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Britain

Day 3: Hero Taxi Driver Locks Himself IN CAB with Terrorist Scum Emad Al Swealmeen Who Tried to Bomb Maternity Ward

2021-11-17

Day 1 reports can be seen here and here; Day 2 here. Gateway Pundit links to the following from the Daily Mail:

Poppy Day suicide bomber built 'Mother of Satan' explosive filled with ballbearings: Jordanian national who told friends he was from Syria and Iraq 'plotted massacre as revenge for having his asylum requests to stay in UK repeatedly rejected'

The Liverpool suicide attacker built a 'Mother of Satan' ball bearing bomb used by ISIS extremists to 'cause maximum carnage' and may have been driven to take revenge after his asylum bids kept being turned down, it was claimed today.

Enzo Almeni, 32, a Muslim who converted to Christianity four years ago, was killed after the homemade device exploded as his taxi pulled up at Liverpool Women's Hospital just before before the 11am minute's silence on Remembrance Sunday.

His bomb was made using homemade TATP explosives. TATP is unstable and known as a 'Mother of Satan' because it is liable to blow up accidentally. It was used by Islamist terrorist in the Paris suicide attacks of 2015, the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 and the failed Parsons Green Underground station.

The asylum seeker's heritage was disputed by UK immigration officials, having arrived in Britain claiming to be of Syrian and Iraqi heritage, when the Home Office reportedly believed he was from Jordan.

A security source told The Sun: 'One of the issues being looked at is whether this unresolved grievance pushed him over the edge and prompted him to carry out the attack.'

It is not yet known when he arrived in the UK but he first became known to the authorities after being arrested for possession of a 'large knife' after the rejection of his asylum claim in 2014, resulting in him being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and hospitalised for several months.

Ever since then it is clamed he had been in a long-term dispute with the Home Office over his application for UK residential status, and until recently had been living at a hostel for asylum seekers - run by private contracting giant Serco - in Sutcliffe Street, Liverpool, 'for some time' before renting a flat two miles away in Rutland Avenue, which he turned into a bomb factory.

His driver David Perry, 45, survived in a 'miracle' after Almeni's 1lb bomb failed to properly detonate, with the hero cabbie said to have started 'vibrating' and 'flashing' in the seconds before they reached their destination.

Police and MI5 are trying to work out if Liverpool's main maternity hospital, which was packed with mothers and new babies, was his intended target. ISIS attacked the maternity ward of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, killing 24 including 16 mothers and two children in 2020.

A senior former intelligence source told the Mirror: 'The bomber intended to enter the hospital and trigger his device, but for some reason it went off early and failed properly to initiate. Had he successfully set off the bomb inside it would have been extremely bloody and horrific. We believe this was a partial explosion, clearly from a device at high-chest level, aimed at causing many casualties.'

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Britain

UK Police officer is shot dead INSIDE police station (in multicultural croydon)

2020-09-25

[DailyMail] Firearms suspect, 23, who shot dead police sergeant doing Covid check INSIDE police station was on Prevent's 'potential terror threat' list - as Scotland Yard faces questions about how weapon was missed

The sergeant was shot at 2.15am this morning by man at Croydon custody centre in South London

Officers and paramedics treated officer at the scene before he was taken to hospital and died

Incident marks first time a police officer has been shot and killed on duty since September 2012

Unnamed man is tenth police officer to have been killed in the line of duty in the past decade

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Britain

Trump Says Mayor Of London Has Done A Terrible Job About Terrorism

2018-07-15

h/t Instapundit
[VictoryGirlsBlog] President Trump held an interview with UK’s The Sun while in Belgium for the NATO summit. While many are going to focus on the ZOMG! He said Prime Minister May handled BREXIT all wrong!, he also had some very pointed words regarding London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan.

"I look at cities in Europe, and I can be specific if you’d like. You have a mayor who has done a terrible job in London. He has done a terrible job.

"Take a look at the terrorism that is taking place. Look at what is going on in London. I think he has done a very bad job on terrorism.

"I think he has done a bad job on crime, if you look, all of the horrible things going on there, with all of the crime that is being brought in."

London was hit by four terror attacks last year ‐ including in Westminster, London Bridge, Parsons Green Tube station and Finsbury Park’s mosque.

Yes, London has been hit with some major terror attacks in the last year. We’ve documented them all. Yet what has the Mayor done in his city to combat terrorism? Posters, slogans and knife bans.

Mayor Khan’s solution:

"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan tweeted. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."

Believe you me, many looked at that knife ban and said WUT? President Trump wasn’t having it.

Mr Trump also clashed with Mr Khan after last June’s van and knife rampage on London Bridge and Borough Market ‐ mocking the mayor for his appeal to Londoners to stay calm.

The President tweeted: "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ’no reason to be alarmed!’"

You see, there isn’t any reason to be alarmed and no reason to carry a knife to defend yourself! Are you sure?

At least 51 people have been fatally stabbed in London since the beginning of the year.

So far in 2018 there have been 1,296 stabbings in London up to the end of April, according to official statistics from the Met Police.

A glut of cocaine flooding the country has been partly blamed for the country’s violent crime.

In February more than 250 knives and swords were seized across London in just one week and 283 people, many of them teenagers, were arrested for carrying them.

By June, stabbings were reported on a nearly daily basis.

I’d say that the knife ban isn’t working very well. So again, is President Trump wrong about how the Mayor of London has handled and responded to major incidents of terrorism in his city? I don’t think he is.

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Britain

Iraqi teenager found guilty of carrying out London train bombing

2018-03-18

[DAWN] An Iraqi teenager, who had come to Britannia as an asylum seeker, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder after detonating a homemade bomb on a packed rush-hour London commuter train, injuring 30 people, prosecutors and police said.

Ahmed Hassan, 18,

...the admitted manipulative liar who told the court his full name is Ahmed Hassan Mohammad Ali, and at eighteen is now old enough to be diagnosed as a psychopath...

was found guilty of trying to murder the passengers on board an underground train heading to central London on Sept 15 last year, prosecutors said.

The bomb went off at Parsons Green station and flames engulfed the carriage, but it did not fully explode, limiting the scale of injuries in what authorities said was Britannia’s fifth major attack of 2017.

"It was only a matter of luck that the device did not work as he intended or it could easily have led to the loss of innocent lives," said Sue Hemming from Britannia’s Crown Prosecution Service.

Hassan, who the court heard had spoken of his duty to hate Britannia because of the deaths of his parents in Iraq, had been placed under Britannia’s counter-radicalisation programme at the time.

"He was very cunning and devious," Dean Haydon, the head of London Police’s Counter Terrorism Command told BBC TV.

"On the face of it, Hassan was engaged on the programme. But coming back to his devious nature, he kept it very secretive in relation to what he was doing, what he was planning, and nobody around him actually knew what his plot was." Haydon said a review of the counter-radicalisation programme would now be undertaken.

On the day of the attack, the teenager left his foster home in Sunbury-on-Thames in west London and set the timer for the device, made with the highly volatile triacetone triperoxide.

Why did Home Office place Iraqi refugee – who became Parsons Green bomber - with foster family even though he was trained by jihadis and hated Britain?

[DailyMail]

Ahmed Hassan's foster parents accused Home Office of putting their lives at risk

Asylum seeker faces life in jail after conviction over trying to kill 93 commuters

Hassan was never referred to MI5 despite being seen donating to IS and declaring it was his 'duty to hate Britain'

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Britain

Parsons Green Tube 'bomber' lied about being kidnapped by ISIS so he could claim asylum in Britain and become the new David Attenborough 'after being coached in Calais Jungle'

2018-03-14

The trial continues. Herewith some of his side of the story, however airbrushed it might be. The rest can be read at the link.

[DailyMail] The Parsons Green bomber has told a court he made up a story about being kidnapped by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
because he wanted to study in Britannia to become the new David Attenborough.

Ahmed Hassan

...the problematic foster child who gave his name in full to the court as 'Ahmed Hassan Mohammad Ali'. Several months before leaving a bomb on the train, the known wolf was referred to a government de-radicalization program...

arrived in Britannia in October 2015 and told immigration officials he had been forced to train 'to kill' by Isis, the Old Bailey has heard.

But the 18-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker has now told jurors that he was never taken prisoner by Isis and had not had any contact with the terror group.

Asked why he made up the story, the media student told the court: 'Because I came from a wealthy, safe area in northern Iraq in Kurdistan and if I told the truth, my only reason to leave the country was to further my studies ... I felt I had to make up something strong.

'In the Jungle in Calais, people used to talk about these things and make up stories. I never came across a refugee who said he would tell the truth when he arrived in the country.

Hassan said he never intended the bomb to kill, adding: 'The idea of killing another human being never crossed my mind at all, never in my life.

He said the device was intended to burn rather than explode and added: 'My final destination was home. That was the fantasy in my head. I would be chased and I would not be caught and I would be on the news and I would go home.'

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Britain

The Trial: London Tube Bomb Suspect 'Trained' by IS in Iraq

2018-03-08

[AnNahar] A teenage asylum seeker accused of planting a bomb on a London Underground train told British authorities he was trained "how to kill" in Iraq by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, a court heard on Wednesday.

Ahmed Hassan,

...the problematic foster child who gave his name in full to the court as 'Ahmed Hassan Mohammad Ali'. The known wolf had been referred several months previously to a government potential jihadi de-radicalization program...

18, denied he was sent to Europe

...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to work for the jihadist group but said they took him by force and "they trained us on how to kill", before Iraqi soldiers freed him, according to details revealed at the start of his trial.

Hassan, who arrived in Britannia in October 2015, denies attempted murder and using the chemical compound TATP to cause an kaboom on a packed Tube train on September 15.

Many commuters suffered serious burns or were crushed in the stampede after the blast during the morning rush hour, at Parsons Green station in south-west London.

Prosecutor Alison Morgan said it could have been far worse, telling jurors: "Had the device fully detonated, it is inevitable that serious injury and significant damage would have been caused within the carriage."

Hassan claimed asylum when he arrived in Britannia on the back of a lorry traveling through the Channel Tunnel from La Belle France, saying he was in fear of the Islamic State group.

He revealed his recruitment and training -- as part of a group of around 1,000 people -- in an interview with British interior ministry officials in 2016, the court heard.

Hassan was living with foster parents

...who’d been given an MBE for their work, but gave up on fostering after Hassans’s arrest...

in Surrey, outside London, when he decided to attack the train, prosecutors said.

He researched online how to make explosives, ordering an ingredient on Amazon, and bought screwdrivers, knives and nails for shrapnel from supermarkets.

He set a timer and left the bomb before getting off one station before Parsons Green, the court heard.

Hassan was tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
at the southern English port of Dover, with £2,320 (2,595 euros, $3,218) in cash, and told police he was responsible for the device, prosecutors said.

The trial continues.

This Daily Mail article has the January 2016 interview in which Mr. Hassan told the Home Office that he’d been trained by ISIS.
And this Daily Mail article lays out several times he was observed watching ISIS videos and listening to their songs

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Terror Networks

ISIS weapons: From ‘mother of the devil’ explosives to booby traps

2017-12-15

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Western security officials have warned of the progress made by members of ISIS terrorist organization in the arms industry, which is now a risk in other countries and is no longer limited to the areas controlled by the organization in Syria and Iraq.

According to the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, members of ISIS after successive strikes to expel them from some areas in Syria and Iraq, are now moving to other countries.

Foreign members of the terrorist organization return to their home countries to share knowledge and techniques over the Internet. They gather along with their veterans forming a network for weapons production and sharing techniques over the Internet.

Improvised chemical rockets were the latest in a procession of weapons developed by ISIS militia on an arms-manufacturing spree without recent precedence, said the news site.

With limited access to global arms markets, ISIS routinely manufacture their own weapons.

But now ISIS took the practice to new levels, with outputs "unlike anything we’ve ever seen" from a nonstate force, said Solomon H. Black, a US State Department official who tracks and analyzes weapons.

Among the weapons found by Iraqi forces that fought ISIS in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, three rockets were not fully completed.

The examination of these shells showed that they had an unusual advantage, namely, heavy liquid inside their warheads.

The tests later revealed that the warheads contained one of the crude oil derivatives like sulfur mustard, a forbidden chemical weapon that burns the victim's skin and respiratory system.

ISIS progressed from the stage of basic bombs used in the Brussels terrorist operation of March 2016, which killed at least 31 people and maimed 270 others.

Investigations have also uncovered the use of the same type of explosives, dubbed the "Mother of the Devil," in other terrorist attacks by the organization, the latest of which was an kaboom inside a subway train at Parsons Green Station in Britannia last September.

The danger of "mother of the devil" is that it can be made with items sold on supermarket shelves.

A statement issued by the US military in Baghdad said that the international coalition forces against ISIS succeeded in destroying explosive puppets and toys.

Many members of teams involved in demining in Iraq have accounts of varied forms of booby traps planted by ISIS, ranging from toys such as dolls, stuffed animals and plastic trucks, as well as electric teapots, fire extinguishers and light bulbs.

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Britain

Parsons Green bombing: Three men released without charge

2017-09-27

[BBC] Three men who were arrested over the Parsons Green Tube attack have been released with no further action, the Metropolitan Police has said.

Of the seven men arrested in total over the bombing in London on 15 September, one has been charged with attempted murder and the remaining six released.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, of Sunbury, Surrey, was remanded in custody after appearing in court last week.

A bomb partially exploded on a Tube train in rush hour, injuring 30 people.

Two of the released men, aged 25 and 30, were arrested in Newport, south Wales, on 19 and 20 September respectively.

The third released man was arrested in Cardiff on Monday.

Officers are continuing to search one property in Cardiff as part of the investigation led by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, police said.

Mr Hassan, who was arrested in Dover, Kent, the day after the attack on 16 September, was also charged with causing an explosion likely to endanger life or cause serious injury.

He is due at the Old Bailey on 13 October.

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Britain

Man, 48, arrested in S. Wales over Parsons Green attack released without charge, 21-year-old seized outside chicken restaurant also freed

2017-09-22

[DailyMail]

Unnamed 48-year-old released without charge after his arrest on Wednesday

Comes after 21-year-old Yahyah Farroukh was also let go without further action

Anti-terror police are still questioning four men and searching several houses

Their cell phones and laptops have been plumbed, their homes and associations searched, their connections mapped, and the newsies placated with daily reports of police progress. So there's that.
Update at 11:40 a.m. EDT:

Iraqi asylum seeker, 18, 'made bucket bomb with material bought on Amazon and packed it with shrapnel, screws and knives to unleash on Parsons Green commuters thanks to his 'warped political views'

Ahmed Hassan, 18,

...who gave his name in full to the court as 'Ahmed Hassan Mohammad Ali'...
charged with attempting to murder commuters last Friday

Bucket bomb packed with metal shrapnel left in District Line but it failed to detonate

Hassan, an asylum seeker, charged with making TATP using ingredients from Amazon

He has 'warped political views' and 'expressed hatred for the UK', it is alleged

Teenager appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court and remanded in custody

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Britain

Teenage boy, 17, is sixth person arrested over Parsons Green bucket bomb attack as police raid address in south London

2017-09-21

[DailyMail]

Police raided the house in Thornton Heath, south London shortly after midnight

A 17-year-old boy was taken to a south London police station for questioning

Officers are continuing to search five houses in connection with the attack

And an earlier Daily Mail article identifies yesterday's arrested painter-decorator:

The man, named as asylum seeker Bilal Mohammed, 25, was pinned down by armed officers in the middle of the street in Newport, South Wales – more than 130 miles from the scene of Friday's attack in London.

Two other suspects, aged 30 and 48, were arrested a few hours later just two miles away in a raid on a 'halfway house' for asylum seekers.

Locals said Mohammed is a Kurdish student and part-time painter and decorator from Iraq, the same country as the teenage refugee suspected of planting the Parsons Green bomb.

Bilal Rehman, an elder at the mosque where Mohammed is said to have worshipped until around six months ago, claimed last night that he may have already been on the police radar. He said: 'He came to the UK when he was 15 or 16 for a safe haven.

'He was a gentle, quiet man who was studying construction or something to do with the building trade at college in Cardiff. But I think he may have already been known to the police. Officers went to his house about a year ago – they found books, I think.'

One local Muslim resident claimed the suspect had recently started receiving visitors in expensive cars from London. He said: 'He was always very humble, happy to be in the UK. But recently he started to receive visitors from people driving Mercedes and Jeeps, expensive cars with registration plates from London dealerships. It was very odd.'

Update at 10:40 a.m. EDT from the headline DM article -- wa haz a photo and a more accurate name for the painter-decorator, or what used to be called a handyman: Mahdi Ramadi, known as Bilal

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Britain

Teen 'bucket bomb' suspect 'reported to counter-terror unit Prevent MONTHS before tube attack'

2017-09-19

[DailyMail] A teenage suspect in the Parsons Green bombing was reported to the counter terrorism strategy Prevent months before the attack, it was claimed last night.

The 18-year-old Iraqi refugee, who was fostered by a couple in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, was said to have been in frequent trouble with the police and authorities.

His desperate foster parents were alleged to have been struggling to cope.

Sources yesterday said that his behaviour had become so bad that he had been referred to Prevent, the Government's de-radicalisation programme, which aims to turn potential extremists away from terror.

The referral was apparently made several months ago through Surrey County Council, which was responsible for placing the orphan with Penny and Ronald Jones, who have fostered hundreds of children.

It is unclear what – if anything – was done before Friday morning when the 18-year-old is suspected of planting a bomb on a Tube train at London's Parsons Green station.

The revelation will raise new questions about what the police and security services knew about the suspect. Donald Trump sparked a row on the day of the attack by suggesting that police had had him 'in their sights'.

Yesterday it also emerged that the Joneses, who took in the 18-year-old and another suspect, 21-year-old Yahya Faroukh, are so devastated that they have decided never to foster again.

Police are looking at other foster children for possible links to the two suspects. Experts are also examining a shed in the couple's back garden for traces of bomb-making chemicals.

The Daily Record adds:

It is understood [the18 year old Iraqi] had come to Britain aged 15 after he had spent months attempting to smuggle himself into the UK, while living in the notorious makeshift Calais refugee camp known as The Jungle.

A refugee charity is believed to have helped his passage into Britain in 2014 and placed him in foster care with at least two families in Kent, before he moved in with another family in South West London in the last few weeks.

The suspect, who is being held in custody on suspicion of planting the homemade bucket bomb on the London Underground, is said to have had a furious bust-up with his foster parents two weeks ago after he was brought back to the house in leafy Sunbury-upon-Thames in a marked police car.

Then there's this, also from the Daily Mail:

Councils struggle to cope with influx of child refugees as number in local authority's care doubles in a year

More than 4,200 child asylum seekers

...of indeterminate age...
were in council care in Britain last year

The increase in numbers has left many councils facing massive budget shortfalls

Experts say refugees suffer pyschological problems because of what they've seen

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Day 3: Second man arrested for Parsons Green bucket bomb identified as Syrian refugee who had been housed with the same foster parents as the arrested yoot

2017-09-18

[DailyMail]

Yahya Faroukh, 21, was taken into the home of Penelope and Ronald Jones in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey

He had been placed with the Joneses after reaching Britain in 2013 from Al Harah near Damascus, Syria

Police swooped on the foster carers' house and a home opposite Heathrow airport where Faroukh lives

Faroukh is believed to come from Al Harah near Damascus – an area that has escaped much of the devastation caused by Syria's civil war.

He appears to have fled his homeland for Egypt, possibly by flying to Cairo.

On November 23, 2013, he posted a picture on his Facebook page showing a dilapidated fishing boat with the caption: 'The boat we took from Egypt to Italy.'

Within a few days he was in Croydon, where Britain's immigration authorities are based.

He was placed with the Joneses at their home in Sunbury-on-Thames and began studying at West Thames College.

On his Instagram he wrote about 'smoking weed every day' and posted an image saying: 'For better life you need to have weed, vodka and drugs.'

He also posted anti-Israel images proclaiming: 'Stop Israeli terror in Palestine.'

Mohammed Konbus, who met Faroukh during the journey through Egypt, said: 'He wasn't into all that religious stuff. He was a very sensible person and very mature. I am so surprised that he has been linked to this.

'I really hope that it isn't him, but I haven't seen him in three years, and no one knows what can happen in three years.

'He doesn't seem like a guy that would go to that limit. I don't agree with people being killed so I hope we find out who it was.

'We moved because the situation got worse in Egypt and he wanted to learn English and start establishing his future.'

At Christmas 2015, Faroukh appears to have travelled to Scotland to see a cousin, also a refugee, and some children.

But 11 weeks ago, on June 29 - a few days after the London Bridge terror attack – his father died back in Syria.

It set off a period of intense mourning for Faroukh, who posted sombre images of his father on his Facebook page.

By now he was living in a house in Staines, next to Heathrow Airport. Anti-terror police swooped there yesterday.

Neighbour Pat Hodge, 59, said: 'My wife and I have sat outside in the communal garden with him in the summer and had ice lollies.

'He seems like a nice chap. Sometimes his family come down from Edinburgh, I think it's his brother and two nephews.

'They're all really lovely to talk to. They're obviously Arabic but the kids speak with perfect Scottish accents.

The other suspect arrested, an 18-year-old Iraqi, is also believed to have come from the foster care of the Jones family.

A local councillor said the teenage suspect came to the UK aged 15 after his parents died in Iraq while a friend of the Joneses said the man's biological family did not agree with him moving in with Christian foster parents.

It comes as a man was caught on camera an hour-a-half before the Parsons Green bombing carrying a Lidl bag as he left the Joneses' house.

CCTV footage shows a figure outside the property in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, at 6.50am, just 90 minutes before a 'bucket bomb' inside a shopping bag exploded and injured 30 people.

In the CCTV video obtained by ITV, a man dressed in a grey tracksuit keeps his head down and his face hidden from the camera as he walks quickly down the street.

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