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Peter Nicholls, Michael Holden

Nov. 29 2019

LONDON (Reuters) - British police on Friday shot dead a man who had strapped a fake bomb to his body and stabbed a number of people in what they said was a terrorism incident in the London Bridge area of the capital.

Police said they had been alerted at just before 2 p.m. to a stabbing at a premises near London Bridge, the scene of a deadly attack by Islamist militants two years ago.

“A male suspect was shot by specialist armed officers from the City of London police and I can confirm that this suspect died at the scene,” the United Kingdom’s top counter-terrorism officer, Neil Basu, told reporters.

“A number of other people received injuries during this incident,” Basu said. “We believe a device that was strapped to the body of the suspect was a hoax explosive device.”

A video posted on Twitter showed a group of about half a dozen men wrestling with someone on the ground on the sidewalk of the bridge. One of them backs away from the scene carrying a knife.

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SIGH Tim...Tim...Tim Everyone Knows What the problem is, and who is doing it....and it ain't Anglicans!

* Muslims have a real problem on their hands. A significant number of Muslims think what happened is a good thing. This problem Will be dealt with at some point in the future. The only question is, Who will deal with it Muslims or Non Muslims?

 

* I know some Muslims and have said this very thing to them.

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Ian Acheson, former prison governor and visiting professor of criminology at Staffordshire University, writes in the Sunday Times (£): London Bridge attack: I told ministers we were treating terrorist prisoners with jaw-dropping naivety. Did they listen?

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I know a bit about the threat management of violent extremists. In 2015 Michael Gove, who was then justice secretary, asked me to conduct an independent review of Islamist extremism in the prisons and probation system in England and Wales.

With the help of a small expert team, we visited dozens of prisons at home and abroad. More than 1,000 prison staff corroborated our findings in a survey that was originally opposed by Michael Spurr, then chief executive of HM Prison and Probation Service, who had to be overruled by Gove. What we found was so shockingly bad that I had to agree to the language in the original report being toned down. With hindsight, I’m not sure that was the right decision.

There were serious deficiencies in almost every aspect of the management of terrorist offenders through the system that are relevant to Usman Khan. Frontline prison staff were vulnerable to attack and were ill-equipped to counter hateful extremism on prison landings for fear of being accused of racism. Prison imams did not possess the tools, and sometimes the will, to combat Islamist ideology. The prison service’s intelligence-gathering system was hopelessly fractured and ineffectual.

Strategic partners in the police and security service were privately dismissive of the competence of their senior prison service counterparts, many of whom had absolutely no operational experience in either prison management or counter-terrorism. Many encounters with prison officials resulted in jaw-dropping levels of naivety and bureaucratic obfuscation.

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From the What Could Possibly Go Wrong file

 

Revealed: Six of London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan's fellow Stock Exhange bomb plotters have also been freed from prison since 2012 - and another was freed only to be re-jailed after plotting a Lee Rigby-style attack

The nine jihadists who were jailed in 2012 were part of an al-Qaeda-inspired cell  

One is still in prison and another was convicted over a further terror plot in 2017

Khan is dead, meaning six of the plotters are believed to be still on the streets    

By Tim Stickings For Mailonline

Published: 05:44 EST, 1 December 2019

Six of the eight terrorist plotters who were jailed along with London Bridge attacker Usman Khan in 2012 have also been freed from prison, it has emerged. 

The nine jihadists were members of an al-Qaeda-inspired cell which plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange and kill Boris Johnson. 

One is still in prison, another was convicted for a further terror plot and Khan is dead - leaving six back on the streets, it is believed. 

Three of the nine - Khan, Mohammad Shahjahan and Nazam Hussein - were initially handed indefinite prison terms, but the trio won an appeal in 2013 which changed them to fixed sentences. 

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Members of the Al Qaeda-inspired gang who plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange and kill Boris Johnson. From left to right, top row: Mohammed Moksudur Chowdhury, Mohammed Shahjahan, Shah Mohammed Rahman; middle row: Mohibur Rahman, Gurukanth Desai, Abdul Malik Miah. bottom row: Nazam Hussain, Usman Khan, Omar Sharif Latif

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