MI5 admit they KNEW about fanatics who 'slaughtered soldier': Police raid house in Lincolnshire village as friends say British-born suspect became 'obsessed with radical Islam as schoolboy'
- Suspect identified on internet forums as Michael Adebolajo
- He was filmed ranting with bloodied hands shortly after the attack
- Accomplice believed to be from Harold Hill, Romford
- IPCC confirms two officers fired shots and one officer discharged a Taser
- Raids carried out in Lincolnshire, Romford, Greenwich and Woolwich
- Suspects in attack on a soldier are not believed to be part of a terror group
- Both have been arrested and are being treated in separate hospitals after being shot by police
- David Cameron: 'We will defeat violent extremism by standing together'
- Radical preacher Anjem Choudhary knew one of killers and has warned of more 'lone wolf' attacks in the future
- Sources: 'Adebolajo was arrested on his way to join Al Shabaab in Somalia'
By Daily Mail UK, 23 May 2013
Two men who allegedly slaughtered a soldier in a Woolwich street were known to security services, it emerged today.
David Cameron revealed that authorities were looking into what was already known about Drummer Lee Rigby's alleged killers, but it is not thought they were considered to be an immediate threat.
One of the men, believed to be Michael Adebolajo, is believed to have been arrested after he went to Somalia to join banned Islamist group al Ahabaab.
Eyewitness Jamie France, 29, said that his mother had seen Adebolajo preaching as recently as last week.
He said: 'She said she'd seen him last week preaching in Woolwich town centre. She said she remembers him because he'd been really angry and was saying all this political stuff.'
In an extraordinary day of events, Scotland Yard announced that another 1,200 police officers were being put onto the streets and several houses were raided as part of the investigation.
Changed man: Suspect Michael Adebolajo is said to have been radicalised in 2003 as a schoolboy and his parents became so concerned they moved him away
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The man above with bloodied hands is believed to be Michael Adebolajo. Both of the killers are thought to be British citizens and one of them is of Nigerian descent
Police today raided a Lincolnshire house which is believed to be connected with Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo
Adebolajo is said to have joined the banned
Islamist organisation Al Muhajiroun, which promotes Sharia law, and other controversial groups banned under the Terrorism Act.
Insiders said he disappeared two years ago.
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