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3/22/2017

Attacks In London

Filed under: General — Dana @ 9:20 am



[guest post by Dana]

An incident that police are treating as a terror attack, has happened in London:

A major security alert is under way at the Houses of Parliament after a man was shot by police as he tried to gain entry to the Palace of Westminster, mowing down pedestrians in what police are treating as a terror attack.

Witnesses described seeing a car crash into the perimeter fence on Westminster Bridge, hitting pedestrians, before the driver ran towards police officers guarding parliament.

Onlookers said a man armed with a knife had attacked police officers at the gate before being shot. One police officer has been stabbed in the incident at about 2.45pm.

At least three shots were heard and people described seeing two people laid on the ground.

There were reports that a car ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge just before the incident leaving up to a dozen injured.

From witnesses:

Witnesses have described seeing a middle-aged man carrying a knife and running towards the Palace of Westminster…

Jayne Wilkinson said: “We were taking photos of Big Ben and we saw all the people running towards us, and then there was an *Asian guy in about his 40s carrying a knife about seven or eight inches long.

(*As a reminder: The British refer to individuals from South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan) as “Asian”.)

Sky News is following the attack with live updates here.

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–Dana

17 Responses to “Attacks In London”

  1. Prayers for the victims.

    Dana (023079) — 3/22/2017 @ 9:21 am

  2. ‘A firearms incident.’

    The British understatement is priceless.

    Keep calm and carry on.

    DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/22/2017 @ 9:44 am

  3. I forgot to note in post that using a knife and truck as weapons in terror attacks comes from ISIS. Abdul Razak used the same method in his terror attack at Ohio State last year.

    Dana (023079) — 3/22/2017 @ 9:44 am

  4. We can’t rule out bad Asian drivers where the stick shift and steering wheel are on the wong side.

    Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 3/22/2017 @ 9:54 am

  5. So do the British use Oriental, Yellow, East Asian for the other kind of Asian?

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 3/22/2017 @ 10:08 am

  6. South Asia covers everything from Afghanistan to bangladesh.

    narciso (a305e8) — 3/22/2017 @ 10:11 am

  7. The Australian “WOG” covers the Levant plus Greece (Western-Oriental/Greek) and possibly the slavic/christian Balkan peoples.

    urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 3/22/2017 @ 10:21 am

  8. Seems to be this fellow:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3323903/British-hate-preacher-jailed-banned-leaving-UK-terrorism-fundraising-conviction-arrested-Hungary-offers-Koran-ID.html

    narciso (d1f714) — 3/22/2017 @ 11:54 am

  9. Curiously, it was just yesterday that Erdogan warned: “If you continue to behave like this, tomorrow in no part of the world, no European, no Westerner will be able to take steps on the street safely and peacefully,”

    Such a coincidence!

    BobStewartatHome (448c1e) — 3/22/2017 @ 12:42 pm

  10. A picture of the attacker is shown in this article (third photo from top.) He appears to be rather typical for these sorts of activities.

    Sadly, it appears he killed the policeman with his knife before he was shot and killed by other policemen. He also killed a woman with his car. There was one report of a second attacker who fled the car after it crashed.

    BobStewartatHome (448c1e) — 3/22/2017 @ 12:51 pm

  11. Greetings:

    As for Londonistan’s First Muslim Mayor ( or is that sheik ??? ), I’m pretty sure he’ll “Keep Smug and Carry On” knowing that all those subdued kuffars won’t dare to delve into the ideology that is Islam for any accelerants.

    11B40 (6abb5c) — 3/22/2017 @ 1:34 pm

  12. Dana @3. I forgot to note in post that using a knife and truck as weapons in terror attacks comes from ISIS

    I think the same idea, or at least the idea of a two site attack, with the second site being an attack on the Parliament is a little older than what people are saying. But maybe it doesn’t predate ISIS because the attacker had probably been trying to get to ISIS controlled territorya..

    That happened in Canada, although in that case the terrorist had a gun, and he used a car mainly to get around, although he did try to run over one person in amaking his escape from the first site..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawa (October 22, 2014)

    Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/23/2017 @ 12:48 pm

  13. There was also a terrorist attack in New York City, but this one was by a white supremeacist, and was less successful, because the attacker and his group were more amateurish, and being as he only wanted to attack makle blacks in an area used by all people, he was limited in his ability to find targets. He killed a 66-year old man who was out colllecting bottles.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/suspect-midtown-knife-killing-surrenders-cops-article-1.3005263

    Jackson also told police that he was a member of a white supremacist group and that he detailed his racist views on his laptop computer. Police confiscated the computer and his cellphone, but were waiting late Wednesday for a search warrant to examine them.

    Jackson said he initially wanted to stab a black man, then grab a cop’s gun and “shoot some people,” a police source said.

    The group Jackson is affiliated with was not immediately known.

    Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/23/2017 @ 12:54 pm

  14. Meanwhile, police in Israel arrested a 19-year Israeli American, who is Jewish, on grounds of being responsible for almost all the threats against Jewish Community Centers, and other Jewish organizations in the United States. There’s a lot of computer expertise in Israel, so there is some plausibility to this thing.

    No clues or explanation released as to why.

    http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/23/middleeast/israeli-american-teen-arrested-jcc-bomb-threats/

    Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/23/2017 @ 1:01 pm

  15. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/world/europe/london-attack-uk.html

    London Attacker Khalid Masood Had 20-Year Police Record

    Not apparently a terrorism related record – he was one of the people recruited by terrorists in prison – becasue they don’t vet the mullahs.

    Sammy Finkelman (6f9f42) — 3/23/2017 @ 3:49 pm

  16. narciso (in the CNN Trump thread @79 on 3/23/2017 @ 9:53 am

    Khalid masoud, is the fellow gchq should have kept their eye on.

    Well they needed something to go on. They now arrested what, seven other people?

    narciso @80 @ 10:16 am there:

    So one black Muslim convert, a couple of black yoots in Arizona and one Israeli teenager, any apologies to trump?

    Probably not.

    What was the Arizona thing about?

    Sammy Finkelman (3ea6b3) — 3/23/2017 @ 5:08 pm

  17. How to help one of the victims:

    https://www.gofundme.com/melissaandkurt

    Melissa was hurt and Kurt was killed.

    They were among the first hit by the vehicle on the Westminster bridge. It was their last day of a trip to visit Melissa’s parents who are serving as missionaries in the London LDS temple.

    …

    Melissa needs funds to help cover her regular monthly expenses and loss of income, as she recovers.

    Kevin M (25bbee) — 3/24/2017 @ 10:57 am


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