...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, a court heard on Wednesday.
Ahmed Hassan,
| ...the problematic foster child who gave his name in full to the court as 'Ahmed Hassan Mohammad Ali'. The known wolf had been referred several months previously to a government potential jihadi de-radicalization program... |
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...to work for the jihadist group but said they took him by force and "they trained us on how to kill", before Iraqi soldiers freed him, according to details revealed at the start of his trial.
Hassan, who arrived in Britannia in October 2015, denies attempted murder and using the chemical compound TATP to cause an kaboom on a packed Tube train on September 15.
Many commuters suffered serious burns or were crushed in the stampede after the blast during the morning rush hour, at Parsons Green station in south-west London.
Prosecutor Alison Morgan said it could have been far worse, telling jurors: "Had the device fully detonated, it is inevitable that serious injury and significant damage would have been caused within the carriage."
Hassan claimed asylum when he arrived in Britannia on the back of a lorry traveling through the Channel Tunnel from La Belle France, saying he was in fear of the Islamic State group.
He revealed his recruitment and training -- as part of a group of around 1,000 people -- in an interview with British interior ministry officials in 2016, the court heard.
Hassan was living with foster parents
| ...who’d been given an MBE for their work, but gave up on fostering after Hassans’s arrest... |
He researched online how to make explosives, ordering an ingredient on Amazon, and bought screwdrivers, knives and nails for shrapnel from supermarkets.
He set a timer and left the bomb before getting off one station before Parsons Green, the court heard.
Hassan was tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
at the southern English port of Dover, with £2,320 (2,595 euros, $3,218) in cash, and told police he was responsible for the device, prosecutors said.
The trial continues.
| This Daily Mail article has the January 2016 interview in which Mr. Hassan told the Home Office that he’d been trained by ISIS. And this Daily Mail article lays out several times he was observed watching ISIS videos and listening to their songs |