IS-linked bomb suspect toured Britain, posed outside potential targets

London, May 12: A suspected terrorist toured potential targets in Britain, including Buckingham Palace and the Shard, while using fake IDs and posing as an Afghan refugee, it was reported on Thursday. Hakim siri, 24, was described as a “human bomb” when arrested in Italy this week and accused of being in an Islamic State cell. Photographs posted on a Facebook page that, according to RT online, Italian police believe belongs to siri show him posing near hotels in London’s Docklands, Cary Wharf and the Premier Inn outside Westfield in Stratford. Other photos show siri on a commuter train in southeast London, outside Buckingham Palace and the Shard. He also posted pictures of jihadist symbols and weapons on social media. The pictures have raised suspicions that siri was conspiring to carry out an attack. Other images, found on his phone, show the man brandishing an M16 assault rifle in what is thought to be a British supermarket. “The phone images of siri holding a machine gun were probably taken in the back room of a supermarket in England,” Vincenzo Molinese, a colonel in the Bari carabinieri, told the Daily Mail. British security sources said the rifle may be decommissioned or even a fake. (IANS)