On the anniversary on the Belgium bombings at the Brussel’s Airport that killed 36, injuring 240, a lone Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS]-inspired knife-wielding terrorist rammed his SUV today on the Westminster Bridge, killing two bystanders, only steps away from the British Parliament. Jumping out of his vehicle, the terrorist killed a police officer before shot by Metropolitan police. Injuring more than 20 on the Westminster bridge, some seriously, the latest ISIS attack shows how the group no longer has the resources to plan more complex terrorist attacks like the ones in Paris Nov. 13, 2015, where coordinated suicide bombing and machine guns killed 137, injuring 368. Today’s attack comes one week before Britain triggers Article 50 March 29, officially severing ties with the European Union. When British citizens voted June 23, 2016 in the so-called Brexit vote to end membership in the EU.
Today’s mayhem mirrors simultaneous battles currently waged in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria, where coalition forces continue to make progress evicting ISIS from its headquarters in Raqqa and Mosul. Lashing out in near the British Parliament, ISIS hopes to intimidate Western governments currently seeking to exterminate ISIS in territory occupied in Iraq and Syria since 2014. Copying the Dec. 19, 2016 car-ramming attacks in Berlin, killing 12, injuring 56 and in Nice July 14, 2016, killing 87, injuring 434, the London attack mirrors the deteriorated state of ISIS where their days are numbered in Mosul and Raqqa. Today’s attack reminds British citizens why they voted to leave the EU, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Holland, EU President Donald Tusk and European Council Presidents Jean-Claude Juncker pushed the British to take more Mideast refugees.
Taking Mideast, North African and South Asian immigrants for years, British voters finally got fed up with the EU’s insistence on taking more Mideast and North African refugees. It’s beyond ironic that the EU policy of backing the Saudi proxy war in Syria to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad caused the biggest refugee crisis since WWII, driving some 12 million Syrians to flee to neighboring countries and Europe. EU’s foreign policy in Syria caused its refugee crisis, pushing the EU to the breaking point. Merkel’s insistence on all EU countries taking their share of refugees prompted Poland to practically boycott Tusk’s bid for a second term as EU president. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have rejected Merkel’s demands to take refugees, forcing the EU to reconsider its immigrant policy. Watching the London terror attack tells British voters they made the right decision.
Whatever Scotland Yard finds about the terrorist, it’s the tip of the iceberg of how much the EU and Britain are infiltrated by ISIS terrorists. When President Donald Trump tried to deliver on his campaign promise to ban Mideast and North African refugees, it didn’t take long for his travel ban to get struck down in federal court. Watching the horror on the Westminster Bridge reminds anti-Trump skeptics about what happened in San Bernardino, Calif., Dec. 2, 2015 when an ISIS terrorist killed 16, injuring 24, only to strike again in Orlando, Florida June 12, 2016 when another ISIS terrorist massacred 50 bystanders at the Pulse Night Club, injuring 53 more. Britain the EU are slowly coming to grips with how a failed policy in Syria created the worst refugee crisis since WWII. Former President Barack Obama’s Syrian policy helped drive some 12 million refugees out of Syria.
London Metropolitan Police spokesman Mark Rowley expressed regret over the wounded, including three French High School students hit on the bridge. “This is a day we plan for, hope it will never happen. Sadly, it is now a reality,” remembering the deadly July 7, 2005 London Tube al-Qaeda bombings, killing 56, injuring 784. Prompting more surveillance across the globe, especially in U.S. cities, big city police departments have their work cut out for them finding a needle in a haystack. Trump’s attempts at travel bans do nothing for disgruntled immigrants drawn toward radical groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. “There will be additional armed and unarmed police officers on our streets from tonight in order to keep Londoners, and all those visiting out city, safe,” said London Mayor Sadiq Khah, a Muslim politician highly critical of Trump’s travel ban.
If there’s silver lining to London’s terror attack, it involves the limited nature to the attack, with five fatalities. No travel ban can prevent legal residents or citizens from self-radicalization, stopping lone-wolf attacks as occurred on the Westminster Bridge. U.S. and EU foreign policy over the last six-years in Syria added to some 300,000-plus deaths and 12 million more displaced to neighboring countries and Europe. Terrorist attacks in Europe have become too commonplace for politicians like Germany’s Merkel and EU’s Tusk to ignore the immigration crisis that drove the U.K out of the EU. With terror attacks plaguing the U.K. and the European continent, it’s time for politicians to admit they brought on the crisis by supporting the Saudi’s proxy war in Syria. However the EU despises al-Assad, European and British citizens detest terrorism even more, making life less safe-and-secure.
