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Manchester attack latest: Man with knife arrested outside Buckingham Palace amid heightened security
Telegraph (London) ^ | 24th May 2017 | Danny Boyle

Posted on 05/24/2017 4:09:13 AM PDT by naturalman1975

A man with a knife has been arrested near Buckingham Palace, as Britain remains on critical terror alert amid fears Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi did not act alone.

The man was detained by police on The Mall just moments before the Queen passed by in a car on her way to an engagement with the Duke of Edinburgh at St Paul's Cathedral.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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1 posted on 05/24/2017 4:09:13 AM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

When will we wake up?


2 posted on 05/24/2017 4:24:33 AM PDT by petercooper (Ryan and McConnell need to go.)
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To: naturalman1975

I am pretty cynical of the powers that be, so I figure they will release the dude quickly, whether he is up to no good, or not.


3 posted on 05/24/2017 4:32:49 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is history)
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To: naturalman1975
It wasn't a penknife...

BREAKING NEWS: Tourists watch in horror as armed police arrest man carrying a knife outside Buckingham Palace as Changing of the Guard is cancelled due to terror fears

4 posted on 05/24/2017 4:32:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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Yes, I saw that. If it was a pocket knife, I wouldn’t think much of it. Yeah, it’s a weapon under UK law but I always carry one when I’m there and rely on the police exercising a degree of common sense about an old sailor carrying a knife.

What this guy was carrying... I can’t really see him planning to attack the Queen in a car, but attacking somebody else while she was nearby... that could be a statement.

Or he could be innocent of anything real. But security is going to be tight right now - as it should be.


5 posted on 05/24/2017 4:35:50 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: mewzilla

Unless the suspect was dumb enough to be carrying that thing out in the open, how did LE know the perp had it on him? Or did they bag the perp for something else and find the knife on him?


6 posted on 05/24/2017 4:36:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: naturalman1975

Or it could’ve been a test run to see what LE could detect.

Or the perp could just be a flaming idiot.

Be interesting to know the perp’s citizenship status, ethnicity, and religion. None of which were mentioned.


7 posted on 05/24/2017 4:38:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla

And instead of doing away with the changing of the guard, why not arm them instead? With weaponry loaded with live ammo. Or don’t they trust their own people?


8 posted on 05/24/2017 4:40:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla

At the moment, the guard will be armed and will have live ammunition (that isn’t routine, but it is pretty well known to be part of heightened alerts). Cancelling some of the ceremonial aspect allows them to be focused on their guard duty.


9 posted on 05/24/2017 4:44:52 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975
The Telegraph article made it sound more like a manpower issue. If so, pretty sad.
10 posted on 05/24/2017 4:50:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla

That certainly could be part of the reason too. But if it is, it’s even more reason to cut down on the ceremonial at the moment and focus on what is important.


11 posted on 05/24/2017 4:52:48 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

So the British gov’t, for whatever reason or reasons, can’t multitask, protect tradition and provide security at the same time.

Sad.


12 posted on 05/24/2017 5:01:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla

The Changing of the Guard is a ceremony that takes about 45 minutes. It gets cancelled if there is a heavy rain storm, largely because there won’t be any tourists to watch it.

Cancelling it isn’t a big deal. It happens quite regularly.

Doing so for actual security reasons to ensure the guards are more effective at protecting the Queen and the Palace is a no brainer.

I don’t think it’s sad. It’s professional. The ceremonial is less important than the practical.

During the Second World War, the guard stood their posts in battledress, rather than the traditional clothes. Personally, I’m not sure it’s not time for that now as the UK has gone to its highest alert.


13 posted on 05/24/2017 5:10:30 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

Well, so much for carrying on.


14 posted on 05/24/2017 5:15:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla

Notice the smirk on his face?


15 posted on 05/24/2017 6:09:27 AM PDT by Eagles6 (My weapons are lubricated by liberal tears.)
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