Why Did It Take ISIS a Full Day to Claim the London Attack?
The delay fit the pattern of previous statements from the group.
Less than 24 hours after British national Khalid Masood allegedly plowed a vehicle into bystanders on London’s Westminister Bridge and stabbed an officer outside the U.K. Parliament, the Islamic State took credit for the attack. In a statement released Thursday on Amaq, the ISIS propaganda arm, the group said the attacker was “a soldier of the Islamic State” who “carried to attack citizens of countries fighting the group in Iraq and Syria.
