Westminster Murderer Identified [ 25 March 2017 ]
The Main Stream Media alleged that Masood was
"British" but they were lying. The mugshot et cetera say he is a crossbreed
by a black thug out of a white slut.
They showed us the ugly reality but only because the Met published his mug shot.
He was a surly little swine when he was at school.
Westminster Terrorist's Motives Are Unknown [ 26 March 2017 ]
Islamic terrorist attacks, terrorist murders five.
The Main Stream Media claim that the reasons are
unknown but ISIS says he is one of theirs.
Khalid Masood ex Wiki
Khalid Masood (born Adrian Russell Elms,[1]
subsequently amended to Adrian Russell Ajao;[2]
25 December 1964 – 22 March 2017[3])
was the Briton[4]
who was identified by police as the perpetrator of the
2017 Westminster attack,[5]
which was the largest attack in
London since 2005.[6]
During the attack, he was shot dead by police.[7]
Masood's criminal profile was atypical, in that most
jihadi
terrorists are under 30, with an average age of 22: he was 52.[8][9][10][11]
Criminal background
Masood had been investigated by
MI5 in relation
to concerns regarding violent extremism.[12][13]
News reports indicate that he was known to have a number of aliases,
including Khalid Choudry, was considered a "peripheral figure" by MI5[3][6]
and was a known associate of radical individuals in Birmingham.[14]
Masood had a number of prior criminal convictions, the earliest for
criminal damage in 1983, when he was 19.[15]
He also had convictions relating to assaults, which included
grievous bodily harm, and other
public order offences.[16]
In 2000, when Masood was 35, he was imprisoned for 2 years for slashing the
face of a local business owner, following an argument in a pub in
Northiam.[17]
The victim required 20 stiches.[18]
Three years after that incident, in 2003, he was accused of stabbing a man
in the nose, and sentenced to six months for possession of a knife.[19]
He served prison sentences in
Lewes Prison in East Sussex,
Wayland Prison in Norfolk and
Ford Open Prison in West Sussex.[20]
Whilst living in Northiam, Masood was one of only two black men living in
the village, and there were allegedly "racial overtones" to the rows he was
involved in there.[17][21]
Personal life
Masood was born in
Dartford,
Kent, on 25
December 1964.[22][21][18]
His birth name was Adrian Russell Elms.[2][23]
He grew up in
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and attended Huntleys Secondary School for Boys
until he was 16 years old.[24]
Masood is said to have assumed his stepfather’s
surname after his mother’s marriage to a
Nigerian.[25][24]
He was a
Muslim convert,[3][26]
married,[22]
and a father.[27]
He was known to have an interest in
bodybuilding.[28][29][30]
Previous neighbours of Masood reported that he "seemed like a normal family
man" and regularly wore white Muslim robes[6]
or tracksuits.[26]
A Sky News
source stated he was a "very religious, well spoken man."[31]
In 2005, Masood lived in
Saudi Arabia and is said to have taught English.[32]
In 2006, he lived in
Crawley,
Sussex, and then, in 2008–2009, he lived in Saudi Arabia again. He then
moved to Luton,
Bedfordshire.[33]
It was reported that Masood visted Saudi Arabia for a third time, for six
days in March 2015 with an
"Umra" visa.[34]
Until December 2016, he lived with a woman and their young child in the
Winson Green area of
Birmingham.[28][9]
See also
2017 Westminster Attack ex Wiki
On 22 March 2017 a
terrorist attack in London began on
Westminster Bridge, and continued into
Parliament Square and the grounds of the
Palace of Westminster. The attacker, identified as 52-year-old Briton
Khalid Masood (born Adrian Russell Elms), drove a car into pedestrians
on the
pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street,
resulting in more than 50 people being injured, three of them fatally. After
the car crashed into the perimeter fence of the Palace grounds, he abandoned
it and ran into
New Palace Yard where he fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer.
Masood was then shot by a
close protection Police officer,[1]
and died of his injuries at the scene.
Background
See also:
Terrorism in the United Kingdom
Prior to the attack, the
UK Threat Level for terrorism in the country was listed at "severe",
meaning an attack was "highly likely".[2][3]
There had not been a murder at the Palace of Westminster since the
assassination of Airey Neave in 1979, which took place close to New
Palace Yard, during the
Northern Ireland conflict.[4]
The last attack to have caused multiple casualties on the UK mainland had
been the
7 July 2005 London bombings. Since then, two other murders have been
characterised by authorities as terrorism: those of
Lee Rigby in an Islamist attack in May 2013,[5][6][7]
and of
Jo Cox by a far-right extremist in June 2016.[5]
According to
Mark
Rowley, the Metropolitan Police's
Assistant Commissioner for
Specialist Operations, thirteen plots have been foiled by the
authorities since 2013.[8]
Attack
At 14:40 local time (and
UTC) on 22 March 2017,[9]
a grey
Hyundai Tucson[10][11]
was driven at around 40 miles per hour (64 km/h)[11]
into pedestrians along the
pavement
on the south side of
Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, causing multiple casualties.[12][13]
The car used was hired from
Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Spring Hill,
Birmingham during the week prior to the incident.[10]
One of the victims fell or was thrown by the car's impact over the
parapet of the bridge into the
River Thames below. She was rescued by the crew of a
City Cruises boat and was brought aboard a
London Fire Brigade boat, having been knocked unconscious and sustained
severe injuries.[11]
The car continued, and crashed into railings on Bridge Street at the north
perimeter of the
Palace of Westminster.[14]
Masood, wearing black clothes, got out of the car and ran around the
corner into Parliament Square and through the Carriage Gates of
New Palace Yard, part of the Palace grounds, where he fatally stabbed an
unarmed police officer,
PC Keith Palmer. Sitting in a car nearby was a
Metropolitan Police close protection officer for the
Secretary of State for Defence,
Michael Fallon. Witnessing the stabbing, the officer ran towards the
scene and shot Masood several times.[15][16][17]
The entire attack, from start to finish, lasted only 82 seconds.[9]
Despite attempts to resuscitate him, Masood died at the scene.[18][19]
Passers-by including
Tobias Ellwood MP,
Foreign Minister for the Middle East and Africa, and medics attempted to
revive PC Palmer, also without success.[20][21]
Police later confirmed that PC Palmer had been wearing a protective vest,
which did not appear to have been punctured in the attack.[22]
Immediate aftermath
Prime Minister
Theresa May, who was in the
Commons for a vote, was evacuated by her security team in the
Prime Ministerial car,[23]
and taken to
10 Downing Street.[24]
Additional
armed police officers arrived. An
air ambulance from
London HEMS attended the scene. Parliament was suspended and MPs
remained in the
Commons debating chamber as a
precaution.
Parliamentary staff were told to remain in their offices, and visitors to
Parliament, including journalists and children on school trips, were ordered
to remain in the building. Some were later evacuated to
Westminster Abbey.[16]
The
Scottish Parliament and the
National Assembly for Wales also suspended their proceedings on the
afternoon of 22 March.[25][26]
The UK government's emergency
Cabinet Office Briefing Room (COBRA) committee, chaired by the Prime
Minister, met in response to the attack.[17]
It was decided there was no need for the threat level to be raised as a
result of the attack.[27]
Casualties
Five people, including the perpetrator, died as a result of the incident,
and around 50 others were injured, some of them severely. Of the four people
killed by the perpetrator, three were British nationals.[13][16]
Aysha Frade, a British teacher, believed to have been walking along the
bridge to pick up her children from school, was struck by the perpetrator's
car and killed.[36]
A tourist from the United States, Kurt Cochran, was also hit by the car and
died.[16]
The dead police officer was PC Keith Palmer, 48, an
unarmed police officer who was on duty with the
Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection command.[37][38]
Palmer had 15 years of experience in the
Metropolitan Police Service.[18]
The fourth victim was Leslie Rhodes, 75, from
Clapham
in south-west London, who was hit by the car and later died in hospital
after his life support was switched off.[39][40]
A dozen people received serious injuries, some described as "catastrophic",[17]
and eight others were treated for less serious injuries at the scene.[19]
Injured members of the public were taken to
St Thomas' Hospital, which is located immediately across Westminster
Bridge in
Lambeth, and to
King's College Hospital (which declared a 'major incident' in its
designated trauma centre),
St Mary's Hospital, the
Royal London Hospital and the
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.[16][19]
Two Romanian citizens were injured, one of whom had to be rescued from the
River Thames after being thrown from the bridge by the car of the attacker,[41]
and was injured severely.[16]
A group of French students aged 15–16, from
Concarneau in Brittany, were among those injured.[16][42]
Others included three police officers who were returning from a commendation
ceremony, four students from
Edge Hill University in Lancashire, and the deceased American's wife.[16][19]
Attacker
Main article:
Khalid Masood
The attacker was identified by the
Metropolitan Police as 52-year-old Briton
Khalid Masood.[43]
He was born Adrian Russell Elms, later changed to Adrian Russell Ajao, when
he took the name of his step-father.[44][45][46]
Some media reports have suggested that he underwent
conversion to Islam while in prison, after which he changed his name to
Khalid Masood, though police have said he also used several other aliases,
including Khalid Choudry.[44][47]
Born in Kent,
Masood was initially brought up in
Rye, East Sussex and later attended
secondary school in
Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Most recently he was living in the West
Midlands.[48]
When he was 16 he dropped out of school and by 18 he was taking drugs and
was described as a "heavy
cocaine"
user.[49]
In 2000 he was sentenced to two years in prison for
grievous bodily harm after a knife attack in a public house in
Northiam
in Sussex.
In 2003 he was sentenced to a further six months in prison for possession of
an offensive weapon following another knife attack in
Eastbourne in Sussex.[50][51]
As well as these two prison convictions, Masood had
public order offences going back to 1983.[50][51]
A British newspaper obtained a CV of Masood's in which he described
himself as having been a teacher of English in
Saudi Arabia between November 2005 and November 2006 teaching in Jeddah.
He was reported to have returned again from April 2008 to April 2009 in
Jubail.[52][53]
After this, according to the CV he returned to the United Kingdom and worked
at a
TEFL college in Luton.[54]
In 2015, he made a brief trip to Saudi Arabia, which is believed to have
been a religious
pilgirmagage.[53]
During his time in Saudia Arabia he was not recorded as having a
criminal record there.[53]
Although he had been previously investigated by MI5, Scotland Yard said
that Masood was not the subject of any current investigations and there was
no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack.[55]
He had not been convicted of any terrorism offences.[56]
Pictures of Masood being treated by medics were shown by some news outlets.[57][58]
Masood spent the night before the attack at the Preston Park Hotel in
Brighton
in Sussex and was described as "laughing and joking" by the manager there.[59]
Motive
The motivation for the attack was suspected by the police to be
Islamist extremism,[60]
although
Home Secretary
Amber
Rudd cast doubt over whether Masood was formally affiliated with
ISIL.[61]
On 23 March, ISIL's unofficial news channel,
Amaq News Agency, announced that the attacker was "a soldier of the
Islamic State, executing the operation in response to calls to target
citizens of coalition nations".[62]
Analysts monitoring the group online said the claim appears to be an effort
to disguise ISIL's losses in Iraq and Syria, adding that the lack of
biographical information of the attacker and lack of specifics about the
attack suggested it was not directly involved.[63]
Scotland Yard stated that it was investigating whether he was a lone
wolf and inspired by terrorist propaganda or was being directed by others.[64]
On 25 March Neil Basu, Deputy Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard,
announced that investigators believed that the perpetrator had acted alone,
adding that, "We must all accept that there is a possibility we will never
understand why he did this".[65]
Early reports
Some early reports gave descriptions of two supposed attackers, one
described as a "bald white man" and another as a "black man with goatee
beard"; however,
Mark
Rowley, the Metropolitan Police's
Assistant Commissioner for
Specialist Operations, dismissed these claims, saying that the attack
was a
lone wolf attack.[16]
Abu Izzadeen was also erroneously identified as the attacker on social
media,
Channel 4 News and
The Independent shortly after the attack; Izzadeen was actually in
prison at the time.[66]
Investigation
At 23:00 on 22 March,
West Midlands Police raided a flat in
Hagley Road, Birmingham. By the morning of 23 March, six locations in
East London and Birmingham had been raided resulting in the arrests of eight
people on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.[16][67][68]
Officials also carried out searches in London,
Brighton
and
Carmarthenshire.[69][67]
The investigation is named Operation Classific. By 24 March, three further
arrests had taken place in the West Midlands, the North West of England[clarification
needed] and in
Manchester. A woman, arrested earlier in East London, was released on
bail. Later on 24 March, seven of those initially arrested were released
without further action and another woman from Manchester was released on
bail.[70][18][71]
By 25 March, only one man from Birmingham remained in custody and the woman
on bail from East London had been removed from police enquiries. Over the
course of investigation, 2,700 items have been seized and 3,500 witnesses
have been contacted.[9]
Reactions
Reactions to the attack expressed shock and outrage, and characterised it
as an attack against liberty, freedom of speech, and democracy.[72][73]
Domestic
The
Mayor of London,
Sadiq
Khan, said:[74]
Those evil and twisted individuals who try to destroy our shared way
of life will never succeed and we condemn them. ... London is a great
city, full of amazing people from all backgrounds. And when Londoners
face adversity we always pull together.
Flowers next to Westminster Palace, the day after the attack
The speakers of both
Houses of Parliament issued a joint statement on the afternoon of the
attack:[75]
An extremely serious incident has occurred in the Westminster area
this afternoon. The Metropolitan police is dealing with this and an
investigation is under way. On behalf of members of both Houses of
Parliament, we wish to offer our thoughts to all those affected and
their families. We would also like to express our gratitude to the
police and all emergency services.
The Scottish Parliament suspended the day's proceedings, including a
debate on
a second independence referendum.[76]
Some MSPs who opposed the decision to suspend parliament said that doing so
was "giving in to terrorism".[77]
Both the House of Commons and the House of Lords resumed their normal
functions on 23 March, the day after the attack.[18]
A
one-minute silence in honour of the dead was observed in Parliament, and
by London's emergency services, at 9.33 am. The time was chosen as PC
Palmer's
collar number was 933.[16]
Prime Minister Theresa May said to members of parliament:[78][79]
Yesterday an act of terrorism tried to silence our democracy, but
today we meet as normal, as generations have done before us and as
future generations will continue to do, to deliver a simple message: We
are not afraid and our resolve will never waver in the face of
terrorism.
The
Labour leader
Jeremy Corbyn, the
Leader of the Opposition, described the attack as "an appalling
atrocity".[78][79]
On 23 March, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh faith leaders met
officers at Scotland Yard to discuss responses to the attack.[80]
The
Muslim Council of Britain condemned the attack and offered thoughts and
prayers to the victims,[19]
and several local mosques joined in the condemnation.[80]
In honour of PC Palmer, his police uniform and shoulder number 4157U were
permanently retired;
Charlton Athletic F.C. announced that his
season ticket seat at the
Valley would not be occupied at the club's next home game, but would
instead have a club scarf placed over it as a mark of respect.[81]
A
JustGiving fund was set up, with the target of raising £100,000 for his
family, a goal attained in less than 24 hours.[56]
A group called "Muslims United for London" also raised over £16,000 to
support victims and victims' families, releasing a statement saying, "The
British Muslim community stands with the community during these difficult
times."[82][83][84]
Home Secretary
Amber
Rudd announced that Keith Palmer would be remembered at the
National Memorial Arboretum's UK Police Memorial in
Staffordshire.[85]
On 24 March,
Prince Charles visited injured victims of the attack at
King's College Hospital.[86]
Also on 24 March,
Tobias Ellwood was appointed to the
Privy Council for his role in rendering aid to PC Palmer, as was
security minister
Ben Wallace MP, who helped coordinate the government response.[87]
International
In addition to the expressions of shock, support, solidarity and sympathy
offered by several national governments,[a]
the
United Nations Security Council observed a minute of silence at its
morning meeting on 23 March.[116][117]
The attack was denounced by the
European Commission President
Jean-Claude Juncker and the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.[111][108]
On the evening of the attack, the
Brandenburg Gate in Germany and
Tel Aviv City Hall in Israel were illuminated with the
Union
Jack.[118]
At midnight that day, the
Eiffel Tower's lights were switched off to honour those killed in the
London attack.[119]
On 23 March,
Jean-Marc Ayrault, France's
Minister of Foreign Affairs, came to London, where he first visited the
hospital where three French high school students injured in the attack were
being treated and later attended the morning session in the House of
Commons.[120][121]
Westminster Murderer Identified
[ 25 March 2017 ]
The Main Stream Media alleged that Masood was
"British" but they were lying. The mugshot et cetera say he is a crossbreed
by a black thug out of a white slut.
They showed us the ugly reality but only because the Met published his mug shot.
Westminster Terrorist's Motives Are Unknown - Allegedly
[ 26 March 2017 ]
Islamic terrorist attacks, terrorist murders
five. The Main Stream Media claim that
the reasons are unknown but ISIS says he is
one of theirs.
