IS claims link to London attack

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani

Early 2015: Islamic State’s chief strategist, and second most senior leader, pledges campaign of terror in Europe

Aug 2016: Al-Adnani targeted and killed in Pentagon air strike in town of al Bab in Aleppo
province in Syria

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28: Belgian assigned by al-Adnani as mastermind. Abaaoud assembles team of around 25 jihadis in France and Belgium to conduct attacks and is implicated in four foiled attacks in France

Salah Abdeslam, 26: French national is one of Abaaoud’s team

Mohamed Abrini, 29 – Jul 9-16, 2015: Abdeslam’s childhood friend travels to Birmingham in UK to collect cash for Abaaoud. Abrini meets with Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Zakaria Boufassil (insets below) in Small Heath Park and is given £3,000 (€3,500, $3,770) in cash

Nov 13: Attacks in Paris leave 130 people dead and 368 wounded. Two days before attack, Abrini and Abdeslam are filmed driving to Paris.

Nov 18: Abaaoud is killed in police raid in Paris suburb of St.-Denis

Mar 18, 2016: Abdeslam arrested in Molenbeek district of Brussels

Mar 22: Three suicide bombings in Brussels kill 32 people and injure 300. Five attackers
include Abrini – seen on security camera

Dec: Ahmed and Boufassil jailed for funding terrorism

Mar 22, 2017: Three people killed, 40 injured after attacker drives car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and stabs police officer to death inside gates of Parliament.

British born attacker – shot dead by police – is from Birmingham and has previously been
investigated by M15 security services for violent extremism

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River Thames

Westminster Bridge

Palace of Westminster

Portcullis House

100 metres 109 yards

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