
London Bridge attack: Everything we know[/url]

[url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/29/london-bridge-terror-attack-police-rolled-saw-had-bomb-vest/]- Reconstruction: ‘The police rolled him over . . . and he had a bomb vest’
UK terror threat level was downgraded just three weeks ago[/url]

- Richard Walton:  London Bridge attack a vivid reminder of the enduring terrorism threat against Britain

The London Bridge attacker was a student and personal friend of Anjem Choudary, the notorious Islamist hate preacher.

Usman Khan,  a convicted terrorist released less than seven years into a 16-year prison sentence for a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange, had Anjem Choudary’s private mobile phone number stored on his phone at the time of his initial arrest, the Henry Jackson Society has found.

Khan was one of a series of Al-Muhajiroun connected terrorists to be released over a six-month period beginning in the Autumn of 2018.  He was known to have attended a series of Al-Muhajiroun protests and street stalls in the Midlands area prior to his arrest.

Before his conviction for the LSE terror plot,  police had previously raided his home in Tunstall over concerns about his links to Choudary.   

Dr Paul Stott a research fellow at the Centre on Radicalisation and Terrorism at Henry Jackson Society, said that “all these years later, and Anjem Choudary’s one-time acolytes are still butchering members of the public on our streets”. 

Usman Khan

Usman Khan, 28, killed a man and a woman in the knife rampage on Friday afternoon and injured three other people, who are being treated in hospital.

“Usman Khan was a loyal and integral member of Choudary’s inner-circle and we know him to have been highly regarded by Choudary.”

Dr Stott added that 25 per cent of all Islamist terrorists have some sort of “link to Choudary” and that the “security services must consider immediately recalling Choudary to prison until the threat posed by him and his affiliates has stabilised”.

It comes as Boris Johnson condemned the early release of criminals after it emerged Usman Khan had been freed from prison on an electronic tag.

Two people were murdered and at least three more seriously injured, when the suspected jihadist, wearing a fake suicide vest, went on a rampage at a criminal justice seminar he was attending.

Police named the man as Usman Khan, a 28-year-old from Staffordshire. In 2012, Khan became a convicted terrorist for his role in the Stock Exchange plot, a planned scheme for a Christmas bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange, the American embassy and the home of Boris Johnson, who was then the Mayor of London

It is understood the former prisoner, who was still on licence and whose movements and travel were restricted, had been given permission to attend the event along with other convicted criminals.

The killer is thought to have attended the morning session, taking part in various workshops, in which he described his experiences as a prisoner, before launching his deadly attack without warning just before 2pm.

Jack Merritt named as one of the victim’s of yesterday’s attack

Among those killed in the carnage of the London Bridge attack was law and criminology course leader Jack Merritt, described as someone always on the side of the underdog.

The 25-year-old, who worked at the University of Cambridge’s criminology department, lost his life at an event underpinned by the belief that every one of us who does wrong is capable of redemption.

But among those ex-offenders attending the Fishmongers’ Hall Learning Together event was the man who killed him - as well as other former criminals who came to the assistance of the injured and tried to stop the attacker.

Jack Merritt, who had attended Hill Road Sixth Form in Cambridge, was the course co-ordinator for Learning Together, described as “bringing students in Higher Education & Criminal Justice institutions together in transformative learning communities”.

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Last night’s attack will have brought back ‘horrible memories’, Cressida Dick says
Cressida Dick says the London Bridge attack would have brought back “horrible memories” from the attacks which struck London Bridge in 2017.

It’s great to see so many people out here, I’m not surprised, it’s London. We don’t let these things stop us from going about our business.

Borough Market is absolutely full of people and they’re getting on with their normal lives.

Having said that, this is an area which has been touched by such terrible violence two-and-a-half years ago.

I know for many people here it’s brought back horrible memories.

She appealed to the public to “look after yourselves and look after each other”, as well as repeating a message for any members of the public with video footage to contact the force.

2:03pm

London Mayor Sadiq Khan responds  to the London Bridge attack

He added: “Don’t forget that for every incident like this, there are many that are thwarted.”

1:17pm

Boris Johnson says prisoners should serve their full term

The Prime Minister says his immediate take away from the London Bridge attack is that the current system isn’t working.

I have long said this system isn’t working. It does not make sense for us as a society to be putting people who are convicted of terrorist offences, serious, violent offences, out on early release.

We argue people should serve the tariff, serve the term, for which they are sentenced.

He added that he hopes it can be “business as usual” as soon as possible.  “People want to get on with their lives,” he said. “It’s the run up to Christmas.  We can see people out on the streets, shopping already, and that’s a great thing.”

He added: “Don’t forget that for every incident like this, there are many that are thwarted.”

1:17pm
Boris Johnson says prisoners should serve their full term
The Prime Minister says his immediate take away from the London Bridge attack is that the current system isn’t working.

I have long said this system isn’t working. It does not make sense for us as a society to be putting people who are convicted of terrorist offences, serious, violent offences, out on early release.

We argue people should serve the tariff, serve the term, for which they are sentenced.

He added that he hopes it can be “business as usual” as soon as possible.  “People want to get on with their lives,” he said. “It’s the run up to Christmas.  We can see people out on the streets, shopping already, and that’s a great thing.”