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Security has been stepped up around the transport network in London, after a man was arrested over the discovery of a suspect device on a Tube train.
The 19-year-old suspect was detained by armed police on Friday afternoon in Holloway Road, north London. A Taser was discharged during the arrest.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the suspicious item at North Greenwich station on Thursday morning.
A witness to the teenager's arrest described him as white, bearded and wearing a hoodie.
A source told the BBC the device was found by a member of the public and handed to a Tube driver.
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The driver treated it as a suspicious and said it contained "wires and possibly a clock".
Sounds like the Four Lions school of jihadism. Bomb + wires + clock = Hollywood.
But what sort of muppet picks up what they think is a bomb and toddle off with it to the nearest tube driver?
By the way, what could it exactly be that looked 'possibly like a clock?' Any ideas?
What we get from the media now it's like we're purposely being wound up.
You can't get away from it,
Ron - have a shave...quick!
Daily Mail saying he was bearded but have not released his ethnicity.
Once again PC Plod on the ball. Saving us on a daily basis.
Doesn't it infringe his human rights?
Does he look older that those 14-17 year old Calais wallahs - is that how they know?
I have a sneaking suspicion he may be a promising soccerball player.
piece that doesn't seem to fit at the moment
probably his Imam haha
More information reaching the newswires about the white teenage boy being questioned by Anti-Terror Police.
The 'suspect' is alleged to have asked individuals to call him by his, erm, 'Muslim' name. (Oh dear, whatever can have brought that on?).
You can be sure that the liberal media won't be doing any such thing though. They will be calling him by his English name and emphasising his Englishness, just as terror suspects in Germany are generally referred to with German-sounding names like Boris Bernhard Steffi Gerd Franz (say the next one quickly, preferably coughing simultaneously) Mohammed Von Schumacher.
Still, I'm sure this latest London anti-terror operation is a big silly old misunderstanding, and that there'll be a perfectly innocent explanation. I blame past bullying in the terror hotbed of, erm, Newton Abbott, Devon myself.
No news yet though I'm sad to say of any passer-by parachuting in and heard to be saying "Youaintnomuslimbruv".
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3868948/Tube-terrorist-suspect-asked-called-Muslim-Teenager-bullied-high-pitched-voice-posed-woman-internet.html
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2034806/cops-swoop-on-home-of-mummys-boy-teen-terror-suspect-after-finding-bomb-on-tube-train/
A teenager arrested over a suspicious device found on the Tube was considering converting to Islam and had told people to call him by a Muslim name, it was claimed last night.
Damon Smith, 19, who had a distinctive high-pitched voice, also set up fake web profiles posing as women so he could talk with men all over the world.
The terror suspect also won £500 playing online poker on the day he allegedly left a crude bomb at North Greenwich station last Thursday.
So he's a wannabe muslim (apart from the transvestism and gambling) terrorist -- aka a mentally unbalanced fantasist.
The point about mental disorders is not that it's an excuse, just the opposite. It's what makes them dangerous when combined with the delusion that God wants them to blow people up.
Oct 27, 2016 -- 6:58AM, 1st time poster wrote:
amateur loons in other countrys grab a couple of automatic guns and cause carnage in shopping centres,whilst highly educated uk bombers mess about with bombs in shoes,underpants,and now flasks before always getting caught,a cynic such as myself might think they dont really want to blow themselves up and always tip someone the wink ,
That's what I always think. I also wonder why they can't choose better targets. For instance, you blow up a bomb at a busy crossroad and any car within reach should blow up as a bomb too(or not?). But it never happens. In developing countries, you can easily find 30+ cars in a 3-lane street that will cover a blast radius of a normal magnitude. But that never happens. I've never understood why.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/27/guy-who-planted-bomb-on-london-undeground-says-it-was-just-a-prank-6218382/
If this is true, it just goes to show how easy it is to p1ss people off and make them hate a certain group of people.
