Man arrested after suspected parliament attack named
BIRMINGHAM, England/LONDON (Reuters) A man detained on suspicion of carrying canada goose outlet seattle out a terrorist attack outside Britain parliament is Salih Khater, a British citizen of Sudanese origin, a European security source told Reuters on Wednesday.
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The security source told Reuters that canada goose outlet toronto address Khater was from Birmingham, central England, and was not known to security services before Tuesday.
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Mahmood said he had heard that Khater did not worship at the mosque and had not shown signs of radicalisation.
A spokesman for Coventry University, also in central England, told the Daily Telegraph newspaper Khater had studied accountancy from September 2017 until May 2018 but failed his first year course and lost his place.
On Wednesday, London police confirmed that they were satisfied they knew the identity of the arrested man, saying he was originally canada goose outlet from Sudan although they did not name him.
In a statement, police said officers were still searching one address in the city of Birmingham but had concluded their investigations at two other properties in Birmingham and Nottingham, also in central England.
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Speaking shortly after the incident, Britain counter terrorism police chief said that given the iconic location and the method used, it appeared the incident was deliberate act and canada goose outlet canada was therefore being treated as a terrorist incident.
Video footage showed the car veering across the road and into a security lane leading to parliament before smashing into the barrier. No one else was in the vehicle at the time and no weapons have been found.
The car involved, a silver canada goose outlet store near me Ford Fiesta, has been removed and the security lane was open as usual.
The Fiesta was driven down to the British capital from Birmingham on Monday night and was then in the Tottenham Court Road area, near central London main shopping district, for about four hours, police said.
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PEDESTRIANISING PARLIAMENT Police said the incident appeared to be the second terrorist attack at the parliament building in just under 18 months, after a British born Muslim convert killed four people on nearby Westminster Bridge in March 2017.
He also stabbed to death an unarmed police officer in the grounds of parliament before being shot dead.
That was the first of five attacks in Britain last year that police designated as terrorism, three of which used vehicles as weapons.
The latest attack has prompted a debate about banning traffic from the square and making it a pedestrian area, an option favoured by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
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Additional reporting by Kate Holton, Michael Holden and Alistair Smout; Editing by Jon Boyle and Alison Williams.