Britain reels from latest terrorism-linked stabbing, American among dead

By Peter Nicholls

 

People leave flowers next to the police cordon at the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading, Britain, June 21, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

 

READING, England (Reuters) - The English town of Reading held a minute's silence on Monday for the victims of a stabbing that killed three people including an American in the latest terrorism-linked attack.

 

Three people were also hospitalised after a man wielding a five-inch knife went on the rampage in a park on Saturday, randomly stabbing people enjoying a sunny, summer evening.

 

A Western security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the suspect was a 25-year-old Libyan called Khairi Saadallah.

 

Calling the incident terrorism, police said a 25-year-old had been arrested but they were not hunting others. "What we saw here on Saturday evening in Reading was the actions of one lone individual," Home Secretary (interior minister) Priti Patel said

 

The Philadelphia Inquirer said one of the dead was U.S. citizen Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, who had lived in Britain for 15 years. U.S. ambassador Woody Johnson sent condolences to families of victims. "To our great sorrow, this includes an American citizen," he said on Twitter.

 

Teacher James Furlong, 36, who was friends with Ritchie-Bennett according to media reports, was also killed. "He was beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun," his parents said.

 

The third victim has not yet been identified.

 

ON MI5'S RADAR

 

The security source told Reuters that Saadallah had come across the radar of Britain's domestic security agency MI5 last year over intelligence he had aspirations to travel for extremist purposes, although his plans then came to nothing.

 

"The security services have records on thousands of people and rightly so," said Patel, adding she was limited in what she could say because the investigation was live.

 

Shocked residents of Reading, about 40 miles (65 km) west of London, held a minute's silence at 0900 GMT.

 

The attack was reminiscent of some recent incidents in Britain that authorities also called terrorism.

 

In February, police shot dead a man, previously jailed for promoting violent Islamist material, who had stabbed two people on a busy street in south London. Last November, another man who had been jailed for terrorism offences stabbed two people to death on London Bridge before he too was shot dead by police.

 

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diversity is their ...?

 

very sad ,but far from rare occurrence in britain today,sad to see such young lives blotted out in a crazed racist attack by someone who was made welcome to the country.what do you say to their friends and relatives?govt needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and these peoples lives matter too so make sure you do something about it this time

White men killed for being white by a racist man of colour.

 

No riots, no looting or pulling down Nelson Mandela statues.

 

News and media are more offended by a “white lives matter” banner at an English football match that they somehow deem offensive. 

37 minutes ago, twocatsmac said:

White men killed for being white by a racist man of colour.

 

No riots, no looting or pulling down Nelson Mandela statues.

 

News and media are more offended by a “white lives matter” banner at an English football match that they somehow deem offensive. 

Too true, it is high time the governments around the world realised that immigrants have more rights than local people which is totally wrong

Celebrate the diversity. 

1 minute silence , lets have 5 minutes revenge

All these scumbags that are on mi5 watch list need rounding up and held until can prove they are worthy or deport them at least

These types seem to use stabbings as their go-to weapon in the UK. You'd think the ones in the U.S. would use guns, but post-9/11 they mostly use bombs, as in the Boston Marathon and several foiled bomb attempts in New York. And Paris was the victim of assault rifles while people in Nice got mowed down by a truck. It's not about racial adversaries; racism has little to do with it. It's all about different cultures and two polar opposite types of civilizations. One of them has no tolerance for nonbelievers.

Edited June 23, 20206 yr by Dustdevil

Several news reports appear to suggest that the victims were gay & that that might have been some sort of trigger if I understood them correctly this morning.

 

Elsewhere St Nigel has spoken out:

 

Edited June 23, 20206 yr by evadgib

Boris Johnson is responsible for the death of far more Britons than all of the Islamist terrorist acts committed in the UK combined. 

Selective indignation?

3 hours ago, rupert the bear said:

very sad ,but far from rare occurrence in britain today,sad to see such young lives blotted out in a crazed racist attack by someone who was made welcome to the country.what do you say to their friends and relatives?govt needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and these peoples lives matter too so make sure you do something about it this time

 

3 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

White men killed for being white by a racist man of colour.

 

No riots, no looting or pulling down Nelson Mandela statues.

 

News and media are more offended by a “white lives matter” banner at an English football match that they somehow deem offensive. 

You may be desperate to use the word racist as part of some other argument, but what is racist about this. The man is an Islamist, a religious terrorist, unless he states otherwise his motives have nothing to do with race. There are muslin extremists from Malasia fighting  the Thai people in Southern Thailand - that isn't about race. All sorts of different Islamic terror groups were fighting one another in Syria  - that wasn't about race. The Genocide of the Yazidis was because they were seen as Kaffir's (Unbelievers) by IS - not about race. The Al Qaeda and Taliban attacks in Afghanistan likewise. 

 

Please try to get a grip on the fact that it is about RELIGION, not race. The fact that the sick nutter killed white people in a London park was because that was the choice. Arab's are very happy killing other Arabs over their different twisted interpretation of the Sky fairly story. 

I don't know if this was a false flag or not but the timing is just right once again to push race wars and the excuse for martial law.

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I saw on UK news that the security services are aware of 40-50,000 individuals who should be watched, but they only have the manpower to handle the most worrying of them.

 

Here's my question; why not lock up the lot until they prove they're no threat?  Perhaps a nice island in the Outer Hebrides would suit?  Give them all the resources they need - except boats - and let them get on with it.  If they prefer to go back where they came from, fine, here's a few thousand to set you up and a plane ticket, bye, don't come back.

 

They come to Britain, ostensibly seeking sanctuary, then pull this c rap?

I disagree with a lot that happens in Thailand, but you don't see me rioting or stabbing random people.  Moaning over a beer, yes (and there's another moan ????) but not causing trouble, because I'm a guest here.

 

If I pulled that stunt in Thailand, I'd be in jail for a long time. then permanently deported.  In the UK, he'll be out in a few years, then deportation will be held up with (taxpayer funded) appeals until he's so old that he can't be deported on humanitarian grounds. 

 

Thailand has the right idea, the UK lost the plot years ago.  One reason (among many) I moved here really.

So it's been just over 24 hrs now since a Libyan refugee murdered 3 white people in an unprovoked attack in Reading. So far there have been no protests, no outcries, no riots, no looting and no White Lives Matter tee shirts. Americans have not gone out demonstrating on our behalf as they probably either don't know or don't care. There are no plans to place white lives matter on the shirts of football players and no plans for them to take the knee.
So it seems three white law abiding citizens enjoying a day in the park are less important than a black career criminal.
Shame on you all!
All lives matter!
 

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The English town of Reading held a minute's silence on Monday for the victims of a stabbing that killed three people including an American

I vote we send this rat bag to the USA to trial in a state that has the death penalty - better USA justice than the mamby pamby justice we hand out in the UK

1 hour ago, BWPattaya said:

So it's been just over 24 hrs now since a Libyan refugee murdered 3 white people in an unprovoked attack in Reading. So far there have been no protests, no outcries, no riots, no looting and no White Lives Matter tee shirts.

Wrong ! Flown over Burnley stadium last night 

 

1 minute ago, RichardColeman said:

I vote we send this rat bag to the USA to trial in a state that has the death penalty - better USA justice than the mamby pamby justice we hand out in the UK

The UK will not send anyone for a trial in a foreign country , when there's the possibility of a death sentence 

2 hours ago, BWPattaya said:

So it's been just over 24 hrs now since a Libyan refugee murdered 3 white people in an unprovoked attack in Reading. So far there have been no protests, no outcries, no riots, no looting and no White Lives Matter tee shirts. Americans have not gone out demonstrating on our behalf as they probably either don't know or don't care. There are no plans to place white lives matter on the shirts of football players and no plans for them to take the knee.
So it seems three white law abiding citizens enjoying a day in the park are less important than a black career criminal.
Shame on you all!
All lives matter!
 

George Floyd was killed by a policeman , thats the difference .

The police are supposed to protect people and uphold the law, the police shouldnt be killing people 

3 hours ago, Nigel Garvie said:

 

You may be desperate to use the word racist as part of some other argument, but what is racist about this. The man is an Islamist, a religious terrorist, unless he states otherwise his motives have nothing to do with race. There are muslin extremists from Malasia fighting  the Thai people in Southern Thailand - that isn't about race. All sorts of different Islamic terror groups were fighting one another in Syria  - that wasn't about race. The Genocide of the Yazidis was because they were seen as Kaffir's (Unbelievers) by IS - not about race. The Al Qaeda and Taliban attacks in Afghanistan likewise. 

 

Please try to get a grip on the fact that it is about RELIGION, not race. The fact that the sick nutter killed white people in a London park was because that was the choice. Arab's are very happy killing other Arabs over their different twisted interpretation of the Sky fairly story. 

 

If he’d killed 3 black men, and he had numerous chances that day, would this still be a terror attack?

 

Not likely, and London would be in flames by now. 

His attack included a racial motive.

 

Edited June 23, 20206 yr by twocatsmac

21 minutes ago, twocatsmac said:

 

If he’d killed 3 black men, and he had numerous chances that day, would this still be a terror attack?

 

Not likely, and London would be in flames by now. 

His attack included a racial motive.

 

He is from Libya, the west has been bombing the middle east in an endless series of wars from before WW11. Why should he pick on the small minority of people in the Reading area who happen to be black. Anyway black people are simply not seen by the extremist Islamists as "Enemies of Islam".  It's about religious fundamentalism - live with it. If you are utterly desperate to drag racism into the topic, so you can have your little rant, then at least supply some real evidence of this in his motives. Don't rely on unsubstantiated opinions.

2 minutes ago, Nigel Garvie said:

He is from Libya, the west has been bombing the middle east in an endless series of wars from before WW11. Why should he pick on the small minority of people in the Reading area who happen to be black. Anyway black people are simply not seen by the extremist Islamists as "Enemies of Islam".  It's about religious fundamentalism - live with it. If you are utterly desperate to drag racism into the topic, so you can have your little rant, then at least supply some real evidence of this in his motives. Don't rely on unsubstantiated opinions.

Thank you.

You explain his racist motives (albeit unwittingly) most eloquently. 

 

6 hours ago, johnpetersen said:

Boris Johnson is responsible for the death of far more Britons than all of the Islamist terrorist acts committed in the UK combined. 

Selective indignation?

 

No, just daft false equivalence and nonsense on your part.

1 hour ago, Nigel Garvie said:

He is from Libya, the west has been bombing the middle east in an endless series of wars from before WW11. Why should he pick on the small minority of people in the Reading area who happen to be black. Anyway black people are simply not seen by the extremist Islamists as "Enemies of Islam".  It's about religious fundamentalism - live with it. If you are utterly desperate to drag racism into the topic, so you can have your little rant, then at least supply some real evidence of this in his motives. Don't rely on unsubstantiated opinions.

 

Until the police have questioned him and their conclusions released the could be:

 

A bigot

A homophobe

A racist

 

Any one, or any combination. 

 

No excuse, he is a murderer. He and only he chose that course of action. 

9 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

White men killed for being white by a racist man of colour.

 

No riots, no looting or pulling down Nelson Mandela statues.

 

News and media are more offended by a “white lives matter” banner at an English football match that they somehow deem offensive. 

The banner was organised by Tommy Robinson supporters to incite trouble that's why.

 

Only a matter of time before someone on the far right attacks and kills someone.

1 hour ago, Nigel Garvie said:

He is from Libya, the west has been bombing the middle east in an endless series of wars from before WW11. Why should he pick on the small minority of people in the Reading area who happen to be black. Anyway black people are simply not seen by the extremist Islamists as "Enemies of Islam".  It's about religious fundamentalism - live with it. If you are utterly desperate to drag racism into the topic, so you can have your little rant, then at least supply some real evidence of this in his motives. Don't rely on unsubstantiated opinions.

Ask a black Nigerian Christian what he thinks of Islam, then stand back. 

3 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

The banner was organised by Tommy Robinson supporters to incite trouble that's why.

 

Only a matter of time before someone on the far right attacks and kills someone.

Condemned already, whether or not they do anything. 

9 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

The banner was organised by Tommy Robinson supporters to incite trouble that's why.

 

Only a matter of time before someone on the far right attacks and kills someone.

Ifs and buts,

Here’s a fact for you,

someone on the far left just murdered 3 men.

Edited June 23, 20206 yr by twocatsmac