HE WASN’T SENT BY BOKO: Nigerian-born Muslim extremist who slaughtered soldier in London not a Boko Haram member

News Express |23rd May 2013 | 5,046
HE WASN’T SENT BY BOKO: Nigerian-born Muslim extremist who slaughtered soldier in London not a Boko Haram member

Contrary to reports in some media, Michael Adebolajo, the Muslim extremist who murdered a soldier yesterday in Woolwich, Great Britain, is not a Boko Haram member and was not sent by the group, it has been reported.

Both Adebolajo and his partner-in-crime, who are being treated in separate hospitals while under arrest, are British citizens “who have converted to a radical form of Islam,” said a report in Britain’s Daily Mail.

Even so, the paper said that “they are not thought to have links to terror groups based in Nigeria, such as the jihadist militant organisation Boko Haram.”

Police have raided a £365,000 detached house in a Lincolnshire village where Adebolajo is listed as having lived in the past.

“There was no answer at the address believed to be that of Adebolajo’s father, named by neighbours as Anthony Adebolajo,” according to the report.

“Mr. Adebolajo, 56, is believed to be a trained nurse now working in a managerial capacity within the NHS,” report said, adding:

“The modern property was being monitored by two police patrol cars stationed outside.

Later in the morning, plain clothes officers, thought to be from the Metropolitan Police, arrived at the modern estate and the house and driveway wassealed off with police tape. An officer at the scene described the property as a ‘crime scene’.

“Mr Adebolajo bought the property in 2002. At one time a woman who wore a burka was thought to live with him.

“They believed he had up to four grown up children, although few if any are thought to have stayed at the house for any period of time.

“Michael Adebolajo was listed as being a resident there in 2004, shortly after the family moved in.”

Reporting on the murder that has shocked the world, Daily Mail said: “The serviceman was murdered yards from the barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, yesterday.

“In broad daylight, an attacker and an accomplice repeatedly stabbed and tried to behead the young serviceman in front of dozens of passers-by.

“The attacker, speaking in a clear south London accent, declared in the rant: ‘You people will never be safe. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’

“Throughout the frenzied attack the two killers shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is great’ – then demanded horrified witnesses film them as they ranted over thecrumpled body.

“The two attackers in their 20s, waited calmly for armed police to arrive before charging at officers brandishing a rusty revolver, knives and meat cleavers.

“When the old pistol was shot towards police it backfired and blew the thumb off one of the men.

“Moments later they were cut down in a hail of bullets believed to be fired by a woman marksman. Last night both men were being treated in hospital for their wounds.

“Before police arrived the man identified as Adebolajo, said: ‘We swear by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reasons we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.”

The slaughter took place 200 yards from The Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich and close to a primary school at 2:20pm.

Witnesses told how the men drove a dark blue Vauxhall Tigra on to the pavement and knocked down the soldier.

•Photo shows Adebolajo.

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