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Failure of devices foiled tube attacks, court told
The Guardian ^ | Tuesday January 16, 2007 | Sandra Laville

Posted on 01/15/2007 7:22:57 PM PST by Panzerlied

The would-be suicide bombers gathered the night before July 21 in a flat in north Kensington in London; everything was ready for an attack that had been planned for weeks and was to be carried out with explosive devices cooked up on a kitchen stove, mixing high-strength hair bleach, nail varnish remover, acid, lightbulbs, batteries and chapati flour, the jury at Woolwich crown court heard. When the five men walked out of 14 Dalgarno Gardens the next day, Ramzi Mohammed left the remnants of a draft suicide note to his two children; evidence found later suggested a suicide video had been also filmed, the jury heard.

The suspects had allegedly chosen to detonate their bombs on the London transport system at lunchtime, avoiding the extra rush-hour security measures put in place since the July 7 bombings. In simultaneous attacks, they touched the wires of their home-made bombs to battery connectors in their rucksacks at around 12.30pm, the jury was told. But the devices failed.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: acetone; burka; burqa; chapatiflour; peroxide; subwayplots
Incompetent terrorists. May they all have similar success!
1 posted on 01/15/2007 7:23:00 PM PST by Panzerlied
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To: Panzerlied

I must have missed the internet recipe that included flour and light bulbs.


2 posted on 01/15/2007 7:30:28 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Panzerlied

Well, they nuked an LA suburb tonight on 24!


3 posted on 01/15/2007 7:32:05 PM PST by gotribe (There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)
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To: gotribe
thanks for the surprise spoiler dickweed!
4 posted on 01/15/2007 7:36:21 PM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: Panzerlied
When the devices failed the men are said to have fled, only to be caught on CCTV.

Mr Sweeney said Mr Omar had disguised himself as a Muslim woman in a burka and taken a coach to Birmingham the following day. He was arrested standing fully clothed in the bath with a rucksack on his back.

Mr Ibrahim and Mr Mohammed hid at the flat in Dalgarno Gardens, where they were arrested eight days later. Mr Asiedu, who allegedly dumped his bomb in Little Wormwood Scrubs, went to the police to explain his role, but lied, according to the prosecution.

Brilliant escape plans as well. You'd think they would have made such plans just in case everything didn't go as planned and they didn't all blow themselves up.

5 posted on 01/15/2007 8:56:16 PM PST by Bitter Bierce
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To: gotribe

Probably just a bunch of liberal voters lived there, anyway. ;-)


6 posted on 01/15/2007 11:32:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Dog Gone

Light bulb- minus the glass- is probably the "detonator." The flour is probably to make the stuff easier to handle, like putty. Not that I have a clue of course. I just played an Islamic terrorist on halloween once.


7 posted on 01/15/2007 11:37:14 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: calljack

Hey, actually I apologize. I didn't think that people hadn't watched it already -- glued to the set like I was. On the upside, there are 20 more hours to go.


8 posted on 01/16/2007 5:05:36 PM PST by gotribe (There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)
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