Defendant in London’s Parsons Green Attack to Go on Trial on March 5<br />13, 2017<br />LONDON — The trial of Ahmed Hassan Mohammed Ali, an 18-year-old Iraqi orphan charged with attempted murder in connection with a terrorist<br />attack at a London Underground station last month, will begin on March 5, according to British news reports on Friday.<br />Mr. Ali, who appeared via video link for a hearing at the Old Bailey, London’s criminal court, has been charged with "maliciously"<br />causing an explosion "by means of triacetone triperoxide (TATP) or other explosive substances," according to court documents.<br />The explosion on the city’s heavily used commuter rail network revived memories of bombings<br />in 2005, which left 52 people dead in the deadliest attack on Britain since World War II.<br />Mr. Ali, who had been in foster care at the home of a retired couple in Surrey, a county in the Southeast<br />England, was arrested a day after the attack in the departures area of the port in Dover.
