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Stabbing In Reading, Berkshire, The Work Of A "Lone Actor"

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Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
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Reading Stabbing - BBC

Three victims of an Islamist terrorist have died after being attacked and stabbed in a public park in Reading, Berkshire, some 40 miles from central London.

Kiarai Saadalah, 25, was arrested by police and is being held for questioning. He was originally arrested for murder but it has since been upgraded to a terrorist incident.

He was acting alone and it is not yet clear if he was a member of any terror organisation.

There have been several such incidents here in the last five years involving lone attackers using knives, the best known taking place on Westminster Bridge close to Parliament a couple of years ago.

Saaladah was known to the security services but was not deemed a danger. No genuine threat or immediate risk was identified. He launched his attack without warning.

To me, this looks like an individual becoming radicalised in one way or another and deciding off his own bat to commit a crime, for whatever reason. These are the most difficult kinds of attack to detect and prevent. They come without warning and seem indiscriminate, intended to kill whoever is nearest at the time. They seem completely random and without any other objective.

The security services are not looking for anybody else connected with the incident.
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