Teenager charged with Parsons Green London Tube attack

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Updated 9:05 AM ET, Fri September 22, 2017

London (CNN)An 18-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and maliciously causing an explosion in connection with the Parsons Green London Underground bombing a week ago, London's Metropolitan Police announced Friday.

Ahmed Hassan is due to appear in court in London on Friday. Hassan, of Sunbury in Surrey, west of London, was arrested in the port town of Dover, on England's southeast coast, the morning after the attack.

According to a Met Police statement, he is accused of having "attempted to murder persons travelling on a District Line Train from Wimbledon" on September 15.

He is also accused of having "maliciously caused by triacetone triperoxide (TATP) or other explosive substance and explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or to cause serious injury to property."



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/europe/london-tube-attack-charge/index.html

[Not Ruth]

1. He bought the bomb on Amazon

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/22/parsons-green-teenager-charged-attempted-murder-tube-attack/


A teenager is accused of buying the Parsons Green bomb from Amazon and filling it with knives and shrapnel with the intention of murdering dozens of rush hour commuters.

Ahmed Hassan, 18, allegedly placed a bomb hidden in a Lidl bag and covered it with a pair of trousers on a District Line train and departed the train at Putney Bridge prior to the device detonating.

He appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday charged with attempting to murder a Tube full of commuters and schoolchildren and of using a chemical compound known as TATP to cause an explosion likely to endanger life.

There were... quantities of metal shrapnel including knives, screws and similar items clearly designed to cause severe injuries and death to those nearby
Prosecutor Lee Ingham
The explosion, described by passengers as "a fireball", still left 30 people injured. Officers have said the device would have killed dozens of people had it properly activated.

Prosecutor Lee Ingham said it is the prosecutions case Mr Hassan bought the components of the home-made bomb from Amazon.

"There were many hundreds of grams of TATP in the device, an electronic timer and several containers of quantities of metal shrapnel including knives, screws and similar items clearly designed to cause severe injuries and death to those nearby.

"The device did not function as intended. It did not function the TATP, probably due to inaccurate construction."

[Not Ruth]

2. TATP is a trendy explosive, all the bombers are using it this year

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/manchester-bombing-latest-salman-abedi-explosives-same-as-7-july-london-brussels-paris-terror-a7755366.html

[Stryst]

3. TATP has a bunch of legitimate uses

but banning it would be next to worthless because it's made from chemicals pretty much everyone has in the home and a common freezer. Thankfully it's so unstable that it can't really be stockpiled.