“I apologize that women had to witness this today but, in our land, our women have to see the same,” the attacker said on camera after beheading a man on the streets of London. “You people will never be safe.”
It is believed there were two attackers who acted in coordination, killing one and wounding two more in the streets of London. The attackers were incapacitated after they assaulted police.
This violent act is being considered an Islamist terrorist attack by British authorities.
UPDATE: Two Arrested as London Muslim Terror Probe Expands
UPDATE: The full statement made by the attacker is as follows:
“We swear by Almighty Allah, we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. The only reasons we killed this man is because Muslims are dying daily. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We apologize that woman had to see this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.”
Another witness, who gave his name only as James, told London’s LBC 97.3 radio station that he saw two men standing by the victim on the floor.
At first he thought they were trying to help the man but then saw two meat cleavers, like a butcher would have.
“They were hacking at this poor guy, literally,” he told the radio station, as if they were trying to remove his organs.
“These two guys were crazed. They were just not there. They were just animals.”
Fox news is now reporting:
Two men wielding a machete and a cleaver hacked a man believed to be a soldier to death on a busy London street Wednesday while yelling “Allahu Akbar,” in an attack that was caught on video and left the nation shocked and horrified.
The victim, who some reports said may have been a soldier, was killed at the scene, and the attackers waited at the scene until police arrived and shot both. One attacker, his hands soaked in blood and still holding a machete, delivered an angry jihadist screed as stunned passersby watched, the dead man lying on the street, in the southeast London neighborhood of Woolwich.
“We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day,” he said in a video clip that was shown on the ITV website. “This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
“I apologize that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same,” the killer continued. “You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don’t care about you.”
Witnesses said the attackers shouted “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is Great,” during the bloody rampage, according to the BBC.
Police said two attackers were shot by authorities and taken to separate London hospitals to be treated for their injuries. Live television images of the scene showed a trail of blood on the pavement, cordoned-off streets and crime scene investigators marking the scene as witnesses recounted the harrowing attack.
“These two guys were crazed. They were just animals,” one witness, identified as James, told LBC radio. “They dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road and left his body there.”
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short a visit to Paris, condemned the killing as “truly shocking,” and said there are “strong indications” that the attack was terror-related. He asked Home Secretary Theresa May to call an urgent meeting of the government’s emergency committee.
“Britain has suffered terrorist attacks before, terrorist attacks from the IRA, terrorist attacks from Islamic extremists,” Cameron said. “We have suffered these attacks before and we have always beaten them back.”
Both French President Francois Hollande and MP Nick Raynsford told the BBC the dead man had been a soldier.
Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of the assault, which took place just a few blocks from a the Royal Artillery Barracks. The barracks — which house a number of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and independent companies of the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards — were the site of shooting events during the 2012 London Olympics.
The Muslim Council of Britain condemned the attack.
“This is a truly barbaric act that has no basis in Islam and we condemn this unreservedly,” the group said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with the victim and his family. We understand the victim is a serving member of the Armed Forces.”
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Shawn O'Loughlin says
“You people will never be safe”. If you don’t believe it from us white guys, believe it from their own mouths. Non-muslims WILL NEVER BE SAFE, as long as muslims are allowed to exist.
What upsets me most is “The Muslim Council of Britain” pretends to condemn, with fingers crossed behind backs, I’m sure, yet some people still believe their lies about islam. The sole purpose of the muslim “religion” is to convert or kill all non-muslims. Period.
Makes me wonder if those who turn a blind eye to what is really going on are really that gullible or are just too chicken-s**t to stand up and do something about the muslim problem the world is facing.
Jon Winters (@Obscura) says
This is what you get when only the police and soldiers have guns.
Anonymous says
Obama said it was just “Work place violence”. They were angry about a Mickey Mouse cartoon that showed a man with a beard.
Carmine D'Amato says
You see in England SUBJECTS are not allowed to carry a handgun for protection as we can here in the states. I live in South Carolina and as a CITIZEN in S.C.we are allowed to legally carry a concealed handgun for protect after we have been trained to do so.. Had this incident happened here,those two animals would be dead because most likely the potential victim would have been armed or a CITIZEN would have and justice would have been served. God Bless America,God Bless those states who allow their citizens the right to defend themselves. A MAN WITH A GUN IS A CITIZEN AND MAN WITHOUT GUN IS A SUBJECT. I AM A CITIZEN.
Matt says
The difference is that in the U.S. they would have been armed with guns and bombs rather than machetes and cleavers. This is not a problem of gun control.
Freedom_Road says
Well said in the last part and probably better said then a lot of trash talking back to brain dead SUBJECTS!!! I too am a citizen. Gob bless our God given inalienable rights.
Anonymous says
I say we dump some our old NUKES on them and start from SCATCH!
David Hendrick Behrens says
The media should never give these barbarians any TV Time.. The way the British laws are, no one could stop this attack, most police are unarmed and all law abiding citizens are not allowed to be armed..
Anonymous says
Kool-Aid drinkers will never believe this to be what it is….
Jimbolini says
Yeah the peace luvin’ moooslims! BWAHAHAHHAHAA!
Anonymous says
The “religion of peace ” leaves it’s signature again.