Report: British soldier's killers were on spies' radar, but attack could not have been stopped
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British lawmakers say two Islamic extremists who murdered a soldier in a London street had been under scrutiny by the intelligence services, and one had expressed his intention of killing a soldier in an online exchange months before the attack.
Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee says that if British spies had known of Michael Adebowale's declaration, "there is a significant possibility" they could have prevented the murder.
But the online exchange was only discovered after Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo killed Fusilier Lee Rigby in May 2013.
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The lawmakers concluded in a report published Tuesday that spy agencies had made mistakes, but that with the knowledge they had at the time they "were not in a position to prevent the murder of Fusilier Rigby."