UK Counter-Terrorism (merged thread)

[davidbfpo]

There is ample coverage and reflection in today's media on what happened in an eighty-two second attack.

As well as Britons, the pedestrians skittled by his car included four South Koreans, three French children, two Romanians, two Greeks and one each from Germany, Poland, Ireland, Italy, China and America.

Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...tsapp-message/

The Met Police have stated:

..we will never understand why he did this....We still believe that Masood acted alone on the day and there is no information or intelligence to suggest there are further attacks planned.Even if he acted alone in the preparation, we need to establish with absolute clarity why he did these unspeakable acts to bring reassurance to Londoners, and to provide answers and closure for the families of those killed and the victims and survivors of this atrocity. We must all accept that there is a possibility we will never understand why he did this. That understanding may have died with him.
Nevertheless, we are determined to understand if Masood was a lone actor inspired by terrorist propaganda or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39396101

Who was the attacker? This is one of the profiles read. Yes there is a Birmingham connection, even though he lived there for a very short time, a few months, with his wife and children. Was he radicalised in jail or when teaching in Saudi Arabia?
Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...polices-radar/

The hero who stopped the 2011 riots in Birmingham, Tariq Jahan added:

It’s funny how when a Muslim commits an atrocity, we’re all tarred with the same brush....the whole of Birmingham has been tarnished. Which is not true.
I don’t think Birmingham necessarily has a problem, we just have a big population, and a big Muslim population. If there are going to be Islamic extremists they are just going to crop up in places like this.

Link:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...nds-birmingham

Nearly all those arrested in the follow-on police action have been released; the local senior CT officer for Birmingham stated the six arrested:

As a result of their co-operation and our enquiries we are completely satisfied that they are not connected in any way to the terrorist attack in Westminster on Wednesday.

Link:http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news...raids-12796021

The last known photo of PC Palmer, with a US tourist: