In London as in Boston, terrorist-killers were known to security services
In London as in Boston, terrorist-killers were known to security services.
( Yee GODS ! Will the nausea never stop? ! – JW )
The two Islamist terrorists who hacked a British soldier to death on a London street Wednesday, May 22, chanting Allahu Akbar, were born in Britain of Nigerian descent and known to British security authorities. Motivated by revenge for Muslem deaths in Afghanistan, they selected as their victim a soldier from the Woolwich barracks who had served there. One of the terrorists was identified as Michael Adebolajo, 28, a convert to Islam and self-styled Muslim preacher from a street stand, from which he handed out leaflets condemning the British government and troops fighting in Muslim lands.
His stand was located in the southeastern London suburb of Woolwich, not far from the Royal Artillery barracks near which he committed his savage murder.
Adelbolajo’s crime was long planned. He spent time watching the soldiers coming and going around the barracks. He may even have singled out his victim from a chance acquaintance.
Thursday, the day after the murder, British anti-terrorist operatives carried out searches at various London addresses which the terrorist had used as a student at Greenwich University.
The British authorities have made no statements about arrests or even the interrogation of either of the two terrorists, who are in separate hospitals recovering from police gunshots.
Neither have they revealed why the accumulation of carving knives, a machete and a firearm in their possession never attracted notice. The police are also extremely cagey about the two men’s friends and contacts. As in the case of the Boston Marathon bombing, the relevant information began seeping out by chance much later.
The extreme savagery of the killing in broad daylight on a busy London street, culminating in a beheading, recalled the fate of Western hostages at the hands of Al Qaeda’s Iraq commander Musab al-Zarqawi in the years between 2004 and 2006. His custom of beheading victims became a hallmark of al Qaeda savagery.
What also stands out about this episode is that the jihadis did not run away, but waved their blood-stained hands in the faces of horrified passersby, boasting: “We swear by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. The British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!”
The British government held two “Cobra” emergency committee meetings, whose deliberations were kept secret. Its first response to the discovery that this horrific crime was committed by homegrown terrorists was to assign official spokesmen to make as their main theme the drawing of a strong distinction between Islamist terrorism and the large Muslim communities living in most British towns.
Prime Minister David Cameron set the tone in his address to the nation by declaring that nothing in Islam justified this crime and branding the terrorists traitors to Islam.
debkafile reported after the murder Wednesday:
The terrorists drove up to their victim in a car, jumped out and after the murder wandered about in the area, apparently lying in wait for more soldiers to come out of the Royal Artillery barracks 400 meters from the site of their attack.
London police reached the scene after 20 minutes after they were summoned. When the two killers ran towards them brandishing knives and a firearm, police officers shot and injured them. They were taken to separate hospitals and placed under heavy guard in case of attempts to rescue them.
Police sources said later they were treating the incident as a politically-motivated Islamist terror attack without identifying the killers.
In the absence of Prime Minister David Cameron, Home Minister Theresa May summoned the Cobra emergency committee into urgent session. After examining intelligence input, the committee must decide whether the Woolwich outrage was a lone incident or raise the terrorist alert level in London and the rest of the country. Cameron cut short his trip to Paris and returned to London Wednesday night.
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WarSclerotic 
May 23, 2013 at 6:37 PM
Watching the BBC’s limp wristed coverage defending Islam as hard as condemning the attack makes me realize for the first time that Islamic “political correctness” is not limited to the Obama administration. The world refuses to use the word “Islam” to describe radical Islam.
You can’t fight something if you pretend it isn’t there.
May 23, 2013 at 6:42 PM
Your right there Cameron”This was a crime against Islam” the guy is sick,it was a crime against the British people.cameron should be ashamed silly PC prick
May 23, 2013 at 8:19 PM
JW, it’s the same here in Germany. This disgusting politcal correctness is not just a Britsh thing but has generally infected all of Europe.
I recommend everyone to watch this video to see what this ‘political correctnes’-madness in Sweden has done to this brave woman and to the truth.
“Sweden Is More Dangerous Than Mogadishu ”
May 23, 2013 at 7:00 PM
The vast majority of people in the UK are sick fed up with this political correct crap, they are sick fed up with islam and the immigration that is destroying our country.
Simple truth is this. If the political parties do not do something about the issues that are concerning over 90% of us Brits there will be blood on the streets.
May 23, 2013 at 11:57 PM
Yes that’s so right and the solution is UKIP come and join us,ps we really will have an aggressive foreign policy
May 23, 2013 at 8:42 PM
What a joke…’security services’…the same ones who are not allowed to carry guns? OK, I know what….everyone just surrender to Islam. Let them support us and in return we’ll face east, put our asses in the air for them to kiss while we mumble a few words in prayer. Sounds like a plan to me. Now where did I put that damned compass??
May 23, 2013 at 8:54 PM
Never!
Elefteria I Thanatos (Liberty or Death).
There will come much worse. In Europe and in Britain.
As always our corrupt (or stupid) leaders will be too late to recognize their last chance to change course.
They will be swept away.
May 24, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Truthfully it really was fucked up.there were journalists there interviewing them at the terror scene,it was madness and PC gone crazy we have all watched it on the news,the foreigners were just carrying on like it was normal,
May 23, 2013 at 9:37 PM
There is a reason why the world leaders won’t said ”yes, is the islam, stupid”. Their countries are full – literally – with islamists from all the places; there are hundreds of thousand of islamists in – I’m not talking about muslims, which numbers are much bigger – France, in England, in Germany and all over the Europe. If the local christian population will start to understand what kind of animals that are starting to deal with are in front of them, this population will start to rise against them and then no muslim will be secure in Europe. That is what those leaders are trying to evict : a formidable bloodshed, the rising of an immense living wall which will smash all this scourge from the continent after many years nobody was paying attention to this. It is already no matter when this will fall upon them : this can happen in a couple of weeks, in a couple of month or in the next 10 – 20 years. It does not matter anymore, because this will surely happen. And we are not talking here about some armageddon prophesies, because that wont be serious. Its the clash of the civilisations that we are talking here about and it will take place in Europe, in the most violent way people have seen up to that event.
May 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM
It’s like having cancer. The longer you wait, the worse it becomes.
They may ignore it or deny it but it still keeps growing.
So they should better tell NOW the truth.
May 24, 2013 at 12:05 AM
IN England itd very difficult because a lot of english Muslims are only Muslims the way the English are Church of England,there rally very normal and not radical at all rarely go to the mosk there British they are disgusted by it and totally oppose the radicals,so in the Uk its more complicated
May 24, 2013 at 2:44 AM
I believe that this was a watershed moment.
As Luis said correctly, many of our leaders are afraid of the jihadists in our midst.
This is also one reason why they distance themselves from the US, support the ‘Palestinians’ and are critical of Israel.
In appeasing the muslims they hoped that they kept the peace in Europe and the jihadist blow up their bombs elsewhere.
That’s not possible anymore.
This was a blatant, brazen attack in broad daylight, recorded for the whole world to see.
This was a signal to all the jihadis in the world. They will view this as a signal that we are ripe to be conquered.
The fact that these pieces of shit killed this soldier and for 20 minutes no one dared (or cared) to do anything about it tells them how weak and pathetic as a society we are.
This invites jihadi scumbags from all the world to wage their jihad here.
No gentlemen. There is more to come. Much more worse to come.
This was the first shot in the next phase of jihad.
But this will also the beginning of their end because this will force a strong reaction which will crush them.
One final note: No written statements and no NRA-advertisment could ever make a more powerful argument for the right to bear arms. I wish we had a second amendmend here.
All you Americans, Never let them take your guns away. NEVER!
May 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM
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