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UK: Islamic State claims responsibility for London subway bomb, suspect arrested

Sep 16, 2017 10:30 am By Robert Spencer

Such attacks are “part and parcel” of life in a big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

“British police make ‘significant arrest’ in London subway terror attack,” by Morgan Winsor, Good Morning America, September 16, 2017:

UPDATES: WHAT WE KNOW NOW

18-year-old man arrested Saturday in connection with terror attack on London tube. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. An apparent bucket-bomb explosion rocked a London subway train Friday morning. The terror attack is the sixth in Britain this year. The blast sent 29 people to the hospital. A manhunt is underway for perpetrators, with no arrests yet. The threat level has been raised to “critical,” meaning an attack is expected imminently. Witnesses described a ball of flames and a loud explosion. Police said the improvised explosive device used did not fully explode. _______________________________________________________________

An 18-year-old man was arrested Saturday morning in Dover, England, in connection with Friday’s London subway terror attack, which ISIS has claimed responsibility, police announced.

The man, apprehended by Kent Police in Dover’s port area, was arrested under section 41 of the U.K.’s Terrorism Act, London Metropolitan Police said in a statement. The man remains in custody at a local police station. He will be transferred to a south London police station.

“We have made a significant arrest in our investigation this morning,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, Senior National Co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, said. “Although we are pleased with the progress made, this investigation continues and the threat level remains at critical.”

Basu added, ““This arrest will lead to more activity from our officers. For strong investigative reasons we will not give any more details on the man we arrested at this stage.”

London mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement following the arrest, “The police investigation is ongoing and there will still be significant activity today and over the days ahead. I am sure I speak for London when I say we are incredibly grateful to the police and intelligence services for doing everything possible to keep Londoners safe.”

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack through its propaganda news agency, Amaq.

A manhunt kicked off after an apparent bucket bomb exploded on a subway train during rush hour Friday, sending a fireball through the passenger car and sending at least 29 people to the hospital, officials said….

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  1. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 10:40 am

    Poor young man, he must come from an impoverished background of oppression and economic exploitation. And be mentally ill. Islam? What’s that?

    • Kris T says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 1:02 pm

      Barack Trudeau, is that you? If so, welcome to our web site.

    • Karen says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 2:35 pm

      Probably triggered by the Crusades.

      (sarc)

  2. John A. Marre says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 10:42 am

    And life in London goes back to the way it was, blind to the increasing threat all around. Londoners are used to it by now. This is the new normal. A few innocent Londoners die every so often. Nothing to worry about, old chap. Isn’t it worth sacrificing a few Brits just so the newly-arrived Muslims can feel right at home?

    And there will be more. The Muslim mayor of London is not going to do anything to restrain other Muslims from doing what they do best: slashing, burning, bombing and killing. May is not going to do anything – hey, her future career depends on Muslims!

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 11:10 am

      +1
      You’re right, it won’t stop now. Look at places like Iraq etc and see where we’re headed. Attacks several times a week, like the uk and France are getting towards, just with higher death rates.
      It’s almost unbelievable, but we’re actually going to get like that. Deeply sad

      • maghan says

        Sep 16, 2017 at 3:54 pm

        Think of how these degenerate Muslim criminals have completely transformed air travel since 9/11. Air travel used to be a hassle-free activity before that fateful day–but now it’s a kind of torture. You must take off shoes–courtesy the shoe bomber–belts, then subject yourself to blasts of radiation before you can move on–only to be patted down again at some airports.

        And very few protest when an old lady in wheel chair is subjected to the same humiliating treatment. Standard Oil, you made a big, big mistake.

    • Jayell says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 1:59 pm

      “This is the new normal. A few innocent Londoners die every so often. Nothing to worry about, old chap.”
      Isn’t this just what Mayor Khan said? It’s ‘the reality of living in a modern cosmopolitan city, so get used to it!’ We weren’t used to it before, except in WW2, so why are we expected to tolerate near civil-war conditions as ‘the new normal’ now?
      “Isn’t it worth sacrificing a few Brits just so the newly-arrived Muslims can feel right at home?”
      Ah, THAT’S the reason! And, of course, Khan would know ALL about that, wouldn’t he?

      • Jay says

        Nov 30, 2017 at 9:39 am

        Hmm. I’d expect just the same response from a pig really….
        Hang on a minute…..

    • Karen says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 2:37 pm

      A great deal of truth in what you say. From the London AP:

      “LONDON (AP) — Unfazed by the London subway attack, celebrities, models and fashion editors have flocked to London Fashion Week to celebrate all things stylish…….”

      I know that life goes on, but, we should be more disturbed by the ‘new normal’.

      • Sarah says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 4:26 am

        Well said, Karen.

    • IQ al Rassooli says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 11:50 am

      Since every Muslim is Sharia compliant (London mayor Khan is a prime example who made Haj to Mecca as well as Linda Sarsour who LOVES Sharia and this misfit Nadia Chan) every Muslim cannot ever be a Law abiding LOYAL citizen in ANY non Muslim nation because these nations do not submit to Allah’s Sharia.

      Hence every Sharia compliant Muslim (just reading what Nadia Chan says as a perfect example) is by his/her belief system the Mortal and Eternal ENEMY of every human being on Earth who is NOT a Muslim (Infidels/ Kuffar) who hide their disloyalty by PRETENDING and deceiving (Taqiyyah) non Muslims that they are part and parcel of the American or European dream.

      Therefore, Ummat Muhammad (Muslims) 20% of humanity aspires to do one of two things to all non Muslims (80% of humanity): To SUBJUGATE them to Sharia or to EXTERMINATE them.

      Let me put it in an even shorter way: Muslims cannot possibly be BOTH Good Muslims and Loyal citizens among Kuffar/Infidels

      Every Muslim is hence a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough (just like in the recent Muslim terrorist attacks in UK and the Afghani Muslim soldiers who murder their American benefactors etc)

      Although it is true that Not ALL Muslims are Terrorists BUT 100% of all Terrorist attacks against Infidels/ Kuffar are committed ONLY by Muslims. Therefore, every Muslim is a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off (It is also a FACT that it is IMPOSSIBLE to point out who among Muslims is a terrorist or not)

      Only in the WARPED imagination of leftists can one find Moderate, Militant, Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate, Militant, Radical or Extremist. (Just ask PM Erdogan of Turkey to prove my statements)

      All other explanations are superfluous and redundant It is time for every decent and patriotic person to unshackle yourselves from the pre conceived but erroneous notion that ANYONE who is not a Muslim can make PEACE with Islam.

      All anyone in doubt has to do is READ only chapters 2 to 9 of Muhammad’s Quran and watch the repeated mass slaughter of unarmed innocent European, American, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Iraqi etc. civilians by Muslims proclaiming they are doing the butchery to PLEASE their demonic god Allah

      As usual, all that Europeans and Americans get from their criminally negligent leaders after every Islamic mass murder are platitudes, meaningless expressions of sympathy to the hapless victims by the very leaders who are not willing to protect their citizenry because of their abject denial of all Facts and Reality regarding the simple TRUTH about Islam and Muslims

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTuFA1fQ-yg&feature=youtu.be&a

      IQ al Rassooli
      Kafir & Proud!

  3. Dawn Davenport says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 10:43 am

    Europe has become Eurostan. Well at least they have “diversity”. A few little inconveniences are worth it.

    • Joe says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 4:58 am

      Diversity is a detriment if everyone is not pulling in the same direction. Teamwork is the key. Pious Muslims are *supposed* to hate the other members of team. Your team can’t win, if a pious Muslim is giving away the game.

  4. vyx says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 10:54 am

    Well, it seems that electing a Muslim mayor has not decreased the actions of the islamic horde, only emboldened them. How long before someone suggests the way to stop this is to simply convert as a nation to islam?

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 11:13 am

      You know, give it a little while and that might be exactly what happens. Not impossible at all. There are already so many accommodations that aren’t too much different from that anyway.

  5. steve says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 11:07 am

    Oh to be in England, now that Islams here………..

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 12:40 am

      Ouch…

  6. David M says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 11:10 am

    He’s obviously a Muslim, they are refusing to release his name. If he was an infidel right winger (who wouldn’t do this anyway) we would know his name, his background, his entire life & his so called motivations by now.

    They will wait till they hope people are forgetting about this before they release his Arabic Muslim name. What a disgrace they are.

    • Anne Smith says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 6:28 am

      The Press have managed to find out that he is a Somali Muslim who was “fostered ” by the usual silly well meaning couple, and it seems he was one of the Calais brigade of “children” who were actually a lot older than they pretended. It appears he was already a lot of trouble before this incident.

      The dreadful thing about the train is that there were a lot of young children on their way to school. Thank goodness the bomb didn’t go off, only the detonator otherwise the death toll would have been horrendous, but Mayor Khan still doesn’t get too bothered. Just a fact of life, to him.

      The poem recited by Mr Trump about the snake has never seemed more apt.

  7. Dan Page says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 11:22 am

    London is like Baghdad. The Islamist mayor stating this is part and parcel of life. What a hell-hole these European nations have become. F Islam and it’s terrorists. They are a cancer, and the so-called moderates never even try to reform it. Just total Barbarians. And Britain and the rest of Europe for that matter love to give them all Hugs and Handout. Damned be the European continent now that 8th century barbarism has been brought in

    • nicu says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 2:48 pm

      @ Dan page : don’t forget the teddy bears they have thrown towards the poor refugees in Germany !

  8. Oliver says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    But, to quote the signs.

    Refugees aren’t dangerous.

    Refugees are in danger

    This after years of seeing Sweden, France Germany. Etc

  9. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    First, this is sadly another Islamic terror attack which occurred on September 15, on the London underground tube [train] is both brutal and malicious and filled with murderous intentions. Likewise another jihad –minded Muslim was following the Instruction of the “holy book” of Islam, the Quran, which instructs in vicious jihad violence. As, for example,, seen in Surah 9:123. Which teaches “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you, and let them find harshness in you.” The planting of the I.E.D in the London Tube is a very effective way of showing people who are not Muslims “harshness.” Islam a “peaceful religion” ? Nonsense!

    Second,the jihadist’s attacks in Western nations be the Muslim terrorists as seen in that such vicious malicious and murderous jihad attacks occur in the cities of the West. Such cities as Barcelona, Stockholm, London, Manchester, Brussels, Stockholm, Paris, Nice, Berlin, Madrid. Those jihad-minded Muslim terrorists who engage in those vicious Islamic terror attacks cannot be and will not be reasoned with. They will not respond to either logic or reason. They aren’t interested, at all, in reason or logic. So they have to be dealt with by a strong force of might. Either by the police or the military. For to even try to reason with a jihad-minded Muslim terrorist is just as much an act of futility as trying to teach algebra to a rabbit.

  10. Jedothek says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    A sad thing is that Londoners are likely to accept the Mayor’s assurances that terroristic murder is part and parcel of city life. Can we revive the word ‘intolerable’ ?

  11. Joe says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 2:39 pm

    If I would be the British PM I’d deport every single Muslim, that snake mayor of Londonistan included.

    • Anne Smith says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 6:29 am

      If only.

  12. St. Patrick says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 7:36 pm

    Funny (not) how the parts are always part of the parcel..Khan’s sense of humoor(sic) is extraordinarily profound..
    Great job on the debate Robert and David btw..Thanks always..

  13. gravenimage says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 12:33 am

    UK: Islamic State claims responsibility for London subway bomb, suspect arrested
    ………………….

    Bloody thugs.

  14. Mahendra Singh says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:26 am

    I wonder what kind of punishment the suspect will get? Perhaps two months probation and a stiff lecture by a judge in queen’s English.

  15. Sarah says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 4:36 am

    I’ve laid low with this latest attack. To be honest, I wasn’t surprised when I woke up and heard the news -who is surprised anymore? I notice that I’m not even feeling that terrible horror that I’ve felt, time and again over the years whenever a Muslim has slaughtered Westerners in the name of his god-rotting cult.

    I guess Khan was right. It is the new normal. It makes me sick. But its the truth. Let me guess? Theresa May has come out and ‘strongly denounced’ the attackers. She has ‘reassured the good people of England that they will find the attacker’ and that ‘Islam is a proud religion and Muslims are good, peaceful people’. And yada yada yada.

    The news that we should have woken up to on the morning after the day of the attack was this:
    “Breaking News. British Troops working in conjunction with every level of law enforcement and national security within the UK have begun rounding up Muslims in the UK, overnight.”

    With a story that explains how Theresa May and Co are finally, FINALLY going on the attack and have started purging the UK of its jihadists. Rushing though new legislation to immediately and permanently deport. If any of them attempt to assault or kill any British personnel during their (very short) internment and deportation, they are killed via a new Death Penalty law. NO excuses. No exceptions.

    But no. Of course not. That would be barbaric. Kind of like how its barbaric to put a bomb on public transport with the intent to harm and slaughter as many innocent people as possible.

    And to hear Trump spill the beans – that May and Co KNEW THIS GUY WAS BAD NEWS!!! Man, I’d be screaming bloody murder right now if I were a victim. I’d be seeking counsel – because I’d want to hold the politicians responsible. If they did their jobs as they are paid OBSCENELY well to do – they would have prevented this particular attack from occurring.

    Blood is on their hands. Again.

  16. dumbledoresarmy says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 5:11 am

    “An 18 year old man’… .Yeah, he’s 18…

    According to other reports, he was a ‘foster child’ (presumably he was let into Britain as a claiming-to-be-17-year-old ‘child’).

    I’ll BET that his real age is anywhere between 20 and 35.

    • David M says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 6:03 am

      And they still won’t give us his name. That must be the new plan, don’t give out the Arabic name & the public won’t realise he is a Muslim, they are crazy enough to think that might work.

  17. Anne Smith says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 6:32 am

    Actually their reluctance to give the name is now seen by most people as confirmation that it is a Muslim. Otherwise they would have been spilling the name everywhere.

    In the first few moments after the tube attack they were even trying to suggest it was Animal Rights activists doing it!!! Why do the establishment assume we are all so stupid? I suppose it’s because they are.

  18. Charles T Lawson says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 7:25 am

    NO NAME WHO,S TO BLAME ? JOHN DOE ?.

  19. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 9:32 am

    ; Bombs are Muhammadans birth-control.

  20. staffsgt7 says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 2:36 pm

    This year’s Eid-e-mubahala landed on Sept 15, 2017. this is what the London bombing was all about. in a Mubahala, each side is supposed to call down the curse of God on the “liars” (i.e. the opposing party). the moslems just celebrated it without the others knowing about it being a challenge. We are to pray for those that curse us: Luke 6:27-28

    But ignoring those that do such violence is not Christian either. Bring them to justice and make sure others know why they do their violence is a must or we condemn our children and their futures to the evil of islam in one of several ways… subjugation, as a moslem who worships evil, or death.

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