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posted by n1 on Sunday June 04 2017, @03:25AM   Printer-friendly

Armed police respond to serious incidents at London Bridge and Borough Market – with members of the public urged to reach areas of safety.

Since late yesterday evening [Saturday, 3 June], the Metropolitan Police Service has been responding to incidents in the London Bridge and Borough Market areas of south London. We are treating this as a terrorist incident and a full investigation is already underway, led by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.

[...] Six people have been killed in terror attacks on London Bridge and at Borough Market.
Three male suspects have been shot dead by police.
Canisters seen around the body of at least one of the suspects have been “established to be hoaxes”, police said.
Police believe all of those directly responsible for the attack have been killed.

[...] Since March there has been the Westminster attack by Khalid Masood, who mowed down pedestrians near parliament and stabbed a policeman, resulting in six deaths, including his own: and the Manchester bombing two weeks ago that killed 22. And now London again.

[...] An editor in the Sun’s London Bridge Street office says police confirmed that a number of blasts heard [...] were controlled explosions.

Source: The Guardian

An investigation into the foreign funding of extremist Islamist groups may never be published, the Home Office has admitted.

The inquiry commissioned by David Cameron, was launched as part of a deal with the Liberal Democrats in December 2015, in exchange for the party supporting the extension of British airstrikes against Isis into Syria.

But although it was due to be published in the spring of 2016, it has not been completed and may never be made public due to its "sensitive" contents.

It is thought to focus on Saudi Arabia, which the UK recently approved £3.5bn worth of arms export licences to.

Source: The Independent

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @05:30AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @05:30AM (#520111)

    Poland almost never has terrorist attacks. Poland happens to block refugees.

    It's been 2 decades since Japan had a terrorist attack. Tokyo is not a small city; why isn't it like London or Paris? This could be because Japan only let in a couple dozen refugees and has about 1000 muslims in the entire country, all being tracked and monitored by the national government by act of parliament.

    Europe as a whole gets about 1 attack every 8 or 9 days. Remember, this isn't happening in Poland. The reason is obvious, as is the solution.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @07:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @07:12AM (#520128)

    Israeli Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) needs to bring people in to make the attacks. They cannot use the locals, as the puppet masters will be easily found out. They can't risk their entire operation of starting WW3 being exposed.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @03:11PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @03:11PM (#520233)

    Poland almost never has terrorist attacks. Poland happens to block refugees.

    Poland is hardly a beacon of light.

    Poland also restricts freedom of the press. [ft.com]
    Racist attacks by whites are up 10x since 2000 [dw.com] and a government council established to investigate the causes of such attacks was recently abolished by the new right-wing government.

    It's been 2 decades since Japan had a terrorist attack.

    In 2008 a man drove a truck into the crowd [wikipedia.org] in the Akihabara district of Tokyo killing 7 and injuring another 10.
    In 2016 a man stabbed 19 to death and injured another 45 [theguardian.com] in a town outside of Tokyo.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @10:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @10:50PM (#520405)

      Ran out of instances in Tokyo, so you had to reference a city outside of Tokyo. Sad.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @02:03AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @02:03AM (#520514)

      Thank you for the rundown on this Poland thing that got started.