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Elderly Briton arrested over mosque bomb

A 75-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of planting a home-made bomb that exploded near a mosque.

BRITISH POLICE ARRESTED a 75-year-old man on Thursday on suspicion of planting a home-made bomb that exploded near a mosque.

Police said the man was arrested by counter-terrorism officers at his home in Walsall, central England, where the small bomb exploded last Friday.

There has been a spike in anti-Muslim incidents in Britain since a soldier was murdered on a London street last month in a suspected Islamist attack.

Nobody was hurt in the Walsall explosion and damage was minimal, police said.

The suspect was arrested on suspicion of causing an explosion likely to endanger life or damage property. He was being questioned at a police station and his home was being searched.

Around 150 people had to be evacuated from their homes after the bomb was discovered outside the Aisha Mosque, while police launched a major hate crime investigation.

- © AFP, 2013

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    Jun 27th 2013, 8:18 PM

    “they say you get more right-wing the older you get” : )

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    Jun 27th 2013, 8:21 PM

    After that unfortunate event in Woolwich nothing surprises me now, not even this geriatric bomber

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    Jun 27th 2013, 8:28 PM

    A very alarming event but not unexpected.

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    Jun 27th 2013, 7:54 PM

    Sickening

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    Jun 27th 2013, 9:49 PM

    GAYthorpe….. U must be a friend of islamist extremists!

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    Mute Timothy Gaythorpe
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    Jun 27th 2013, 10:04 PM

    @ thosj no you will find that I am just a normal right minded member of society

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