ISIS claim responsibility for London attack which brought terror to Westminster and claimed lives of three people
TERROR group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the devastating Westminster attack which claimed the lives of three innocent people, reports A'maq news agency.
The news agency which is affiliated with the brainwashed death cult reports that the attacker, who mowed down dozens of people in central London yesterday, was a "soldier of the Islamic State"
The news outlet reportedly quoted a 'security source' claiming the killer answered "ISIS call to target citizens of the #coalition."
The name of the knife-wielding fanatic has still not been confirmed.
A statement from A'maq read: "The perpetrator of the attacks yesterday in front of the British parliament in London is an Islamic State soldier and he carried out the operation in response to calls to target citizens of the coalition."
Following Wednesday's attack, ISIS supporters had celebrated the atrocity on social media claiming the incident was “revenge” for the UK strikes in Mosul, Iraq calling it “blood for blood”.
The terror attack comes after a disturbing ISIS propaganda video was released that praised last year's Nice truck attack – and threatened a copycat killing in London
The chilling footage used computer graphics showing the distance the 19-tonne lorry travelled during the horrifying Bastille Day massacre.
Four people, including the attacker, were killed in the devastating assault.
Before brave cops shot and killed the attacker, the warped extremist stabbed a policeman, named as Pc Keith Palmer, to death outside Parliament.
The killer was born in Britain and known to the intelligence services, Prime Minister May said on Thursday.
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She said: “What I can confirm is that the man was British-born and that some years ago he was once investigated by MI5 in relation to concerns about violent extremism.”
“He was a peripheral figure,” she added. “The case is historic, he was not part of the current intelligence picture.”
"There was no prior intelligence of his intent or of the plot," she said, adding that his identity would be revealed when the investigation allowed.
Police arrested eight people at six locations in London and Birmingham in the investigation into Wednesday's attack.
Forty people were injured and 29 remain in hospital, seven in critical condition.
The wounded included 12 Britons, three French children, two Romanians, four South Koreans, one German, one Pole, one Chinese, one American and two Greeks, May said.
"We meet here, in the oldest of all parliaments, because we know that democracy and the values it entails will always prevail," she said.
"A terrorist came to the place where people of all nationalities and cultures gather what it means to be free and he took out his rage indiscriminately against innocent men, women and children," said May.
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