When There's a Will, There is the Jihad Way

"If you can’t make a bomb because family, friends or spies are watching or suspecting you, take a knife, molotov, sound bombs or a car at night and attack the tourists (crusaders), police and soldiers of taghut [tyranny], or western embassies in every country you are in this planet."
"[ISIS] can never die. [There is a] reward [awaiting those who wage jihad]."
"[I would] rather blow myself up [and would like to know] how to make bombs."
Sudesh Amman, 20, Convicted terrorist

"Much of his fascination with conducting an attack was focused on using a knife but reference was also made to committing acid attacks on mopeds."
“His fascination with dying in the name of terrorism was clear in a notepad we recovered from his home. Amman had scrawled his ‘life goals’ in the notepad and top of the list, above family activities, was dying a martyr and going to ‘Jannah’ — the afterlife."
Crown Prosecution Service 

"[I've come] to the end of patience [with the early release policy and lack of supervision of offenders like Amman]."
"I think the idea of automatic early release for people who obviously continue to pose a threat to the public has come to the end of its useful life."
"We do think it’s time to take action to ensure that people — irrespective of the law that we’re bringing in — people in the current stream do not qualify automatically for early release."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson 

"We cannot have the situation, as we saw tragically in yesterday's case, where an offender - a known risk to innocent members of the public - is released early by automatic process of law without any oversight by the Parole Board."
"[New legislation would mean people convicted of terrorism offences will no longer be released automatically after they have served half of their sentence]."
"[Because we face] an unprecedented situation of severe gravity, [the legislation will also apply to serving prisoners],"
British Justice Secretary Robert Buckland

London’s Metropolitan Police said that the incident in the south London suburb of Streatham was terrorism-related. Photo: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

"He came out towards the end of January. He was under very strict licence terms. He was also under surveillance and that is what allowed the police to do their job so quickly. It meant that it could have been worse than it was had he not been under this surveillance."
"There were concerns about this individual when he was in prison - around things he was saying - but there were no powers available to any of the authorities to keep him behind bars."
"He had reached the automatic halfway point, halfway release point in his sentence and there was nothing that could be done to keep him locked behind bars.This is why there need to be changes brought forward because the public will look at this case and say: 'Why was this individual not kept not kept behind bars?' The PM shares that view."   Whitehall Sources

Yet another convicted terrorist out on early release, returning to what he knew best and longed to engage in, to hasten his martyrdom and ascent to Paradise as befits an Islamist jihadist. Britain prides itself on being a 'tolerant' society, and Britons pay the price for that 'tolerance'. Sudesh Amman, formerly convicted of terrorism, out on early release from prison, feeling free in that tolerant society to resume his dearly-held convictions and act on them. All of 20 years of age, deeply ensconced in the death-and-martyrdom syndrome of jihad.

Shot dead on Streatham High Road a day ago, but not before he stabbed two people, calling Allahu Akbar! as  he lunged. Wearing a pseudo suicide belt the while. All a week following release from prison after serving half of his three-year, four-month sentence for publishing graphic terrorist videos online and stockpiling bomb-making instructions and the current favourite of ISIL-approved tactics, knife attacks. . His early release did not go without concern on the part of Metropolitan Police which had placed him under direct police surveillance.


Followed by armed officers on foot reflecting a "proactive counter-terrorism surveillance operation" according to Scotland Yard, the response to the knife attacks on two people perpetrated by the man was close to instant. He was closely watched as he entered a shop on Streatham High Road around two in the afternoon, and there he stole a knife. Exiting the shop with his prize, he attacked two people. According to the Metropolitan Police, the officers' response was within 60 seconds of the attack, when he was fatally shot.

One of the stabbed people was immediately treated for life-threatening injuries, while a woman sustained less serious wounds than the man whose injuries were critically severe. A third person was injured by broken glass, following a weapon being fired by an officer.

Video footage following the stabbing showed two men in civilian clothing, one wearing a hoodie, the other with a police baseball cap, pointing their guns at a body on the nearby pavement.

"The incident was quickly declared as a terrorist incident, and we believe it to be Islamist-related", declared deputy assistance commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, Lucy D'Orsi. Hard to see how they could have concluded otherwise, given the classical jihadi shout-out to Allah.

Amman had admitted to 13 terror related offences, which included the dissemination of terrorist material, and collecting instructions meant to be of use in planning terrorist attacks. "People just came running in, screaming and upset, shouting about a gun. We ran to the back of the shop and were locked in", explained Chris Wells, shopping in Streatham with his daughter when gunshots were heard outside. "We tried to leave to get away and I saw a man in a hoodie with a gun, which I now know was a plainclothes officer. And another officer shouting at us to get back inside because there was a bomb threat."








As for Sudesh Amman, it's hard to say who will miss him. Of course, his exploit will resonate as a successful terrorist attack, not a complete failure, since at least two people were badly injured and he did his best to make it two deaths, not merely injuries. His action and following notoriety will instill admiration in some, and no doubt incite additional wannabe jihadis to action. At his family home in London, he had left a combat knife, air gun and black flag. No parental concern? His girlfriend had received videos of beheadings from him. He had advised her to kill her "kuffar" parents. Beyond grim.