A person has been detained in Antwerp, Belgium, after attempting to drive his car into a busy shopping street at high speed, according to police.
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The man is from Antwerp but is of North African descent, De Standaard reported. The man is believed to be a radicalized Muslim, according to the media.
A perimeter has been set up around the area and a bomb squad has been deployed. It remains unknown whether any weapons or other suspicious materials were found in the man’s car.
Additional officers and military personnel have been deployed throughout the city, according to Antwerp police.
It comes just one day after an assailant plowed his car into pedestrians near the British Parliament, as part of an attack in which a policeman was also stabbed to death.
UK police believe the incident was “Islamist related,” but have given no details about the attacker, who they believe was acting alone.
It also comes just one day after the first anniversary of the Brussels bombings, which led to the deaths of 32 people at Brussels airport and Maalbeek metro station. More than 300 others were injured in the attacks.
Lone wolf? Known wolf? None of the generic, deceptive labels invented by left-wing elites to whitewash Islamic terror will do here. There are now eight others arrested in London and Birmingham. So he was not “lone,” an insulting euphemism. There are no lone wolves in the global jihad. According to PM May he was only a peripheral figure. Whatever that means. It sounds like saying someone is a ‘little pregnant.’ How much jihad puts one inside the periphery?
A$$hole of the month:
“…He was inspired… by international terrorism…” –-Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley asks for “restraint…” as they investigate associates of terrorist…
WTF?
“We must recognise now that our Muslim communities will feel anxious at this time given the past behaviour of extreme right wing groups….”
Mayor Sadiq Khan warned Londoners that terrorist attacks are “part and parcel” of living in a big city in the wake of the September bombing in New York City. “It is a…
More than 70 terrorists back on streets after release from UK prisons last year
This is behind the “loud silence” of Police not naming attacker in London. He shouldn’t have been on the streets!
EXCLUSIVE: Seventy two people convicted of terror-related offences were back on the streets last year after being released from UK prisons, new figures show.
In other news:
U.K. Home Secretary Amber Ruud, amid the terror attacks in London, called for peace and tolerance.
These people are insane.
Al Jazeera Viewers ‘Reacted To London Terror Attack With Joy’
Specifically, she said the attacks that left several dead should not be seen as a means of compromising “our shared values,” the Guardian reported. Unfortunately for this dimbulb, Mohammedans don’t share our values. She needs to do some serious Qur’an reading.
“Our shared values”––This photo reflects the shared values with the ummah (the worldwide Muslim community). A picture worth a thousand words.
When Pal-Arabs were ramming cars into Israelis, the world yawned! Do we really need the Queens “thoughts, prayers, and deep sympathy” for all those who have been affected by yesterday’s “awful violence?” I don’t think so. We have to shut down the mosques and ship the Mohammedans out and back to where they belong.
Catch & release continued:
A Home Office quarterly report on the policing of terrorism in the UK, published this month, said 46 of them (64 per cent) were released after serving their sentences, but would be subject to strict licence conditions, in a bid to prevent reoffending.
The other 26 released had been held on remand prior to a charge or conviction.
The report said: “A total of 72 prisoners held for terror-related and domestic extremism/separatism offences were released from custody in Great Britain in the year ending September 30 2016.
“Of these, 46 (64 per cent) were persons discharged from custody after serving their sentences, many of whom will have been released subject to meeting certain licence conditions.
“Of those released from custody, 28 of the 72 had sentence lengths of less than 4 years.
“A further 26 were not sentenced, which includes a number of persons held on remand prior to a charge or conviction.”
METPOLICE
Still inside: Yousaf Bashir, Rajib Khan and Mohammed Alamgir were jailed last month.
“Violent extremism” is dhimmi speak for Islam. A Mohammedan who takes his religion seriously is therefore a ‘violent extremist’. And who in his right mind would deny that Mohammedans don’t take their religion seriously?
Armed police stormed a flat above a takeaway in Birmingham last night and arrested three people
Five others have been detained in raids on six properties thought to be linked to Westminster terrorist
A neighbour believes the Birmingham flat is the home of the attacker who killed three in London yesterday
Another source claimed that the Hyundai 4×4 he used as a weapon was rented from the same area
Police are not naming the suspect while the investigation into his possible associates continues
“Dozens of armed police swoop on address in Birmingham ‘where car used in London terror attacks was rented from’ and ‘take a number of people into custody,’” by Rebecca Taylor, Mailonline, March 23, 2017:
Armed police have been involved in a raid at a residential property near to a curry house in Birmingham this evening, closing off part of the city for more than two hours.
Dozens of officers, some response and some with weapons, were seen swooping an address near to the Bearwood part of the city this evening.
Hagley Road was closed for a period of time and then reopened. BBC Newsnight has claimed the vehicle used in the London terror attacks could have been rented from the same road.
The road is said to have closed at 11pm and reopened by 2am, with witnesses in the area saying people had been taken away by the address.
They believe the officers may have been from a counter terrorism unit.
George Brandis launches an extraordinary attack against the Human Rights Commission as he blasts some Senate crossbenchers for not supporting the government’s 18C changes.
Attorney-General George Brandis has launched an extraordinary attack against the Australian Human Rights Commission as he blasts as “disgraceful” the decision by some Senate crossbenchers not to support the government’s changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Senator Brandis had a meeting with Nick Xenophon last night and will see him again today as he attempts to “persuade” him to back definitional changes to Section 18C, which would replace the words “offend”, “insult” and “humiliate” with “harass”.
Independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie also opposes the reform.
“It is disgraceful that Labor and the Greens and some of the Senate crossbench have decided not to support this legislation but think about where we’ve got to in this country where a political cartoonist gets persecuted for publishing a provocative but important cartoon,” Senator Brandis told 2GB radio.
“Where a newspaper columnist gets a finding against him for writing a provocative article. Where undergraduate students at a university get persecuted because one of them makes a wisecrack. This is out of control and people are fed up to the back teeth with political correctness and I’m proud the government is standing up against political correctness and the development of this culture of grievance that people on the left are invested in promoting.”
Senator Brandis also hit out at the “nobodies” at the AHRC, declaring he did not want Australia to turn into a country where the commission’s officials could control people’s speech.
He said cartoonists, newspaper columnists and the average man in the street should not be the “subject of government regulation or some intrusive moral guardian at the Human Rights Commission who thinks that it’s their god given right — they probably don’t believe in God — but it’s their right to tell other Australians what they’re allowed to think and say”.
UK: Police raid address where London jihadi rented car, multiple arrests
Apparently he was no “lone wolf,” but had considerable support within the community.
“Dozens of armed police swoop on address in Birmingham ‘where car used in London terror attacks was rented from’ and ‘take a number of people into custody,’” by Rebecca Taylor, Mailonline, March 23, 2017:
Armed police have been involved in a raid at a residential property near to a curry house in Birmingham this evening, closing off part of the city for more than two hours.
Dozens of officers, some response and some with weapons, were seen swooping an address near to the Bearwood part of the city this evening.
Hagley Road was closed for a period of time and then reopened. BBC Newsnight has claimed the vehicle used in the London terror attacks could have been rented from the same road.
The road is said to have closed at 11pm and reopened by 2am, with witnesses in the area saying people had been taken away by the address.
They believe the officers may have been from a counter terrorism unit.
West Midlands Police gave a short statement earlier, which read: ‘There is an ongoing police operation, no further details are being given at this stage.’…
The London jihadist
LONDON ATTACK: WHY LET IN PEOPLE WHO HATE OUR FREEDOM?
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun,
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The jihadist attack on Britain’s Parliament makes the question now very stark — why is the West importing people who hate our freedoms?
OMG police spokesman just ruined it by coming out with bollocks about threat from right wing extremists to ‘Muslim community’
Maya Goodfellow (Scribbler for the Guardian)
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Far-right figures like Tommy Robinson are vile opportunists: using victims of today’s attack to spread their anti-Muslim message.
Sophy Ridge
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Murdered police officer named as Keith Palmer, a husband and father with 15 years service
Good news:
ABC reports ‘police presence at Parliament House in Canberra will be increased’– Thank G-d our political clown gallery is well protected!
We can say we’re not afraid, light candles and make hearts of our hands but the truth is that we can’t go on like this, says KATIE HOPKINS
An injured woman is assisted after an incident on Westminster Bridge in London, Britain March 22, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
They stood in the centre of Brussels. Row on row.
Hands held high, making hearts to the heavens. Showing the slaughtered they were not forgotten. Reminding themselves they were here with love. Looking to show humanity wins. That love conquers all.
They lay in the centre of London, face down where they fell. Stabbed by a knife, rammed with a car, flung, broken, into the Thames, life bleeding out on the curb.
A car rammed deliberately into pedestrians on the bridge. Ten innocents down.
A police officer stabbed at the House of Commons. Confirmed dead.
Another woman now, dead at the scene.
Shots fired. An Asian man rushed to hospital.
A woman, plucked from the water.
And I grew colder. And more tiny.
No anger for me this time. No rage like I’ve felt before. No desperate urge to get out there and scream at the idiots who refused to see this coming.
Not even a nod for the glib idiots who say this will not defeat us, that we will never be broken, that cowardice and terror will not get the better of Britain.
Because, as loyal as I am, as patriotic as I am, as much as my whole younger life was about joining the British military and fighting for my country — I fear we are broken.
Not because of this ghoulish spectacle outside our own Parliament. Not because of the lives rammed apart on the pavement, even as they thought about what was for tea. Or what train home they might make.
But because this is us now.
This is our country now.
This is what we have become.
To this, we have been reduced.
Because all the while those forgiving fools in Brussels stood with their stupid hands raised in hearts to the sky, another mischief was in the making. More death was in the pipeline.
Must watch: TOMMY ROBINSON RIPS LIBERAL REPORTER AT SCENE OF LONDON ATTACK
A knife-wielding (Muslim) man went on a deadly rampage at the heart of Britain’s seat of power Wednesday, plowing a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge before stabbing an armed police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Four people were killed, including the assailant, and about 20 others were injured in what Prime Minister Theresa May condemned as a “sick and depraved terrorist attack.”
EVERY INTAKE OF MUSLIMS COMES WITH THIS DANGER
A new day. A new Islamic terror attack. A new hashtag. A new “Nothing to do with #Islam” speech. More innocent people dead.#London
The usual psychobabble from al #BeBeeCeera.
Brits doubling down on stupid after London by 1.) defending Muslims. 2.) Creating hashtags, 3.) Praying (Doing Nothing)
EVERY INTAKE OF MUSLIMS COMES WITH THIS DANGER
Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
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When we take in Muslim refugees we are betting big on our security agencies being able to weed out all the radicals.
We are also betting that the children of those we do take in will not radicalise, too:
More than 500 Iraqi and Syrian refugees bound for Australia in the past year under the government’s humanitarian program have been refused entry after an alert from the Five Eyes intelligence network that their names were on an international security watchlist.
At least 30 of those refugees had also turned up on ASIO’s national security terrorism watchlist, with a further but undisclosed number red-flagged by intelligence agencies as having adverse national security profiles.
The security net included a number of refugee applications made under the one-off special humanitarian program announced in 2015 to resettle 12,000 displaced and persecuted Syrians trying to flee the civil war.
Is the gamble worth it? Would it not be safer – and would our money not go further – if we helped refugees where they are rather than admit a lucky few?
Flashback: Paki mayor of Londonistan calls Trump “ignorant”
Sadiq Khan: London Paki mayor says terror attacks ‘part and parcel’ of living in a major city
Update: it appears that press reports were wrong, because according to the BBC, Trevor Brooks aka Abu Izzadeen is still in prison. Which obviously means that he could not have been the attacker.
UK news sources withdraw claim that Abu Izzadeen was London jihad murderer
“The UK’s Channel 4 News and The Independent initially named Izaadeen as the suspect, but several sources told BBC News that the radical Muslim cleric is still in jail and not responsible for the attack.”
“Radical Muslim cleric mistakenly named as London attacker,” by Danika Fears and Natalie Musumeci, New York Post, March 22, 2017:
Four have died, including a police officer, after a knifeman mowed down pedestrians and attacked police outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament on Wednesday.
Shots were heard late afternoon on Wednesday, with authorities confirming within minutes that the Parliament was on lock down and Members of Parliament were kept in the Commons chamber.
…Three Victims Dead Including Police Officer, 20 Others Suffer ‘Catastrophic Injuries’
Four have died, including a police officer, after a “knifeman” mowed down pedestrians and attacked police outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament on Wednesday. Shots were heard late afternoon on Wednesday, with authorities confirming within minutes that the Parliament was on
You can always tell there’s an election coming up: the Merkel regime wants to be seen doing something. This is a regime that imported millions and now pretends to get tough with a few “terror suspects”. I am not impressed.
Two German-born ISIS terror suspects will be deported to their parents’ homelands in the first case of its kind as the country gets tough on extremists
Both were born in Germany and live with their Algerian and Nigerian parents
The two terror suspects loyal to ISIS will receive lifelong bans from Germany
They are suspected of plotting a bombing attack in the name of Islamic State
It is the first time in postwar German history such a move has been authorised
Two German-born ISIS terror suspects will be deported to their parents’ homelands in the first case of its kind as the country gets tough on extremists.
In an increasingly hardline move, Germany is to give the two terror suspects loyal to Islamic State a lifelong bans even though they have not been convicted of any crime.
The two men were both born in Germany and live with their Algerian and Nigerian parents in Göttingen.
The town of Göttingen in Germany where the two men were living with their parents
Members loyal to the Islamic State, for who the two men are said to have sworn allegience, wave flags as they drive around Raqqa in Syria