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LONDON TERROR ATTACK
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East London gym used by London Bridge
attacker Khuram Butt raided by police
Katie Gibbons, DuncanGardham

June 8 2017, 5:00pm,The Times

The Ummah Fitness Centre, on the right of this parade of shops in Barking, east London, was
raided by police. Khuram Butt, one of the three attackers, used the gym
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An east London gym has been raided by detectives after leaked

CCTV footage revealed the three London Bridge terrorists
together near the site in the week of the attack.

Images obtained by The Times reveal the Islamist fanatics

meeting at the tness centre in Barking before Saturdays van
and knife attack in which eight people were killed and dozens
injured.

Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youssef Zaghba, 22,
are seen laughing, joking and hugging outside the Ummah
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Fitness Centre in the early hours of Monday, May 29. O cers
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 searched the Muslim gym overnight as part of the investigation,
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A terror suspect was dragged from a house by armed police
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during a raid on a house in Ilford late last night and two men
were arrested by counter-terrorism o cers in the street.

The rst man, 27, was detained on suspicion of the preparation

of terrorist acts, while the second, 33, was arrested on suspicion
of possession with intent to supply controlled drugs.

The third man, 29, was also arrested on suspicion of the

preparation of terrorist acts and all three have been taken for
questioning while detectives search the residential address and
a business premises.

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The three London Bridge terrorists meet ve days before their attack

Ilford, which is near Barking, has become the focus of the

inquiry after it emerged that two of the terrorists, Khuram Butt
and Youssef Zaghba, had links to the area and there have been a
series of raids since the attack.

After the latest operation, residents in Wingate Road, south

Ilford, described how armed police ooded the quiet residential
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street at about 10.20pm yesterday. They saw a man dragged
from a house and arrested while
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One neighbour, who asked notweek. to be named, said: I looked out
and saw just loads of armed police o cers balaclavad up. There
were about ten of them and loads of unmarked cars arriving.

The neighbour said the road was cordoned o . He added:

There was a male arrested, but I dont know who that was. I do
believe from hearing other neighbours he was quite rough
handled in his arrest and dragged across the road. All I saw was
him getting put into an unmarked vehicle.

Dramatic footage of police shooting terrorists

The neighbour said he believed a South Asian Muslim family

live at the address.

Forensics o cers were seen carrying boxes into the property in

Wingate Road, which is a street away from the gym where the
three attackers were lmed outside ve days before the attack.

Butt, one of the men who carried out Saturdays atrocity,

worked out at the gym in St Lukes Avenue, which was raided
overnight and eyewitnesses reported that computer equipment
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The latest arrests follow the detention of a 30-year-old man as

detectives raided an address in Ilford in the early hours
yesterday.

All eight people killed in the massacre have been identied,

while a further ten victims remain in a critical condition.

The ex-partner of Redouane spoke of her shock at discovering

he had inicted the outrage on the capital. Charisse OLeary,
who has a young daughter by Redouane, said she has shed
many tears for the people caught up in this horric incident.

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Tim Edwards 11 days ago

This gym will be shut. This gym will be decimated.

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KS 11 days ago
Ummah = the international brotherhood of Muslims, who feel that
their loyalty to each other is greater than their loyalty to any nation.
Any establishment that calls itself Ummah should be investigated.

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The Singe 11 days ago

A Muslim gym? WTF?!

Surely that is discriminatory

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Keep locking them up even if they are bailed or NFA there will be
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plenty of intelligence gained.
week.

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David Craig 11 days ago

Here we go again. The police will arrest plenty of people while the
media cameras are running. Then, when the media lose interest, all
the arrested will be quietly released. Happens every time.

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scillychick 11 days ago

A journalist on World at One Radio 4 today said she visited the so
called Islamic Gym earlier this week and noticed many black ags
with writing hanging on the wall, she noted that these have now
been taken down. I wonder what was written on the ags, she also
said that prayers were said at this gym, what possible reason can
there be for that. The whole situation is extremely worrying.

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Cyril the Swan 11 days ago

They weren't New Zealand rugby supporters that's for sure.

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allie lewis 11 days ago

@scillychick If the ag was black with Arabic writing - the
black colour will denote support for ISIS - the Arabic
writing is the Shahada verse - 'there is only one God Allah'
etc etc ,,
The black background is the signicance here and I do hope
the journalist got some photos...

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scillychick 11 days ago

I certainly hope so which is maybe why these raids have
occurred. I wonder how many other innocuous places are
used to spread this poison,

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