The propagandists really can't expect us to take this seriously.... can they?
"Man is hacked to death near London base" by John F. Burns | New York Times, May 23, 2013
LONDON — In an attack that raised new fears of terrorism in Britain, a man walking Wednesday near a military barracks in south London was rammed by a car on a sidewalk and was then hacked to death by two assailants wielding a cleaver and a kitchen knife, according to witnesses and video taken after the attack. Some accounts said the victim had been beheaded.
British officials did not identify him by name, but the French president, Francois Hollande, referred to the victim as “a soldier” in expressing France’s sympathy to the visiting British prime minister, David Cameron, who was in Paris when the attack took place.
The two assailants were shot and wounded by armed police, officials said, and were in the hospital under police guard. One was described as being in serious condition. One of the men shouted “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” as the attack proceeded, government officials said.
Cameron, who interrupted a European tour to return to London on Wednesday night, said at a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris that the killing was “an appalling murder” and “absolutely sickening.”
“There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident,” Cameron said.
ITV News showed a video clip taken with a cellphone in which a man who appeared to be in his 20s or early 30s, holding a cleaver and knife with bloodied hands, offered what appeared to be a political message before the police arrived.
Except there is NO BLOOD on his CLOTHES, and it looks like the fake blood used at the scene of the scripted and staged crisis drills in Boston!
“I am sorry that women and children should have to see this,” the man said. He then referred to what appeared to be a motive for the attack, saying that it had been carried out “because of what’s going on in our own countries.”
That phrase has been used by militants to refer to conflicts in countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia.
He must have been Somali because it was a black guy.
The assault took place on a busy suburban street in Woolwich, the site of one of the main military barracks in London.
Is this ever starting to smell like a psyop.
A neighborhood primary school is nearby, and witnesses said that some of those who saw the attack were parents and children returning home from the school.
A small blue car involved in the ramming of the victim appeared to have collided with a telephone pole afterward.
It was visible in photographs and television coverage of the scene, with extensive damage to its hood and front window.
Witnesses said they saw two men standing with blades over a man lying prone on the sidewalk, beside a wall. Shortly after the attack, these witnesses said, a man with a handgun leapt from an unmarked car and trained his gun on the assailants, shouting to passersby to clear the area.
With Cameron in France, the home secretary, Theresa May, called an emergency meeting of the Cobra committee, a group of Cabinet ministers and high-level security officials that oversees the operations of police and security agencies at times of high security alerts.
Officials said that the group had ordered a tightening of security around all military barracks and other security facilities in Britain, including police stations.
May described what had happened as a “sickening and barbaric attack.”
“It has been confirmed to me that a man has been brutally murdered,” she said after a meeting with the chief of Scotland Yard, Bernard Hogan-Howe, and Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, the domestic security service.
“Two other men were shot by armed police, and they are currently receiving treatment for their injuries.”
In a Twitter post, the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said the attack was a “sickening deluded and unforgivable act of violence.”
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Related: Woolwich Sandy Hook Boston PreFabricated
If you see it in your ma$$ media it is most likely a staged and scripted event.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
I'm getting the sense that AmeriKa's media doesn't want to bother with this one too much longer. Even they don't like looking ridiculous.
"UK soldier’s alleged killer has radical ties; Marched with banned group; possible terror plot investigated" by Paisley Dodds and Gregory Katz | Associated Press, May 24, 2013
LONDON — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier in London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday.
Oh, no, he was working for MI5 or MI6.
Police raided houses in connection with the slaying of the off-duty soldier, identified as Lee Rigby, of the Second Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, who served in Afghanistan. In addition to the two suspects who were hospitalized after being shot by police, authorities said they had arrested a man and a woman, both 29, on suspicion of conspiracy to murder.
Police would not say whether it appeared Rigby had been targeted because of his military service. Although he was not in uniform at the time he was killed, he was said by witnesses to be wearing a T-shirt for a British veterans’ charity.
Authorities have not identified either of the two wounded suspects and have not said when they would do so. Officials in Britain usually wait to name suspects until charges have been filed.
Anjem Choudary, the former head of the radical group al-Muhajiroun, said that the man depicted in a startling video that emerged after Rigby’s death was named Michael Adebolajo, a Christian who converted to Islam around 2003 and took part in several demonstrations by the group in London....
I haven't linked it, but it's ridiculous. It is so obviously and blatantly a fake it's embarrassing.
Omar Bakri Muhammad, who now lives in Lebanon but had been a radical Muslim preacher in London, also said he recognized the man seen on TV as Adebolajo and said he attended his London lectures in the early 2000s.
Bakri, speaking from Lebanon, said he remembers Adebolajo as a ‘‘shy person’’ who was keen to learn about Islam.
The two men suspected of killing Rigby, 25, had been part of previous investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider terrorist plot.
Oh, no, once again they were PATSIES UNDER SURVEILLANCE to be shepherded out when useful for propaganda purposes!
Rigby, the father of a 2-year-old boy, was slain Wednesday afternoon outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich area of south London while horrified bystanders watched.
Except the camera man sure was calm when the killer was right next to them(?).
The bizarre scene was recorded on witnesses’ cellphones, with one of the two suspects boasting of their exploits and warning of more violence as Rigby lay on the ground. Holding bloody knives and a meat cleaver, they waited for the arrival of police, who shot them in the legs, according to a passerby who tried to save the dying man.
WTF?
A British government official said one of the two men tried to go to Somalia to train or fight with the terror group al-Shabab.
We had already drawn that conclusion.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the police investigation, would not say if the suspect had been arrested or whether he had made any other trips to the country.
Prime Minister David Cameron vowed that Britain would not be cowed by the horrific bloodshed, and that it would reject ‘‘the poisonous narrative of extremism on which this violence feeds.’’ In Washington, President Obama said the United States ‘‘stands resolute with the United Kingdom’’ in the fight against violent extremism.
I'm smelling a staged and scripted false flag that carries the additional quality of distraction from scandal.
Dramatic video showed a black man — hands stained with blood and holding a meat cleaver — criticizing the British government and the presence of UK troops in foreign lands.
Yeah, how come there was no blood on his clothes?
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"British arrest Irishman in 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing" by Shawn Pogatchnik | Associated Press, May 23, 2013
DUBLIN — British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the 1982 IRA attack on the queen’s cavalry in Hyde Park, a nail-bombing at a top London tourist attraction that left four soldiers and seven horses dead.
Wednesday’s surprise arraignment of John Downey in a London court came on the 15th anniversary of the ratification of the Good Friday peace accord for Northern Ireland, which sought to end three decades of bloodshed.
Authorities declined to explain why they arrested Downey as he arrived Sunday at London’s Gatwick Airport nearly 31 years after the attack.
Sinn Fein demanded Downey’s release. The Irish nationalist party accused Britain of violating an agreement not to pursue Downey, who had been on a list of IRA suspects ‘‘on the run’’ from British investigators.
Sinn Fein official Gerry Kelly called Downey’s arrest ‘‘vindictive, unnecessary, and unhelpful’’ and an act of ‘‘bad faith’’ by the British government. The party said Britain should no longer be pursuing Irish Republican Army suspects in keeping with the spirit, if not the letter, of the 1998 Good Friday pact.
The IRA’s main faction, the Provisional IRA, killed nearly 1,800 people during a failed 1970-1997 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom.
Antiterrorist police in London and Northern Ireland, including a special ‘‘cold cases’’ unit, have continued to investigate unsolved IRA killings despite the Provisionals’ 2005 decision to renounce violence and disarm.
Sporadic arrests of IRA veterans, often with Sinn Fein ties, have repeatedly raised tensions in the peace process, which remains incomplete as IRA splinter groups continue to mount occasional bombings and shootings.
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Related: Real Terror in Ireland
See who is behind it?
"Plans unveiled to tear down wall separating Catholics, Protestants in Belfast" Associated Press, May 10, 2013
DUBLIN — Northern Ireland hopes to tear down the so-called ‘‘peace lines’’ of Belfast — dozens of walls of brick, steel, and barbed wire that divide Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods — within a decade, officials said Thursday. But the deadline of 2023 is a sign of how difficult the task will be.
Maybe Muslim terrorists can unite them.
The government unveiled the goal as part of plans to reduce divisions in what remains a profoundly polarized society 15 years after the Good Friday peace accord.
First Minister Peter Robinson, a Protestant, and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, a Catholic, said 10,000 people aged 16 to 24 who were out of school and unemployed would be offered paid placements involving cross-community work designed to help them build friendships with peers from the other side. They said 100 summer camps would bring together younger children from across the divide.
And Robinson and McGuinness said 10 new neighborhoods would be built that recruit balanced numbers of Protestant and Catholic families. Nine-tenths of residential areas are overwhelmingly one side or the other.
The headline-grabber was their aim to remove the dozens of security fences that scar the urban landscape of Belfast. The biggest of the barriers dates to 1970 after major Catholic-Protestant street battles in the British territory.
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