The lone Islamic jihadist is reported to be Salih Khater, 29 (below), who drove around London for hours looking for targets’ before smashing his car into cyclists outside the Parliament in Westminster, leaving 15 hurt.
Daily Mail (h/t BP) Witnesses described the terror of seeing the car “driving towards Parliament at speed” before hearing a “loud bang” as it smashed into black steel barriers.
Salih Khater, 29, veered off the road careering into pedestrians and cyclists at Parliament Square, after spending the night cruising around London. There were screams as the Ford Fiesta mounted the pavement and mowed people down at up to 50mph at 7.37am.
In a chilling echo of another Muslim jihadist, Khalid Masood’s murderous rampage on Westminster 17 months ago, the driver, from Birmingham, sped towards the Palace of Westminster – narrowly missing two police officers guarding the access road who jumped out of his path. He then smashed into a security barrier outside Parliament.
Despite hitting at least 15 cyclists and pedestrians during rush hour, no one was killed with only one female cyclist seriously injured. The attack was caught on CCTV showing the car swerve the wrong way down the road and veering across a pedestrian crossing through crowds of cyclists waiting at a set of traffic lights.
He hit a female cyclist who was left lying motionless in the road suffering from a suspected broken hip, while other injured cyclists lay sprawled in the road by their mangled bikes.
Within minutes the driver was dragged from the driver seat of the crumpled vehicle by armed officers. The Muslim terror suspect remained strangely calm and utterly silent, offering no resistance as he was handcuffed. Police found no weapons or explosives in the car.
The authorities said on BBC last night that a motive is still not known. They haven’t heard of Sudden Jihad Syndrome!!
BP, it doesn’t matter , they prefer not to know the motive, because that’s why they can call it mental issues.
At least the police will not have the luxury of being able to say “The motive may never be known”, which is what they said at the Westminster Bridge jihad killing (because the jihadist was shot dead).
The man arrested after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack, a British citizen of Sudanese origin, remains in police custody after his arrest on suspicion of preparing an act of terror.
He was subsequently further arrested for attempted murder.
Salih Khater is thought to have lived in a first-floor flat in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, until he moved out around four months ago.
Residents who knew the suspect described him as a quiet man.
Local resident Ahmed Abdi, who is originally from Somalia, told reporters: “I recognised his picture from the news and I was shocked.
“He was around here almost every day and I was here yesterday when the police turned up. He was very quiet and he used to drive a small white car, a really old one.
“He was very, very quiet and he never spoke to anybody. He would say nothing to nobody.”
Khater was previously an accountancy student at Coventry University.
A spokesman for the university said: “Salih Khater studied accountancy at Coventry University between September 2017 and May 2018.
“As of May 2018 he is no longer enrolled at the university.”
Counter-terrorism officers have since conducted searches at two addresses in Birmingham and a residential property in Nottingham as part of the probe.
Plain-clothed police officers could be seen outside an address in Peveril Street, Nottingham, on Tuesday evening, said by neighbours to be home to six Sudanese people.
when it all comes out I think you’ll find this guy was more of a loser than a terrorist. Booted out of Uni because he was too thick, his dad and brother just killed in a car crash and his citizenship was under investigation. Even his attempted attack was an almighty cock up.
John, shame on you for making excuses for him. As I said, not all muslim terrorists could pull off a 9/11. But absolutely ALL of them have the same goal in mind – to kill as many infidels as they can. Just because he didn’t kill any doesn’t make him any less of a terrorist.
I’m not making excuses for him just giving my opinion on how I read the situation. You might not have heard but my theory was right he was released then rearrested for attempted murder it seems the terrorist charges are dropped. The loser wasn’t even a proper muslim as he never went to the mosque.
You don’t have to attend mosque to be a terrorist.
I like President Trump but as an aside can I point out his comment on Birmingham being a no-go zone is a bit over the top. I’m sure many of your cities are pretty similar, yes there are grotty areas riddled with crime, but on the whole it isn’t too bad. Some of the suburbs are quite affluent actually which are occupied by wealthy footballers.
John, please understand, when we refer to No Go Zones, we only mean the areas where there are a lot of Muslims. It has nothing to do with crime in general, but Muslim crime, in particular. Also, some of these areas are known for requiring armed guards/police to accompany firefighters and ambulance crews.
And yes, America has many crime ridden areas, but outside of Dearborn, Michigan and areas in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, there is not a preponderance of Muslims…yet.
Foleshill was was similiar to sparkhill .
ok years ago then muslim numbers went up and up. Hindus moved out and so did many whites who could. Foleshill, at least a few years ago is now a muslim shit hole. Not safe and the muzz drive around as if they own the roads.
Sparkhill has followed suit. No good ever comes of muzz even one. One slways means two. Then family then community etc
I could be wrong?!
Making London odious one jihadi at a time.
Self inflicted White genocide
England: your Muslums are so lovely. No “Allah Akbar” out of this one?
Makes you want to grab a pistol and do target practice on his huge forehead!
Big forhead and nothing behind but a vacuum
Britain…..you have imported your threats…..No sympathy here!
as have you
Oh dear….really….not a muslim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
London was once my most favourite city in the world, my how that has changed.
islam and muslims are comparable to a tsunami of murderous trash overrunning Europe and the rest of the world in general.
An Australian politician gave a speech in parliament yesterday on banning muslim immigration to this country…..the uproar of the leftists is unbelievable. They want this evil here even after observing the cultural and historical destruction in Europe.
Mike Mc- I’m cheering, for Australians. I feel terrorised every day by these evil bastards. But was outraged by the left, greens & one Asian head of racism commission claiming Australians will never support such a racist decision. Calling the victims racists, is a very big insult. Well where I’m living is a war zone, & I’ve been checking w/ locals. 8/9 out of 10 are sick to death of mozlems, & Africans. A mate of mine had his baby in a stroller in Westfield Penrith Plaza & found himself stuck in the middle of a sudden wild brawl by approx 20 Africans. Thats at least two wild brawls I’ve heard about via word of mouth. He was lucky a group of Aussie men came & surrounded him, as a barrier to protect his baby. Really disgusting. Its extremely apparent the moz & Africans aren’t escaping persecution. They’re freeloaders. I also think the Africans are cowards, guilty of desertion. Bastards. Fix your own country up! I’m not from here, but I must say the people of Penrith are real champs. They’ve already refused repeatedly to let mozlems build a mosque.
Outrageous that the people of Britain have to be subject to these Godless and evil people because of misguided and moronic politicians and people.
You will see more of this in PC Britain.
Even if there were a thousand of these monster mus slum car jihadists murdering and maiming innocent people the idiots of englandistan that keep on supporting the leftist mus slum pandering governments will still not get it. I pray that the conservative voters will finally get it and take back their once proud country.
. You’d think any sort of self-respecting terrorist bent of creating carnage and mayhem in the world of the Kuffar – would have concocted a plan that had some slim hope of actually working.
But not this cretin. He picks a time of day when hardly anyone was about, a location that is the most heavily guarded in the UK, uses a tiny 4 cylinder car, which he manages to drive into a bollard and only manages to hospitalise a couple of unfortunate people who happen to be in his path.
The only clever thing he did succeed in was not getting himself shot. But that was probably die to the fact that the nice policeman apprehending him saw that he was not armed.
He’ll get several decades in prison. But it will be a waste of money for the state because he won’t ‘reform’ .
You need a mind capable of reflection for that and enough human decency to be able to appreciate the harm one has caused innocent people.
He’ll just become another member of the muslim gang culture in the UK prison system.
Ross, you don’t have to be smart to be a terrorist. Did he even have a license?
Well this is just too damn sad. What the hell is the matter with people in Minnesota? #MeToo my ass.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/14/democrat-keith-ellison-wins-minnesota-ag-primary-days-after-abuse-allegations-surface.html
RRA, why are you surprised? He won several elections to congress. If he becomes AG, Minnesota will really turn into a little Mogadishu.
You would think the recent sexual abuse allegations would have cost him that election, although the voting Muslums don’t care.
Not a surprise – and yet again he was ‘known’ by his local (in England) police force. Frankly – how was he ‘known’ but as a Islamic problem needing a moment in time to be – a terrorist for the death cult.
really need to execute these characters ASAP THIS IS A DECLARED WAR AGAINST THE WEST