12 Arrested In London Bridge Terror Attack — They Knew Who They Were

Why are these agencies sitting on these arrests?

8:25 a.m. ET: British police say they have arrested 12 people in east London over the London Bridge attack. Police said in a statement that counterterrorism officers made the arrests Sunday morning in Barking.

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This article from CBS gives a timeline of events. With the Manchester attack, 18 people were arrested with connection to the attack and 6 were let go with a total of 12 men in custody. Then, in the video below (it’s at 4:05 but it should be synced up to that point), I will give an example of the Garland, Texas attack where the FBI had been in contact with the terrorist suspects and was even there the day of the attack taking pictures.

Former FBI Director James Comey, still director at the time, said the media reports were wrong but it doesn’t negate the fact that the FBI had known about the two terrorists and were monitoring them. Why did they do nothing to prevent the attack?

Then, in the case of the Orlando Shooter, where he killed 50 people and injured 53. He had been interviewed 3 times by the FBI but they concluded they were unable to “confirm” he had ties to terrorism. Did the FBI just stop surveilling him or what was the deal? If someone is brought in with suspected ties to terrorism, isn’t that a legitimate case to unmask someone and surveil them?

I’m not going to claim I know everything there is to know with counter-terrorism and how they investigate potential terror threats. I’m just a regular person here. But I’m also not dumb. I know they surveil a multitude of individuals trying to work their way up and find more terror cells. In the case with the 12 individuals who’ve been arrested with having some connections to the London bridge attack, they already knew about them. They were already on their radar and being surveilled. You wouldn’t be arresting that many people this quickly unless you knew about them beforehand. So why didn’t they arrest them sooner? Why didn’t they get arrested two days ago or a week ago? Just like the Garland, Texas attack, why didn’t the FBI arrest the two terrorists sooner?

I will wrap this up with linking back to the Mayor of London talking about Climate change being one of the biggest risks to humanity and not Islamic Terrorism — you know, an ideology which is attributed to killing and injuring thousands in recent years.