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0851:Raffaelle Pantucci, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC: "The brazenness of this incident is what marks it out from previous ones. The willingness of these guys to conduct this attack in the middle of the street and then sort of talk about it, shout about it in front of people in the street afterwards, is I think a new level of brutality."
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0816:Our correspondent adds the Cobra meeting will decide how to respond to the killing - looking at whether it was a lone attack or a wider orchestrated campaign. So far, he says, the UK's terror alert level has not been raised and the security response has been limited to military barracks, which would lead one to speculate it is believed to have been an isolated act.
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0815:Political correspondent Norman Smith says the Cobra emergency meeting - for which the PM has returned from France - will get under way in about 20 minutes. Before that the home secretary will brief David Cameron on the latest thinking of the intelligence service, because overnight they have gone through a mass of material - witness statements, footage, and of course their own records, he says - to see if the attackers were in any way known to the security services.
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0807:You can read our main news story here for an overview of what is happening today.
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