UK: London counterterror chief says they’re keeping “an open mind as to any motive” of London Bridge jihad murderer
BY ROBERT SPENCER
JIHADWATCH.ORG
NOV 30, 2019
Yeah, it’s a real mystery. Usman Khan was a hardened jihadi who had been imprisoned for jihad terror plotting. His motive is absolutely opaque to the terminally blinkered and willfully ignorant. Neil Basu and other British authorities of course do not wish to appear “Islamophobic.”
“Terrifying new footage shows moment hero bystanders armed with a fire extinguisher and a NARWHAL TUSK chase knife-wielding terrorist across London Bridge before he is sprayed with jets of water and grappled to the ground,” by Rebecca Camber and Terri-Ann Williams, Mailonline, November 30, 2019:
This is the moment brave bystanders armed with a fire extinguisher and Narwhal tusk confronted the London Bridge attacker during his terrifying rampage yesterday.
Two people were killed and up to twelve were injured after Usman Khan, 28, attacked innocent people on the north side of London Bridge just before 2pm.
Video footage showed the attacker running across London Bridge wielding two kitchen knives.
Several members of the public chase Khan, before tackling him and disarming him.
One man used a fire extinguisher while another man ripped the tusk of a Narwhal whale off a wall and jabbed it in the direction of the attacker….
Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Neil Basu said the suspect appeared to be wearing a bomb vest but it turned out to be ‘a hoax explosive device.’
Basu said officers were keeping ‘an open mind as to any motive.’…