London Attack - The Luck Of Fate

I have an appointment today at the hospital that is immediately by the entrance of the bridge where the vehicle that mowed down dozens of people entered, and I will be walking across that bridge from Westminster station at the same time as yesterday's attack. I feel incredibly lucky that my appointment was not yesterday. Not just because I might have been injured but I would have seen the carnage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39360710

 

Must be the season for this sort of thing..... we had something similar occur here in Melbourne in late January http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/b...iggest-victoria-has-seen-20170216-gueu05.html

Sending best wishes for the London victims and their families and I hope the police capture the perpetrator so he can be punished for his actions.

 

Just saw that they made 8 arrests http://www.theage.com.au/world/lond...ter-conducting-six-raids-20170323-gv54ge.html

Also breaking news in Belgium, police arrested a man driving at high speed through Antwerp who was trying to run over pedestrians http://www.theage.com.au/world/belg...-antwerp-shopping-street-20170323-gv5a71.html

Is it a full moon..... the world seems to be going crazy

 

Westminster Bridge and Westminster Underground Station were both still closed when I went to hospital but they are now open.
My thoughts go the the families and friends of the deceased:
Police Constable Keith Palmer
Aysha Frade - British national of Spanish and Cypriot parentage
Kurt Cochran - from the US state of Utah who was in London as part of a holiday in Europe to celebrate 25 years of marriage to his wife Melissa, who was seriously hurt in the attack.
And to the many injured, including three Police Officers who are still in critical condition, and many others from all over Europe and Asia

This is a lovely message from staff at London Underground:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39363933

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39372154

 

A Muslim-led group has raised more than £10,000 for the families of those killed and injured in the Westminster attack.
https://www.launchgood.com/project/muslims_united_for_london#/
A separate fundraising page for the family of policeman Keith Palmer has raised more than £100,000
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/fdb52a3c-0424-4954-b661-0a49269e6659

 

[QUOTE="joffa, post: 1989732, member: 285397" Abstract from quote: ]...Just saw that they made 8 arrests [/QUOTE]

Frightening that this person was English born and indoctrinated within country and while it was noted he was a "lone wolf ", ISIS claimed his works.

I find this frightening. April last year we also had a "lone wolf" (no ISIS claims) with a mid-city Sydney siege at a popular coffee shop, with hostages ending in the deaths of two hostages, the manager and a Sydney lawyer (whom my colleagues and I knew and worked with in the past).

This is the most frightening because it can happen any where, any time.

But on a positive, regardless, we still snub our noses at attempts to limit our liberties and move forward, same as shown by the British and noted by its Prime Minister May by quickly continuing with life and our business!

 

Personally, I think it's a mistake to refer to this attack as 'terrorism' since though it was an act of 'terror' it isn't even remotely comparable to armed trained groups who plan and carry out attacks in numbers. Long before the 1991 crisis in the Middle East and all the events after, this man was a violent criminal, and probably mentally ill. In that sense he is no different to the man who brutally murdered the Member of Parliament Jo Cox during the EU referendum campaign. A mentally deranged man whose mental health drove him. That is often the case with non-Middle East residents who become 'radicalised'. I firmly believe most of them are totally round the twist.