Questions on U.K. Policing Mount as 3rd London Attacker Is Identified
The authorities identified two assailants — Khuram Shazad Butt, 27,
and Rachid Redouane, 30 — on Monday, and the British police on Tuesday confirmed the identity of the third as Youssef Zaghba, 22, an Italian of Moroccan descent.
The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, said on Monday
that the authorities had uncovered 18 jihadist plots since 2013 — five of them since March — and that "all the recent attacks have a primarily domestic center of gravity," meaning that while the assailants might have been inspired by overseas extremists, they had little contact with or instruction from them.
Butt and his brother were also involved in the British program Prevent, which seeks to stop people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism,
and which refers people suspected of radicalization to programs led by the police.
Salman Abedi, the bomber who killed 22 people in Manchester, England, on May 22, was
reported to the police numerous times as someone with radical views — much as Mr.
Amato said that We did everything we could do,
The London police, however, said that Mr. Zaghba "was not a police or MI5 subject of interest," referring to Britain’s domestic intelligence agency.
