U.K. Officials Add Homegrown Radicalism to Attack Mysteries

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The young man dripping with blood after the murder of a U.K. soldier declared in a south London accent that he was acting in defense of “our lands.” He didn’t mean Britain.

The intent of the words and deeds are among the puzzles law enforcement has set to solving. As investigators piece together the attackers’ path to a vicious daylight assault outside a military barracks in London, security experts are again confronting the issue of home-grown terror.