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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
Posted by:Bright Pebbles

#4  the government really isn't trying to stop these attacks

In order to start fixing the problem, the first step is to admit there is one. I doubt any of the pols want to go there. Maybe London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, will step up. No, don't hold your breath.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-09-19 19:31  

#3  Seems like the government really isn't trying to stop these attacks... does it?
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-09-19 15:29  

#2  Brit coppers said earlier this year that the Muslim community was about zero help in deterring terrorism.
Presuming that's true--and who would believe Brit officialdom on terrorism?--it doesn't make any practical difference.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2017-09-19 07:11  

#1  Just as stated by Pres. Trump.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-09-19 00:14  

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