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           British Police Arrest 3 New Suspects in Soldier's Killing

   by VOA News

   British police have arrested three new suspects in connection with
   Wednesday's murder of a British soldier in London.
   Scotland Yard issued a statement saying three men in their 20's were
   arrested Saturday, two of them at a residential address in southeast
   London and one on a London street. Officers used stun guns in two of
   the arrests, but no one was hospitalized.
   All three were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
   British soldier Lee Rigby, who had served a tour of duty in
   Afghanistan, was killed in broad daylight Wednesday, near the Royal
   Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich area of southeast London. Video
   footage shows a suspected murderer wielding a knife, shouting threats
   and "God is Great" in Arabic.
   On Saturday, thousands of people took to the streets of the northern
   British city of Newcastle to protest Rigby's murder and demand more
   government efforts to monitor radicals and extremists in the country.
   Two suspects in the stabbing were shot by policemen and apprehended
   soon after the killing. Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale remain
   under guard in a hospital.
   Both suspects are believed to have converted to Islam after being
   brought up Christian by their African immigrant families. The two men
   told bystanders they were acting in retaliation against British forces
   killing Muslims. Neither one has been charged.
   Another young man was arrested Friday night on "suspicion of the
   commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism."
   News reports identify him as Abu Nusaybah, a friend of the main
   suspect, Michael Adebolajo. In an interview with the BBC hours before
   his arrest, Nusaybah said Adebolajo had been approached by Britain's
   security service months ago to work as an informant, which he refused.
   Nusaybah said Adebolajo had changed after a visit to Kenya.
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