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ISIS claims responsibility for London terror attack that left 4 dead and dozens injured

By Justice Kofi Bimpeh
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ISIS has today[Thursday 23rd March 2017] claimed responsibility for the Westminster attack which left four dead and dozens injured.

The terror group said a 'soldier of the Islamic State' carried out the atrocity in which a British-born man ploughed his car through crowds near Parliament yesterday afternoon

But, giving a statement in the Commons today, Prime Minister Theresa May said he was a British citizen who was known to the police and security services and had been investigated some years ago over violent extremism.


Mrs May said he was a 'peripheral' figure and 'was not part of the current intelligence picture'. She also told MPs there was 'no prior intelligence' of his intent.

Details of his background will raise questions over what security officials knew about the assailant and what decisions were taken when he first appeared on the radar.
Mrs May's statement came after armed police arrested eight people and raided six properties in London and Birmingham, where three people were detained in a flat thought to have been lived in by the killer.

ISIS has frequently called on its supporters to carry out attacks against citizens of the U.S.-led coalition that has been targeting the group since 2014. They have also previously claimed certain attacks in a show of opportunism.

The extremists have lost territory in their so-called caliphate across Iraq and Syria this year after offensives by local forces backed by a U.S.-led military coalition.

Last night ISIS supporters appeared to be celebrating the attack in messages shared on an unofficial 'ISIS Telegram Channel'.

According to Ahmet Yayla, a senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), the messages were being shared on a 'credible' ISIS channel.

He shared screengrabs on his Twitter account, showing content of groups where messages included 'blessed London attack'.

source: Mailonline

 

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