If they follow the pattern that I've been watching, their next Western attack will be IED's on major city streets.
Posted on 07/21/2005 3:02:35 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
LONDON — Two arrests have been made in connection with the four bombings that shook the London transit system Thursday, British police announced.
One man was arrested near Downing Street, site of Prime Minister Tony Blair's (search) residence. Another man was nabbed in the area of Tottenham Court Road, near the Warren Street subway station where one of the incidents took place.
Police said the men were being questioned about explosions that struck three London Underground trains and a bus at lunchtime Thursday. The attacks took place exactly two weeks to the day after terrorist attacks in London killed 56 people.
Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair (search) confirmed that three explosions occurred on subway trains near the Oval and Warren Street stations on the Northern Line and on a train near the Shepherd's Bush station on the Hammersmith and City line, and that a fourth explosion took place on a bus traveling in the Hackney neighborhood of east London.
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Still no claims for responsibility that I've seen. That makes me think that the Londoners got lucky with a bad batch of explosives today...
One Sky News correspondent reported that officials said the explosive device on the bus appeared to be made of TATP, the same highly unstable material used in the July 7 bombings. A large area around the bus had been cordoned off.
Police told people in the area of the bombs to get off their cell phones. The concern is that the phones, which work on radio frequencies, could set off potential leftover bombs.
Talk about stupid. I assume the police also turned off their radios? If it won't go off when you intentionally try to detonate it, it sure as hell won't go off from the whimpy radio in a cell phone.
Missing in all this coverage (or lack there of) is any indication as to wether the explosives were on people or simply planted under seats on the subways.
If on people, did NO ONE have the courage to tackle one of them when it was clear it wasn't going to go boom?
Perhaps we could send a delegation of airline stewardess over to help the Brits.
If they follow the pattern that I've been watching, their next Western attack will be IED's on major city streets.
I am incredibly impressed with the Brits ability to track down the perpetrators so quickly.Elementary, my dear Carolina.
Hmmm. A lifetime in prison first before meeting the 72 virgins. Do you not get the virgins if you die of odd age in prison?
They seem to be having difficulty recruiting suicide bombers in large quantities.
I bet some of the bombers in London today lived, for example.
LOL
Check this. "War Crimes Trials" for Brits for roughing up Islamofascists, begin, less than 2 weeks after Islamofascists bombing of London!
Liberal Political Correctness and Hypersensitivity to the Terrorists and Their Supportive Cover Communities will be the death of many of us before it can be reigned in and finally annihilated.
Other reports indicate that when the bombs failed to go off, passengers attempted to subdue one of the bombers but he escaped.
One guy dropped the backpack and jumped off the 2nd level of a bus and ran down the street with wires extruding from his sweater.
Well, at least they've got the right headlines. These would never fly on the New York Slimes.
Here are some of the Norwegian culprits you've come to expect in these terrorist bombings. Everyone be alert for swarthy-looking criminals like this carting packages and backpacks:
~ Blue Jays ~
It is GREAT to at least be able to catch one or two of these zips that got in the wire, before they themselves were blown to bits or the contents of their explosive cargoes could not be fully examined. Just look at these little rats being flushed out, chased down, and apprehended. I hope the brits fly them out ASAP to some other nation for more, er, effective interrogation to get to the bottom of their operating structure and future plans.
"Zips that got caught in the wire" means abit more in arabic...
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