2015 London Hezbollah Raid Found Bomb Materials

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September 30, 2015 June 9, 2019  2015 London Hezbollah Raid Found Bomb Materials  Citing security sources, the Daily Telegraph reported based on a   a tip-off from a foreign government, police and the MI5 intelligence service raided four Hezbollah properties on the outskirts of London on Sept. 30, 2015, and discovered three metric tons of ammonium nitrate, the same explosive used in the Oklahoma City truck bombing concealed as disposable ice packs.  The explosives were part of an international plot by Iran-backed Hezbollah to lay the groundwork for future attacks a similar packs have been found authorities in Thailand and in Cyprus. (2)

A man in his 40s was arrested but released without charge as there was no evidence of an actual bomb plot in any advanced stages besides stockpiling tons of explosives by a known terrorist organiztion for no other obvious reason. (1)  Then Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Theresa May were informed but it was kept from the public and lawmakers until revealed by press in June 9, 2019 to avoid  sinking the Iran nuclear deal which had just been formulated and signed soon after, or the debate as to whether to classify Iran-funded Hezbollah as a terrorist group.

*Tags

• Ammonium Nitrate
• Hezbollah
• Iranian Incidents 
• London
• UK

*Footnotes 

1. British MP Asks If British Govt Covered Up Hezbollah 'Bomb Factory ... CNSNEWS 6/11/2019   then-Prime Minister David Cameron and then-Home Secretary – later prime minister – Theresa May were reportedly informed about the discovery of the ammonium nitrate.  It’s not clear why they kept the matter under wraps, but Ryan in her letter to Javid referred to the potential “sensitivity,” given the timing of the raids in relation to the nuclear deal.  The JCPOA was finalized 11 weeks before the raids in the London outskirts, and the agreement less than four months after the raids.
2. Iran-linked terrorists caught stockpiling explosives in London Washington Examiner 6/10/2019  In 2015, police in London raided four properties associated with the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah and discovered thousands of disposable ice packs filled ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in rudimentary bombs. During the raids, a man in his 40s was arrested, according to the Telegraph.   then-Prime Minister David Cameron and then-Home Secretary Theresa May were briefed on the details personally.  The U.S. branded all of Hezbollah as a terrorist group in the 1990s, but in the U.K. only the armed wing of the group was designated as such until this year.  Iran-linked group was stockpiling tons of the same explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombing. the public and lawmakers were kept in the dark about the matter for years as the U.K. continued to support the nuclear deal. During that time there was also a debate whether to label the entirety of Hezbollah, which has support and funding from Iran, as a terrorist group. (2) 

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London terrorists linked to Iran had secret bomb factory with stockpile ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9257721/london-terrorists-bomb-factory-hezbollah/
6/9/2019  TERRORISTS with links to the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah have reportedly ... Police uncovered the terrifying plot in the autumn of 2015. ... Seven years later, the proscription was extended to Hezbollah's military wing.

Meet the Proxies: How Iran Spreads Its Empire through Terrorist Militias
www.thetower.org/.../meet-the-proxies-how-iran-spreads-its-empire-through-terrorist-...
March 2015  Iranian-Linked Hezbollah Terrorists Stockpiled Explosives in Secret London Bomb Factory ..... Under Iranian orders, this group is now fighting in Syria on behalf of Bashar al-Assad's Iranian-backed regime. ut this latest incarnation of Imperial Iran is unique in that it is virtually invisible. Iranian flags do not fly above the centers of government in these capitals, and the foot soldiers of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Force (IRGC-QF) do not march in their streets. Tehran has contracted this clandestine conquest out to an ever-expanding list of loyal proxies. They mutate and fracture into new entities, adopt new names, and operate in different roles and locations; but this constellation of proxies orbits around Iran, effectively masking the Islamic Republic’s increasing control over the Middle East.

Tehran coordinates and provides a wide array of support and aid to its proxies, mainly through the IRGC-QF and its commander, Qassem Suleimani. It seems important, then, to recall that the U.S. Treasury Department has designated the IRGC-QF and its commander for activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and support for terrorism, accusing the Quds Force in 2007 of providing material support to the Taliban and other terrorist groups. The Justice Department cited the group as “conduct[ing] sensitive covert operations abroad, including terrorist attacks, assassinations and kidnappings, and is believed to sponsor attacks against Coalition Forces in Iraq.” Hezbollah has repeatedly fought wars that, in effect, solely benefited Iran. Whether combatting Israel, participating in the Syrian civil war, or sending its militants to Iraq, Hezbollah is at the service of its masters, often at the expense of its own, or Lebanon’s, interests.

Hezbollah is unquestionably the most prominent Iranian proxy on the international scene, having carried out a series of attacks abroad through what Matthew Levitt, Director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, has called “Hezbollah’s international terrorist wing.”