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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: 4, Interesting) by Entropy on Sunday June 04 2017, @05:55PM (9 children)
According to London's Muslim mayor, Sadiq Kahn:
“no reason to be alarmed.”
“one of the safest global cities in the world if not the safest global cities in the world”
"Trump's ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe. It risks alienating mainstream Muslims. London has proved him wrong"
Terrorism is... “part and parcel of living in a big city”
I don't know about you guys, but in my big city we don't have terrorists blowing stuff up because we didn't let them into the country by the millions, call them refugees, and then prevent anyone from talking about the rape gangs and bombings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @06:26PM (7 children)
Nor is that happening in London either, no matter how hard you try to push the alt-reich line.
BTW, which big city is yours?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @07:40PM (6 children)
22/03/17 Westminster: 6 dead, 49 injured
22/05/17 Manchester: 23 dead, 119 injured
03/06/17 London Bridge: 7 dead, 21 injured
Total (denial): It's all some right wing fantasy
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @08:25PM (5 children)
Wooosh!
The fact that there were attacks is not disputable.
The ridiculously self-serving attribution of their motives is.
PS - Manchester is not London
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @08:36PM (4 children)
I included Manchester for illustrative purposes, it can happen in any city, anytime. As to "self-serving attribution", we're on day 9 of Ramadan and we currently have 510 people murdered worldwide by Islamists in 46 attacks. There was over 1500 people murdered last month and 1850 murdered during last years Ramadan. It appears this years final total will be higher. Given that most victims of worldwide Islamic terrorism are muslim, what "motives" do you attribute to people who object to such slaughter?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @09:08PM (3 children)
Muslims being killed by terrorists certainly has nothing to do with, "because we didn't let them into the country by the millions, call them refugees, and then prevent anyone from talking about the rape gangs and bombings."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @09:54PM (2 children)
No it does not but you appear to be implying they are mutually exclusive positions when they are in fact entirely congruent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @11:56PM (1 child)
whatever implications you saw there are in your head
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @01:18AM
No, they are in your head! As, clearly, am I; how is that working for you?
(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Tuesday June 06 2017, @04:04PM
The first line was something Trump took out of context from the original statement; Khan actually said that there was no reason to be alarmed by the increased police presence. The rest of the stuff you've posted has also been debunked by the same articles that debunked the "no reason to be alarmed" part. It's worth reading the whole statement - and responses by people a bit less reactionary than Trump - so you have the whole story.