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After a Horrific Crime, England Searches for Calm

BY CATHERINE MAYER

Violence and fear travel swiftly. Just after 2 p.m. on May 22 in Woolwich, in southeast London, a 25-year-old soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby, was leaving the local barracks when he was rammed by a car and then hacked to death in front of horrified onlookers. One of his alleged killers, later identified as Michael Adebolajo, linked the attack to the British military presence in Muslim countries.

That same day, an incendiary device was lobbed into a small mosque in Braintree, a market town in Essex, while in Woolwich the xenophobic...

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