Mar 16, 2018 05:29 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43431303
EXCERPT: A teenager who showed warning signs to authorities that he could carry out a terrorist attack has been found guilty of 2017's Parsons Green Tube bombing. Ahmed Hassan's bomb partially exploded on a London Underground train on 15 September, injuring about 50 people. A jury at the Old Bailey took just a day to find the 18-year-old, from Surrey, guilty of attempted murder. The Iraqi teenager had been referred to the government's deradicalisation programme prior to the attack.
Hassan, who arrived in the UK as a child asylum seeker, claimed to immigration officials that he had been groomed by the Islamic State group and "trained to kill". The BBC understands that while a local official from the government's Prevent counter-extremism programme was brought in to look at his case in early 2016, Hassan did not receive any deradicalisation support for months.
He was eventually referred to specialists to try to change his mindset - and he had not been given the all-clear by the time he carried out the attack. Security minister Ben Wallace said: "It is clear that there are some lessons to be learned in this particular case."
MORE: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43431303
From worry over 1 pedestrian death to several cars crushed, multiple people killed
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flori...SKCN1GR2SZ
EXCERPT: . . . The 174-feet (53-meter) long bridge connects the university with the city of Sweetwater and was installed on Saturday in six hours over the eight-lane highway, according to a story that was posted on the university's website. The bridge was intended to provide a walkway over the busy street where an 18-year-old female FIU student from San Diego was killed while trying to cross last August, according to local media reports. [...] At least eight vehicles were trapped in the wreckage of the bridge and at least 10 people have been transported to hospitals, officials and doctors told news conferences....
MORE: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flori...USKCN1GR2S
EXCERPT: A teenager who showed warning signs to authorities that he could carry out a terrorist attack has been found guilty of 2017's Parsons Green Tube bombing. Ahmed Hassan's bomb partially exploded on a London Underground train on 15 September, injuring about 50 people. A jury at the Old Bailey took just a day to find the 18-year-old, from Surrey, guilty of attempted murder. The Iraqi teenager had been referred to the government's deradicalisation programme prior to the attack.
Hassan, who arrived in the UK as a child asylum seeker, claimed to immigration officials that he had been groomed by the Islamic State group and "trained to kill". The BBC understands that while a local official from the government's Prevent counter-extremism programme was brought in to look at his case in early 2016, Hassan did not receive any deradicalisation support for months.
He was eventually referred to specialists to try to change his mindset - and he had not been given the all-clear by the time he carried out the attack. Security minister Ben Wallace said: "It is clear that there are some lessons to be learned in this particular case."
MORE: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43431303
From worry over 1 pedestrian death to several cars crushed, multiple people killed
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flori...SKCN1GR2SZ
EXCERPT: . . . The 174-feet (53-meter) long bridge connects the university with the city of Sweetwater and was installed on Saturday in six hours over the eight-lane highway, according to a story that was posted on the university's website. The bridge was intended to provide a walkway over the busy street where an 18-year-old female FIU student from San Diego was killed while trying to cross last August, according to local media reports. [...] At least eight vehicles were trapped in the wreckage of the bridge and at least 10 people have been transported to hospitals, officials and doctors told news conferences....
MORE: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flori...USKCN1GR2S