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Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Muslim convert admits failed attack

Breaking news from thePress Association
A Muslim convert has admitted launching a failed suicide bomb attack on a busy family restaurant.

Nicky Reilly, 22, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to attacking the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter.
Reilly, who appeared under the name Mohammad Rashid Saeed-Alim, used the internet to research how to make bombs using caustic soda, paraffin and nails.
But when he attempted to assemble one of the soft drink bottle bombs in the toilet cubicle of the restaurant it exploded in his hands.
Reilly appeared in court via a video link. He pleaded guilty to two of four charges on the indictment.
He admitted attempted murder at the Giraffe restaurant in May.
He also admitted engaging in preparation for terrorism in that he researched targets and how to make bombs and prepared three of them in the restaurant.
Two charges under the Explosives Act were not put to him because prosecutor Stuart Baker told the court that they were alternatives to the more serious charges.
Reilly was remanded in custody for sentencing at the Old Bailey on Friday, November 21.

Posted on 5:12 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Comments
15 Oct 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald

Did he explain what exactly it was that he had, as a Muslim convert, learned that explains why he was intent on blowing up people at the restaurant? 



15 Oct 2008
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Eaton In Straight Sets Headless Aftermath*
Or: Game, Set & Snatch To Bigotry?
Or: The Death Of Reilly?***
 
Ah hates to gits y'all riled up 'bout it, but I must protest NER's decision to once again play the Raisuli Card by blaming Islam.  Readers Regular-Enough-To-Have-No-Lives (Aargh, that's me! **) of Iconoclast comments know that what "confessed" (probably under torture by forks) was not some Mad Mahdi bistro-bombing Blancmange impersonator and cannibal, but rather an extraterrestrial faux Reilly engaging in a bit of blow back as it plotted to give just desserts to those consuming French dishes at the restaurant and to register objection to the winning of Wimbledon by Angus "Perdicaris" Podgorny.
 
Those who, like JMJ might have no truck with Scottish tailors given that the blue-painted savage men (sod only knows what their women wear) of your North wear no undergarments at all, let alone those sculpted in soapstone, might find the following YouTube to be a tad tedious may or might wish to toggle to near the end which suggests the death of a government inspector.  
 
 
 
 
and:
 
 
**  Hat tip to JMJ
 
 


15 Oct 2008
Paul Blaskowicz

Nicky Reilly aka Mohammad Rashid Saeed-Alim - I suppose it's got a bit of a ring about it.

 For some reason I had thought it was a McDonald's that Nicky/Mohammad intended to blow up.  And was going to post a Stanley Baxter clip about Miss MacBurger and say, it's a pity he wasn't interested in British comedy shows of the 1970' rather than RoP videos of murder and mayhem.

Those who,[...] might find the following YouTube to be a tad tedious may or might wish to toggle to near the end which suggests the death of a government inspector. - react.
 
No-one could find that clip tedious. It's bloody hilarious.  Angus Podgorny...Blanc-mange...  & Life of Reilly... I think I'll post my Stanley Baxter clip as well - just for  fun.


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