And the jihad murderers of Lee Rigby were known to security services, but not deemed a threat. You can’t blame those security services — they have been taught that jihad is an internal spiritual struggle, so when the future murderers of Rigby started talking jihad, they probably thought, “Oh, how nice.”
Maybe if the Cameron government bans a few more foreign counter-jihadists and destroys the lives of a few more domestic ones, the jihadists will be mollified and end the jihad in Britain. Or maybe not, but the government will try it anyway.
Imminent Demise of Britain Update: “Only a fraction of terror suspects can be watched 24/7,” by Tom Whitehead and Christopher Hope, the Telegraph, November 24, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):
MI5 can monitor fewer than 50 terrorist suspects around the clock, it can be disclosed, ahead of a report into the Lee Rigby murder that will highlight the limitations in watching terrorists in Britain.
Restricted resources mean only a fraction of the hundreds of suspected Islamist extremists at large can be subject to intensive 24/7 surveillance at any one time.
It comes as a parliamentary investigation ordered by David Cameron into the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby by two Islamist fanatics is expected to conclude there is little MI5 could have done to prevent his death on the day.
The 25-year-old, who had a son, was run down and hacked to death by Michael Adebolajo, 29, and his accomplice, Michael Adebowale, 22, near his barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, in May last year.
The killers chose him at random after driving around the area looking for a soldier.
It later emerged that both men had been known to the security services for many years and Adebolajo had been approached as a possible informant, which he rebuffed.
He was approached on several occasions after 2010 when he was caught in Kenya trying to cross the border to Somalia to join the terrorist group al-Shabaab.
He appeared in court but was not charged. The intelligence and security committee report is expected to disclose clues in Adebolajo’s online activities which may have pointed to his intentions, but MI5 was unaware of them until after the killing.
The material was held by internet service providers in America which had not raised the alarm, possibly because they were not aware of it themselves.
The committee is understood to have accepted that neither man was assessed as a serious enough risk to have legally justified more intensive surveillance which may have found those clues….
Jay Boo says
The Saudis have a more efficient method of monitoring jihad terror suspects.
So too did the Nigerian government many years ago with Boko Haram before the UN stepped in the way at a time when Hillary refused to even label Boko Haram terrorists.
Jay Boo says
“The 25-year-old, who had a son, was run down and hacked to death by Michael Adebolajo, 29, and his accomplice, Michael Adebowale, 22, near his barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, in May last year.”
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No doubt that the first thing that BBC did was to place a call to their official Muslim spokesperson in order to get a ‘fresh’ Muslim perspective and let the whole world know that in no way does BBC take any offence toward Islam for this crime and to remind all of its listeners that they should not be angered.
thomas pellow says
BBC, as is its political and racial bias, describes Ferguson case as: white on black killing, but doesn’t describe Lee Rigby’s murder as black Muslim on white non-Muslim killing.
pumbar says
The first thing the BBC did was try to call him “Asian”, then had a panic attack when they realised even they couldn’t get away with that one.
Salah says
“..sometimes peacemaking requires insurrection or war. Sometimes the only way to achieve the full application of justice in charity is to gear up and kick some @$$.”
Peace in not the absence of war
Clifford Hall says
Mustapha
I think that’s very sound advice…..but where do you start and with whom?
Crixus says
Yeah well this is all coming out in the wash.
These characters would have been alerted to MI5 had Facebook cooperated with the security services. However, US based IT companies like Facebook and Twitter continually deny access requests by UK security services even when a Facebook member blatantly says on their system (I want to cut off a soldier’s head). By giving these lunatics a forum for communicating and plotting Facebook and others are enabling this violence and need to take some fucking responsibility for it. personally I would put in extradition requests for the sanctimonious geeks that run these companies for conspiracy to cause murder!
So,Robert, whilst you continue to tell us how our country is doomed, perhaps you could turn your criticism to US based businesses who are facilitating the spread of islam.
Steve Hunter says
Its about time the British govt woke up and had a good look at their country……if the police are scared to do their job in some parts of the country,then you have a serious bloody problem. No disrespect meant to the many fine officers of the british police force but……and a lot of people would most likely agree…it is about time for the various police forces to be armed with firearms on a permanent basis. These brave men and women risk their lives on a daily basis with nothing more than a baton….pepper spray and their own courage…..they deserve to be able to protect themselves and society at the point of possible violence without having to wait for specially trained and armed officers to be sent to their aid…..you can be injured or killed in a matter of seconds and they deserve better than the prospect of that happening on a daily basis!!!!!! I call on the govt to stand up for its police depts and make the hard decisions. These people are your last line of defence…..start looking after them…now!!!