Suspects in London cleaver attack known to British security services

A source close to the investigation Thursday that two British men of Nigerian accused of hacking to death a soldier in one of the streets of London in retaliation for the wars in Muslim countries are known to the security services - London.

One man, filmed justify quietly killed while he was standing in the body with a knife and meat cleaver in the hands stained with blood, and was named by acquaintances of 28-year-old Londoner Michael Adebolajo - a British-born convert to radical Islam. That was the frenzied attack, believed by some witnesses tried to cut the victim's head.

Attack, just a month after the bombing of the Boston Marathon and the first murder in Britain since Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people, local in London in 2005, has revived fears of "the only wolves" who may have had no direct contact with al-Qaeda.

According to British media and police raided the homes of relatives in the city and near the city of Lincoln. Adebolajo and the other man, who may have been born abroad and naturalized in later as the British, and both are in custody in hospital after he was shot by the police.

British Prime Minister David Cameron held an emergency meeting of the leaders of the intelligence to assess the response to what he described as a "terrorist" attack, but it was the first fatal attack in mainland Britain since the killing of dozens of local Islamists in London in 2005.

"We will not surrender to terrorism or terrorism in any of its forms," ​​Cameron said outside his Downing Street office.

"This was not just an attack on Britain and the British way of life, and it was also a betrayal of Islam and Muslim communities who give so much to our country, and there is nothing in Islam that justifies this terrible work, really."

He said that there will be a review of the way in which it was dealt with intelligence - Adebolajo was known to the authorities for handing out leaflets Islamist militant in Woolwich.

A source close to the investigation in the local backgrounds of the suspects in a multicultural city - nearly 40 percent of London were born abroad - and simply made it difficult to prevent the attack:

"Aside from being atrocious barbarism, this was relatively simple to implement," said the source. "This was a largely low-tech, which is frankly very difficult."

He said Anjem Choudary, one of the clerics Islamists, the most famous in Britain, Reuters Adebolajo, and was known to fellow Muslims as Mujahid - meaning of the name "Warrior": "He used to attend a small number of demonstrations and activities that we used to have in the past."

He added that he had not seen him for nearly two years: "When I knew it was a very good man," said Chaudhry. "He was a peaceful, humble, and I do not think there is any reason to believe that he would do anything violent."

The man, who named Paul Leech on Twitter that he was in school in the east London suburb of Romford with the man seen claiming the attack: "Michael Adebolajo U make me sick," he wrote. "How can a person who was laughing and a nice guy in school turn out like that. I'm ashamed to have known U".

Attack in broad daylight

Witnesses said the two men use the car to run down the young soldier, who has not been published, near the barracks Leach in south-east London and tried to cut off his head with a cleaver meat and knives name, before telling passers-by were shocked acted in retaliation for the wars the British in Muslim countries.

The clip showed drama was filmed by one of the viewers one of the men named Adebolajo, and his hands covered in blood and speaks in a tone local apologize for taking action against the women, but justify it for religious reasons:

"We swear by God Almighty will not stop fighting for you. The only reason we have done so because Muslims are dying every day," he said. "This is a British soldier eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."

Revived fears of an attack, "the only wolves." They were probably no direct contact with al-Qaida but are inspired by radical preachers and locations of Islamist militant groups, some of which urged people to attack Western targets with whatever means they have.

Was published on the front pages of newspapers, photographs of the suspect soaked in blood - who urged Britons to overthrow their government or risk having facing their children the fate of the dead soldier lying just yards away, so they are also links to God to speak clearly, is the fact that the statement video, made as chatted The pair quietly to passers-by before the police arrive.

In Nigeria, with a mixed population of Christians and Muslims, where the authorities and battling Islamist insurgency, a government source said there was no evidence to link the accused Leach to groups in West Africa.

Iraq and Afghanistan

The horrific attack took place next to the sprawling Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, London working-class neighborhood south that have a long-term historical links to the army and is home to many immigrant communities, including Nigerians.

The victim was wearing a T-shirt reading "Help for Heroes", the name of a charity formed to help British veterans wounded. Britain has had troops deployed in Afghanistan since 2001 and was a soldier in Iraq, 2003-2009.

Witnesses said they shouted "Allahu Akbar" - Arabic for God is great - while stabbing the victim and try to cut off his head. The pistol was found at the scene.

Some onlookers rushed to help the victim and one woman tried to enter one of the attackers in the conversation to calm him down.

"He has what looks like a butcher's tools â €" a little ax, cut bones, two large knives and said: 'the transfer of the body, "the newspaper quoted Ingrid Loyau-Kennett said.

"He said: 'I killed him because he killed Muslims and I'm tired of people killing Muslims in Afghanistan."

He was the first IDER coaches and Cub Scout leader, Loyau-Kennett on the bus, which was held by the incident and she got off in an attempt to help the victim. I found that he was already dead.

Her position and that of other passers-by who protested with the attackers held by Cameron as an example to resist attempts to terrorize the population:

"When told by the attacker that he wants to start a war in London," said Cameron, "she replied," you're going to lose. It's just you against the many. 'She spoke for all of us. "

"Help for Heroes'

London was the last hit by serious armed attack on July 7, 2005, when four British Islamists put young suicide bombs in underground trains and a bus, killing 52 people and wounding hundreds. It was a similar attack two weeks later was thwarted.

In 2007, two days after police defused two car bombs outside nightclubs in London, two men suspected of involvement, a British physician-born of Iraqi descent and an Indian engineer born, rammed a car loaded with gas in the Glasgow airport terminal, setting it ablaze. One died of the attackers and the other prison.

Britain has long known of political violence in the streets. In 2009, two British soldiers were shot dead outside a barracks in Northern Ireland in an attack claimed by Irish Republicans.

Woolwich, too, witnessed by the attacks. And a soldier and a civilian were killed in a bomb blast Irish Republican Army (IRA) in a local bar in 1974. The same barracks were bombed in 1983, injuring five people.

Since the bombings in 2005, known as 7/7, security leaders say they faced one plan at least to carry out an attack on the level of those attacks and warned that individuals extremists pose a serious threat to national security.

Said Peter Clark, who led the investigation into the bombings, 7/7, that if attackers Leach did not turn out to be alone, they showed difficulty faced by security agencies in an attempt to stop them.

He said, "such an attack does not require a sophisticated fund-raising and sophisticated communications or planning," he told Reuters. "You can organize and then actually delivered in an instant."

The explosions raised on the Boston Marathon last month, which U.S. authorities blame on the two brothers, a glimpse of "lone wolf" threat in the West. French-Algerian gunman killed three off-duty French soldiers and four civilians in the Jewish state of ferment in the south of France last year.

Britain's participation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past decade, often provoked anger among Muslims in Britain and soldiers sometimes made in the home goal. British police foiled at least two people in the plots, which accused the Islamists suspected of plotting to kill soldiers, including the beheading.

The officials of the Office of Cameron welcomed the conviction of the majority of British Muslim groups, but this may the National Security Committee discussed the cohesion of society.

In signs of a backlash after the attack, it took more than 100 angry Ansar English Defense University, extreme right-wing group Street protest, took to the streets on Wednesday.

Separately, were arrested two men in connection with separate attacks on mosques outside London. No one was hurt.