A teenage Iraqi refugee who was taken in by British foster parents was charged Friday with attempted murder in the bombing of a crowded London subway train last…
A teenage Iraqi refugee who was taken in by British foster parents was charged Friday with attempted murder in the bombing of a crowded London subway train last week.
Ahmed Hassan, 18, appeared in court where a prosecutor said he used items bought on Amazon to build the device that injured 30 people at the Parsons Green station.
The timer-activated “bucket bomb” was loaded with knives, screws and metal screws, as well as hundreds of grams of homemade triacteone triperoxide, a high explosive also known as TATP, prosecutor Lee Ingham said.
Hassan allegedly purchased the ingredients for the TATP — a favorite of terrorists — from online retailers including Amazon.
But while an initiating blast went off, the deadly mixture didn’t explode, “probably due to inaccurate construction,” Ingham said.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the Sept. 15 bombing, which was Britain’s fifth terror attack in six months.
Hassan has said parents were killed in Iraq and was motivated by a “warped political view” and “a hatred for the UK government and society,” Ingham said.
In court, Hassan confirmed his name and gave his address as the suburban Sunbury-on-Thames home of a couple that has fostered more than 200 children, including refugees from the Middle East.
He didn’t say anything else.
A 21-year-old man who also lived with the unidentified couple was also arrested but was released without charges, as were a 17-year-old boy and a 48-year-old man.
Two other men, ages 25 and 30, remained in custody as suspects in the bombing.
With Post Wires
