Beware the Known Wolf Attacker

[Old Warrior in Exile]

June 8, 2017
Beware the Known Wolf Attacker
By Daniel John Sobieski

What do terrorist attacks from Ft. Hood to the Boston Marathon, Manchester, and the London Bridge have in common? For all the pundit-prattle and the endless handwringing over what to do to prevent future attacks, the answer is obvious -- and it’s not “if you see something, say something”. It’s if you know something do something.

In virtually every terrorist attack we find that the perpetrators were on this or that watch list, had been previously reported to police, or were otherwise known to authorities. British PM Teresa May might want stricter controls on cyber chatter, but let her explain how terrorists can be, not only on police radar but on British TV shown practicing their craft, and British authorities do nothing.

These are not “lone wolf” attacks, but rather “known wolf” attacks by jihadis already on the radar of authorities who are otherwise too short on resources or too intimidated by political correctness to do anything. As ABC News reported on suspects in the London Bridge attack:

One of the three men who were shot and killed by police following the terrorist attack that killed seven people in London on Saturday night was previously known to authorities as a potential threat…

The Metropolitan Police released the names and photographs of two men, identified as Khuram Shazad Butt, 27, a British citizen of Pakistani descent, and Rachid Redouane, 30, who claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan….

According to the police, Butt was known to authorities, while Redouane was not. “There was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned and the investigation had been prioritised accordingly,” the police said in a statement….

Butt was featured in a 2016 documentary on the British Channel 4 called “The Jihadis Next Door” alongside members of a group that openly campaigned for Sharia law.

In one scene, which appears to have occurred in July of 2015, Butt can be seen praying with members of the group in front of a black flag. They are shown being confronted by police, and according to the documentary, were detained for an hour and released without any charges.

According to Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, research director of George Washington University's Program on Extremism, there are about three thousand people authorities considered possible threats, and this group was among the most extreme.

You can’t be said to be under the radar when you are caught on film flying the black flag of ISIS and openly supporting imposition of Sharia law in Britain, something which is anathema to basic human rights and everything Western civilization. Instead of supporting Facebook censorship of jihadi posts, how about arresting and deporting the jihadis or, better yet, through, dare we say it, extreme vetting never admit them in the first place.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/06/beware_the_known_wolf_attacker.html