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Usman Khan.

Two people were killed and three injured when twenty-eight year-old Usman Khan from Staffordshire was reportedly
visiting Fishmonger's Hall, a landmark building that was said to be holding a conference on prisoner rehabilitation.

Usman Khan was born and raised in Stoke-On-Trent, where he came into contact with his comrades in terror and
had been heard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in toilets in pubs and 
clubs in the Stoke area.

The reason for his visit to London was due to Khan being released from his jail sentence for threatening to blow up
the London Stock Exchange with seven others with the use of a pipe bomb is dubious at best. One may assume it was
believed Khan had rehabilitated and having a certain appearance, could be displayed as a prime example that Tommy
Robinson was wrong about 'some' Muslims.


In 2012, Khan was sentenced to indeterminate detention for "public protection" with a minimum jail term of eight years.
This sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term, but in 2013 the Court of Appeal
quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which Khan should serve half in prison.

The men, inspired by the ideology of al-Qaeda, had been under surveillance by MI5 and yet, Khan casually strapped a
fake explosive device to his body stashed his knives in his pockets, left his home in Stafford (155 miles away) and not
appreciating diversity and multiculturalism, threatened to blow up the Hall before setting off along London Bridge to
attack a group of pedestrians enjoying a quiet Friday afternoon over the river Thames.

Usman Khan and his eight colleagues had been imprisoned in 2012 for funding a proposed madrassa - a college for
Islamic instruction in Pakistan, which was to be used for firearms training and which Khan would have attended.

The court of appeal judgement said:
"The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities including fundraising for the establishment
of a military training madrassa in Pakistan, where they would undertake training themselves and recruit
others to do likewise, sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist
groups, attacking a high profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack."

It added that they had "serious long term plans" to send Khan and other recruits for "training and terrorist
experience". "Should they return to the UK they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism," the
judgement continued.
"They engaged with the others who were contemplating short term attacks in the UK but rightly considered
themselves to be more serious jihadis than the others."

Anyway, Usman was somehow chosen to go on this trip to witness and possibly comment on prisoner rehabilitation.
Just like many who hate the West -but enjoy its trappings, we can assume the young man saw the opportunity to ressurrect
his old hobby and terrorise passers-by with a knife.

However, many of these tourists and Londoners didn't see it Khan's way and after wrestling him to the ground and with the
arrival of armed-Police, he was subdued by a couple of punches, a whale tusk (WTF?!) and a short burst of automatic gunfire.
Sadly, two of the injured died later.

Maybe it's true and we don't need borders anymore, they're already here.



Scenes from Friday's attack. The system and the public dealing with terrorism, the useless folk who just get in the way and
the reactions of Londoners recovering in the aftermath. Cheers!

*Faint sound of people singing 'Knees-Up Mother Brown' in the background.*
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Connected?

"...Hours after the London attack, police in The Hague reported a similar stabbing on a major shopping
street in that Dutch city that left three minors injured. The victims were all later released from the hospital.
Police were searching for a middle-aged man in a gray tracksuit as a possible suspect, the BBC reported.

It was not immediately clear if incidents were related. Police spokeswoman Marije Kuiper told The
Associated Press in a telephone interview that it was not clear if the stabbing in The Hague was a
terror incident.

The ordeal unfolded after police were called to a stabbing incident near London Bridge shortly before
1 p.m..."

USA Today:

Remember this tale...?
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It's a great idea to have security agencies that are funded to protect those who pay the money and to make
sure national secrets aren't exposed. But sometimes those secrets should be used in the manner of protecting
those who pay their salaries too.

Fishmongers' Hall: MI5 'had intelligence suggesting Usman Khan had been plotting'

'MI5 had intelligence suggesting the Fishmongers' Hall killer might have been planning an attack before he was
released from jail, a court has heard.

Usman Khan, 28, fatally stabbed Cambridge graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at a prisoner rehabilitation
event in November 2019. He injured two others before he was shot dead by police on London Bridge.
A pre-inquest hearing was told Khan was deemed a "high-risk category A prisoner" before his release.
He had been jailed in 2012 over a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange.

On Friday, coroner Mark Lucraft QC heard arguments from the victims' families that individual MI5 officers should
give evidence, rather than a single high-ranking officer, known as Witness A.
Nick Armstrong, for the Merritt family, said: "We do not want an overarching narrative, we want the facts, the detailed
facts."

He added: "This is about the level of risk Mr Khan represented and the level of unknowns about the risk, and the
decisions that were taken, despite those unknowns, to let him go to Fishmongers' Hall.
"The fact he was in a high-risk category A shortly before release is significant.
"He spent much of his detention in special units and went straight out into the community without proper scrutiny.
"It would not have taken much in the way of information-sharing or concern to have changed the outcome of this."

Speaking by video-link at the Old Bailey, Mr Armstrong went on: "MI5 had intelligence before release he was
planning a post-release attack. "That is a matter of obviously great significance."
There was evidence Khan had been radicalising other inmates and encouraging violence, the court heard.

The lawyer added that Khan had been suspected of "false compliance" with with de-radicalisation courses and
licence conditions, and was considering relocating to Pakistan and giving up his UK nationality.

Jonathan Hough QC, counsel for the coroner, confirmed that police and probation service officers would give
evidence on the decision-making in Khan's case. If there was information not disclosed to decision-makers then
Witness A could talk about that, he said.

Mr Hough went on: "Decision-makers can be asked what they would have done if that [intelligence] was brought
to their attention. "MI5 had intelligence shortly before his release he might return to his old ways on the outside,
ways of terrorist offending."

Mr Lucraft set a further pre-inquest hearing for 25 March.
The full inquest into the deaths of Mr Merritt, 25, and Ms Jones, 23, is expected to take place in April.
Khan's inquest will follow theirs...'

BBC: