Khalid Masood: What We Know About The London Attacker - Foreign Affairs

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Khalid Masood: What We Know About The London Attacker by ruggedtimi(op): 5:55pm On Mar 23, 2017*

Theresa May: We are not afraid
London (CNN)Police investigating the deadliest London terror attack in 12 years named the perpetrator Thursday as a 52-year-old British man, Khalid Masood.

Prime Minister Theresa May earlier revealed that Masood was once linked to violent extremism but was regarded as a "peripheral figure." She also told Parliament he was thought to be inspired by Islamist ideology.
Police arrested eight people in raids around Britain, as an ISIS-affiliated news agency claimed that the extremist group was behind Wednesday's outrage.

Three people died in the attack -- an American man, a British woman of Spanish origin and a police officer stabbed as he defended Parliament. Another 40, many of them from other countries, were injured. Of those, 29 required hospital treatment and seven are critical, police said.
Confirmation of the perpetrator's identity came more than 24 hours after he launched the attack, in which he plowed a car into crowds of people on Westminster Bridge, killing two, before stabbing the police officer dead in the grounds of the UK Parliament