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Nadeem Muhammad, of Tinline Street, Bury tried tried to smuggle pipe bomb onto plane at Manchester Airport
A Bury man who attempted to smuggle a pipe bomb onto a plane was allowed to fly again days later because police did not realise the device was viable, a court has heard.
Nadeem Muhammad, 43, of Tinline Street, was attempting to board a flight to Bergamo, Italy, on January 30 when security officers at Manchester Airport found the device, made from batteries, tape, a marker pen and pins.
Jonathan Sandiford, prosecuting, told the trial at Manchester Crown Court Muhammad had intended to detonate the device once on board the Ryanair flight.
But the court heard when airport security swabbed the bomb there was no trace of explosive on the outside and officers did not believe it was a viable device.
Muhammad, who was born in Pakistan but had an Italian passport, was questioned by police but not arrested and on February 5 boarded another flight to Italy.
Mr Sandiford said: "At that stage nobody had realised this was a real device and the defendant was allowed to go on his way."
He said it was only on February 8 when the device was examined again that suspicions were raised and the bomb squad was called.
The explosive was then sent for examination by expert Lorna Philp, who found it was a "crude but potentially viable improvised explosive device".
Muhammad was arrested when he returned to the UK on February 12.
Mr Sandiford said the explosive, which experts said would have been "unreliable" and "unpredictable", was made up of batteries, the barrel of a marker pen, pins, and double base smokeless propellant normally found in firearms ammunition.
If wires, protruding from either end of the tube, had been connected to each other the device would have detonated.
Mr Sandiford said: "The prosecution say that on January 30 this year the defendant attempted to carry an assembled and viable improvised explosive device through security at Manchester Airport and onto the Ryanair flight with which he was booked to fly to Bergamo, or Milan, in Italy.
"The only reason he would have for trying to get that explosive device onto the aeroplane was that he intended to detonate it within the confines of the Boeing 737 aircraft."
The device was spotted by officers carrying out routine searches at the airport and was found within the zip lining of the small green suitcase Muhammad was carrying.
When initially questioned he said the device may have been placed into his bag by his wife or another person.
He said the defence were expected to argue that the explosive was placed into Muhammad's luggage by an unknown person and for an unknown reason.
Muhammad denies possession of explosives with intent to endanger life or property and an alternative charge of possession of explosives under suspicious circumstances.
The trial continues.
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was questioned by police but not arrested
A replica gun is an arrestable offence - But ...
- apparently - a replica BOMB on an aeroplane - is not
He would probably be doing a 'life-term' in America, now.
A Bury man who attempted to smuggle a pipe bomb onto a plane was allowed to fly again days later because police did not realise the device was viable, a court has heard.
Nadeem Muhammad, 43, of Tinline Street, was attempting to board a flight to Bergamo, Italy, on January 30 when security officers at Manchester Airport found the device, made from batteries, tape, a marker pen and pins.
Jonathan Sandiford, prosecuting, told the trial at Manchester Crown Court Muhammad had intended to detonate the device once on board the Ryanair flight.
But the court heard when airport security swabbed the bomb there was no trace of explosive on the outside and officers did not believe it was a viable device.
Muhammad, who was born in Pakistan but had an Italian passport, was questioned by police but not arrested and on February 5 boarded another flight to Italy.
Mr Sandiford said: "At that stage nobody had realised this was a real device and the defendant was allowed to go on his way."
He said it was only on February 8 when the device was examined again that suspicions were raised and the bomb squad was called.
The explosive was then sent for examination by expert Lorna Philp, who found it was a "crude but potentially viable improvised explosive device".
Muhammad was arrested when he returned to the UK on February 12.
Mr Sandiford said the explosive, which experts said would have been "unreliable" and "unpredictable", was made up of batteries, the barrel of a marker pen, pins, and double base smokeless propellant normally found in firearms ammunition.
If wires, protruding from either end of the tube, had been connected to each other the device would have detonated.
Mr Sandiford said: "The prosecution say that on January 30 this year the defendant attempted to carry an assembled and viable improvised explosive device through security at Manchester Airport and onto the Ryanair flight with which he was booked to fly to Bergamo, or Milan, in Italy.
"The only reason he would have for trying to get that explosive device onto the aeroplane was that he intended to detonate it within the confines of the Boeing 737 aircraft."
The device was spotted by officers carrying out routine searches at the airport and was found within the zip lining of the small green suitcase Muhammad was carrying.
When initially questioned he said the device may have been placed into his bag by his wife or another person.
He said the defence were expected to argue that the explosive was placed into Muhammad's luggage by an unknown person and for an unknown reason.
Muhammad denies possession of explosives with intent to endanger life or property and an alternative charge of possession of explosives under suspicious circumstances.
The trial continues.
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was questioned by police but not arrested
A replica gun is an arrestable offence - But ...
- apparently - a replica BOMB on an aeroplane - is not
He would probably be doing a 'life-term' in America, now.
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Born in Pakistan, Italian passport, resident in UK. I sometimes wonder if freedom of movement was ever properly thought through. Incredibly inept security also.
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will leaving the eussr stop this?
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Sounds like the first set of security officers are lagging behind the others
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We're not sure if it's a real bomb, we don't want him to brandish the victim card though, better let him go then.
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was made up of batteries, the barrel of a marker pen, pins, and double base smokeless propellant normally found in firearms ammunition The idiot could have taken each of the items separately and assembled in the toilet of the plane. He tried to count on the security's stupidity but you can't fool them twice.
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Once is enough if you're any good.
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the clue is in the name
I see another one has been caught trying to get to syria and 8 arrested in stratford for terrorism offences they sure get about |
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Batley man said he'd rather take a bullet in Syria than 'come back to this dump'. It has become a dump since it was overpopulated with Muslims, though that could be a coincidence of course.
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no descriptions from this beating of two inoffensive gay guys I wonder why
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/barrister-and-partner-brutally-beaten-in-homophobic-attack-over-their-brightly-coloured-shoes-a3603751.html |
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no one saw a fing!!??
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/barking-murder-first-picture-of-footballer-16-stabbed-to-death-by-bike-gang-in-postcode-war-a3604101.html |
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but they have descriptions of these!!!!
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-investigate-hate-crime-after-youths-assaulted-in-bethnal-green-park-a3604551.html |
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Unbelievable ..
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THERE IS NO BIAS OR COVER UPS
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/kitchen-knife-used-by-gang-during-spate-of-hackney-canal-robberies-on-cyclists-a3604731.html
descriptions for once and guess who - the usual gangs - will trident be involved? |
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Pipe bomb..............sounds like something from Blue Peter ! Now here's one I made earlier
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and yet this is allowed??
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/06/i-was-accused-of-saying-of-all-white-people-racist the bloke actually said it he says he 'was accused' but that was what he said on line |
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and yet this is allowed??
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/06/i-was-accused-of-saying-of-all-white-people-racist the bloke actually said it he says he 'was accused' but that was what he said on line |
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/man-beat-his-wife-to-death-because-she-didnt-make-him-dinner-a3606571.html
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Nadeem Muhammad has been found guilty and will be sentenced on Aug 23rd
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This case just makes you want to give up! So if he'd got on with it, even if it WAS a fake, he clearly could have been intending to use it to threaten people that it was real, not first time it's been done?
And then the guy who took it off him just keeps it in a pocket for a week before he bothers to get the experts in, meanwhile the guy is taking other flights? It's unbelievable. Quite unbelievable, after all the security grief we've had in the last years. Yet they are getting shirty with people for having nail clippers and endless other innocent items? And the swabbing system is obviously useless, and worse than that, unless i'ts been improved, all the bad guys know what they can use to get past it. It's head in hands third world security. |
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Only Allah can judge this man.As an ex kafir I can't believe the tolerance of most of you indigenous kafirs.This place will be usurped quicker than you can say Allahu Akbar.
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the influence is growing and pressure from the mainstream has been stepped up everywhere - don't just think to look at daesh etc.
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18 years in Jail for ...
Manchester Airport pipe bomb plotter Nadeem Muhammad jailed for 18 years http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41026591 |