Irish Sunday Mirror

Rap over net ‘bomb guides’

- BY ALAN SELBY

BOMB-MAKING guides are still on Youtube, showing would-be terrorists how to make devices to maim and kill.

A Sunday Mirror investigat­ion found 3,000 clips at our fingertips, despite a pledge by owners Google to pull down material promoting terror.

One video lists a combinatio­n of everyday items bought in supermarke­ts used in the manufactur­ing process. Others mention a ricin poison plot.

After the Paris attacks, a French counter-terrorism official told how his team spent an afternoon learning how to make DIY explosives. He said: “In half an hour, we had made an explosive. Half an hour later, we had blown it up. And the explosion was big.”

Yvette Cooper said: “It is outrageous. Social media must get a grip of illegal material.”

In a statement Youtube said: “We act quickly to remove flagged content that incites violence and terminate terrorist organisati­on accounts.”

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