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Britain
Teenage boy, 17, is sixth person arrested over Parsons Green bucket bomb attack as police raid address in south London
2017-09-21
[DailyMail]
  • Police raided the house in Thornton Heath, south London shortly after midnight

  • A 17-year-old boy was taken to a south London police station for questioning

  • Officers are continuing to search five houses in connection with the attack
And an earlier Daily Mail article identifies yesterday's arrested painter-decorator:
The man, named as asylum seeker Bilal Mohammed, 25, was pinned down by armed officers in the middle of the street in Newport, South Wales – more than 130 miles from the scene of Friday's attack in London.

Two other suspects, aged 30 and 48, were arrested a few hours later just two miles away in a raid on a 'halfway house' for asylum seekers.

Locals said Mohammed is a Kurdish student and part-time painter and decorator from Iraq, the same country as the teenage refugee suspected of planting the Parsons Green bomb.

Bilal Rehman, an elder at the mosque where Mohammed is said to have worshipped until around six months ago, claimed last night that he may have already been on the police radar. He said: 'He came to the UK when he was 15 or 16 for a safe haven.

'He was a gentle, quiet man who was studying construction or something to do with the building trade at college in Cardiff. But I think he may have already been known to the police. Officers went to his house about a year ago – they found books, I think.'

One local Muslim resident claimed the suspect had recently started receiving visitors in expensive cars from London. He said: 'He was always very humble, happy to be in the UK. But recently he started to receive visitors from people driving Mercedes and Jeeps, expensive cars with registration plates from London dealerships. It was very odd.'
Update at 10:40 a.m. EDT from the headline DM article -- wa haz a photo and a more accurate name for the painter-decorator, or what used to be called a handyman: Mahdi Ramadi, known as Bilal
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Adam Smith don't do police-work.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-09-21 10:02  

#4  > part-time painter and decorator
Really boosting the economy there...
In reality suppressing wages and lowering the nation's average wage and GDP per head.

Only gain is for the establishment in terms of boosted rents and lower wages (at the expense of the rest of the population!)
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-09-21 09:24  

#3  Another lone wolf?


Obammer sure has a lot of sons.
Posted by: AlanC   2017-09-21 08:48  

#2  visitors in expensive cars from London

Mohammedans' hearts all aflutter
At overpriced motors from Qatar!
Can daring young Britons
Turned Mussulman kittens
Beat bloodthirsty van-hire nutter?

stale street theatre review

Keen fans of Mohammedan drama,
Of knifing and acid and hammer,
Can skip this. You'd cry,
And a Muslim might die
At the end of Mad Ramadan Rammer.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2017-09-21 07:17  

#1  Mayor of London must be really proud.
Posted by: Clem   2017-09-21 06:12  

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