What Caused Failure Of London Bomb Plot?
The London bomb plot allegedly planned by a cell of doctors failed because a medical syringe used as part of the firing mechanism caused a malfunction, a media report said today.Quoting non-classified documents reviewed by it and confirmed by multiple sources, ABC News reported that both cell phone-initiated firing mechanisms, rigged inside a Mercedes E 300 parked several yards from the front door of Tiger Tiger nightclub, had failed.
Fuel-air bombs, whether professionally made or rigged by novices, are notoriously difficult to get to perform as intended, ABC said, adding that is why they are so rarely used. Despite some surface similarities to vehicle born improvised explosives used in Iraq, these incendiaries were essentially different.
The Iraqi bombs, the report said, are explosives linked to gases either with the idea of increasing their effectiveness or spreading a chemical cloud. The London and Glasgow devices were not explosives at all, but firebombs.
Had the fuel-air bombs successfully ignited into a super-hot fireball filled with roofing nails, casualties would have been almost a certainty among the 500 or so patrons who partied late at the 1,700-person occupancy nightclub that perhaps best symbolises London's vital nightlife scene.
When a bomb technician in a 90 pound Kevlar suit walked down to the vehicle to examine it, he also found a firing system rigged inside the car and another inside its trunk along with four jugs of gasoline. The technician successfully disarmed the devices. (Rediff News)
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posted by The Malaysian. at 7/05/2007 06:50:00 PM
3 Comments:
How did a group of doctors, who had chosen the profession to help save lives, end up attempting to be mass murderers ? I guess you could write entire books on the psychology of the suicide bomber.
From the response to the Salman Rushdie knighthood, it is very obvious there are groups in this country who are quite capable of organising a public response to international events.
I do not hear any forthright, unconditional condemnation of the suicide bombers from the Muslim community, either in this country or in Britain or elsewhere. Only the usual apologists for the suicide bombers or Deafening Silence.
Does that mean all Muslims are sympathisers of the suicide bombers ? I feel very sad for the religion of Islam if that is true.
In the old days, there was the middle eastern "old man of the mountain" with his drugged assassins who were not afraid of death because of the promise of paradise. Now we have Osama with a much larger similarly brain-washed gang of suicide-killers hell bent on creating an islamic super-caliphate stretching from Libya to the southern Philippines, with a population of 1.2 billion. There is only one way to stop them, and that is to wipe out their strongholds-- with nuclear weapons if neccessary.
The next group of fanatics might no longer be playing around with fuel-air bombs, but with chemical/biological/nuclear ones. One question for the British: If your soldiers are on a killing spree in Iraq and Afghanistan, can you complain if the other side wants to conduct a similar killing spree in your country?
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