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

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Parliament is on lockdown after gunshots were heard outside the Palace of Westminster.

http://news.sky.com/story/gunshots-heard-outside-parliament-10810680

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JupiterKid

Well, I'm just surprised that more attacks like this in the U.K. haven't taken place recently. M15 and the police seem to be doing a pretty good job.

Grayson

DrumSteve wrote: »

At least with the RA there was an end goal i.e. United Ireland.

These ****ers just want everyone to die.

Al-Qaeda did have political aims. Most islamic groups did. ISIS are just nuts though.

end of the road

SILVAMAN wrote: »

It's an Islamic extremist attack. Simple as that.

prove it. it might very well be but until actual proof from the authorities comes out then your statement is just a claim which means jot. sorry about that.

[Deleted User]

end of the road wrote: »

pc and bleeding hearts don't exist.

Political correctness exists according to 97% of people here on Boards.ie. Either you're wrong or literally nearly everyone else is.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057712641

ceadaoin.

DrumSteve wrote: »

At least with the RA there was an end goal i.e. United Ireland.

These ****ers just want everyone to die.

Isnt the supposed end goal an Islamic caliphate across the world?

Grayson

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

The sad thing is that I'm accustomed to these reports, their shock value has all but dissipated.

What a horrible world we live in, and what a horrible horrible world our kids are set to inherit.

Maybe that's a good thing in some ways. The point of a terrorist attack is to terrorise. If they don't have that effect then they aren't as effective.

As for your kids, well numbers show that the deaths from terrorist attacks have on average been dropping since the last century. The last year or so has seen an increase but hopefully that's a blip. The kids are going to hopefully have a better world than we did when we were kids.

DrumSteve

At least with the RA there was an end goal i.e. United Ireland.

These ****ers just want everyone to die.

Mental Mickey

Omackeral wrote: »

Whoever referenced that Black Mirror episode earlier was bang on the money. There's a member of Scotland Yard giving a press conference live on Sky News down by the Thames and the amount of absolute gombeens with their phones obnoxiously out in front of them recording is ridiculous.

Narcissistic eejits

Neon_Lights

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

The sad thing is that I'm accustomed to these reports, their shock value has all but dissipated.

What a horrible world we live in, and what a horrible horrible world our kids are set to inherit.

Problem is nobody is willing to "eradicate" the problem, this all stems from the wars in the middle east, no matter what way you look at it

[Deleted User]

Whoever referenced that Black Mirror episode earlier was bang on the money. There's a member of Scotland Yard giving a press conference live on Sky News down by the Thames and the amount of absolute gombeens with their phones obnoxiously out in front of them recording is ridiculous.

sReq | uTeK

The sad thing is that I've become accustomed to these reports, their shock value has all but dissipated.

What a horrible world we live in, and what a horrible horrible world our kids are set to inherit.

The Backwards Man

SILVAMAN wrote: »

It's an Islamic extremist attack. Simple as that.

It's murdering terrorist scum getting exactly the reaction from pathetic snivelling little cowards that they want. Simple as that.

harr

snowflaker wrote: »

Westminster is fairly open.

They do have armed police...that's who shot the suspect after he made a run at the gate..unfortunately it was an unarmed officer who first tackled him.

ceadaoin.

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.

No, there have been numerous attacks and attempted attacks of police and army officers across Europe. There was one attempt in Paris just days ago. also, Isis propaganda has urged followers to commit attacks by running people over and stabbing them. Just saying

[Deleted User]

itoro wrote: »

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

Some are, some aren't. I was over last year and inside the railings there were visibile officers with guns, as well as a few outside. The guys at the gates/barriers didn't have visible guns which did strike me as odd.

SILVAMAN

And today is the anniversary of the attack at Brussels airport.
The security services know of many radicalised people and of others willing to lend logistical support. Time to quietly but firmly eradicate those that are known to be terrorists.

sjb25

Grayson wrote: »

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).

Il put it this way the picture it seen is from the area in parliament that the officer was stabbed the perpetrator was shot that I'm certain now the man being loaded into the ambulance is a Middle eastern looking man I would say personally so either the police officer is Middle Eastern or the perpetrator is that I can't tell

Loafing Oaf

Gbear wrote: »

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.

You wouldn't be guaranteed to cause carnage though, if that was your aim, not like a truck or a plane. As likely as not the first person you struck would knock you off course and you'd crash into a lampost...

Bit like going on a 'rampage' with a carving knife, you could kill ten people or noone...

snowflaker

itoro wrote: »

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

Westminster is fairly open.

CaptainR

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

3 of the injured are French students.

France have really had a bad time of it the last few years, poor kids.

Grayson

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

he could just be having a bad day:rolleyes:

It's unlikely but not impossible. If they find note on him about fathers for justice we'll all be shocked (me too).

At the moment we can assume that it's probably related to militant islam. The guy might be mentally disturbed as well. But there's always the chance that it's completely unrelated.

Christy42

end of the road wrote: »

no it won't. but you know that. nice little sound bite though.

Pretty sure they do know it and was making the point sarcastically.

Richard Hillman

snowflaker wrote: »

The suspect appears to be middle eastern by Mirror photos. No doubt linked to ISIL. I wonder how many attacks are prevented by MI5 etc

I think a few weeks ago they said that there have been 13 failed attempts in the last 3 years.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/03/06/13-uk-terror-attacks-thwarted-2013

SILVAMAN

It's an Islamic extremist attack. Simple as that.

end of the road

Un1corn wrote: »

Thank god they voted for Brexit. That will restrict immigrants from the middle east.

no it won't. but you know that. nice little sound bite though.

itoro

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

snowflaker

Lollipops23 wrote: »

I'm willing to bet he was born and raised in the UK.

Brexit won't help them.

Brexit wouldn't prevent migrantion from the Middle East, I thought the point was made sarcastically

Grayson

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.

snowflaker

murpho999 wrote: »

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.

It doesn't seem to have the hallmarks of a planned ISIL attack. I suspect a lone wolf sympathiser

Atlantic Dawn

3 of the injured are French students.