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ANOTHER MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACK IN LONDON
>London stabbing suspect was recently released from prison, police say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/london-police-shoot-man-dead-in-terrorist-related-stabbing-attack/2020/02/02/c64e56fa-45db-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html
LONDON — A man wearing a fake explosive device stabbed two people in south London on Sunday before he was shot dead by police officers in what authorities called a terrorist attack.
Police identified the assailant as Sudesh Amman, 20, recently released from prison, where he had been serving a sentence for "Islamist-related terrorism offences."
British news media said Amman pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges of possessing terrorist documents and disseminating terrorist publications. The BBC reported that one of the manuals Amman admitted owning was "Bloody Brazilian Knife Fightin' Techniques."
Police said that armed officers, part of a proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation, were following Amman on foot when the attack began. The police shot him dead at the scene.
Three people were injured, none seriously, police said.
It appeared to be the latest in a series of attacks here by terror suspects using knives or cars to attack bystanders. An apparent explosive strapped to the suspect's body was determined to be a "hoax device."
The fact that Amman was previously jailed, then released, then followed by police when he allegedly stabbed his victims will stoke anger here that terrorists are being released without being rehabilitated or de-radicalized.
"A Freed Terrorist Strikes Again," blared the Daily Telegraph in an early Monday edition. "Terror attacker freed from jail and on police watchlist," shouted the Guardian.
Lucy D'Orsi, deputy assistant commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, said the attack was "quickly declared as a terrorist incident and we believe it to be Islamist-related."
>London stabbing suspect was recently released from prison, police say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/london-police-shoot-man-dead-in-terrorist-related-stabbing-attack/2020/02/02/c64e56fa-45db-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html
LONDON — A man wearing a fake explosive device stabbed two people in south London on Sunday before he was shot dead by police officers in what authorities called a terrorist attack.
Police identified the assailant as Sudesh Amman, 20, recently released from prison, where he had been serving a sentence for "Islamist-related terrorism offences."
British news media said Amman pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges of possessing terrorist documents and disseminating terrorist publications. The BBC reported that one of the manuals Amman admitted owning was "Bloody Brazilian Knife Fightin' Techniques."
Police said that armed officers, part of a proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation, were following Amman on foot when the attack began. The police shot him dead at the scene.
Three people were injured, none seriously, police said.
It appeared to be the latest in a series of attacks here by terror suspects using knives or cars to attack bystanders. An apparent explosive strapped to the suspect's body was determined to be a "hoax device."
The fact that Amman was previously jailed, then released, then followed by police when he allegedly stabbed his victims will stoke anger here that terrorists are being released without being rehabilitated or de-radicalized.
"A Freed Terrorist Strikes Again," blared the Daily Telegraph in an early Monday edition. "Terror attacker freed from jail and on police watchlist," shouted the Guardian.
Lucy D'Orsi, deputy assistant commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police, said the attack was "quickly declared as a terrorist incident and we believe it to be Islamist-related."
