Shock has spread after a gruesome attack on a British soldier occured Wednesday. The brutal scene was caught on a cell phone camera. A man carrying a knife and meat cleaver spoke to the camera with his hands covered in blood. His victim just behind him lying mutilated. The murderer said, “The only reasons we killed this man … is because Muslims are dying daily.”
“This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth,” he said. “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone.”
There was another man involved in the attack. The two are now under arrest. Authorities have not released their identities, but the soldier has been identified as 25 year-old Lee Rigby. Prime Minister David Cameron addressed the public saying, “We will never give in to terror or terrorism in any form.” Cameron insists the slaying had no connection with Islam.
Security has increased at army bases around London.
