London - Suspected Terrorist Incident

Source: Metropolitan Police, BBC, ITN, Sky, etc

An incident in South East London this afternoon where a man was run over and then beheaded by the two men in the vehicle. The two guys then went for the armed response unit and were shot.

I have been following this for a couple of hours as I am from South East London but now, they are saying it may be a terrorist incident. The dead man apparently was wearing a help the heroes T-shirt and is a soldier at the nearby army barracks.

Witnesses say that the attackers asked people on the street to take their pictures as they waited for police to arrive. Then they tried to attack the police.

IM0

thanks anchorman

Seachmall

Lunatics are fucking nuts these days.


Were they fatally shot?

discus

****ing pr1cks, a load of my mates are based at the barracks at Woolwich, I'm ****ing appalled.

IM0

IM0 wrote: »

thanks anchorman

Well it beats doing the weather reports :cool:

rockygsd123

any info on the identities of the 2 murderers?

Intensive Care Bear

Eyewitness account, for anyone thats interested http://audioboo.fm/boos/1407873-woolwich-attack-eyewitness-james

GLaDOS

Link here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303

kneemos

Seachmall wrote: »

Lunatics are fucking nuts these days.


Were they fatally shot?

Beheading is a new kind of lunacy.

dilallio

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10436704._/?

POLICE say an horrific attack in London during which a man was beheaded and two men shot is being treated as a terrorist incident.

The Government's Cobra emergency committee will be meeting in the next hour to discuss the incident understood to involve a serving soldier.

Eye witnesses said two men ran the soldier down then jumped from their car and attacked him with a machete.

Others said the victim had been beheaded. Another described seeing a man wearing a Help for Heroes T-shirt being attacked with a machete-style knife and dumped in a south-east London street.

Woolwich and Greenwich MP Nick Raynsford said it was his understanding that one person, a serving soldier, was dead and his two alleged killers were taken to hospital.

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They weren't fatally shot. I'll link to an eyewitnesses twitter account but may take you a while to decipher his tweets

https://twitter.com/BOYADEE

Herb Powell

In before "multiculturalism failed"

brimal

Here is an audio clip of an eye-witness' account.

*Warning - this audio contains descriptions some people may find distressing*

http://www.lbc.co.uk/listen-woolwich-eyewitness-describes-attack-72446

Crazy shiit.

Intensive Care Bear

My mate was working as camp guard commander in the base in Woowlich today, he is currently waiting to find out if its one of his friends that has been killed.

Cungi

bbc news wrote:

Home Secretary Theresa May has summoned a meeting of Cobra to assess the incident.

Hope someone else called G.I. Joe.

discus

1210m5g wrote: »

My mate was working as camp guard commander in the base in Woowlich today, he is currently waiting to find out if its one of his friends that has been killed.

D'ya serve yerself?

Gatling

Holy **** ,
They say this was going to happen for years ,
Expect a back lash over this

monkey9

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Source: Metropolitan Police, BBC, ITN, Sky, etc

An incident in South East London this afternoon where a man was run over and then beheaded by the two men in the vehicle. The two guys then went for the armed response unit and were shot.

I have been following this for a couple of hours as I am from South East London but now, they are saying it may be a terrorist incident. The dead man apparently was wearing a help the heroes T-shirt and is a soldier at the nearby army barracks.

Witnesses say that the attackers asked people on the street to take their pictures as they waited for police to arrive. Then they tried to attack the police.

It's unreal the lengths people will go to for a decent Facebook profile picture.

brimal

Boya Dee ‏@BOYADEE 2h
Mate ive seen alot of **** im my time but that has to rank sumwhere in the top 3. I couldnt believe my eyes. That was some movie ****

A soldier is run over, beheaded and bludgeoned by two crazed gunmen, followed by a shootout with police, all in front of his eyes -- and it only ranks 'sumwhere in the top 3'

Wonder what else is in his top 3 :eek:

Woolwich is an absolute hole. Awful story.

pablomakaveli

R.I.P to the guy who's been killed. Thats an evil thing to do to someone.

There has been a confirmed risk of soldiers being attacked in the UK by extremists. I've heard of a plot a few years ago to abduct a soldier taking part in a marathon and behead him that was thankfully foiled. I suppose it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

mike65

I don't see a terrorist angle to this. Yet.

mike65

mike65 wrote: »

I don't see a terrorist angle to this. Yet.

Coincidence that he was a white guy in a Help for Heroes T-shirt?

Specialun

If the soldier was black would it still be a terrorist act?

discus

At a location known as the home of the Royal Artillery, with numerous British Army units based there?

Nah not terrorist, blatently he dissed someones bird.

If the soldier was black would it still be a terrorist act?

Errr, yeah.

Meritocracy Wins

And the jokers have arrived on the thread.

Show a small bit of restraint people, someone lost their life.

IM0

mike65 wrote: »

I don't see a terrorist angle to this. Yet.

but sure why not let sensationalism get in the way of a good story to boost the ratings :rolleyes:

donvito99

This is just awful.

I'm not saying this should be brushed over, but once again the media is giving these lunatics exactly what they want.

Report the facts, remember and honour the dead. No witch hunts, please.

Blisterman

mike65 wrote: »

I don't see a terrorist angle to this. Yet.

"Senior Whitehall sources have told the BBC that the Woolwich attackers are thought to have tried to film their attack whilst shouting "Allahu Akbar" - God is Great, says political editor Nick Robinson."

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630304

SEPT 23 1989

big trouble ahead

IM0

Ford Juicy Smokehouse wrote: »

Coincidence that he was a white guy in a Help for Heroes T-shirt?

he was also wearing shoes. wait that means anyone who wears shoes is a target too :eek:

Specialun

Sky news on twatter called it a "politically motivated islamist terrerist act"
police just on and didnt use any of those words

mike65

Ford Juicy Smokehouse wrote: »

Coincidence that he was a white guy in a Help for Heroes T-shirt?

Lots of white guys in London, lots of Help the Heroes T shirts as well, there is nothing to link the shirt with the crime. Other than coincidence at this point.

Right now only this

People carrying out the attack were heard to say Allahu Akbar [God is Great] were heard, said our political editor.

might be relevant (if they actually said it). Its amazing how eye witness reports can be taken as gospel when under examination they so often prove to be quite wrong.

discus

But you've ignored the location, Mike65.

IM0

IM0 wrote: »

he was also wearing shoes. wait that means anyone who wears shoes is a target too :eek:

Fab logic there, given that everyone wears shoes and a minority of people would wear a T-shirt like that. It might have been totally random. Maybe they didn't like the way he walked. It's incredibly dim to totally dismiss the fact that he was wearing that T-shirt, in an area with lots of people who are against the activities of the British army (to say the least), as insignificant. There is at the very least some possibility that your man being a soldier/wearing that T-shirt had at least something to do with why he was targeted.

mike65

mike65 wrote: »

Lots of white guys in London, lots of Help the Heroes T shirts as well, there is nothing to link the shirt with the crime. Other than coincidence at this point.

Right now only this



might be relevant (if they actually said it). Its amazing how eye witness reports can be taken as gospel when under examination they so often prove to be quite wrong.

Not saying it definitely had anything to do with it, but it's a possibility. Same as a black guy getting stabbed to death could be a racially motivated crime. And there are a LOT of areas in London I would not walk through in a Help for Heroes T-shirt.

Gatling

Wake up call for the the british ,

Nodin

Gatling wrote: »

Wake up call for the the british ,

Yep. Hundreds of years without a terrorist incident on their soil, and now this.

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

Wake up call for the the british government ,

FYP.

Gatling

Nodin wrote: »

Yep. Hundreds of years without a terrorist incident on their soil, and now this.

A British service man gets beheaded in London ,

Let's sit back and enjoy what's coming next

Nodin

Gatling wrote: »

A British service man gets beheaded in London ,

Let's sit back and enjoy what's coming next

Whats "coming next"?

Nino Brown

Nodin wrote: »

Yep. Hundreds of years without a terrorist incident on their soil, and now this.

What? Is this a joke? Am I missing something?

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

A British service man gets beheaded in London ,

Let's sit back and enjoy what's coming next

Enjoy? You get enjoyment from the death of someone that you don't know?

Seachmall

Gatling wrote: »

Let's sit back and enjoy what's coming next

What?

mike65

Anyone remember David Copeland, the nail bomber of 1999? There was speculation it was an IRA unit gone rogue or Serbs (the war in Kosovo was on at the time) it turned out to be a neo NAZI nutter.

kneemos

mike65 wrote: »

Lots of white guys in London, lots of Help the Heroes T shirts as well, there is nothing to link the shirt with the crime. Other than coincidence at this point.

Right now only this



might be relevant (if they actually said it). Its amazing how eye witness reports can be taken as gospel when under examination they so often prove to be quite wrong.

Beheading says it all.

Nodin

Nino Brown wrote: »

What? Is this a joke? Am I missing something?

You're missing something.

Meritocracy Wins

Nodin wrote: »

Yep. Hundreds of years without a terrorist incident on their soil, and now this.

Are you being vacuous on purpose?

Specialun

Sky are really milking this

Angles overbthe scene and zooming in..picking upmn any statement thatbthey could milk for sensatinalism

Nino Brown

Nodin wrote: »

You're missing something.

I thought so. What?

twinQuins

Gatling wrote: »

A British service man gets beheaded in London ,

Let's sit back and enjoy what's coming next

You sound a little like you've been waiting for something like this to happen yourself.