Michael ‘Mujaheed’ Adebolaja, a 20-year
old British Nigerian is identified as one of the two men who hacked to death a
serving British soldier in
a street near anarmy barracks in London yesterday.
Adebolaja, an
alleged a Muslim convert, who answers his Muslim name ‘Mujaheed’, meaning one
who fights jihad and goes about preaching the word ofGod in
the last few weeks, was filmed by an onlooker and broadcasted by Britain’s ITV
news channel with hands covered in blood and holding a bloodied knife and
praising God for
the murder.
In the clip,
Adebolaja, looking agitated and angry, said: “I apologize that women had to
witness that, but in our lands our women have to see the same thing.
“You people will
never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.”
He could have
been referring to Afghanistan, where British
troops are part of the international force supporting the Kabul government
in its fight against Talibaninsurgents.
Prime Minister David Cameron,
who cut short his trip to France to chair an emergency national
security meeting, said the attack appeared to be a politically motivated
attack.
“It is the most
appalling crime,” Cameron said. “The police are urgently seeking the full facts
about this case but there are strong indications that it is a terrorist
incident.”
“We have had
these sorts of attacks before in our country and we never buckle in the face of
them,” he added.
London was
last hit by a serious militant attack in July 2005, when four young Islamists
set off suicide bombs on the public transport network, killing 52 people and
wounding hundreds. A similar attempted attack two weeks later was thwarted.
British
counter-terrorism chiefs have recently warned that radicalized individuals,
so-called “lone wolves” who might have had no direct contact with al-Qaida
posed as great a risk as those who plotted attacks on the lines of the 2005
attacks.
Local residents
expressed shock at Wednesday’s killing.
“That this can
happen in the centre of a busy town, it’s really really shocking and
traumatizing for everybody, all local residents,” a witness who gave her name
as Tenisan told Reuters in a nearby street.
Ahmed Jama,
a 26-year-old resident, laid flowers down at
the scene as a sign of respect to the families involved.
“This has
nothing to do with Islam, this has nothing to
do with our religion. This has nothing to do with Allah,” he said “It has
nothing to do with Islam. It’s heartbreaking,
it’s heartbreaking.”
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