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| Van Mows Down Pedestrians Near London Mosque | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 18 2017, 08:17 PM (246 Views) | |
| Webster | Jun 18 2017, 08:17 PM Post #1 |
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Breaking 911: Van Mows Down Pedestrians Near London Mosque, Massive Police Response![]()
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 10:05 AM Post #91 |
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(The Guardian) Summary - 7:33am --Police have confirmed they are investigating a terror attack in London after a van ploughed into people near a north London mosque, leaving one person dead and injuring eight others. A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, and two of those hit by the van were said to be “very seriously injured”. --Witnesses said the driver had shouted: “I want to kill all Muslims” before onlookers pinned him to the ground. The suspect was protected by a local imam after being pinned down by members of the Muslim community. --Theresa May has vowed that “hatred and evil” of the kind seen in the attack on a north London mosque will never succeed. May said that the attack on Muslims was “every bit as insidious and destructive to our values and our way of life” as the recent string of terror attacks apparently motivated by Islamist extremism. --The Labour leader and local MP, Jeremy Corbyn, spent much of the early morning at Muslim Welfare House, where the attack took place. He said: “I see it this is a terror on the streets … in the communities … We have to all reach out and feel their pain and their stress.” --Police said it was too early to state if the man who died at the scene was killed in the attack. He was being helped when the van ploughed into pedestrians. All of the victims of the attack, including two who are in a critical condition, are from the Muslim community. --The suspected attacker, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, waved to the crowd as he was led away. The van involved in the attack is marked with the livery of the hire company, which is based on an industrial estate close to the M4 12 miles west of Cardiff. --White supremacists have celebrated the attack, according to the US extremist monitoring group Site. It also said pro-Islamic State channels were using reports of the incident to incite Muslims. --Muslim leaders have reacted with shock, condemnation and calls for security at mosques to be stepped up. Many also said the backdrop of the attack was rising Islamophobia. Support also came from Christian, Jewish and Sikh leaders. |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 10:06 AM Post #92 |
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![]() (The Guardian) Mohammed Kozbar, the chairman of the nearby Finsbury Park mosque, has given a statement at the scene flanked by other religious leaders from the Islington faith forum and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Pointing out that members of different faith communities gathered at Muslim Welfare House on Saturday to remember the murdered MP Jo Cox, he said: “To honour and celebrate her affirmation that we all have more in common than we have things which differentiate us.” He added: “Less than 48 hours later the same area experienced a terrorist attack, aimed at killing Muslim returning home after their Ramadan prayers. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the person who died and with all those injured and traumatised by this event. An attack on one faith is an attack on all faith and communities. Those who try to divide us and who aim to spread fear, hatred and division will not succeed … May we stand together in these challenging times.” |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 10:07 AM Post #93 |
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![]() --Latest statement: Our thoughts are with all of those affected by the incident in #FinsburyPark earlier today (London Ambulance Service, 19 June 2017) |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 10:08 AM Post #94 |
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(The Guardian) Met pledges extra police protection for Muslim communities --The Met commissioner Cressida Dick has promised extra protection for Muslim communities in the coming days. Speaking at the scene, she said: “This was quite clearly an attack on Muslims who looked like they were probably Muslims and they were coming from a prayer meeting. “We treat this as a terrorist attack. We in the Met are as shocked as anybody in this local community or across the country. We take all kinds of hate crime or violent extremism incredibly serious and wherever we possibly can, prevent attacks. And if we cannot prevent an attack then we will seek, obviously, to bring people to justice. “This is as, her majesty said, a sombre time and last night has added to that sombreness. “But in relation to the Met it does nothing other than strengthen our resolve to get our there, prevent attacks and protect our communities. And the people in Muslim communities attending prayers will see their police protecting them in the coming days and nights.” Dick added: This is a highly integrated, truly diverse and multicultural place. The relationships between the police and community here are very important to us, and are mostly very good indeed. I’ve just come from a meeting of people of 20 faiths all from the local communities, who are saying, as I say, ‘the people who perpetrate attacks like this think they will not break our society down and cause division between us, and they won’t do that and they won’t win’. This is very resilient city and very, very resilient set of communities. My police officers responded here within a minute and we had a large presence within 10 minutes. We have also responded to other attacks over the last few weeks and we are still working very hard in relation to the recovery from the horrible events at Grenfell Tower. |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 10:09 AM Post #95 |
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![]() (The Guardian) Imam 'protected attacker from mob' --Imam Mohammed Mahmoud has described how he protected the attacker from an angry mob, after he was pinned down at the scene. Speaking to reporters he said: We arrived at the scene within minutes and we found the assailant on the floor. He had been restrained by around three people. We found a group of people quickly started to collect around the assailant. And some tried to hit him, either kicks or punches. By God’s grace we manage to surround him and to protect him from any harm. We stopped all forms of attack and abuse towards him that were coming from every angle. A police van drove past so we flagged them down we told them the situation. There’s a man he’s restrained. He mowed down a group of people and there’s a mob attempting to hurt him. Mahmoud, who is Iman at the Muslim Welfare Centre, said the attacker was unharmed by the crowd. He added: “We pushed the people back. He didn’t say a word. It wasn’t me alone. There was a group of brothers. “He seemed calmed. I just heard he said ‘I did my bit’. It is a tragic and barbaric terrorist attack.” |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 10:10 AM Post #96 |
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(The Guardian) Imam Mahmoud added the man who was killed in the attack had regained consciousness before the van struck. He said: I had just finished leading prayer and around five minutes after we finished prayers, a brother came in quite panicked and said that somebody had run over a group of people and tried to kill them. We found around 15 to 20 people on the scene attending to the injured and administrating CPR on the brother who is now deceased. As far as I know the deceased collapsed and then people came to tend to him. They bought him a chair to sit down. He regained consciousness and as he regained consciousness the van drove perpendicular to Seven Sisters Road. It wasn’t that [the van] mounted the curb by accident, it was deliberate. He drove at 90 degree angle. It was enough to make people fly off to the side and he dragged two people underneath him. One of whom we are worried that he may be paralysed for life, because he couldn’t move his arms and legs and said he couldn’t feel them. He added: “This community of ours is a calm community, not known for their violence. Our mosques are incredibly peaceful. I can assure you we will do our utmost to calm down ill intentions.” |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 10:11 AM Post #97 |
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![]() ...and that's the news for the time being..... |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 12:19 PM Post #98 |
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(BBC News) UK terror watchdog: This is terrorism --The government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said it is right for counter-terrorism police to be investigating the attack. Max Hill talks about the difference between the attack in Finsbury Park and the three which preceded it, namely Westminster Bridge, Manchester Arena and London Bridge. He said: "The difference is not between crime and terrorism, but between dead attackers who cannot stand trial as opposed to one who was taken into custody so we all await a charging decision and any trial thereafter. "However, as has already been made clear by the Metropolitan Police and by the home secretary, this incident is being investigated by the counter terrorism command, and rightly so. "If evidence proves that what happened last night amounted to the "use or threat of action…designed to influence…a section of the public…for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause"...then that is terrorism. "Muslim worshippers leaving the mosque after prayers during the holy month of Ramadan are unquestionably part of the British public." |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 12:20 PM Post #99 |
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(BBC News) Update from ambulance service - 10:36am --London Ambulance Service has now said it took nine people to three hospitals in the capital - earlier it said the number was eight. "We were called to the incident at 00:15 BST and sent over 60 of our medics including ambulance crews, advanced paramedics, specialist response teams and an advanced trauma team from London’s Air Ambulance. The first of our medics arrived within 14 minutes of the first emergency call." |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 12:21 PM Post #100 |
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--Counter-extremism @QuilliamOrg 'The desire to impose Islam + desire to ban Islam r simply 2 ends to a lit fuse that can only lead to chaos' (Frank Gardiner, BBC News - 19 June 2017) |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 12:23 PM Post #101 |
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(BBC News) What We Know So Far - 11:15am --The attack happened outside the Muslim Welfare House shortly after 00:00 BST on Monday --A group of people was helping an elderly man who had fallen in Whadcoat Street - off Seven Sisters Road --A white van mounted the pavement and drove into people --Eyewitnesses said the van had to be lifted off one victim --Police say the man who had been receiving first aid died, although the cause of his death is unclear --A 48-year-old white man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder --Nine people are being treated in three hospitals, with some in a serious condition --Theresa May said the attack "targeted the ordinary and the innocent going about their daily lives" --The prime minister, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have visited the scene --Police are treating the attack as a terrorist incident |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 12:25 PM Post #102 |
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--The Mosque received a telephone threat a short while ago. Buildings were evacuated and sweeps carried out by Police and Mosque staff. 1/2 (East London Mosque, 19 June 2017) --While we understand this incident to be a hoax, we still urge vigilance in our community. 2/2 (East London Mosque, 19 June 2017) |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 12:26 PM Post #103 |
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(BBC News) Suspect thought to have 'acted alone' --A Met Police statement just released said the 47-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and taken to a south London police station where he remains in custody. "He has further been arrested for the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism including murder and attempted murder." Police said it is believed the suspect "acted alone", adding: "We are of course investigating all the circumstances leading up to the attack. There were no reports of any people having suffered knife injuries." Suspect further arrested for terror offences --The man arrested after the Finsbury Park attack is also being investigated on suspicion of terror offences, Scotland Yard says. |
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| Webster | Jun 19 2017, 12:27 PM Post #104 |
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(BBC News) Police search Cardiff address --Police say officers are also searching a residential address in the Cardiff area. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said officers looking into the Finsbury Park attack were "working fast to know the full details of how and why this took place". The force said it would deploy more uniformed police officers, while local and senior police officers will regularly meet faith leaders. He said: "All the victims were from the Muslim community and we will be deploying extra police patrols to reassure the public, especially those observing Ramadan. We are conscious there are a number of events planned across London and the rest of the UK and we continue to ensure that security plans are robust," he added. |
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| DrLeftover | Jun 19 2017, 12:36 PM Post #105 |
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wrong is wrong and all the clever Internet memes in the world will not solve the problem . |
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