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POLICE INVESTIGATING THE London Bridge terror attack carried out a search at an address in east London in the early hours of this morning.
Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, supported by officers from the Territorial Support Group, entered the address in Ilford at around 1.30am.
A 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorist acts and has been taken into custody at a south London police station under the Terrorism Act 2000.
A search of the address is ongoing.
Last night, police named the third attacker in the weekend terror assault, who Italy had previously flagged as a possible jihadist.
Police identified the third attacker as Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Italian national of Moroccan descent, a day after naming his accomplices as Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, a Pakistan-born Briton, and Rachid Redouane, 30, a self-described Moroccan-Libyan dual national.
Butt “was known to the police and MI5″, the domestic security service, but there was no intelligence to suggest the attack was being planned, the Metropolitan Police said.
He had notably featured in a Channel 4 television documentary entitled The Jihadis Next Door and, according to the British media, numerous people alarmed by his views had gone to the authorities.
Zaghba was “not a police or MI5 subject of interest”, police added. But an Italian prosecutor said Zaghba was flagged to Britain as a “possible suspect” back in March 2016.
Bologna prosecutor Giuseppe Amato said the warning had been transmitted after Zaghba was intercepted at the city’s airport trying to board a plane for Turkey, en route for Syria.
Zaghba’s Italian mother, Valeria Collina, said her son had been radicalised online and fell into the wrong crowd in London. “I have been there and I did not like it. He was mixing with the wrong people,” she told Italian weekly L’Espresso.
Collina said she understood many British imams want to send a strong signal and have said they are not prepared to give her son a Muslim funeral. “I understand that asking to be forgiven means nothing, that’s why I promise to dedicate my life to ensuring this does not happen again,” she said.
Irish arrests
Redouane married a British citizen in Ireland in 2012 and was not under surveillance, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.
Two men were arrested by gardaí over documentation related to Redouane, one of whom has been released without charge.
In Britain a 27-year-old man remains in custody, while 12 people held following the attack have since been released.
The London attack follows the 22 May suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena by Salman Abedi — killing 22 people, including children — who was also known to British intelligence services.
May under pressure
Prime Minister Theresa May vowed a hardline approach to terrorism, promising longer prison sentences and restricting the freedom and movements of terrorist suspects.
“And if our human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change the laws so we can do it,” she told supporters on Tuesday.
May’s comments came ahead of tomorrow’s general election, with the campaign dominated by security issues.
She has faced criticism for her record on security in the six years she served as Britain’s interior minister before becoming prime minister last year.
Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn took aim at May’s response: “We will always keep the law under review, but don’t believe would-be terrorists and suicide bombers will be deterred by longer sentences or restricting our rights at home.”
He also pledged to hire more police officers, following a drop in 20,000 officers between 2009 and 2016, or around 14%, according to the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank.
Security has dominated the campaign ahead of the general election, which was called by May on 18 April when her Conservative Party held a commanding lead over rivals Labour.
According to a poll published yesterday by the group Survation, May’s one-time 20-point lead over Labour has shrivelled to just over a single point — 41.6% to 40.4%.
International victims
Yesterday a nationwide minute’s silence was held for the victims of the London attack, which started when the three assailants mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge in a van.
Wearing fake suicide vests, they went on to stab revellers in the nearby Borough Market before being shot dead by police.
Amaq, an outlet affiliated with the Islamic State group, said the attack was carried out by “a detachment of fighters from Islamic State”.
A Canadian charity worker, a Frenchman working at a bistro in the market, and two Australians — including a nurse — are among the dead. Citizens of several nations are among the 48 injured, including Australia, Bulgaria, France, Greece and New Zealand.
Some 32 are still in hospital, 15 of whom are in a critical condition.
- © AFP 2017 with reporting by Órla Ryan
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When is Germany going to tackle the raising anti-Semitism among male Muslim teens in German schools? Or is that too politically sensitive for Merkel? http://www.dw.com/en/jewish-council-says-anti-semitism-in-germany-is-increasing/a-39805727
@BrianMcB: Its painfully ironic that a country that murdered 6 million Jewish people and has through many different ways acknowledge its holocaust guilt has now through its open border policy allowed hundreds of thousands of anti semites in.
@Clever Jake: “The girls were silent”. Muslims girls in German tend not to speak when their male peers do in class: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/sexism-and-islam-debated-in-germany-after-cologne-attacks-a-1073751.html
@BrianMcB: I think brian it a little bit more complex than your musings. Antisemitism is on the rise all over europe, particularly in former east Germany, Poland etc.
I prefer to listen to and enjoy music as something to listen to and enjoy. Politics play no part in it for me.I know that most composers had deep political issues but lets separate the two and enjoy the better part.
A lot of Jews – a lot of them very powerful and influential – are rabidly anti Christian, never hear anything about that though do we.
@TehJurolan: Really, who?
@TehJurolan: Isreal the only middle East country where Christians are not perscuated and their numbers are on the increase….
@John003: Lebanon is over 40% Christian . The president is Christian ffs. And they have a very negative view of Israel’s “protection “
From Dublin City Council to Düsseldorf and beyond the jewish people are under siege as anti-Semitism often cloaked as “anti-zionism” is on the rise.
@Brian Morris: Bullhocky. Opposing the actions of Netenyahu is no more anti-semetic than opposing the actions of Mugabe is racist.
By the way, did you just set up your twitter account to post that?
@Brian Morris: the Palestinians who live in the gaza ghettos and have to use tunnels to access supplies can certainly identify with the plight of the Jews who lived under nazism.
“Anti-zionism” is anti-Semitism repackaged for the 21st century. “We’re not anti-Semitic we just hate Israelis”.
@Brian Morris: that’s your reply? Make up a quote and aim. It at others but not as a reply? Try harder
@Dave Hogan: During WWII the Nazis practiced ‘calorie restriction’ on the Jews effectively imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto.
Now, lets have a read of a quote from Israels Dov Weisglass, former aide to Ariel sharon, about the gaza ghetto….
“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”
Netenyahus government even produced guidelines…
http://www.gisha.org/UserFiles/File/publications/redlines/red-lines-presentation-eng.pdf
@The Risen: Do you support Israel’s right to exist as a nation state?
@Dave Hogan: Hows that Dave? Can you outline how the Palestinians can identify with the deliberate industrialised mass murder of millions of Jews under the Nazis?
@The Risen: Go to http://gisha.org/publication/1667 and it outlines that neither widespread food shortages or hunger were reported. Seems odd you’d omit this.
@The Risen: indeed, one Israeli politician even referred to the palestinians as ‘ two legged cockroaches ‘.
@Clever Jake: Hard to understand why the Palestinians refused 94% of this disputed territory being handed over to them so. (With the remaining % made up of Israeli sovereign territory) Its easy to say get out, but it appears much harder to recognise the existence of the state of Israel.
I see the standard hasbara troll talking points are putting in an appearance…..
@The Risen: get the tinfoil, it’s all one big conspiracy orchestrated by the filthy Jews *rolls eyes*
@Honeybadger197: hi honey, question for you, would you agree with the Jews taking up arms against their oppressors in the ghettos or would you describe them as terrorists ?
@Dave Hogan: You’re still pushing that odious false equivalence? I was hoping you could develope your earlier claim that Palestinians could identify with Jews under the Nazis. You made the statement, please support it.
@Honeybadger197: read my comment slowly its self explanatory, now any chance of answering my question , do you condemn or support Jewish resistance against their oppressors in WW2?
@Dave Hogan: Its not, its a false equivalence. Let me explain: Around 400,000 Jews were in the Warsaw ghetto. 100,000 had died from disease, malnutrition or summary execution before the uprising. To be comparable to Gaza over 300,000 Gazans would have had to have died under similar circumstances. After the uprising, 300,000 Jews were moved to Treblinka extermination camp and murdered. At most 200 Jews survived the uprising. 98% of the ghetto were murdered. Please contain your odious comparisons in future.
@Honeybadger197: nice debunking honeybadger. History and facts are two things anti-Semites struggle with.
@Honeybadger197: I have just thought of another similarity, for every nazi killed by the resistance they killed about 20 to 25 in revenge, correct me if I am wrong but is the ratio about the same between the Israeli army and Palestinians.
@The Risen: Not at all. The same source you linked to in your Nazi comparison refutes your nonsense. Better to fall back on vague ad hominem as usual?
@Dave Hogan: Is that the written equivalent of running away Dave? Hysterical exaggeration serves no purpose in a debate.
@Brian Morris: There’s a few headbangers here who’ll push any nonsense. Shameless stuff.
@Honeybadger197: bear with me I’am trying to remember the name of the Israeli politician or member of the IDF who admitted copying nazi methods of controlling large groups of people in ghettos can you refresh my memory with his name?
@Dave Hogan: I’ll happily refresh your memory Dave. It seems you still can’t control that wilful ignorance of yours. You’ll be happy to ignore that they studied this in order to understand how to keep casualties to a minimum (as opposed to ” liquidating” a ghetto) You can’t control yourself can you? I’m happy to help you out though:
@Honeybadger197: At the gates of Yassergrad
25/01/2002
By Amir Oren
In order to prepare properly for the next campaign, one of the Israeli officers in the territories said not long ago, it’s justified and in fact essential to learn from every possible source. If the mission will be to seize a densely populated refugee camp, or take over the casbah in Nablus, and if the commander’s obligation is to try to execute the mission without casualties on either side, then he must first analyze and internalize the lessons of earlier battles – even, however shocking it may sound, even how the German army fought in the Warsaw ghetto.”
@Dave Hogan: You might study this while you’re at it. You’re ticking a lot of boxes here Dave. http://jcpa.org/article/holocaust-inversion-the-portraying-of-israel-and-jews-as-nazis/
@Honeybadger197: LOL! A link to one of the interchangable propaganda sites?
@The Risen: Must be on the money if you’re trying to deflect from it. I’ll chalk that down as a hit so. Thanks buddy!
@Dave Hogan: Oh yes the tunnels which Egypt flooded and destroyed wonder why?
Haha Honeybadger FTW… Nice!
@Honeybadger197: thanks for that, had a read interesting but can’t see much in there that I would agree with.
@Brian Morris: I am against the Israeli government’s policies related to Palestine. That doesn’t make me or anyone who holds that view anti any nation, race or creed.
There is a trend that if you are against a nation’s foreign policy, you are somehow against the people or certain people within that country.
Not the case.
The same way that being against a policy related to war does not mean you don’t appreciate or support the troops. This is something that has come up again and again in Britain and the US.
The genocide is over so why do some quarters wish to continually airbrush history? Anti semitism was one of those many aspects of human history that the majority of us can now sit back and say, that was wrong, why should we now moralise or try to retrospectively and subjectively ‘rethink’ people’s motives instead of dealing with the truth and facts of history as best we can so we do not repeat past mistakes.
@winston smith: ^^ This. There is nothing scarier to me than what is being done to warp the roots and branches of fascism.
And no one picked up on… “German Chancellor Angela Merkel (third from right), with Wagner’s granddaughter Katharina (third from left) at the Bayreuth Festival” statement being wrong? Nice beard lol.
There’s a book floating around Germany and everywhere else. It’s the manifesto of a racist psychopath, a man who saw no problem with murdering Jews. It’s all about his “struggle”. It’s given to kids, who are told to memorise it. It calls Jews “the spawn of apes and pigs”. It calls for the violent subjugation of all peoples, not in his “little gang”. It preaches hate and contains explicit calls to violence, which many people act on. Should we ban this book? Anyone know the name of this book?
@James Dolan: The Koran?
@Clever Jake: You keep jumping in to defend a highly Illiberal right wing ideology… makes me wonder… You a right winger Jake?
Her election is in September, so headlines all the way?
Makes you laugh, or cry. All the arguments for and against the Jews centering around the Nazis. Nothing mentioned about the history of anti-Semitism from the dawn of time, and not a word mentioned about the reasons why? “Anti-Semitism is on the rise”, they say, but in fact it never dwindled, just seethed below the surface. Despite our tolerence and acceptance of other matters, this issue will never go away.
The Palestinian population has grown eightfold since 1948.
Obviously the ‘Pogram’ is not working.
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