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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @01:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @01:49PM (#520210)

    Simple-minded people think the world is black and white. It's not. The Republicans are motherfuckers, and the Democrats are motherfuckers too.

    It takes a truly impressive level of mental compartmentalization to write those two sentences in sequence.

    Yes the world is not black and white. And that's why the two parties are not equally bad. Both parties have their failings. But one party has driven the bus off the end of the pier while the other party is just playing in the surf.

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  • (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday June 04 2017, @05:07PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Sunday June 04 2017, @05:07PM (#520271) Journal

    "British rebels attack Theresa May strongholds in London"

    See:
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20238859 [bbc.com]

    This is the natural and inevitable consequence of US/UK military policy since the 1990's, with direct British precedents in TE Laurence and General Charles George Gordon.

    Ideologies and religious convictions are the ornaments of this conflict, not its causes. To think otherwise is poor analysis - like shooting an arrow where one pleases, then drawing a bullseye around the mark.

    --
    You're betting on the pantomime horse...