UK News | May 22, 2008 | 6 comments

Man held after city centre blast in England

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An explosive device has detonated at a restaurant in an Exeter shopping mall.
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  • sithegingersheep
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      sithegingersheep  
    • Hey,

      cubbingabout.

      I was not jumping to conclusions about the terror part, thought that was clear. As for the on route, that is more an educated guess. More than one package was found, one was not on the induvidual, suggesting planting a device rather than a suicide bombing (although could be both) and the local bus station was evacuated (although could be also related to standard terror policy, but seems very specific). Not that any of this impacts my actual point.

    • 4 years ago
  • Joe_Leo
  • emmahill
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      emmahill  
    • Radio 4 are reporting that the young man in custody had a history of mental illness and had recently converted to Islam.

      The Security Services are now involved in investigating the case and building up a profile of the man.

    • 4 years ago
  • cubbingabout
  • sithegingersheep
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      sithegingersheep  
    • Sounds like this guy was on route when the device went off... Could be much worse.

      The world is a crazy place right now but If it has to be that way then we can take solas in the below:

      "One person, believed to be responsible for detonating the device, was hurt in the blast."

      If only the only person ever hurt by terrorists was the terrorist. Not jumping to conclusions that this is terrorism anyone with a bomb is a terrorist in my book.

    • 4 years ago
  • mattbrawn
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