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Muslim convert admits attempted suicide terror attack

by Dave Keating | October 15, 2008 at 03:01 am | 23 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

The white British Muslim convert who attempted to blow up a busy family restaurant earlier this year - but instead the makeshift bomb he had assembled exploded in his hands in the toilet - has pleaded guilty to the attempted attack. It has been specualted that the man suffers from a mental disability.

Nicky Reilly, 22, who uses the Muslim name Mohamed Abdulaziz Rashid Saeed-Alim, pleaded guilty to launching the failed attack on a busy family restaurant at the Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter in May this year

Reilly researched how to make a bomb, acquired the components and made three devices using caustic soda, paraffin and aluminium foil, along with nails, which he had put in glass soft drink bottles.

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 at the Old Bailey via a video link and pleaded guilty to attempted murder at the Giraffe restaurant.

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.