Welcome To Woolwich, Where English Terrorists Say Sorry While They Murder -- Peter Pomerantsev, The Daily Beast
If the Londoner wielding a cleaver wanted to start a war, then Woolwich—home to poverty, the most violent immigrant gangs, and bubbling racial tension—is the place to start.
Yesterday at about 2:20 p.m., two young men armed with long knives and meat cleavers decapitated an off-duty soldier on an ordinary street in the London borough of Woolwich. The victim was wearing a “Help for Heroes” T-shirt, a charity to raise money for injured servicemen. The two attackers cried “Allahu Akhbar” as they hacked at him. Then, one of the attackers, still holding a bloodied machete and dripping knives, his hands still shining with fresh blood, still breathing hard from the work of separating a man’s head from his body, walked over to a TV camera and gave a monologue: “I apologize women had to see this, but in our country women have to see this every day.”
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Video magnifies London terrorists' savage bravado -- Tom Rogan, FOX News
An atrocity in London: Return to old-style terror -- The Economist
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