After London Attack, Prime Minister Says, ‘Enough Is Enough’ -<br />By STEVEN ERLANGERJUNE 4, 2017<br />LONDON — Declaring “enough is enough,” Prime Minister Theresa May vowed on Sunday a sweeping review of Britain’s counterterrorism strategy after<br />three knife-wielding assailants unleashed an assault late Saturday night, the third major terrorist attack in the country in three months.<br />But when it comes to taking on extremism and terrorism, things need to change.”<br />Mrs. May said the government may extend the time of custodial sentences for terrorism suspects,<br />but more needed to be done in binding communities together to combat what she called “a perversion of Islam,” adding, “There is, to be frank, far too much tolerance of extremism in our country.”<br />The British leader vowed a sweeping review of the nation’s counterterrorism<br />strategy after the late-night assault, the third in less than three months.<br />Mrs. May also called for a global effort to “regulate cyberspace,” something<br />that is likely to prove difficult, and said that the London attack was not connected to a suicide bombing at a pop concert in Manchester, England, last month that killed 22 people.<br />While none of the assailants in Saturday’s attack were identified, the counterterrorism police conducted a raid Sunday in Barking, in east London, in connection with the assault<br />and arrested 12, seven women and five men between the ages of 19 and 60.<br />The police treated that attack, in which 50 were injured, as “Islamist-related terrorism.”<br />The mood in London veered from shock to anger in the aftermath of the attack.
