Ten people were wounded in a stabbing attack on a train in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday by two suspects who brutally set upon terrified passengers with huge knives — and anti-terror investigators are probing the incident, according to reports.
Nine of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack, which was carried out by the two unidentified suspects on a LNER train as it left a train station in Peterborough on the way to London, Sky News reported.
Multiple people were stabbed on a train in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday with two suspects taken into custody.AFP via Getty Images
The two men dressed in all-black were tasered, restrained, and taken into custody by police, according to that report.
Authorities have not announced a motive for the horrifying stabbing spree but England’s Counter Terrorism Police are involved in the investigation, British Transport Police announced. Reports said the cops used the term code “Plato” for the incident, which is used for in the UK for an apparent “marauding terror attack.”
A mad rush commenced in the train during the attack, sending bloodied riders rushing to avoid further carnage.
“They were making their way through the carriage to get away from the suspects. They were extremely bloodied,” a man using the name Gavin told Sky News.
That witness stated he saw one of the attackers on the platform with a “quite a large knife.”
“The suspect had also come off the train as well. So while we were being told to come out of the station the suspect was obviously running rampant,” Gavin told Sky News.
As many as 12 people were injured in the attack carried out by two unidentified suspects who wielded large knives on the train as it left a train station in Peterborough.AFP via Getty Images
Authorities haven’t revealed the identities of the suspects who committed the bloody attack.AFP via Getty Images Video posted to social media showed a massive emergency response to the Huntingdon Station with dozens of police and ambulances swarming the scene.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer lamented the bloodshed and offered condolences in a social media post. He did not say anything about the identity of the attackers for their motive.
“The appalling incident on a train near Huntingdon is deeply concerning. My thought are with those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response,” the British leader said on X.
House Republicans are exploring ways to preventZohran Mamdanifrom ever being sworn in as mayor even if heprevails in Tuesday’s electionby using the Constitution’s “insurrection clause,” The Post has learned.
The New York Young Republican Club is pushing to prevent the NYC mayoral frontrunner from taking the oath of office Jan. 1 under an idea floated this summer.
It cites language in the post-Civil War 14th Amendment to the Constitution barring from office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or who has “given aid or comfort to the enemies.” The group argues that Mamdani’s own statements calling to resist ICE could violate the prohibition.
House Republicans are looking at proposed legislation what would try to bar Zohran Mamdani (pictured) under the Constitution’s “insurrection clause’Getty Images
“There is a real and legitimate push to see the insurrectionist Zohran Mamdani either a) removed from the ballot or b) removed from office if he is to win on Tuesday,” Stefano Forte, president of the New York Young Republicans, told The Post.
Republican lawmakers are keyed in on the idea and are considering rolling out legislation on it once the government shutdown ends, sources told The Post.
It’s the same provision Colorado used to try to kick Trump off the ballot last year, only to get slapped down by the Supreme Court. The high court ruled that it was up to Congress to enforcement the amendment, giving majority Republicans a chance to test their authority.
Proponents would like to see a congressional vote on declaring Mamdani ineligible, although that would mean getting it through the narrow 219-213 Republican House majority and overcoming a Senate filibuster should leaders decide to put it on the floor.
It would also have to survive any court challenge to removing a popularly elected official. But it would create a political wedge that would force Democrats to vote either for or against a socialist who President Trump is eager to turn into a national foil for MAGA.
The effort would come after the election, and only after Speaker Mike Johnson brings lawmakers back from an extended recess during the government shutdown.
Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon predicted on his “War Room Pandemic” podcast last week that Mamdani would “rebrand the Democratic party,” in a signal of how MAGA allies plan to respond if the frontrunner prevails on Tuesday.
Republicans want AG Pam Bondi to probe Mamdani’s path to citizenshipAP
Meanwhile, House Republicans are doubling down on their effort to push the Justice Department to probe Mamdani’s path to citizenship.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has goosed is own earlier campaign to prod the federal government to investigate statements the New York assemblyman made when he became a naturalized citizen in 2018. The lawmaker wrote Attorney General Pam Bondi Monday trying to spur action and urging her to “uphold the integrity of its citizenship process.”
His idea has snowballed since The Post broke a story about his plan Sunday, as he booked a slew of media appearances and vowed to continue.
Ogles wrote the Justice Department Oct. 28,citing The Post’s reportingand re-upping his call to have Mamdani deported over his “refusal to disavow violent anti-American rhetoric.” Current law bars membership in a communist or totalitarian party for people becoming citizens.
He accuses Mamdani, 34, of engaging in a “broader pattern of conduct inconsistent with the oath of allegiance required of new citizens.” He asks AG Pam Bondi for any update on the scope of any inquiry and “the steps being taken to determine whether denaturalization proceedings are warranted.” His comments were even more fiery on X, where he accused Mamdani of coming to the US from Uganda “to turn America into an Islamic theocracy.”
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) re-upped his request to the Justice Department and cited coverage in The Post.CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) accuses Mamdani of having lied on his citizenship form when he failed to disclose his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America and statements in support of the “Holy land five.”
“New York City falls to communism next week, and they will have nobody but themselves to blame,” Fine posted on X Thursday. Ogles’ initial letter to DOJ also references Mamdani’s comments about the group – a reference to Palestinian-Americans who led the shuttered Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development Muslim charity. The feds shut it down in 2001 for funneling funds to terror group Hamas.
Mamdani has claimed he is not a communist in comments to The Post. “No matter how many times these Republican Congress members or the president of this country calls me a communist, it doesn’t make it true,” he said last weekend. His campaign did not return calls for comment.
A Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed receipt of the letter, but said congressional correspondence was delayed “due to the Democrats’ shutdown.” “The Department does not comment on the status of ongoing or potential investigations,” said the spokeswoman.
Among the few certainties in life aside from death and taxes is the inevitability that when there’s gambling there will always be the Mob. Don’t take my word for it: Just ask NBA commissionerAdam Silver, (and maybe soon NFL chiefRoger Goodell) who might have a starring role in the next Scorsese Mafia epic all because they decided to embrace one of the world’s oldest and most dangerous vices.
Indeed, a duo of federal indictments filed last week will make Scorsese’s job a lot easier. Basketball star Terry Rozier and Hall of Famer–turned-coach Chauncey Billups were caught up in high-roller card games rigged with x-ray tables, hidden cameras, and loaded decks. Celebrities used as bait. Information passed to a “quarterback,” a mob-connected player who never lost. And when the high-rollers couldn’t pay, the threats came. Violence, blackmail, and worse.
In a separate indictment, players were involved in passing confidential information about injuries, etc., so insiders could win lucrative “prop bets,” a popular sports gambling innovation where you wage on how many yards a running back makes in a game, or how many free throws are completed by LeBron.
These so-called “victims” lost tens of thousands, sometimes millions, through these scams, the Feds say. But the real damage runs much deeper. The leagues’ unholy marriage to gambling—and by extension, to organized crime—exposes how the moral rot that has infected every level of American sport because some of the most woke executives in America saw green instead of danger when they went there.
Sport gambling’s scope is indeed staggering. Globally, it’s a $100 billion business–and growing. It used to be confined to back alleys, bookie shops and of course in Vegas. The leagues forbade their players from engaging; Pete Rose famously denied a Hall of Fame entry because he went there.
That all changed in 2018,when the Supreme Court ruledthat states could legalize, and now it’s ubiquitous. Sports books advertise before and after games. Sponsored content commingled with analysts touting betting lines. Stadiums proudly display the logos of the various sports book companies so fans can wager bets on their i-Phones while they’re swigging a beer or enjoying a hot dog.
Even players can indulge as long as they don’t bet on their games. The leagues believe it’s a healthy outlet for their aggressive personalities.
Silver, Goodell and the rest moralize about “equity” all day long, but their social conscience stops at the cash register. And that register keeps ringing thanks to their lucrative alliances with gambling operators, advertising partners, and the fan engagement numbers that follow.
Sounds like a lot of fun until you understand the downside. Players are restricted from betting on their own games, but that doesn’t stop them because it’s so easy to evade; leagues test for steroids, not where players are placing their bets.
Then there’s the Mob. I grew up in a gambling family. My father and grandfather were near degenerates. They gambled on everything, football, horse races and more. Fortunately, my family didn’t go without food or heating during my dad’s gambling binges, but I know of people who did.
Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups leaving a federal court on Oct. 23.AP
Financing it all: Organized crime, which knows more about the business of gambling than any sports book or league official because it’s specialized in this stuff for decades.
Which brings me back to Silver and Goodell and the idiocy behind their embrace of this abhorrent lifestyle. I’m not saying the Five Families are regularly consulting with the leagues, or have infiltrated the sports book companies, but the Mob knows its clientele.
Neighborhood guys like my pops, high rollers who don’t want to follow Vegas rules, and also sports figures. The reason sports figures make such enticing targets is pretty simple: The same addictive personality that fuels their drive on the gridiron or basketball court carries over to their recreational activities like gambling.
Normalize gambling, as has been done, and it’s no surprise here that NBAers found themselves in the middle of those sprawling federal indictments last week. Members of the Cosa Nostra and so-called “betfluencers” supplied the so-called “faces” or professional athletes who allegedly took part in the rigged card games and the money-good “prop bets” based on inside information on injuries etc.
Yet they were just “Shocked! Shocked!” to find that gambling is going on under their collective nose.
There are, of course, no bigger social justice warriors in America than the people who run professional sports. The NFL, NBA, and MLB have spent the past decade competing to out-woke one another, funding DEI bureaucracies, cutting checks to Black Lives Matter. They’ve even imposed gender quotas in hiring, requiring teams to interview women for coaching positions.
They pose as enlightened visionaries reshaping American culture for the better. The dirty secret is that those same do-gooders have been feeding one of the most destructive habits in American life, and unwittingly, organized crime.
True, no NFL players have been named, but my sources say it’s only a matter of time for all of the reasons I cited earlier.
Yes, only the willfully ignorant would be shocked by any of this, which is why I got a good laugh from the reactions of Silver or Goodell. Both men are among the highest paid executives in corporate America, Silver earns $10 million a year. Goodell six times that much.
