| Day 1 reports can be seen here and here; Day 2 here. Gateway Pundit links to the following from the Daily Mail: |
The Liverpool suicide attacker built a 'Mother of Satan' ball bearing bomb used by ISIS extremists to 'cause maximum carnage' and may have been driven to take revenge after his asylum bids kept being turned down, it was claimed today.
Enzo Almeni, 32, a Muslim who converted to Christianity four years ago, was killed after the homemade device exploded as his taxi pulled up at Liverpool Women's Hospital just before before the 11am minute's silence on Remembrance Sunday. His bomb was made using homemade TATP explosives. TATP is unstable and known as a 'Mother of Satan' because it is liable to blow up accidentally. It was used by Islamist terrorist in the Paris suicide attacks of 2015, the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 and the failed Parsons Green Underground station.
The asylum seeker's heritage was disputed by UK immigration officials, having arrived in Britain claiming to be of Syrian and Iraqi heritage, when the Home Office reportedly believed he was from Jordan.
A security source told The Sun: 'One of the issues being looked at is whether this unresolved grievance pushed him over the edge and prompted him to carry out the attack.'
It is not yet known when he arrived in the UK but he first became known to the authorities after being arrested for possession of a 'large knife' after the rejection of his asylum claim in 2014, resulting in him being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and hospitalised for several months.
Ever since then it is clamed he had been in a long-term dispute with the Home Office over his application for UK residential status, and until recently had been living at a hostel for asylum seekers - run by private contracting giant Serco - in Sutcliffe Street, Liverpool, 'for some time' before renting a flat two miles away in Rutland Avenue, which he turned into a bomb factory.
His driver David Perry, 45, survived in a 'miracle' after Almeni's 1lb bomb failed to properly detonate, with the hero cabbie said to have started 'vibrating' and 'flashing' in the seconds before they reached their destination.
Police and MI5 are trying to work out if Liverpool's main maternity hospital, which was packed with mothers and new babies, was his intended target. ISIS attacked the maternity ward of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, killing 24 including 16 mothers and two children in 2020.
A senior former intelligence source told the Mirror: 'The bomber intended to enter the hospital and trigger his device, but for some reason it went off early and failed properly to initiate. Had he successfully set off the bomb inside it would have been extremely bloody and horrific. We believe this was a partial Âexplosion, clearly from a device at high-chest level, aimed at causing many casualties.'
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