Ringleader behind London attack starred in documentary ‘Jihadis Next Door’

In Britain’s third Islamist attack in as many months, three men on Saturday rammed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before running into the Borough Market area, where they slit throats and stabbed people indiscriminately.

He said, “The mayor is focused on dealing with Saturday’s horrific and cowardly attack and working with the police, the emergency services and the Government to keep London safe”. When using the Elkhdar name, Redouane also went by a different date of birth that put him at 25 years old, police said.

Police said it is not yet known how Butt knew Redouane, 30, who was believed to have been carrying an Irish-issued ID when he was shot dead by police.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the brazen attack that started on London Bridge, then continued in the streets surrounding Borough Market. The three men also wore fake suicide vests.

The country’s official terror threat level had been set at “critical” in the days after the Manchester concert bombing on May 22 that killed 22 people – reflecting a judgment that an attack might be imminent because accomplices with similar bombs might be on the loose.

The arrests were made at a pair of locations in the London suburb of Barking.

Christine Archibald, a 30-year-old Canadian who had moved to Europe to be with her fiance, was the first of those who died to be named. One of the properties was believed to be the home of one of the attackers.

Another 36 men and women are now in hospital, 21 of whom are in a critical condition, according to emergency services.

In the documentary aired on Channel 4 and directed by Jamie Roberts, Butt is shown praying in a London park and having an altercation with British police personnel.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Monday that Trump was not “picking a fight with the mayor of London at all”.

The statement described the move as “unprecedented”, although a CNN report on the statement said mosques in Britain’s Manchester and the United States have previously refused to bury Muslims involved in past terror attacks.

But that did not stop the questions to May about police numbers during her time as interior minister.

The two visited the sights in and around London Bridge but chose to head back to their hotel room early on Saturday evening to rest for their Sunday flight home, leaving only 12 minutes before terrorists struck. Ho intervened as the attackers tried to knife a bouncer at a pub, the newspaper said.

Seven people were killed and more than 50 others injured on or near the world-famous London Bridge.

“If you’re going to see something and say something, it has to be followed by, do something”, she said.

Corbyn also vehemently denounced a series of tweets by President Donald Trump in which the USA president mischaracterized comments by London’s Muslim mayor and used the attack to press for a presidential travel ban now being weighed by the Supreme Court. Al-Muhajiroun has been linked to Michael Adebolajo, one of the men convicted of slaying British soldier Lee Rigby near a military barracks in southeast London in 2013.

The information came to light as Scotland yard chief, Cressida Dick said Britain had been hit by an “unprecedented” wave of terror attacks and said there would have to be a review of resources.