7 arrests made in connection with London attack
Source: AP
British police raided several properties and arrested seven people in connection with the attack outside Parliament that left four dead, including the man who mowed down pedestrians on a bridge and fatally stabbed an officer, a senior police official said.
Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley said that he believed the attacker acted alone and was "inspired by international terrorism."
Police raided six addresses, including some in the central city of Birmingham, and arrested seven people in connection with Wednesday's attack by a knife-wielding man, Rowley said.
Rowley refused to identify the attacker, who was killed by police after fatally stabbing a police officer on Parliament's grounds after striking pedestrians with a vehicle on Westminster Bridge.
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nitpicker
(7,153 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)people, how can they say he acted alone?
TexasTowelie
(112,419 posts)but conspired with others.
The Sand Reckoner
(194 posts)There may have been no one physically with him yesterday as he carried out the attack, but that was already obvious.
And seven people? As terrorist attacks go, this one was not too elaborate. He used a vehicle and a knife. He could have woken up that morning and just decided to do it, with basically no planning at all. Why would seven other people need to be involved in a conspiracy, to the extent that it would justify their being arrested?
TexasTowelie
(112,419 posts)There is no point in playing Thursday morning quarterback so I'll let the story reach its conclusion.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)why they haven't named the dead terrorist.
underpants
(182,879 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Just got the LBN on my phone - terrorist was British born and had been investigated for extremism.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,155 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)In the US our President stood on a pile of rubble acting tough,let members of the Bin Laden family be the ONLY civilian aircraft authorized to fly and LEAVE the US and then go bomb and invade a Country that had nothing to do with the NYC attack.
Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)or the usual suspects.
I doubt 7 people conspired for this one dude to do it