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A police forensics officer gestures near the site where a man was shot by armed officers in Streatham, south London, Britain, February 2, 2020.
London police have shot a man dead in the city's Streatham area in a "terrorist-related" incident. Several people have been stabbed, and video footage shared on social media shows armed police and ambulances on the street.
Armed police officers descended on the London suburb of Streatham on Sunday afternoon, and shot a knife-wielding criminal dead.
The Metropolitan Police said on Twitter that a
"number of people have been stabbed," and that the incident has been declared
"terrorist-related."
Video footage shared on social media shows a man lying on the ground outside a shuttered pharmacy, as armed police officers train their weapons on his unmoving body.
Comment: Question: given that stabbings in London are so common these days, including incidents where multiple people are stabbed, what prompted the authorities to respond within minutes to
this particular stabbing with a veritable army of special armed police, helicopters, and ambulances?
Maybe it's nothing; maybe they're just super-organized and ready-to-go on a Sunday afternoon to any and all potential terror attacks...
In any event, it's all getting a bit old, no?
This stabby-jihadi too was
on a 'watch-list', by the way.
Weirdly, or not, just like the London stabber-jihadi incident two months ago, an 'echo' stabbing incident occurred
almost simultaneously across the English channel (this time in Ghent, Belgium, rather than The Hague, Holland)...
Police in the Belgian city of Ghent have shot and injured a knife-wielding woman, after she stabbed two people. The incident took place around an hour after a "terrorist" knifeman was shot dead by police in London.
According to Belgian news site HLN, a dark-skinned woman attacked two passers-by with a knife on the Bevrijdingslaan street in central Ghent. The woman reportedly stabbed one of her victims in the stomach.
Armed police officers neutralized the woman with a gunshot to the hand, and she was taken into custody.
Notice that the Belgian cops just shot the knife out of her hand, rather than riddle her body with bullets, a practice UK police seem to have picked up from the Americans. Why not just subdue the attacker then interrogate him/her?
Oh yeah, those 'suicide vests'...
Update 23:00 CET
Imagine our shock to learn that he was
released from prison just a few days ago...
Update 3 February
'ISIS' has '
claimed responsibility' for the 'terror attack'...
That's according to the media anyway, which are citing 'ISIS News Agency, Amaq', if such really even exists. It has no surviving websites or social media accounts because they've either long since been taken down or tracked, located and droned.
As with ALL 'ISIS terror attacks' therefore, tracking the source of these claims-on-behalf-of-ISIS-by-Amaq... leads to a dead-end at
SITE Intelligence 'terrorist watch group' subscriber-only website, an Israeli-owned corporation registered in Bethesda, Maryland, which is of course home to the NSA...
Update 3 February 22:15 CET
Comment: Question: given that stabbings in London are so common these days, including incidents where multiple people are stabbed, what prompted the authorities to respond within minutes to this particular stabbing with a veritable army of special armed police, helicopters, and ambulances?
Maybe it's nothing; maybe they're just super-organized and ready-to-go on a Sunday afternoon to any and all potential terror attacks...
In any event, it's all getting a bit old, no?
This stabby-jihadi too was on a 'watch-list', by the way.
Weirdly, or not, just like the London stabber-jihadi incident two months ago, an 'echo' stabbing incident occurred almost simultaneously across the English channel (this time in Ghent, Belgium, rather than The Hague, Holland)... Notice that the Belgian cops just shot the knife out of her hand, rather than riddle her body with bullets, a practice UK police seem to have picked up from the Americans. Why not just subdue the attacker then interrogate him/her?
Oh yeah, those 'suicide vests'...
Update 23:00 CET
Imagine our shock to learn that he was released from prison just a few days ago...
Update 3 February
'ISIS' has 'claimed responsibility' for the 'terror attack'...
That's according to the media anyway, which are citing 'ISIS News Agency, Amaq', if such really even exists. It has no surviving websites or social media accounts because they've either long since been taken down or tracked, located and droned.
As with ALL 'ISIS terror attacks' therefore, tracking the source of these claims-on-behalf-of-ISIS-by-Amaq... leads to a dead-end at SITE Intelligence 'terrorist watch group' subscriber-only website, an Israeli-owned corporation registered in Bethesda, Maryland, which is of course home to the NSA...