Cameron Calls Terror Killing ‘Betrayal of Islam’
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The U.K. government said a 25-year-old soldier was the victim of a terrorist attack yesterday that Prime Minister David Cameron called a “betrayal of Islam.”
Lee Rigby, a drummer in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was the soldier killed by two men wielding knives and meat cleavers outside of army barracks in London yesterday, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. The native of Manchester, England, had served in Afghanistan and Cyprus before returning to London in 2011.