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Suspected terror attack in London─── 07:07 Thu, 23 May 2013
A British soldier was butchered on a busy London street yesterday by two Islamist extremists, one of whom said afterwards: "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
In the first terrorist murder on the British mainland since the July 7th suicide bombings of 2005, the men attempted to behead the soldier, hacking at him in front of dozens of witnesses, before both were shot by police 20 minutes later.
After the killing, one of the men, believed to be a British-born Muslim convert, spoke calmly into a witness's video phone.
Holding a bloody knife and meat cleaver he said they will never stop fighting until they are left alone.
Witnesses said the men ran over the soldier with a car just yards from the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, before attacking him with the knives and meat cleaver.
BBC
In the first terrorist murder on the British mainland since the July 7th suicide bombings of 2005, the men attempted to behead the soldier, hacking at him in front of dozens of witnesses, before both were shot by police 20 minutes later.
After the killing, one of the men, believed to be a British-born Muslim convert, spoke calmly into a witness's video phone.
Holding a bloody knife and meat cleaver he said they will never stop fighting until they are left alone.
Witnesses said the men ran over the soldier with a car just yards from the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, before attacking him with the knives and meat cleaver.
BBC
