Instead of an obscene execution video on the internet with a soundtrack of ritual anathemas, the two young men who killed Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday produced a blood-spattered tableau vivant – the almost ritual slaughter of another human being in broad daylight on a London street. This was followed by a public rant, meat cleaver and carving knife in hand, for anybody who would listen to or film them – or indeed subsequently devote entire front pages to their febrile claims.
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