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SUSPECT 'WAS REFERRED TO DE-RADICALISATION PROGRAMME MONTHS AGO'
Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ge-emerges-Parsons-Green-teenage-suspect.html
A teenage suspect in the Parsons Green bombing was reported to the counter terrorism strategy Prevent months before the attack, it was claimed last night.
The 18-year-old Iraqi refugee, who was fostered by a couple in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, was said to have been in frequent trouble with the police and authorities.
His desperate foster parents were alleged to have been struggling to cope.
Sources yesterday said that his behaviour had become so bad that he had been referred to Prevent, the Government's de-radicalisation programme, which aims to turn potential extremists away from terror.
The referral was apparently made several months ago through Surrey County Council, which was responsible for placing the orphan with Penny and Ronald Jones, who have fostered hundreds of children.
It is unclear what if anything was done before Friday morning when the 18-year-old is suspected of planting a bomb on a Tube train at London's Parsons Green station. Thirty passengers were injured when the crude device partially exploded.
The revelation will raise new questions about what the police and security services knew about the suspect. Donald Trump sparked a row on the day of the attack by suggesting that police had had him 'in their sights'.
BBM
The byline about the PREVENT de-radicalisation programme isn't overly optimistic though:
BBM
One wonders what the Surrey County Council noticed that the good foster parents were allegedly not aware of.
:dunno:
Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ge-emerges-Parsons-Green-teenage-suspect.html
A teenage suspect in the Parsons Green bombing was reported to the counter terrorism strategy Prevent months before the attack, it was claimed last night.
The 18-year-old Iraqi refugee, who was fostered by a couple in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, was said to have been in frequent trouble with the police and authorities.
His desperate foster parents were alleged to have been struggling to cope.
Sources yesterday said that his behaviour had become so bad that he had been referred to Prevent, the Government's de-radicalisation programme, which aims to turn potential extremists away from terror.
The referral was apparently made several months ago through Surrey County Council, which was responsible for placing the orphan with Penny and Ronald Jones, who have fostered hundreds of children.
It is unclear what if anything was done before Friday morning when the 18-year-old is suspected of planting a bomb on a Tube train at London's Parsons Green station. Thirty passengers were injured when the crude device partially exploded.
The revelation will raise new questions about what the police and security services knew about the suspect. Donald Trump sparked a row on the day of the attack by suggesting that police had had him 'in their sights'.
BBM
The byline about the PREVENT de-radicalisation programme isn't overly optimistic though:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ge-emerges-Parsons-Green-teenage-suspect.html
Damning failures of £40m anti-jihadi scheme
Launched in a blaze of publicity by the last Labour Government, the taxpayer-funded £40-million-a-year Prevent counter-terrorism strategy was designed to fight radicalism's root causes within communities.
Risk factors the expression of anti-Western sentiments, for example are supposed to be spotted and assessed before action is taken by, say, the police or social services.
But after it emerged the 18-year-old Iraqi refugee accused of Friday's tube bombing had been referred to the initiative, further questions are likely to be asked of its effectiveness.
There is a widely held view that Prevent has simply become a 'cash cow', to quote one critic, for any enterprising Muslim group.
A damning report by Lord Carlile QC, then Britain's independent reviewer of terrorism laws, said that huge sums had been wasted on questionable 'sports and recreation activities' in the name of anti-radicalisation.
Shockingly, he found that under Labour, scrutiny of spending was so poor that hundreds of thousands of pounds had also been funnelled to extremist groups.
BBM
One wonders what the Surrey County Council noticed that the good foster parents were allegedly not aware of.
:dunno: