British papers identify man held for driving into Houses of Parliament barrier
Salih Khater is a shop manager living in Birmingham, who moved to the UK about five years ago
London — The man arrested for driving into a barrier protecting the Houses of Parliament in a suspected terrorist attack was a Briton of Sudanese origin from Birmingham, media reports said on Wednesday. Three people were injured when the silver Ford Fiesta drove into cyclists before crashing to a halt outside the House of Lords early on Tuesday morning. A 29-year-old British man driving the car was arrested at the scene, and named by newspapers as Salih Khater, from the central English city of Birmingham. Top police counterterrorism officer Neil Basu said the suspect was not known to intelligence agencies, but The Times reported he was known to police. The paper reported that Khater is a shop manager in Birmingham and had studied at Sudan University of Science and Technology, citing his Facebook page.
Abubakr Ibrahim, a childhood friend, told the paper: "He is not a terrorist. I have known him since childhood. He is a good man." He said Khater was the son of sorghum farmers, a...
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