Would-be bomber blamed Facebook

FOLLOWING his arrest Munir Mohammed argued it could not be illegal to download bombmaking instructions because they were easy to find on Facebook and YouTube.

He told detectives: ‘If it is not allowed for people to read it, Facebook have to delete it or stop it.’ Mohammed said he had found a link to a video of how to make explosives on YouTube, adding: ‘This is in YouTube, everybody can see these things, it’s not banned.

‘I know myself I did nothing and if you need to blame me, why I see this or why I saw that, blame the people who share it. I’m not the one that you have to blame. I see it because I find it in front of me. I read it, yeah, I read it out of curiosity, you know that. It’s not wrong to get knowledge or to see something.’

Another document, which promised to increase the destructive power of a bomb threefold, was also on Facebook, he said. He told the Old Bailey you could find Islamic State execution videos on the social networking site: ‘You find everything there.’