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The Muslim convert suspected of detonating a nail bomb in a restaurant is being held in police custody after his release from hospital today. As officers investigating the attempted attack in Exeter searched a house near the home suspect Nicky Reilly, detectives prepared to question the 22-year-old. He suffered eye and facial injuries when the device partially went off in the Giraffe restaurant at lunchtime on Thursday. Two other devices were found nearby said the police. Reilly had been under police guard in hospital. He can now be formally questioned about the Exeter blast. Reilly, arrested under the Terrorism Act,...

U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

The man detained over a suspected suicide bomb attack in Exeter was an autistic 22-year-old allegedly radicalised by a gang of suspected Muslim radicals who were being monitored by police and MI5, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Investigating officers said that Nicky Reilly received a text message of "encouragement" hours before the nailbomb attack in a family restaurant. Police have made the first arrests as the net closed in on the suspected radicals alleged to have groomed the bomber. Sources close to the investigation said that the alleged corruption of a vulnerable young man - who suffered from Asperger's Syndrome,...

* Police discover device in restaurant toilet after explosion * Muslim convert with history of mental illness, held * Police say Nicky Reilly, 22, was 'preyed upon and radicalised' * Armed police search premises in Plymouth By Charlotte Gill Last updated at 10:59 PM on 22nd May 2008 A Muslim convert with a history of mental illness was being held under armed guard tonight after he apparently detonated a nail bomb in a family restaurant. Nicky Reilly, 22, who suffered serious facial injuries in the blast, is thought to have carried out the alleged attack after being 'preyed upon and...

A city centre was evacuated today after two bombs were found - at least one of which exploded - at a busy lunchtime cafe. A man, who is believed to have set off the explosive device, was injured and has been taken into custody. At least one of the devices was believed to be a nail bomb. The Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall, Stephen Otter, said tonight: "We can now confirm there were two explosive devices found at the scene." He said they were both in the same area of the Giraffe restaurant at the Princesshay shopping centre, in...

A restaurant customer has been injured in a suspected nail bomb attack on a city centre restaurant. The exploded shortly after a man entered the Giraffe Restaurant in the Princesshay shopping centre in Exeter, Devon. The customer was taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the area has been sealed off by police. They are trying to find out what sort of device caused the explosion and whether there are any others still live. Forensic experts have been called to the scene and a Royal Navy bomb disposal team from Plymouth are on stand by. The device is...

Breaking NewsDevice Explodes On Merseyside Updated: 18:28, Friday September 21, 2007 A device has exploded at a school in Liverpool, according to Merseyside police. It went off under a car outside St Edward's, a Catholic school in the Sandfield Park area of West Derby. Sky News correspondent Mike McCarthy said roads near the school had been blocked off by police. Inspector Michael O'Callaghan said: "There was an explosion under a car at the school this afternoon." "What caused the explosion and the reasons behind it we are investigating. "Nobody has been injured and there has been no collateral damage," he...

<p>An explosion today that occurred in Cologne, Germany's fourth-largest city, was probably caused by a bomb, a police spokeswoman said.</p> <p>The bomb exploded outside a three-story house located in a street where the majority of inhabitants are Turkish, German television channel N-TV said, citing unidentified people at the site of the explosion. The bomb consisted of a device filled with more than 1,000 nails and injured at least 17 people, several of them severely, N-TV said.</p>