British-born Masood was on police radar, but no sign of a plot
The terror suspect lived in West Midlands using several aliases and had links to extremism
London — The man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman in an assault on the heart of British democracy was 52-year-old Khalid Masood, who was born in Kent in southeast England, police said on Thursday. London’s Metropolitan Police said that Masood was known by "a number of aliases" and had been living in the West Midlands, which includes the city of Birmingham where there was an armed police raid overnight. British security services once investigated the terrorist behind the worst attack on London in more than a decade, Prime Minister Theresa May said as Parliament resumed its work following Wednesday’s assault. Masood was on the intelligence agency MI5’s radar amid concern over his links to extremism some years ago but he "was not part of the current intelligence picture" and the authorities had no prior intelligence about this suspected Islamist plot, May told MPs. "We are not afraid and our resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism," May said on Thursday. She...
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