The British agency also underlines the threat posed by other European citizens who have traveled to Syria, who can freely travel around the European Union, including the UK, and who can also travel to the States without visas as they are from so-called "visa waiver" countries.
Statement from the family of David Haines. According to the British government, fighters have traveled to Syria from France; from Germany; between and from Belgium; from the Netherlands; over from Denmark; from Austria; 80 from Sweden; and between 50 and from Spain.
The British government also estimates that Canadians have left Canada to "support or train with terrorist movements abroad. The majority of these are likely to be in Syria. This brings the total number of Westerners who have fought in Syria to between 2, and 2,, according to the British Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism assessment obtained by CNN, which is likely the most authoritative estimate yet. Despite the fact that the British government has identified the executioner of the two American journalists and of David Haines, it is not making his name public "for operational reasons.
That's because the only likely hope for the remaining hostages is some kind of rescue operation similar to the one that the U. Joint Special Operations Command mounted on July 4, which didn't achieve its purpose because the prisoners had been recently moved from the location where they were being held in Syria.
A rescue operation is a long shot, but at this point it may be the only real chance of saving the lives of the remaining hostages. David Cameron knows this -- and so does President Barack Obama.
Print Email More sharing Reddit. Now into its 14th year of hosting duties since the first International Series game at Wembley Stadium in , London has long been touted as a potential residence for a first non-US franchise -- either via the relocation of an established franchise or as a new expansion team.
Read More. Today's victorious home team, the Jaguars -- whose owner Shahid Khan has invested interest in London as owner of Fulham Football Club -- have committed to playing one overseas game a year as the designated "home" team and have subsequently been tipped as most likely to make a move across the Atlantic.
Ultimately, the decision will rest with the powers that be, but nobody with a ticket to the London Games over the last two weekends can doubt the size of the UK's NFL appetite. The first call about an assault came in at p. At some point afterward, police responded, including armed members of a firearms unit, even though British police typically don't carry guns.
Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchworth noted that "early reports" indicated the attackers had "weapons. The suspects rushed at the arriving officers before being shot, James told the radio station. Letchworth said both suspects were taken to separate London hospitals for treatment. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe later said the two had been arrested, though it wasn't immediately clear if this happened at the hospitals or elsewhere.
Centuries-old barracks part of London neighborhood. Cameron -- who was in France at the time of the incident but headed back home promptly -- declined to confirm if the man killed was a serving soldier, while Britain's Defense Ministry said it was investigating to see whether that's the case. Yet Nick Raynsford, a member of Parliament, told CNN that the victim is believed to be a serving soldier who was based at a nearby barracks.
The soldier had apparently been on duty in central London and was returning to the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich when he was attacked, Raynsford said. The MP described Woolwich as a mixed, multicultural area, adding that troops stationed at the centuries-old military barracks there have a close relationship with locals.
Even as they worked to piece together what happened and why, British authorities beefed up security around Woolwich and all military barracks in London, according to a British government source.
And British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said the killing was a "very shocking incident" and that the United Kingdom takes the safety of its troops "very seriously," as he headed into Wednesday night to a meeting of the country's civil emergency committee known as COBRA.
The incident raised concerns it may inflame animosity against Muslims, with Metropolitan Police deploying riot police as a precautionary measure. The Muslim Council of Britain, after condemning what it called "a truly barbaric act that has no basis in Islam," urged Muslims and non-Muslims alike "to come together in solidarity to ensure the forces of hatred do not prevail.
Those who have faced persecution at home have found the freedoms of expression and assembly denied them elsewhere available in every corner of London and other British cities. And British life has been enriched by their presence. Certainly it's led to social tensions. New communities establish traditions that the original population finds strange and even threatening.
Immigrants seem to keep themselves apart and are prepared to work longer for less. Originally the government aimed to assimilate these newcomers, but realized that defining "Britishness" was hard enough for the British, let alone a concept that a new arrival could understand.
Integration became the new objective, but this too is difficult in a society that's under strain and believes the best policy is a clear set of rules that still allow people to find their own way within them. Committing terrorist acts is not within the rules. And recent British legislation has tried to set firmer and clearer rules that make plotting terrorist acts a crime -- however hard it may be to identify a crime before it has been committed.
This may help to deter and prevent terrorism, or it may not. It is always hard to measure what did not happen as a result of government action.
The best way to deter terrorism is not to introduce ever-more draconian laws -- which inevitably miss their targets but affect everyone else -- but to continue to hold true to the values that terrorists seek to challenge. In the dark world of the self-described Islamic State, the law and its implementation are arbitrarily applied by those who hold the guns.
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