British Nigerian youths “Woolwich” behead British soldier in broad daylight.

The young men who are now dubbed the “Woolwich killers” are of Nigerian background
The man seen ranting on video shortly after the murder of a soldier is believed to be Michael Adebolajo.

Wielding knives including a meat cleaver, two men carried out the attack in broad daylight near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London, then delivered an Islamist tirade to passers-by.

The suspects were shot by police after the gruesome attack and spent the night in hospital under armed guard.

The victim has yet to be formally identified, but government sources confirmed that he was a member of the armed forces.
Chilling amateur footage of one of the suspects shows him with bloody hands and still holding a blood-stained knife and meat-cleaver, telling a member of the public: 

“You people will never be safe.”

“We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you,” adds the man, who is black and speaks in a London accent.

He went on to make various political statements in the video, including a demand for Cameron to “bring our troops back”.

Eyewitnesses described how after the killing, at around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the men stayed at the scene asking passers-by to photograph and film them.

“I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our lands our women have to see the same,” said the suspect, who was wearing a hooded jacket and a black woolly hat.

“We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

Media reports citing witnesses said the men first ran over their victim in a car before finishing him off with the knives.


Several eyewitnesses said he had been decapitated.


Rapper Boya Dee, who witnessed the incident, wrote on his Twitter account: “Ohhhhh myyyy God!!!! I just see a man with his head chopped off right in front of my eyes!”


Reports said the victim was wearing a t-shirt bearing the logo of the British military charity Help for Heroes. ‘We want to start a war in London’ 

Meanwhile a female scout leader has shot to fame after she confronted the assailants shortly after the attack, telling them: “It is only you versus many people. You are going to lose.”


Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, asked one of the suspects why they had carried out the attack, he told her: “We want to start a war in London tonight.”

She told the newspaper “He was not high, he was not on drugs, he was not an alcoholic or drunk, he was just distressed, upset.

“He was in full control of his decisions and ready to everything he wanted to do.”


Late Wednesday around 250 members of the anti-Islamist English Defence League were involved in minor scuffles with police at Woolwich Arsenal train station, near the scene of the attack.


Two men were arrested overnight after separate attacks on mosques.


One was detained in Braintree in Essex, southeast England, after reportedly walking into a mosque with a knife.


Police said another man was arrested in nearby Gillingham, Kent, on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage to a mosque.


Security has been strengthened at all army barracks in London.