Streatham Terrorist Killing
"Nothing to see."
CNN - An image from the scene shows where a man was shot by armed officers in Streatham. Because of the graphic nature of the scene, CNN has blurred the body of the suspect.
Streatham was not just another knife attack - of which there are now hundreds in the Capital - but a 'terrorist' attack. As such it demands a very different approach by the police, politicians and media apparently.
Three persons we are told were injured, two by the attacker and one by police bullets or associated shrapnel. Police shot dead the attacker with several rounds from an unidentified weapon within seconds of the attack.
However, as usual, some very strange features can be identified that give rise to serious questions, questions that are seldom asked or addressed.
Most notable amongst them, the fact that the Secret Services - presumably MI5 - or terrorist branch of the Metropolitan Police, considered the attacker, named now as Sudesh Amman (20) so dangerous as to require him to be closely followed by one or more plain-clothed armed officers, who "within 60 seconds" of his attack, shot him dead. Yet despite having access to evidence suggesting his terrorist intentions, made no effort to arrest him!
This certainly suggests preparation to kill, rather than to arrest.
Sudesh Amman. Photo: Met Police
Gaoled when only 18 for terrorist-related offences and in Belmarsh Prison, one wonders first what, if any, efforts were made to de-radicalise such a young mind? Conversely what other pschological influences was he subjected to that prison authorities were aware of? Did MI5 have access to him before, during or after, his term in gaol, as we know frequently happens?
Where he purchased his knife?
Where he purchased his knife?
(From the above: Shopkeeper Jagmon Singh watched Amman, dressed in a grey tracksuit and a black-and-grey top, pluck the knife off the shelf and remove the packaging.He tried to wrestle it away, believing the terrorist to be a shoplifter. His brother Kiranjeet Singh, 38, who owns the Low Price Store, said: “My brother recognised him because he had come in the week before and didn’t buy anything.“My brother said he grabbed a ceramic 10-inch kitchen knife that was hanging by the till.“He walked in, took the knife, saw nobody was looking and ran out.“He removed the packaging then stabbed the woman in the back. It was completely random then he started running.” Clare Henson-Bowen, 36, was with her two young children and her husband when she saw Amman attack the female cyclist. She said: “A guy ran out of the hardware store with something in his hand and the shopkeeper shouting at him. “He looked like he had pushed a woman who was standing near the bike rack. It just looked like be ran past her. She was still on her feet as people were running towards her. “Not even 10 seconds later I heard the gunshots. Then there was stony silence followed by more people running to help. A nurse said: “The shopkeeper tried to get the knife from him but he got away and stabbed a woman on a bicycle. The knife was really big.” )
If, as is now revealed, he made clear his intention to pursue pursue a terrorist course, was he released under license conditions, including the use of an electronic tag? Despite being out on licence and located in a Bail Hostel, why if his conditions were breached (he had terrorist material, knives and a hand gun in his room we are told) was he not recalled to prison?
One wonders if he was wearing the electronic tag when he was shot, because if he wasn't, why had he not already been arrested? It appears he was allowed to roam the streets with it, without intervention. Was the intention all along to facilitate the attack, so that it would justify lethal force being applied? It certainly appears a possibility.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/02/04/streatham-terror-attackera-s-father-i-never-thought-he-would-g/?ncid=webmail
In the above AOL/PA graphic note at 5. where a woman was injured from flying glass relative to where the fatal shots were fire. If accurate how can this be explained given the distance (at least 50 yards) between the two?
If so closely monitored and followed, was the alleged mock suicide vest, visible to others, not noticed by the officer who followed him, triggering immediate arrest with the assistance of other police officers, before he could do any damage?
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/02/04/streatham-terror-attackera-s-father-i-never-thought-he-would-g/?ncid=webmail
In the above AOL/PA graphic note at 5. where a woman was injured from flying glass relative to where the fatal shots were fire. If accurate how can this be explained given the distance (at least 50 yards) between the two?
If so closely monitored and followed, was the alleged mock suicide vest, visible to others, not noticed by the officer who followed him, triggering immediate arrest with the assistance of other police officers, before he could do any damage?
We are told he went into a shop and stole a knife. Yet again we have differing accounts of the weapon. Someone else described it as a 'machete'.* Can you purchase a machete from a shop on the high street still?
The question posed is why a young, so-called terrorist, would go to the trouble of strapping a fake suicide vest to his chest, yet go out without a concealed weapon, relying instead on stealing one from a shop?
This is not terrorism but rather pantomime.
Finally in a statement, the police say the man has not been positively identified but they are sure it is Sudesh Amman (20) and have issued a photograph of him.
Men carry Sudesh Amman’s body to a private ambulance (Isobel Fordsham/PA)
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2020/02/03/streatham-stabbing-raises-concerns-over-release-of-convicted-terrorists/
Men carry Sudesh Amman’s body to a private ambulance (Isobel Fordsham/PA)
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2020/02/03/streatham-stabbing-raises-concerns-over-release-of-convicted-terrorists/
Is this normal practise to issue all the personal details of a terrorist prior to him being positively identified? How is the public to be sure, in such clandestine circumstances, that the named person is the person shot, or that a different person a targeted assassination was not carried out on someone else, with a suitable cover story?
Britain has developed into a place where people are being shot dead on the streets, by anonymous, un-uniformed, unaccountable individuals. So called 'lawful killing' is being applied in preference to 'lawful arrest', under the pretext and banner of "anti-terrorism" - a calculated policy decision announced by David Cameron - and no one appears to able or willing to challenge it. Why should the policy not be extended to "anti-knife crime", "anti-theft", "anti-vandalism" or "anti-dissent"?
Is the policy to inure the public to the idea that Police as killers rather than arresters, is actually an acceptable and good thing? If so it is the beginning of a very dangerous slippery slope, in which shooting first and asking questions after, becomes the preferred enforcement choice. Are we to have the Israeli situation of shooting Palestinian civilians without good cause here?
These are the resources deployed for a 'terrorist' incident, that are consequently not available for 'normal' policing. How can this be justified?/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-shropshirestar-mna.s3.amazonaws.com/public/TCOXMMHCURFNXH5D5EY4MHAAOU.jpg)
These are the resources deployed for a 'terrorist' incident, that are consequently not available for 'normal' policing. How can this be justified?
*("Another eyewitness, Gulled Bulhan, a 19-year-old student from Streatham, told PA news agency the man had a "machete and silver canisters on his chest." https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/02/uk/london-police-shot-man-terror-intl-gbr/index.html)
A lot of London stabbings:
https://www.google.com/search?q=streatham+stabbing+images&rlz=1C1ARAB_enGB463GB464&tbm=nws&sxsrf=ACYBGNQ6U4yI-vpsgTKOAvtYXyC6RqgRHw:1580995555378&ei=4xM8Xp7hFpuC1fAPibOh6AQ&start=20&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwje3uCzg73nAhUbQRUIHYlZCE04ChDy0wMIWQ&biw=1248&bih=844&dpr=1
Seventy London stabbing deaths in less than a year:
https://www.mylondon.news/news/local-news/stories-faces-70-people-stabbed-17066277
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"The 20-year-old from Harrow, northwest London, had been released from prison in January after serving time for spreading extremist material.
ReplyDeleteIn an interview with Sky News, Ms Khan said she could not believe her "polite and lovely boy" who was "always smiling" could carry out a terror attack.
Fighting back tears, she said she believed her son had become radicalised after watching Islamist material online and while in the high security jail Belmarsh.
"I spoke to him on the phone on Sunday," Ms Khan said."Before he went to prison he was not that religious. After he came out he was really religious.
"He was a polite, kind, lovely boy. He was always smiling.
"I'm so upset, he was only 20 years old."
Ms Khan, who is originally from Sri Lanka but lives in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, said when she first heard an attack had happened she "had a feeling" he was responsible because it was in south London."
The former friend said the last time he saw Amman was in 2018, adding: "I bumped into him, he seemed a little dazed, as if in a rush as far as I can remember. It really is a shame."
Meanwhile, the College of North West London - where Amman was a student from September 2017 to May 2018 - said there had been "no indications that he was potentially linked to terrorist activities".
https://news.sky.com/story/streatham-terror-attack-sudesh-ammans-mother-spoke-to-her-polite-boy-hours-before-attack-11925460?fbclid=IwAR1K5WvCn3neTpFRVtjGzD6jw8adgu9Set_UUsYpMUX4R5MO0XLOJB8OFcc
"This aint real. This aint real" Video footage:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVy3ABcnc9k
Four plain clothed policemen seen next to shot man. Very strange way of dealing with the presumed threat and other details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64XPAnsnjYc
ReplyDeleteIt appears that the videos that were posted are no longer viewable. Why should the public not be able to see what happened in order to enable them to make up their minds on the appropriateness or otherwise of the police action?
ReplyDeletehttps://medium.com/only-in-london/streatham-attack-shows-clear-policy-failure-d1baa327dfa2