Are The London Bridge Terrorists UK Born? UPDATE

At this hour, the London Bridge terrorists have yet to be identified.

We know they are Muslims. Neighbors of one of the terrorists have said he tried to convert school children to Islam.

The question I have is whether they were born in the UK.

I am betting they are.

Three of the four London tube bombers were born in the UK. The fourth emigrated to the UK from Jamaica when he was five.

One of the two men who beheaded a British soldier in broad daylight was born in the UK and converted to Islam.

The man responsible for the car ramming on Westminster Bridge in March was a UK born convert to Islam.

The man responsible for the bombing attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester last month was UK born.

With this history in mind, the odds are very good.

If this is the case it makes President Trump's promotion of the Muslim Travel Ban all the more inappropriate. A Muslim Travel Ban could have no more stopped these attacks than it could have stopped the attacks in San Bernardino or Orlando.


UPDATE: Two of the three attackers have been identified by British authorities. They are Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane. There is some dispute as to where Butt was born. CNN states he was born in Pakistan while the Watford Observer states he was born locally. Butt had actually been profiled in a Channel 4 documentary called The Jihadis Next Door which aired last year. As for Redouane, it is believed he is of Moroccan or Libyan origin, but it is not clear where he was born.