From the York Press newspaper:
A student nurse has appeared in court accused of planning a terrorist attack at an RAF base in Yorkshire after he was allegedly found with a pressure cooker bomb outside a hospital in Leeds.
Mohammad Farooq, 27, was allegedly inspired by radical Islam and Jihad when he carried out “hostile reconnaissance” of the military base in Yorkshire on January 10 and 18 after carrying out online research.
Farooq is said to have constructed a viable bomb made from a pressure cooker, 13.7 kilos of a homemade low explosive mixture and a length of pyrotechnic fuse.
He was arrested in the early hours of last Friday outside the maternity unit at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds, where he had been due to work a shift.
His actions at the hospital are not alleged to have been motivated by terrorism but a grudge towards another member of staff.
Oh what a brave new world it is that has such people as Mohammed Farooq in it. How did Britain ever survive without being blessed with individuals who allegedly want to blow up military bases and who may have decided that it was a good idea to deal with a workplace argument by having an impromptu ‘take your improvised explosive device to work day’.
Although we will have to wait for the inevitable Crown Court trial of Farooq to see what his defence turns out to be or if he is found guilty or not, at this point in the proceedings I’d say that this could more than likely be a jihad thing rather than a workplace dispute thing. However it’s quite possible that it is both in some convoluted way and what it is will be revealed at trial.
