https://www.scmp.com/rss/305440/feed On May 22, 2013, 25-year-old Afghan war veteran, Drummer Lee Rigby, was hacked to death in broad daylight in a busy street in Woolwich, southeast London. Police arrested two men, one of whom was a British-born convert to Islam who at the scene claimed he had acted in revenge for British wars in Muslim countries. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com British police said yesterday they were treating a blast outside a mosque in central England as a terrorist incident, saying nails were reportedly found at the scene. West Midlands police said they were alerted to reports of a loud bang in Tipton near Birmingham shortly after 1pm. No injuries were reported, but the immediate area was evacuated. "An investigation is being led by the West Midlands Counter-Terrorism Unit and it is being treated as a terrorist incident," police said. "Some... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1281504/suspected-nail-bomb-attack-british-mosque-day-lee-rigby-funeral?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1281504/suspected-nail-bomb-attack-british-mosque-day-lee-rigby-funeral?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 British counter-terrorism police on Saturday charged a second Muslim convert with murder over the brutal hacking to death of a soldier on a London street. Michael Adebolajo, 28, has been charged with the murder of 25-year-old soldier Lee Rigby as well as the attempted murder of two police officers and possession of a firearm, London’s Metropolitan Police said. He will appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on Monday. Adebolajo was one of two Muslim converts of Nigerian descent... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1251914/second-man-charged-london-soldier-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1251914/second-man-charged-london-soldier-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Jun 2013 02:58:45 +0000 Police have charged a man with the murder of a British soldier in a suspected Islamic extremist attack in broad daylight. Michael Adebowale, 22, was charged late on Wednesday by counter-terrorism officers and will appear in court on Thursday, police said. He is one of two main suspects in the killing of Lee Rigby, 25, who was struck by a car and stabbed to death last week near his barracks in southeast London’s Woolwich district. Gruesome images that emerged after the attack showed two men... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1249513/woolwich-attack-suspect-adebowale-charged-over-soldiers-killing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1249513/woolwich-attack-suspect-adebowale-charged-over-soldiers-killing?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 May 2013 01:13:24 +0000 The family of a man suspected of hacking a British soldier to death on a London street condemned the attack as senseless, distancing itself from the murder which has provoked an anti-Muslim backlash. Lee Rigby, a 25-year-old veteran of the Afghan war, was butchered in broad daylight by two men who said they killed him in the name of Islam. Police shot and wounded the assailants, both Britons of Nigerian descent, at the scene of the crime, which has prompted questions about the security services'... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1249140/family-suspect-british-soldiers-killing-condemns-his-crime-senseless?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1249140/family-suspect-british-soldiers-killing-condemns-his-crime-senseless?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Traces of DNA on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance video of a man praying in a mall have led to the arrest of a young suspect accused of stabbing a French soldier who was patrolling a crowded area just outside Paris. The attack came days after a British soldier was slain on a London street in broad daylight, raising fears of potential copycat strikes. The French suspect, identified only by his first name Alexandre D, was captured on camera Saturday offering a Muslim prayer in a corner of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1249138/dna-juice-bottle-leads-police-french-soldiers-suspected-attacker?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1249138/dna-juice-bottle-leads-police-french-soldiers-suspected-attacker?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Police investigating the stabbing of a French soldier in Paris on Wednesday arrested a suspect sources described as a supporter of “radical Islam”. “The suspected perpetrator of the attack on a soldier on Saturday evening in La Defense (business district) was arrested this morning,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said in a statement. The statement said the suspect was arrested in Yvelines, just west of Paris. Sources close to the investigation said the 22-year-old man has been a follower of a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1248952/french-police-arrest-suspect-soldier-stabbing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1248952/french-police-arrest-suspect-soldier-stabbing?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 May 2013 06:45:20 +0000 The chairman of an English mosque targeted by multiple petrol bombs has described the attack as attempted murder. The incident in Grimsby, in the eastern county of Lincolnshire, was the most serious attack on Muslims since the gruesome killing on a London street of British soldier Lee Rigby by two self-described Islamist extremists. It comes at a time of increased activity by far-right groups such as the English Defence League. A young family with two children were among a number of worshippers... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1248375/british-mosque-petrol-bombed-most-serious-attack-lee-rigby-killed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1248375/british-mosque-petrol-bombed-most-serious-attack-lee-rigby-killed?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Two prison officers have been injured in an attack at a British maximum security jail, officials said yesterday, with media reports claiming the assailants were Muslim inmates inspired by the brutal murder of a soldier. The prison officers' union said one of the guards had been held hostage for nearly four hours at Full Sutton prison near York in northern England on Sunday, until riot officers managed to free him. Officials did not confirm reports that the three attackers were Muslim prisoners... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1248376/inmates-reportedly-inspired-soldiers-killing-attack-uk-prison-guards?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1248376/inmates-reportedly-inspired-soldiers-killing-attack-uk-prison-guards?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Police investigating the grisly murder of a soldier in London by two Islamists made another arrest on Monday, as 1,000 far-right protesters demonstrated near Prime Minister David Cameron’s office. A 50-year-old man, held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, becomes the 10th person arrested over the hacking to death of 25-year-old Lee Rigby near a barracks in Woolwich on Wednesday. This includes the two prime suspects, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, who remain under armed... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247992/london-police-make-10th-arrest-woolwich-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247992/london-police-make-10th-arrest-woolwich-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 May 2013 01:53:02 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News For a movement that was on the verge of implosion less than a month ago, the English Defence League (EDL) has staged a major show of force in central London, signalling that the death of Drummer Lee Rigby has breathed new life into the far-right protest group. More than 500 supporters - including football hooligans, veteran fascists and others - assembled under tight police security at the entrance to Downing Street, where they listened to their leaders blame Islam for the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247792/killing-revives-far-right-groups-anti-islam-campaign?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247792/killing-revives-far-right-groups-anti-islam-campaign?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News A battery of measures to prevent radicalisation of British Muslims was outlined by the home affairs minister, Theresa May. They included tougher pre-emptive censorship of internet sites, a lower threshold for banning extremist groups and renewed pressure on universities and mosques to reject so-called hate preachers. After four days in which ministers have been praised for avoiding a kneejerk response to the killing of soldier Lee Rigby outside his barracks in Woolwich, south... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247671/move-prevent-radicalisation-british-muslims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247671/move-prevent-radicalisation-british-muslims?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News A suspect in last week’s savage killing of a British soldier on a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010 while apparently preparing to train and fight with al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants, an anti-terrorism police official said on Sunday. Michael Adebolajo, who was carrying a British passport, was then handed over to British authorities in the East African country, another Kenyan official said. The information surfaced as London’s Metropolitan Police said specialist... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247163/suspect-london-stabbing-arrested-kenya-2010?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1247163/suspect-london-stabbing-arrested-kenya-2010?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 May 2013 01:36:30 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News Three men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the British soldier hacked to death in a London street in an Islamist attack. Two men aged 28 an 24 were arrested at a home in southeast London, with police firing a Taser electric stun gun on the older suspect, and on a 21-year-old man they arrested in a street around 1.5 kilometres from the murder scene. Britain is dealing with the aftermath of a grisly murder which was the first fatal Islamist terror... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1246478/three-new-arrests-woolwich-murder-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1246478/three-new-arrests-woolwich-murder-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 May 2013 03:26:17 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News French anti-terror officers were yesterday investigating the stabbing of a soldier in Paris, in an attack that echoed the grisly killing of another soldier in London, where British police were holding three new suspects. Cedric Cordier was in a stable condition in hospital after the stabbing on Saturday at a busy underground shopping and transport hub where he had been on patrol with two colleagues. French President Francois Hollande said the stabbing could not be linked to the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1246447/french-soldier-stabbed-throat-near-paris?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1246447/french-soldier-stabbed-throat-near-paris?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 May 2013 01:57:50 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News British police arrested a man under anti-terrorism laws at BBC headquarters after he said in an interview that security services tried to recruit one of two men arrested after a soldier was hacked to death in a London street. Michael Adebolajo, 28 and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under armed guard in hospital after being shot and arrested by police on Wednesday on suspicion of murdering 25-year-old Lee Rigby, a veteran of the Afghan war. A man identified by the BBC as Abu... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1246241/british-man-arrested-under-terror-laws-after-tv-interview-about-soldiers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1246241/british-man-arrested-under-terror-laws-after-tv-interview-about-soldiers?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News Fears of a backlash against Muslims in Britain have intensified after dozens of Islamophobic incidents were reported in the wake of the grotesque murder of soldier Lee Rigby. The Tell Mama hotline for recording Islamophobic crimes detailed 38 incidents overnight on Wednesday, including attacks on three mosques. More were reported on Thursday. Officials were also bracing for possible copycat terror attacks. The pair ran Rigby down in a car, then hacked him to death with knives... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245288/murder-british-soldier-brings-fear-backlash-muslims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245288/murder-british-soldier-brings-fear-backlash-muslims?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News Britain is bracing not just for clashes with right-wing extremists but for possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier on Wednesday. London's Metropolitan Police said more than 1,000 officers will be sent to potential trouble spots with armed response units. Only a fraction of Britain's police officers are armed. The attack was captured on video by witnesses and made for gruesome viewing; one man is seen, his hands red with blood, holding two... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245287/britain-braced-copycat-terror-attacks-after-soldiers-killing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245287/britain-braced-copycat-terror-attacks-after-soldiers-killing?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the men accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target. In an interview in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, where he has lived since being banished from Britain in 2005, Omar Bakri Mohammed, founder of banned British Islamist group Al Muhajiroun, said he knew suspect Michael Adebolajo from his lectures a decade... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245540/exiled-islamist-omar-bakri-mohammed-praises-murder-soldier-london?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245540/exiled-islamist-omar-bakri-mohammed-praises-murder-soldier-london?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News Britain’s intelligence services came under pressure on Friday to explain how they let two Islamic extremists suspected of hacking a soldier to death in the streets of London slip through their net. Both of the men, under armed guard in London hospitals after being shot by police at the scene, were previously known to the intelligence services but were reportedly assessed as not posing a deadly threat. One of the men, identified as Michael Adebolajo, 28, had attended meetings... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245280/british-spy-services-under-pressure-over-london-soldiers-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1245280/british-spy-services-under-pressure-over-london-soldiers-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2013 12:26:15 +0000 Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. Detectives were also questioning another man and a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1244837/british-police-investigate-conspiracy-after-london-soldiers-murder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1244837/british-police-investigate-conspiracy-after-london-soldiers-murder?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2013 01:30:46 +0000 A meat cleaver is clasped in his blood-smeared left hand, the other - stained red with human blood too - waves manically as he shouts at the camera, ranting his justification for the atrocity on the streets of southeast London. At about the same time in the nearby Musgrave primary school, head teacher David Dixon orders a lockdown after seeing the body of a man, believed to be a young soldier, lying on John Wilson Street. If there was any doubt why this young man, whom witnesses said was... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1244442/how-terror-struck-out-nowhere?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1244442/how-terror-struck-out-nowhere?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. One man, filmed calmly justifying the killing as he stood by the body holding a knife and meat cleaver in bloodied hands, was named by acquaintances as 28-year-old Londoner Michael Adebolajo - a British-born convert to radical Islam. So frenzied was the attack,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1244377/london-attackers-known-british-security-services?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1244377/london-attackers-known-british-security-services?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 May 2013 13:22:40 +0000 Follow @SCMP_News A woman who challenged knife-wielding assailants suspected of hacking to death a British soldier in London on Wednesday said she intervened because “it was better having them [the weapons] aimed on one person”. Cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, explained in Thursday’s Daily Telegraph that one of the men told her they wanted “to start a war in London tonight” when she asked them why they had carried out the attack. The mother-of-two ran from a passing bus after seeing... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1243966/woman-confronted-london-attackers-right-now-it-only-you-versus-many?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1243966/woman-confronted-london-attackers-right-now-it-only-you-versus-many?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 May 2013 01:32:16 +0000