Post by Blaze72 on May 23, 2013 3:20:29 GMT -5
LONDON: Two men wielding knives butchered and beheaded a man believed to be a British soldier in a busy London street on Wednesday, before delivering an Islamist tirade to passers-by.
Prime Minister David Cameron, condemning the "appalling" attack, added: "There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident."
Eyewitnesses described how after the two men carried out their attack, they stayed at the scene, asking passers-by to photograph and film them.
The attack happened near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.
Armed police shot and wounded the two attackers after bystanders had called them to the scene.
Amateur footage of one of the men carrying a blood-stained knife and meat cleaver shows him saying: "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you."
The man, a black man dressed in a hooded jacket and black woolly hat, speaks in a London accent.
"We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," he said.
"I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our land, our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
Reports said the man attacked was wearing a t-shirt bearing the logo of the British military charity Help for Heroes.
Several eyewitnesses said he had been decapitated
Prime Minister David Cameron, condemning the "appalling" attack, added: "There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident."
Eyewitnesses described how after the two men carried out their attack, they stayed at the scene, asking passers-by to photograph and film them.
The attack happened near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.
Armed police shot and wounded the two attackers after bystanders had called them to the scene.
Amateur footage of one of the men carrying a blood-stained knife and meat cleaver shows him saying: "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you."
The man, a black man dressed in a hooded jacket and black woolly hat, speaks in a London accent.
"We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," he said.
"I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our land, our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."
Reports said the man attacked was wearing a t-shirt bearing the logo of the British military charity Help for Heroes.
Several eyewitnesses said he had been decapitated
www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/soldier-killed-in-shocking-london-attack/story-e6frfkui-1226648803669
