One of the men behind a barbaric terror attack on the streets of London today was filmed wielding a bloodied meat cleaver and saying, "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you."

The black man, dressed in a grey hooded jacket and black woolly hat, apologises to members of the public who witnessed the horrific scenes before making a number of political statements.



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In the footage, obtained by ITV News, he is heard to say: "We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

"I apologise that women have had to witness this today, but in our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your government, they don't care about you."



The attacker, who spoke clear English without a foreign accent, is then seen walking towards his victim, lying in the street in Woolwich, south east London. Another man is stood over the body.





The two men were later shot by armed police after a 'serving soldier' was stabbed to death in a 'crazed' suspected terrorist attack.

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The young victim in Woolwich, south east London, was said to have been hacked with knives, including a meat cleaver, by two black men in broad daylight.



Horrified eyewitness claimed the attackers then 'stood around waving knives and guns...asking people to take pictures', after slashing their victim 'like a piece of meat'.



It emerged this afternoon that police are treating the slaying as a 'suspected terrorist attack', with one Whitehall source making unconfirmed claims the attackers were heard to shout 'Allah Akbar'.



One witness, identified as James, said he and his partner saw two black men dumped the victim's body in the middle of a busy road.



"They were hacking at this poor guy, literally," he told LBC.

















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"They were hacking at him, chopping him, cutting him.

Fighting back tears, James said the men treated their victim as a "piece of meat" after he was dead.

"These two guys were crazed," he told the radio station.





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Witness James said that after the "horrendous" attack, the two men, in their 20s, just stood around, waving knives and a gun, even asking people nearby to take pictures of them "as if they wanted to be on TV or something".



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