London attacker interested in jihad but no evidence of IS link: police

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



Mon Mar 27, 2017 | 12:17pm EDT

British police said on Monday they had found no evidence that Khalid Masood, who killed four people in an attack on Britain's parliament last week, had any association with Islamic State or Al Qaeda, but he was clearly interested in jihad.

Masood drove a car through a crowd of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing three and injuring about 50, then ran through the gates of parliament and fatally stabbed a police officer, before he was shot dead by police.

Neil Basu, senior national coordinator for UK counter-terrorism policing, said there was no evidence that Masood had been radicalized in prison in 2003 and it was pure speculation to suggest that had happened. Masood, 52, was British-born and had several previous convictions for offences such as grievous bodily harm, possession of a knife and public order offences. He had not been convicted of any terrorism offense.

“His attack method appears to be based on low sophistication, low tech, low cost techniques copied from other attacks, and echo the rhetoric of IS leaders in terms of methodology and attacking police and civilians, but at this stage I have no evidence he discussed this with others," Basu said in a statement.




Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-security-masood-idUSKBN16Y1ZQ?il=0

[yallerdawg]

1. One country's terrorist...

is another country's murderous psychopath acting out a suicidal death wish.

In one scenario, terrorism wins credibility and infamy.

In another, it is a pointless delusional fantasy that happens on occasion.

One creates a state of fear, and the other creates a quiet state of awareness.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. The "ISIS Member" who shot up Parliment Hill in Ottawa was just a crackhead

A Calgary police officer who remembered the guy was just about cracking up at the suggestion he was a radicalized anything.

[yallerdawg]

5. But you can "win" an election...

demonizing a religion.

It's truly demoralizing when we understand how gullible we are and how manipulative our "leaders" are.

[melm00se]

3. It seems to me

that ISIS claims responsibility for anything.

it rains on a parade? ISIS claims responsibility
drunk driver? ISIS
Hit by lightning? ISIS

[politicat]

4. they're thirsty. If they were socialites, we'd say they'd go to the opening of an envelope.

The more they claim, the more powerful they appear. It's not significantly different (in terms of attention and perception) from glomming onto someone else's construction project with inexplicably inflated costs, using other people's money to finance the little bit one puts in, then smearing one's own name all over the place in cheap gold paint.