MI5 admit they KNEW about fanatics who 'slaughtered soldier': Police raid house in Lincolnshire village as friends say British-born suspect became 'obsessed with radical Islam as schoolboy'

Suspect identified on internet forums as Michael Adebolajo
He was filmed ranting with bloodied hands shortly after the attack

Police raid house thought to be his father's home in Lincolnshire village

Suspects in attack on a soldier are not believed to be part of a terror group
Both have been arrested and are being treated in separate hospitals after being shot by police
David Cameron: 'We will defeat violent extremism by standing together'
Radical preacher Anjem Choudhary knew one of killers and has warned of more 'lone wolf' attacks in the future
Sources: 'Adebolajo was arrested on his way to join Al Shabaab in Somalia'
Two men who allegedly slaughtered a soldier in a Woolwich street were known to security services, it emerged today as police swooped on a house in a Lincolnshire village.

Officers raided the detached property early this morning just hours after the unidentified victim was hacked to death with meat cleavers as dozens of witnesses watched.

The two men were shot by armed police officers and are today under arrest as they are treated in separate London hospitals.

Today one of the suspects was named on internet forums and Twitter as Michael Adebolajo, the man seen ranting with blood on his hands on video shortly after the murder.

David Cameron revealed in a statement in Downing Street that the authorities will investigate exactly what the security services knew about the killers and whether the attack could have been prevented.
Government sources confirmed that the names of both suspects were on a list maintained by the security services, but stressed it was unclear what level of surveillance they were under.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, and his unnamed accomplice are believed to have run down the off-duty British soldier with a Vauxhall Tigra as he walked back to the Woolwich Barracks at 2.20pm yesterday, crushing his body against a road sign.

Witnesses said the terror suspects then 'hacked and chopped' at his body like 'crazed animals', before dragging his corpse into the middle of the road leaving a trail of blood.

As they apparently tried to decapitate him they were chanting 'Allah Akbar!’ – an Islamic phrase meaning ‘God is great’ - and yelling 'this is what God would have wanted'.

A blood-soaked Adebolajo, who was still holding a number of weapons in his red-stained hands, then ranted on camera in a clear London accent saying: 'You people will never be safe' before telling a passer-by they had not fled because they were waiting to 'shoot the police'.

Within 20 minutes armed officers arrived and the fundamentalists charged at them wielding firearms, knives and a machete.

Police opened fire, shooting six bullets, leaving one seriously injured. The pair remain under armed guard in two separate London hospitals.

Police today defended their response to the killing after eyewitnesses claimed they took up to 20 minutes to arrive at the scene.

Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne, said: 'One point I would like to address is around some of the speculation as to how long it took the Met to respond yesterday as this incident started to unfold.

'We first received a 999 call from the public at 2.20pm stating a man was being attacked, further 999 calls stated that the attackers were in possession of a gun. We had officers at the scene within nine minutes of receiving that first 999 call.