Telegraph UK wasted no time in calling the barbarity a terrorist attack, "British soldier beheaded on busy London street in terror attack." Also, "'Soldier beheaded' in Woolwich machete attack: latest." And see the Wall Street Journal, "A Killing Puts U.K. on Guard for Terror."
And see Clive Irving's concise analyis, at the Daily Beast, "London Attack: The New Face of Terror":
A blood-splattered jihadist with a meat cleaver in one hand declaring to a bystander’s smartphone camera “Allahu Akbar” and “we will always beat you” in a pronounced south London accent? While waiting twenty minutes for the police to arrive after he’s taken part in what seemed like a ritual assassination of a British soldier? Exactly what terrorist profile does this conform to?More at the link.
None.
And that’s what concerns British terrorism officials. Is this bizarre episode the beginning of a new, unpredictable pattern of loners operating without any organized backing behind them, or a one-off?
The two assailants could, indeed, just be a couple of deranged freelancers. But the guidance British ministers have been giving reporters assumes something much graver, a form of terrorism so unsophisticated and amateur that it can’t be detected by existing surveillance methods.
The fact that the wild, bloodied harangue to camera was delivered by a black man with no trace of a foreign accent – indeed, in an accent that seemed to originate in south London in particular – suggests homegrown militants, perhaps men radicalized via the Internet, through a form of widely dispersed propaganda rather than targeted brainwashing...
Plus, at Atlas Shrugs, "MUSLIMS SCREAMING "ALLAHU AKBAR" BEHEAD BRITISH SOLDIER ON PUBLIC STREET," and "BRITISH MUSLIM WHO BEHEADED SOLDIER ON WOOLWICH STREET: 'YOU PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE SAFE'."
More, "BRITISH MUSLIM WHO BEHEADED SOLDIER ON PUBLIC STREET: 'MANY MANY SURAS IN THE QURAN.......'."
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