Westminster attack

[Silent Hunter]

Think this needs its own thread now.

BBC News live feed

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Wonder where this one is from.

[Clyde1998]

Just mentioned it on the other thread, but Sky News are saying that two people have been confirmed dead.

[Simfan34]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

Sometimes? There are more attacks now then I ever could remember. Less complicated and often less deadly, but more frequent. And we all know who keeps committing them and why they're doing it.

[Simfan34]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

Sometimes? There are more attacks now then I ever could remember. Less complicated and often less deadly, but more frequent. And we all know who keeps committing them and why they're doing it.

Yeah, it''s just another part of life now. Not unlike the shootings in this country. It'll soon fade into the background, not unlike in France.

[Clyde1998]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

Sometimes? There are more attacks now then I ever could remember. Less complicated and often less deadly, but more frequent. And we all know who keeps committing them and why they're doing it.

In the UK, terrorist attacks are much less common than they once were. The IRA incidents in the 70s, 80s and the early 90s, just in England and NI, were probably more regular than Islamic terrorist incidents in the western world.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

Sometimes? There are more attacks now then I ever could remember. Less complicated and often less deadly, but more frequent. And we all know who keeps committing them and why they're doing it.

In the UK, terrorist attacks are much less common than they once were. The IRA incidents in the 70s, 80s and the early 90s, just in England and NI, were probably more regular than Islamic terrorist incidents in the western world.

The IRA (not the PIRA though IIRC) called ahead. Killing civilians wasn't the end in itself unlike with this latest phenomenon. Even Al Qaida is against some of the ISIS inspired killing!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

Sometimes? There are more attacks now then I ever could remember. Less complicated and often less deadly, but more frequent. And we all know who keeps committing them and why they're doing it.

Just keep this civilized, guys (adressed to no one in particular)

[Tender Branson]

The suspect is a brown middle-aged man with a black beard.

[Helsinkian]

The suspect is a brown middle-aged man with a black beard.

There is a name circulating on Twitter. If it's accurate, he was an associate of Anjem Choudary.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/844613971080593408

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

Sometimes? There are more attacks now then I ever could remember. Less complicated and often less deadly, but more frequent. And we all know who keeps committing them and why they're doing it.

Just keep this civilized, guys (adressed to no one in particular)

If that post came across aggressive, the error was in the syntax-there was no hint of anger in that post, but rather bemusement.

[Clyde1998]

The suspect is a brown middle-aged man with a black beard.

There is a name circulating on Twitter. If it's accurate, he was an associate of Anjem Choudary.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/844613971080593408

Channel 4, a UK TV channel, has reported that it's this guy now.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Wonder where this one is from.

Things like this happen sometimes, guys. It's just another part of life now-- no need for hysteria.

Sometimes? There are more attacks now then I ever could remember. Less complicated and often less deadly, but more frequent. And we all know who keeps committing them and why they're doing it.

Just keep this civilized, guys (adressed to no one in particular)

If that post came across aggressive, the error was in the syntax-there was no hint of anger in that post, but rather bemusement.

Just trying to avoid this becoming a flame war

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This is horrible

Unfortunately certain elements of the media have place the desire to be first over the responsibility to be thorough and so have spread false rumours as fact; very embarrassing.

[Simfan34]

Let's not get hysterical about this, okay? This is hardly unprecedented, much less the end of the world. It's abominable that the usual suspects (i.e. Tender) are chomping at the bit to go off on their Islamophobic rants.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Killing civilians wasn't the end in itself...

No, there wasn't this nihilistic element, but the intention of some specific incidents was often just to kill civilians. Long ago and far away now, of course.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Situation is that three people were murdered and the killer himself is dead.

It's just another part of life now

There are certain things we should never just get used to...

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Killing civilians wasn't the end in itself...

No, there wasn't this nihilistic element, but the intention of some specific incidents was often just to kill civilians. Long ago and far away now, of course.

That incident came to mind. Also Omagh, if I'm not mistaken (or was there a warning attempt?)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Also Omagh, if I'm not mistaken

Omagh was the work of the charming 'Real IRA' rather than the Provos. And of course that lot are still a security concern.

[Blair]

Apparently the guy Channel 4 news, and people on this thread (including myself) thought did it, is actually in prison. As always with these situations it's best not to make guesses/estimates without a big pinch of salt (or political comments)

[Lachi]

Can we wait for actual facts before we say anything, unlike what the media are doing.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Can we wait for actual facts before we say anything, unlike what the media are doing.

I've just deleted a post by an usual culprit doing exactly that. No infraction.

[dead0man]

We talk about sh**t without the facts all the freaking time, why is this time any more in need of moderation than the thousands of other times people talked out of their ass?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

We talk about sh**t without the facts all the freaking time, why is this time any more in need of moderation than the thousands of other times people talked out of their ass?

Such threads tend to descent into a s**tstorm quite soon.