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Woolwich attack: 'Lone wolves' who run with the pack
[Telegraph] The reaction to the murder of Lee Rigby was as predictable as the story of the suspectsNo British soldier has ever been killed like this -- not even in battle, let alone in the London suburbs during the Wednesday lunch hour. But the reactions to the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby followed a much more familiar pattern. Journalists and analysts rushed to explain the attack as the work of "lone wolves", "self-radicalised" online. Politicians demanded crackdowns on jihadi websites and the revival of the so-called "snoopers' charter", a Bill allowing the authorities to monitor the internet use of every person in the country, in the belief that the plot could somehow then have been detected. Posted by: trailing wife 2013-05-30 |
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