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UK: London counterterror chief says they’re keeping “an open mind as to any motive” of London Bridge jihad murderer

Nov 30, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Yeah, it’s a real mystery. Usman Khan was a hardened jihadi who had been imprisoned for jihad terror plotting. His motive is absolutely opaque to the terminally blinkered and willfully ignorant. Neil Basu and other British authorities of course do not wish to appear “Islamophobic.”

“Terrifying new footage shows moment hero bystanders armed with a fire extinguisher and a NARWHAL TUSK chase knife-wielding terrorist across London Bridge before he is sprayed with jets of water and grappled to the ground,” by Rebecca Camber and Terri-Ann Williams, Mailonline, November 30, 2019:

This is the moment brave bystanders armed with a fire extinguisher and Narwhal tusk confronted the London Bridge attacker during his terrifying rampage yesterday.

Two people were killed and up to twelve were injured after Usman Khan, 28, attacked innocent people on the north side of London Bridge just before 2pm.

Video footage showed the attacker running across London Bridge wielding two kitchen knives.

Several members of the public chase Khan, before tackling him and disarming him.

One man used a fire extinguisher while another man ripped the tusk of a Narwhal whale off a wall and jabbed it in the direction of the attacker….

Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Neil Basu said the suspect appeared to be wearing a bomb vest but it turned out to be ‘a hoax explosive device.’

Basu said officers were keeping ‘an open mind as to any motive.’…

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  1. terry sullivan says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 3:02 pm

    you could not make it up!

    • Colin Wilkinson says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 4:42 am

      How many more people have to be killed before it is openly admitted that the motive is extreme Islam!!

  2. Chris D says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 3:08 pm

    I think it is beyond time to fire the counter terrorism chief. He seems to be confused about his job – which is to stop islamic Jihadi Terrorism. Not make it more possible. Not to make excuses for it.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Nov 30, 2019 at 4:28 pm

      Agreed! He is a serious liability for all non-Muslim Brits. At this point, anyone involved in law enforcement or counter-terrorism who is determined to shield Islam and Muslims, at the expense of non-Muslims, should be fired. They have no business in that line of work. We’ve got enemies enough among the Allah junkies, without having to fight these PC idiots too.

      • Leon Degney says

        Dec 1, 2019 at 9:19 am

        That would mean an almost 100% firing of the police force. From where I’m standing it appears that they are complicit in the Muslim takeover of “Londonistan”.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 30, 2019 at 6:12 pm

      Neil Basu is a dhimmi tool–but he is far from the only one.

      • mortimer says

        Nov 30, 2019 at 10:02 pm

        The corrupt politicians pay the salaries of the police and craft what the cops will say for political consumption. The next London mayoral election will be held on 7 May 2020, to elect the Mayor of London. The current mayor wants to minimize the appearance of his GROSS INCOMPETENCE in dealing with terrorism and knifings in The City.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 3:15 pm

    As for that British counterterror chief , his words own show him to be an unrealistic naïve fool.

    For jihadist or jihadists attacks in Western nations and Western cities as London and Manchester as well as in Dusseldorf ,Germany, or be the Muslim terrorists in the other cities of the different nations of Europe as Strasbourg, Stockholm, ,Brussels , 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 the violent Muslims who are jihadists will only understand the language violent force since that their mindset because the jihadists are men of deadly violence . Of course they are that way because of the religion which is Islam. As Islam’s “holy book” the Qu ‘ran instructs in 47:4. “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”

    Such vicious and ruthless instruction found in the Qu ‘ran reflects the malice-filled words spoken by the Muslim cleric.

  4. james sang says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 3:21 pm

    All stupid UK public employees have to be fired and forced to live with their beloved Muslims!!!

  5. Thomas Richard says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 3:26 pm

    Methinks the Counterterror Chief should be the CounterTerror Chef…..He’s a recipe for disaster…….

    • Lotus says

      Nov 30, 2019 at 4:16 pm

      Nice pun. As for the jihadi, he really cooked up a storm.

    • FYI says

      Nov 30, 2019 at 5:17 pm

      Speaking of a recipe,I always love to tell muslims how their great “prophet” muhammed died…{no,not in battle as he so desperately wanted}

      By Roast Leg of Lamb ……..cunningly poisoned by an enslaved Jewish woman whose family he had killed.

      At one stage the Leg of lamb spoke to him to warn him it had been poisoned yet the great prophet didn’t see his doom coming.

      You Tube

      acys17apologetics who killed muhammed?

      It cracks me up every time:I mean it appears allah was out the day muhammed died..

      • Leon Degney says

        Dec 1, 2019 at 9:25 am

        Apparently had he been a “true prophet” Mahommed would not have been affected by the poison. Why the Muslims overlook this and continue to basically worship the idiot is difficult … no impossible, to understand.

  6. Crusades Were Right says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    A wild guess:
    British leftist: “How appalling! I mean, using a body part from a dead animal to commit an act of violence!”

  7. Shirley Ann says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 4:13 pm

    Another Vicious Khan, allowed to run free with BUTCHER KNIVES, & Authorities are unwilling to COME CLEAN about this Savage. Where is Mayor Khan during this Attack on the British Public, or is this the Agenda of Mayor Khan & Pro-Muslim Authorities? This would NOT be the First Time that Politicians or GOV CIVIL SERVANTS used the Enemy to Silence & Subjugate their Own Population. Civilized People are afraid of the HATED MUSLIM SAVAGES, but our own GOVS invited them into our Countries. WHY?

    • Leon Degney says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 9:27 am

      Worse are still inviting them in in droves. Bugger me, what is in the water these days that it has turned those in authority into raving bloody lunatics?

  8. Lotus says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 4:33 pm

    Breaking news:

    After a detailed examination of the day’s events, the counter-terrorism chief announces the motive for the murderous rampage.

    It turns out the man did not like the lunch that was served at the rehabilitation conference. Case closed.

    • Save Europe says

      Nov 30, 2019 at 11:33 pm

      It wasn’t halal ?

      • Leon Degney says

        Dec 1, 2019 at 9:29 am

        Now that’s not Kosher!

    • Carol the 1st says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 5:17 pm

      It’s really odd they still can’t intuit that it’s just the usual sharks attacking. One happened on London Bridge in June of 2017 (check YouTube’s London Bridge Terror Attack: Three Things to Know). A van attack had been followed by knifings. Two citizens died but it could have been many more had not one courageous officer, Wayne Marques, been on the scene. He managed to hold the fort using his baton against three knife-wielding terrorists:

      London Bridge hero cop: ‘All I was trying to do was keep people alive’

  9. FYI says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    “keeping an open mind as to any motive”

    Gee:what on earth could THAT be?
    What brainstorming must be going on at the {PC} PC headquarters?
    But can these Sherlocks figure it out?

    hmmm:

    Who could possibly be behind this?

    is it ..is it…the mysterious “Asians” of the MSM?The Hindus?The Buddhists?The Sikhs?The Jews?The Christians?The Jains?Ah it isn’t those Jain suicide bombers again is it?The Atheists?{We know militant atheists can get angry a bit about God but is it likely they would do such a thing?Nope}

    Is it..is it..the MUSLIMS{ or is that just being “islamophobic”?}

    Could the motive have something to do with…islam..its koran..its self-confessed terrorist “prophet” ..its doctrine of Hate[al walaa wal baraa}?Shirley Not.

    I Spy with my little eye something beginning with i..is it islam?It is!

    • FYI says

      Nov 30, 2019 at 5:41 pm

      SOLVED IT

      We have the means,the motive and the opportunity …and the culprit

      The means:Weapon..a knife
      The motive:please see the koran k2:191″Slay the unbelievers wherever ye find them”
      The opportunity:infidels found walking on London Bridge
      The culprit: a jihadist muslim

      No need to keep an “open mind as to any motive” is there?
      Just a little bit of judicious detective work and honesty free from political correctness is required.

  10. ntesdorf says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 5:44 pm

    Police minds. are now so open that all their brains, intelligence and knowledge have fallen out. Hand that man a copy of the Qur’an, Haddith and Sunna with yellow postit notes to guide him

    • Angemon says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 12:21 pm

      “Police minds. are now so open that all their brains, intelligence and knowledge have fallen out.”

      My thoughts exactly.

  11. gravenimage says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 5:52 pm

    UK: London counterterror chief says they’re keeping “an open mind as to any motive” of London Bridge jihad murderer
    …………………..

    D’oh!

  12. Battle says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    Bigot Mayor Khan possibly ordered counter-terror police chief to say cover-up?

  13. mortimer says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 9:53 pm

    Counterterrorism chief Neil Basu may be under orders to lie, but he has become the Baghdad Bob of London, a laughingstock reducing the trust and prestige of the Met. I’m sure Londoners don’t appreciate the police lying to them about something so serious.

  14. mortimer says

    Nov 30, 2019 at 10:11 pm

    The terrorist wore a fake bomb vest, but the outrage of today’s Londoners is obviously the REAL THING. They will NOT appreciate the FAKE STATEMENT of the terrorism commissioner.

    The British are reaching a boiling point with Islamic terrorism. The police should switch sides and stop their surveillance of people who merely criticize Islamic terrorism.

    Islam is a DEATH CULT … this terrorist incident is further proof of Islam’s terrorist ideation.

    • terry sullivan says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 6:21 am

      where did he get the fake belt from

      heads must roll

  15. Peter WF says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 2:48 am

    To those who observe in silence –
    There comes a time when silence is betrayal. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  16. Infidel lives matter says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 5:25 am

    “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

    ― Theodore Dalrymple

    • Carol the 1st says

      Dec 1, 2019 at 5:56 pm

      And if you don’t dare talk to one another you’ll feel isolated and become fearful. Malignant narcissists wish this upon us. Complain and they’ll heap it on you even thicker. As a Canadian I see the pattern.

  17. terry sullivan says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 6:20 am

    why did max chishti leave?

  18. Giacomo Latta says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 8:55 am

    ”keeping an open mind to any motive”
    Police shorthand for ”double the number of police to the case; somebody has to be able to come up with a motive other than Islamic terrorism”

  19. Gork says

    Dec 1, 2019 at 6:13 pm

    I’ll keep an open mind when considering if counter-terrorism offices are of any use. Clearly I will need such an open mind because the current crop of idiots running the show are about as useless as anyone can be.

  20. jca reid says

    Dec 2, 2019 at 7:13 am

    Pathetic. Doesn’t take a Sherlock Holmes to deduce the motive. Pathetic PC sh*t!!

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