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   From: wonk@nytimes.com   
      
   The man suspected of intentionally ramming a vehicle into   
   pedestrians and cyclists outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament   
   on Tuesday has been identified as a U.K. national originally   
   from Sudan, and has been additionally charged with attempted   
   murder, police said.   
      
   But London's Metropolitan Police Service did not name the 29-   
   year-old suspect, who was arrested at the scene of the 7:37 a.m.   
   incident in which a Ford Fiesta crashed into pedestrians and   
   cyclists before striking barriers.   
      
   No one was killed. Two people who suffered injuries that were   
   not considered life-threatening were taken to a hospital, and   
   another person was treated at the scene, officials have said.   
      
   The two people taken to the hospital, a man and a woman, have   
   been treated and released, police said in Wednesday’s statement.   
      
   Police said they are treating the incident as an act of   
   terrorism. Reuters, citing a European security source, named the   
   suspect as Salih Khater from Birmingham. In their official   
   statement, police said they had searched three addresses in   
   Birmingham, and one in Nottingham.   
      
   Police said in the statement that "given that it appears to have   
   been a deliberate act, the method used and the iconic location,   
   it is being treated as a terrorist incident and the   
   investigation is being led by officers from the Met’s Counter   
   Terrorism Command."   
      
   "The priority of the investigation team continues to be to   
   understand the motivation behind this incident," police said.   
      
   Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of the commission,   
   preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism, and that he   
   had been subsequently charged with attempted murder. From the   
   police statement, it is unclear when the suspect came to the U.K.   
      
   At the time of the arrest there was no one else in the vehicle   
   and no weapons were found, police said.   
      
   Ahmed Abdi, a neighbor of Khater in Birmingham, said he   
   recognized him from news footage, "and I was shocked."   
      
   "He was very, very quiet and he never spoke to anybody. He would   
   say nothing to nobody," Abdi said, according to The Associated   
   Press.   
      
   Coventry University, which is just outside Birmingham, confirmed   
   that Khater studied accountancy there from September 2017 until   
   May of this year, but as of May he was no longer enrolled at the   
   school.   
      
   The Metropolitan Police Service said that the Fiesta was driven   
   from Birmingham to London late on Monday night, arriving just   
   after midnight, and that it was driven around Westminster at   
   around 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning and stayed in the area until it   
   crashed into pedestrians and cyclists.   
      
   Several eyewitnesses have said they saw the car plow into a   
   group of 10 or 15 cyclists waiting at a red light.   
      
   The apparent terror attack came a year after a man drove his car   
   across Westminster Bridge, struck pedestrians and then stabbed a   
   police officer to death. Five people died, including the   
   officer, and more than 50 were injured. The attacker was shot   
   dead.   
      
   That attack, as well as several similar ones across Europe,   
   resulted in more security barriers being erected across the   
   British capital to try to stop vehicle-based attacks.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/man-held-london-car-ram-   
   incident-u-k-national-originally-n901091   
      
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