Attack outside UK Houses Of Parliament — No speculation — Read 1st post

cnocbui wrote: »

They are doing an important service to the public and history, unlike the PC bleeding hearts of this world.

pc and bleeding hearts don't exist.

CoolHandBandit wrote: »

Think it's fairly obvious what this is. Don't get this " no speculation " stuff. I'm guessing this wasn't a catholic priest for instance.

it could be, for all we know.

snowflaker wrote: »

... No doubt linked to ISIL...

Did he have his membership card on him?

Some small comfort people can possibly take is that it's ridiculously easy to perpetrate this kind of attack but that they're also not happening as often as you'd expect.

He just grabbed a knife, hopped in a car, and away he went.

It requires no network and no planning.

I just don't think there's enough people around willing to commit these kinds of attacks.

We'd be seeing them every other day otherwise.

Having said that, I wonder is it another argument in favour of removing public traffic from certain built up areas.
There's already pollution, noise, road maintenance, congestion (which I'm sure has negative effects on emergency services and public transport).
We've now had 3 of these attacks in the last couple of years, with the Nice attack being by far the worst and demonstrating how dangerous they can be (87 deaths and over 400 injuries).

Cars are really dangerous and I hope my assumption, that people are almost all decent, is responsible for the lack of attacks rather than it being an overlooked avenue for terror, because it has the potential to be a far more dangerous form of terrorism than guns or bombs.

Frank Sinatra wrote: »

Wasn't there two? Maybe I misread.

Initial reports made it sound like 2 seperate but linked incidents. Looks like it was one guy responsible for the lot.

The whole lot took place over a relatively small area.

An attack on a parliament is fairly unusual. Radical Islamists seem more interested on high casualties among ordinary citizens.
The last attack on the UK's parliament, in the form of an MP killing was related to Brexit.
Just saying.

snowflaker wrote: »

I wonder was it a lone wolf solo run?

Most of these attacks are.

The attacker has probably posted some loyalty to Isis on Facebook before the attack and now ISIS will declare him to be a brave solider of theirs.

Happens all the time even though there's no formal link between them.

That Alan chap who them hijabics follow sure is some ballbag

sjb25 wrote: »

Just seen a picture of what is said to be the perpetrator being loaded into a ambulance being guarded by police I won't speculate but if the picture is him a lot of people are not wrong

Depends on how you happened to be right. A guy posted a screenshot of something. I'm assuming it was a news article based on what he said afterwards and a load of people said "Proof!!". It wasn't proof. When they turned out to be right, they just happened to be right.

And I don't think anyone said that he wasn't "asian". (I'm putting that in quotations because for a lot of people here asian might mean chinese etc). All anyone said was that we didn't know. All we had was some randomer on the internet saying so.

Now we have the photo of the police standing around him we have proof. (it's still possible that we might be mistaken but it's highly unlikely).

FrancieBrady wrote: »

An attack on a parliament is fairly unusual. Radical Islamists seem more interested on high casualties among ordinary citizens.
The last attack on the UK's parliament, in the form of an MP killing was related to Brexit.
Just saying.

The point of these sort of attacks is to make a statement. It's all over the front page so I think the guy made his statement.

would they not have had armed police on the gates of parliament? how did the guy get so far in to stab an officer?