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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @09:08PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @09:08PM (#520363)

    Given that most victims of worldwide Islamic terrorism are muslim, what "motives" do you attribute to people who object to such slaughter?

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @09:54PM (#520383)

    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."

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @11:56PM (#520452)

      whatever implications you saw there are in your head

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @01:18AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @01:18AM (#520492)

        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."

        No it does not but you appear to be implying they are mutually exclusive positions when they are in fact entirely congruent.

        whatever implications you saw there are in your head

        No, they are in your head! As, clearly, am I; how is that working for you?