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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 22 2017, 12:01 PM (629 Views) | |
| Webster | Mar 22 2017, 12:01 PM Post #1 |
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.......there are reports coming in over the wire of an apparent terrorist incident right outside or in the vicinity of the Houses of Parliament in London.... (The Guardian) Reports of shooting at House of Commons --There are reports of a shooting at the Commons --Man shot in entrance to the Commons. Appears to be a policeman down too (Jason Groves, Daily Mail - 22 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 11:31 AM Post #181 |
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(The Guardian) These are some of the floral tributes in Westminster and next to the National Police Memorial.![]()
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 11:32 AM Post #182 |
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(The Guardian) At least 100 people have attended a memorial in Spain to commemorate Aysha Frade, who was also killed in the terror attack on Wednesday, the Press Association reports. A minute’s silence was held in the Galician municipality of Betanzos, where the British national’s family originates and where she spent her summers. Betanzos councillor Andres Hermida said the community in Spain was in “enormous pain” and shrouded in an “atmosphere of sadness”. He told the Press Association: We had a minute’s silence in the Plaza de la Constitucion outside the local government building and we have declared three days of mourning, which will include flying the flag at half mast until Saturday. About 100 people attended despite the rainy weather. Frade, who worked in administration at independent sixth-form school DLD College London, in Westminster, is understood to have been 43 and married with two daughters. Reports said she had left work and was crossing Westminster Bridge as part of her usual routine when she was hit by the car. Her family is well known in Betanzos, where older sisters Silvia and Michelle run the Notting Hill English language academy. According to Hermida: The sisters suspended classes at the academy yesterday afternoon when they received the news and they left for London, we believe with their mother. Aysha spent her summers here and had many friends here since her childhood, so we are all very affected. You never think things like this will happen to you and it’s horrible luck when it happens at all, but when it happens close then it hurts that much more. It’s an immense tragedy and an enormous pain - there is a big sadness in Betanzos. We have condemned the terrorist attack and promised our support to the family. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 11:33 AM Post #183 |
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(The Guardian) Jonathan Bartley, the Green party co-leader, has accused Ukip of trying to exploit the attack to divid communities. Responding to the statement from the Ukip leader Paul Nuttall), Bartley said: Every time you think Ukip can’t sink any lower, they do. It is abhorrent that Paul Nuttall is trying to capitalise on this terrible tragedy to create division between communities. Just a brief look around him would have revealed to Nutall a resilient multicultural society coming together to reject violence. Trying to blame certain communities for this horrific incident is politics at its worst – the Ukip leader should be utterly ashamed. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 11:34 AM Post #184 |
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(The Guardian) Right-wing commentators have wasted no time in appearing on US media and using the Westminster attack to further their political agendas. Nigel Farage has appeared twice on US television already, today arguing that the London attacks prove Donald Trump is right on hardline immigration and anti-Muslim policy. “It seems to me our political leaders really ought to start saying sorry,” the former Ukip leader told Tucker Carlson on Fox News Thursday morning. Surely this is the big take out: when Donald Trump tries to makes America safer, when Donald Trump tries to make sure that these scenes we’ve had in Paris, Brussels and Berlin and now London aren’t repeated in America, we have people on Fifth Ave and behind me in Westminster out on the streets protesting. What these politicians have done for the last 15 years may well affect how we live in this country for the next 100 years. He appeared on Fox News on Wednesday night, just hours after the attack, making a similar point. “We’ve made some terrible mistakes in this country,” Farage told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “When Donald Trump tries to put in place vetting measures, he’s doing it to protect your country,” he added. He wasn’t the only hardline conservative to appear in the US media. Daily Mail columnist Katie Hopkins also turned up on Tucker Carlson’s Fox show, echoing Farage’s xenophobic rhetoric. We’re a country that spends so much time tiptoeing around the cultures that refuse to join us and not enough time defending the culture they’ve chosen to join, but because I say those things I am widely hated for those views. People are cowed, people are afraid and people are not united. UK writers on US alt-right websites also used the London terror attacks to incite hatred against Muslims. In a video on InfoWars, a site which published conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton’s health during the 2016 election, writer Paul Joseph Watson argued that it was time to “acknowledge that Islam is not a religion of peace and in serious need of reform”. On Breitbart News, whose former executive chair Steve Bannon is now one of the most influential advisors to the president, UK executive editor James Delingpole wrote a column declaring that Islamic terror attacks could end Western liberal values. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 11:35 AM Post #185 |
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--A great American, Kurt Cochran, was killed in the London terror attack. My prayers and condolences are with his family and friends. (Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - 23 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 11:36 AM Post #186 |
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(The Guardian) Westminster attacker named as Khalid Masood --Police have named the attacker as Khalid Masood. He was 52, born in Kent and detectives believe he was most recently living in the West Midlands. Masood, aged 52, was born in Kent and detectives believe he was most recently living in the West Midlands. Masood was also known by a number of aliases, police said in a statement Scotland Yard said Masood was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack. However, he was known to police and has a range of previous convictions for assaults, including GBH, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences. His first conviction was in November 1983 for criminal damage and his last conviction was in December 2003 for possession of a knife. He has not been convicted for any terrorism offences. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 12:06 PM Post #187 |
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(The Guardian) A woman from an inner-city Birmingham estate which was raided by anti-terror police has claimed the dead London terrorist was her neighbour. Factory worker Iwona Romek, who did not know the attacker’s name, described the killer as a dad who was a keen gardener and lived with his Asian wife and young child. Romek, 45, who has lived in Quayside, Winson Green, for 12 years confirmed she knew the London terrorist when she was shown a photograph of him on the stretcher. I have been so shocked by it all. They were a nice family - very reserved. He was very calm. I saw the photo’s on the TV and knew it was the man who lived here. He had a wife, a young Asian woman and a small child who went to school. Romek said the family moved out a few months ago. The house is now occupied by new tenants. On Thursday afternoon a police van remained parked outside the white front door. He was a nice guy. I used to see him outside doing his garden. Never any trouble. Romek said the man and his family moved out around Christmas very suddenly and did not say goodbye. Describing the late-night raid she said officers swarmed the terraced mews house. I just heard a lot banging and shouting. They were shouting to open the door. It was all a bit scary. There was a helicopter above and men in white suits. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 01:02 PM Post #188 |
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()The Guardian) Keith Palmer's family pay tribute to 'brave and courageous' officer --The family of PC Keith Palmer have released a statement through the Met police: Keith will be remembered as a wonderful dad and husband. A loving son, brother and uncle. A longtime supporter of Charlton FC. Dedicated to his job and proud to be a police officer, brave and courageous. A friend to everyone who knew him. He will be deeply missed. We love him so much. His friends and family are shocked and devastated by his loss and ask that they are left to grieve alone in peace. The police have also released more details of Palmer’s career, he joined the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command in April 2016 and before that was in the territorial support group, based at Catford but patrolling and working across London. Before the TSG, he was based in Bromley borough between 2002 and 2009. Keith was 48 and joined the Met in November 2001. He was married with a five-year-old daughter. He was nominated in 2015 for best thief taker in the Commissioner’s Excellence Awards, having made more than 150 arrests in 12 months. PC James Aitkenhead, who worked alongside him in the TSG, called him a “genuinely nice person”. When I heard what had happened I knew it would be him because that’s just the sort of guy he was, to step straight in when others might step back. He had a great work ethic, he worked on our warrants’ car for years, getting up at 4am to serve warrants and arresting wanted offenders. He was always so positive, always staying late after everyone else and getting in early. In his personal life he was a massive Charlton Athletic fan and had a season ticket. We will miss him so much. Insp Mark Turner, from the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command, who most recently worked withPalmer, said: He really was a solid reliable member of the team – he came in and just got the job done, quietly and efficiently. He was a fantastic member of staff and will be sorely missed. As a mark of respect, Palmer’s shoulder number – 4157U – will be retired and not reissued to any other officer. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 01:05 PM Post #189 |
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![]() --EU flags at half-mast at our headquarters. We stand with London and the British people. (European Commission, 23 March 2017) |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 01:05 PM Post #190 |
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(The Guardian) PM Visits Injured At Hospital --Theresa May has made a 40-minute private visit to an unnamed London hospital to comfort victims of yesterday’s attacks and thank medical staff, her spokesman said at this afternoon’s lobby briefing. May also travelled to Buckingham Palace last night, at about 6pm, to hold her usual audience with the Queen, the spokesman confirmed. He said May had signed the condolence book for the victims of the attacks and had received calls from a series of world leaders since the attack, including the French president, François Hollande, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Donald Trump. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 01:07 PM Post #191 |
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![]() (The Guardian) Boris Johnson, the foreign secretary, has been speaking to reporters in New York after a meeting of the UN security council. He said that an attack on London was an attack on the world, and that democracy would prevail. Yesterday the people of London were attacked in a cowardly and despicable way and our thoughts today are with the victims and their families. And on behalf of the United Kingdom I’m grateful for all the condolences that have been expressed here at the UN and the minute’s silence that was held in the security council. You may know that today there are victims in London from 11 nations which goes to show that an attack on London is an attack on the world. And I can tell you from my talks here with the US government and with partners around the world that the world is united to defeat the people who launched this attack, to defeat their bankrupt and odious ideology. And I say that in confidence because our values are superior, our view of the world is better and more generous and our will is stronger. Our Houses of Parliament in London have been attacked for centuries by all sorts of people. But the ideas embodied in that Palace of Westminster, freedom, democracy, the equality of human beings under the law, are stronger than any adversary and they will prevail. Interestingly, Johnson also called for a debate about whether it was right to allow images of terrorist attacks to be broadcast as those events are taking place. He said: I may say, by the way, that I do believe that we should go through a period of reflection about how we transmit images of these events around the world in real time. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 02:08 PM Post #192 |
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(The Guardian) 1:27pm Summary --Four people have died, including police officer Keith Palmer, and the attacker. Seven of the 29 people injured remain in a critical condition. --The assailant was named by police on Thursday as Khalid Masood, 52, who was born in Kent but was believed to have been living in the West Midlands most recently. --He drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing two people, before crashing it outside parliament and trying to enter the complex, armed with a knife. --One of the victims was named as Aysha Frade, 43, who worked as a teacher in London. The mother-of-two had family in Betanzos, Galicia, in north-west Spain. --The third person killed by the attacker was named as Kurt Cochran, a US tourist, who was in Europe to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary with his wife, Melissa. She is in hospital with serious injuries. --The prime minister, Theresa May, said Masood had been investigated “some years ago” by MI5 in relation to concerns about violent extremism but was “not part of the current intelligence picture”. --The Met police said Masood had a range of previous convictions for assaults, including GBH, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences. His most recent was in December 2003 for possession of a knife. --Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack but its claim has not been verified. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 02:09 PM Post #193 |
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(The Guardian) As well as Birmingham earlier, police have conducted raids in Brighton and Wales on Thursday. A spokesman for Sussex police declined to confirm whether raids had taken place in Brighton, saying: “All questions about the operation should be referred to the Metropolitan police.” The Met has confirmed that police are still searching an address in Carmathenshire, Wales, as well as three in Birmingham and one in east London. Searches at addresses in Brighton and southeast London have now ended. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 02:17 PM Post #194 |
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(The Guardian) More detail from the Met on those arrests made overnight: --A 39-year-old woman was arrested at an address in east London. --A 21-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were arrested at an address in Birmingham. --A 26-year-old woman and three men aged 28, 27 and 26 years old were arrested at a separate address in Birmingham. All were arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts. --Further, a 58-year-old man was arrested on Thursday morning at a separate address in Birmingham on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts. |
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| Webster | Mar 23 2017, 02:22 PM Post #195 |
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(The Guardian) The Independent Police Complaints Commission has said “no police officers are under investigation” over the Westminster terror attack, but it is “currently investigating the circumstances”. IPCC deputy chair Sarah Green said: “I recognise that this is a very difficult time for the police service, following the tragic loss of Pc Keith Palmer and the injuries to other officers. We are giving this investigation the highest priority and we will conclude it as soon as possible.” |
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