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Woolwich soldier killed (was "Did cops just shoot 2 dead in woolwich?")

i thought everyone had a downer on crackheads. and junkies.

True, but on reading the attempted beheading of a soldier, my first thought wouldn't be "Fucking crackheads", as Banhof's seemed to be. There's loads of crackheads running around up to all kinds of nonsense. Heads seldom get chopped off in your average crackheads day to day milieu though.
 
Reports that one of the attackers was of Nigerian origin / ethnicity would point principally to Boko Haram.
Not if, as the story suggests, he has been living here for years and was radicalised here in 2003 by al-muhaj. Why on earth would Boko Haram get involved in this over here?
 
I was just wondering where exactly he was from.
Newsnight are saying that a source claims he has lived in the UK for 6 years, was radicalised by al muhajiroun, and was known to the security services because last year he was detained on his way to a training camp. That's from memory, probably got some details wrong, don't have a recording of it.
 
True, but on reading the attempted beheading of a soldier, my first thought wouldn't be "Fucking crackheads", as Banhof's seemed to be. There's loads of crackheads running around up to all kinds of nonsense. Heads seldom get chopped off in your average crackheads day to day milieu though.
crankheads, on the other hand... :p
 
only to the racists among us. you do know that there is no one nigerian ethnicity, right? and not all nigerians are boko haram. not to mention yer man on the news hardly sounded nigerian, he sounded english.

Yes, I was aware of that.

What is the relevance, if any, of your post?
 
Yes, I was aware of that.

What is the relevance, if any, of your post?
yeh :rolleyes: if you knew that you wouldn't have posted what you did. stop trying to make yourself out to be at all knowledgeable when saying 'yeh i knew that' after the event only makes you out to be a plonker.
 
As an aside, the victim was killed near the Kings Arms which was blown up by the IRA in the 1970's and was one of the bombings the Guildford Four were fitted up for.
 
Not if, as the story suggests, he has been living here for years and was radicalised here in 2003 by al-haj. Why on earth would Boko Haram get involved in this over here?

I have been wondering if the Woolwich factor in this attack might be more to do with Belmarsh than the army barracks ? Only a hunch but I understand that the radicalization of prisoners was always considered a bigger threat than what has been going on in the Universities.
 
Not if, as the story suggests, he has been living here for years and was radicalised here in 2003 by al-haj. Why on earth would Boko Haram get involved in this over here?

Was thinking more of likely venues for someone with Nigerian roots to be radicalised rather than directed from. There's talk of Al-Shabaab now instead.
 
Newsnight are saying that a source claims he has lived in the UK for 6 years, was radicalised by al muhajiroun, and was known to the security services because last year he was detained on his way to a training camp. That's from memory, probably got some details wrong, don't have a recording of it.

I'm watching that. He was talking about things in "our land". I didn't know that Nigeria had a significant recent violent past.
 
@brianwhelanhack Brian Whelan
Cops surrounding square, Edl milling about spoiling for a fight, helicopter up and scene of terror attack up road
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I have been wondering if the Woolwich factor in this attack might be more to do with Belmarsh than the army barracks ? Only a hunch but I understand that the radicalization of prisoners was always considered a bigger threat than what has been going on in the Universities.
Seems unlikely - I'm guessing more 'let's go kill a soldier -> ok, where's the nearest barracks' really.
 
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