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Updated | One of the attackers who drove a vehicle into pedestrians before stabbing people in bars near Britain’s London Bridge had viewed the videos of a radical American preacher, an acquaintance of the suspect said on Sunday. Speaking anonymously, the former friend of the attacker, whose identity is yet to be released at the request of the British security services, told BBC’s Asian network that the man used to watch videos of Ahmad Musa Jibril, an American preacher of Palestinian descent with a significant online following. Jibril preaches a Salafist version of Islam, one of the most conservative strands of the religion and the ideology from which members of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda derive their beliefs. “We spoke about a particular attack that happened and like most radicals he had a justification for anything and everything and that day I realized I needed to contact the authorities,” said the man who knew the attacker. ...

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