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| [Dhaka Tribune] The attacker who killed three people near parliament in London before being rubbed out was named on Thursday as a 52-year-old British-born man, Khalid Masood, who was once investigated by MI5 intelligence officers over concerns about violent extremism. Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... grabbed credit for the attack in a statement issued by its Amaq news agency, but did not name Masood and gave no details. It was not clear whether the attacker was directly connected to the jihadist group. Police said Masood was born in the county of Kent in southeast England and was most recently living in the West Midlands region of central England. "Masood was not the subject of any current investigations and there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack," the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. "However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... he was known to police and has a range of previous convictions for assaults, including GBH (grievous bodily harm), possession of offensive weapons and public order offences." Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament the attacker had once been investigated by the MI5 intelligence agency over concerns about violent extremism, but had been a peripheral figure. Police said Masood had never been convicted of a terrorist offence. His first conviction was in 1983 for criminal damage and his last one in December 2003 for possession of a knife. During five minutes of mayhem in the heart of London on Wednesday, Masood sped across Westminster Bridge in a car, ploughing into pedestrians. He then ran through the gates of the nearby parliamentary precinct and fatally stabbed an unarmed policeman before being rubbed out. Eight tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in the UK Police arrested eight people at six locations in London and Birmingham in the investigation into the attack, which May said was inspired by a warped Islamist ideology. All were suspected of preparing terrorist acts, police later confirmed. The Enterprise rental car company said the vehicle used had been rented from its Spring Hill branch in Birmingham, which is in the West Midlands. About 40 people were maimed, of whom 29 remained in hospital on Thursday evening, seven at death's door. May visited some of the maimed, her front man said. The bloodshed took place on the first anniversary of attacks that killed 32 people in Brussels, and resembled Islamic State-inspired attacks in La Belle France and Germany where vehicles were driven into crowds. The dead were Masood, two members of the public, and Keith Palmer, the 48-year-old policeman stabbed by Masood. "He will be deeply missed. We love him so much," Palmer’s family said in a statement. He was married with a five-year-old daughter. A minute’s silence was held in parliament and outside police headquarters on Thursday morning. A police Twitter account said it had been held at 0933 GMT because 933 was the shoulder number on Palmer’s uniform, but that tweet was later deleted and police released a different number. As dusk fell, hundreds gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square in a vigil to remember the victims. With traffic diverted away, volunteers handed out candles in an eerie silence. Helen Pallot, 26, from just outside London, was holding a bunch of flowers she planned to lay nearby. "I have got a lot of friends and family that work five minutes away from there, so it just makes you think," she said. "It made me angry and sad and I wanted to come here and show that we can still all be here together." Speaking at the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... in New York, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged Internet providers and social media networks to do more to curb krazed killer propaganda. "They’ve got to look at the stuff that’s going up on their sites, they’ve got to take steps to invigilate it, to take it down where they can," he said. Eight held in UK on suspicion of preparing ‘terrorist acts’ [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The eight people enjugged You have the right to remain silent... following the attack outside the British parliament are being investigated "on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts," police said Thursday. They also said that five people remained at death's door and two more had life-threatening injuries after the attacker ploughed into pedestrians on Wednesday before stabbing a police officer and being rubbed out. Police named the attacker as 52-year-old Khalid Masood, who had a string of convictions but none of them terror-related. The eight arrested included two women and five men arrested at three addresses in the central city of Birmingham and a woman arrested in London. The police statement said that there had also been a raid in Wales in which no arrests were made. "Detectives are continuing to search" the sites that were raided, the police said. It said the seven arrested in Birmingham were being held under the Terrorism Act, which allows for longer detention times before charging.
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