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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @08:42AM (3 children)
They haven't reflected on that there are more British people than Muslims in the UK by a wide margin? If it comes to a sharp situation that can turn into a terminal and final result. Organized violence is something the west has refined for many hundreds of years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @02:31PM (2 children)
The problem is that it's a religion. Logic and rationale almost immediately goes out the window in favor of blind belief and faith. Dying in a holy war is a sure fire ticket to 72 virgins. True, vigilant, belief in such things is enough to make people even desire death.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @06:33PM (1 child)
What's so great about virgins? They don't know how to do it. Give me three experienced women every time.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2017, @03:56PM
Are they even specified to be women? They might rock up to the Muslim version of the pearly gates and get presented with 72 UKIP voters with stained Y-fronts and a beer-gut poking out from under a string vest.