Leytonstone Underground 'terror attacker'? No mentally ill.

[TonyGosling]

How can a victim of the government's mental health cuts top national news?
When they're another 'terrorist'.


Knife attacker slashes man in London 'terrorist incident'
LONDON | BY JAMES DAVEY AND WILLIAM JAMES
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-stabbing-idUSKBN0TO0RA201512 06
A knife attacker slashed a man at an east London metro station, reportedly screaming "This is for Syria!", in what police described as a terrorist incident, prompting a senior minister to urge Britons on Sunday not to be intimidated.
Police said the man, believed to be aged 29, had also threatened other bystanders. One man, thought to be 56 years old, suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries and was in a stable condition at a London hospital. A second victim suffered minor injuries.
"I am treating this as a terrorist incident," Richard Walton, who leads the Counter Terrorism Command at London's Metropolitan Police, said in a statement. The man was arrested after police used a Taser to subdue him.
Detectives were searching a residential address in east London and additional officers were being deployed to the rail transport network, police said.
An eyewitness quoted by the Guardian and other British newspapers said the attacker appeared to claim that he was retaliating for Western air strikes on Islamist militants in Syria, shouting: "This is what happens when you f*** with mother Syria, all of your blood will be spilled!"
Police declined to comment on those reports and it was not immediately possible to verify them independently.
British war planes joined the strikes for the first time on Thursday, a few hours after Prime Minister David Cameron won parliamentary approval to bomb the Islamic State militant group in Syria after it claimed responsibility for attacks on Paris last month that killed 130 people.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad mocked Cameron's strategy, saying it would make the situation worse, not better.
Britain is on its second-highest security alert level of "severe", meaning a militant attack is considered highly likely, though not imminent, mainly because of the threat posed by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith said that, whatever the circumstances, Britons must not let the Leytonstone incident affect their behavior.
"We cannot let these sort of people, terrorists et cetera, actually dominate our space," he told the BBC. "The way we defeat them at the end of the day is with our values, our freedom of expression, our freedom of belief ... our ability to take our children, our families out at Christmas. None of that must be curtailed."
We're trying desperately here = Nevertheless, the attack will draw parallels with the May 2013 murder of British army soldier Lee Rigby, who was hacked to death in east London by two Muslim converts.
Cameron has said air strikes will not increase the chance of an attack on Britain, since militants already view it as a top target, with seven plots foiled over the past year.
Britain's worst Islamist militant attack was in July 2005, when 52 people were killed by suicide bombs on underground trains and a bus.
Islamic State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California were its followers.
Read more at Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-stabbing-idUSKBN0TO0RA201512 06#LF9faYGRmTSPgtJW.99

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[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Guy who took him on described him as "crazy"
David Pethers, 33, was cut as he tried to approach the “crazy” assailant who had just stabbed another man and left him in a pool of blood.

That fits then

He'd have to be crazy to attack people at random in pursuit of his political goals.
But real terrorists don't do that.
Do they?

[Disco_Destroyer]

Real witness or political opportunist?

https://www.facebook.com/marvin.r.williams.1/posts/10156219942570307

Marvin Roy Williams

[TonyGosling]

Family said on Channel 4 news tonight he had been hearing 'demonic voices' in the last few weeks and they'd begged the police to do something about his mental illness because he was violent and dangerous.
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/071215/clipi d/071215_4ON_LEYTONSTONEINT2_PAB_0712

[Whitehall_Bin_Men]

Sentenced today & sent to Broadmoor
Both insane and not insane at the same time
Funny that!
Sane for the ISIS connection
Insane for the knife attack

Leytonstone Tube attack: Isil-inspired knifeman jailed for life after targeting strangers at Underground station

Police taser knife-wielding fanatic at Leytonstone Tube station
No reporter's name given
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/01/leytonstone-tube-attack-isi l-inspired-knifeman-jailed-for-life-a/

1 AUGUST 2016 • 1:13PM
A schizophrenic knifeman who tried to behead a musician during an Islamic State-inspired rampage at a Tube station has been sentenced to life in prison.

Somali-born Muhiddin Mire, 30, targeted strangers at random in the ticket hall at Leytonstone Underground station in east London on December 5 last year.

Leytonstone Tube knifeman filmed after cutting man's throatPlay!01:26
He grabbed fellow passenger Lyle Zimmerman and attempted to murder the 56-year-old after they travelled on the same train from Stratford to Leytonstone, where Mire lived alone in Sansom Road.

Mire will serve a minimum of eight and a half years before being considered for parole, and will start his sentence at Broadmoor secure hospital.

The moment Muhiddin Mire cut the throat of a random stranger
The moment Muhiddin Mire cut the throat of a random stranger CREDIT: CPS/PA

The whole incident was caught on shocking CCTV and mobile phone footage taken by a passer-by who bravely carried on filming even as Mire lunged at him with the rusty blade.

One onlooker shouted at him: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv", after he declared he was going to "spill blood" for his "Syrian brothers".

Muhaydin Mire appearing in court for a previous hearing
Muhaydin Mire appearing in court for a previous hearing CREDIT: ELIZABETH COOK/PA
Sentencing him at the Old Bailey, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, Recorder of London, said that while he accepted Mire was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the offence, he was also of the opinion he had been motivated by events in Syria.

Leytonstone terror attack: Hero victim tells of how he 'went back to have another go'Play!00:52
He continued: "In other words, because Muslims were being bombed in Syria, he was going to attack civilians here.

"That was designed to intimidate a section of the public, and it was to advance an extreme cause."

Judge Hilliard added that Mire's "brazen" actions were carried out in order to advance a "religious and extremist cause".

"This was an attempt to to kill an innocent member of the public for ideological reasons by cutting his throat in plain sight for maximum impact," he said.

Flanked by several dock officers and wearing a blue tracksuit top, Mire stared ahead as he was sentenced.