Posted on 06/29/2007 5:30:51 AM PDT by jimbo123
The threat of terror returned to London today after a car bomb was found outside a West End nightclub.
The apparent target was Tiger Tiger in Haymarket, where up to 1,700 people were inside on 'ladies night'.
It is feared the attack is the work of Al Qaeda militants, who plotted a similar attack on the capital's Ministry of Sound nightclub and Bluewater shopping centre. The British-born Al Qaeda gang was jailed last month.
One witness described seeing a green gas cylinder in the boot of the car, believed to be a silver Mercedes, which probably contained explosives. The boot was packed with hundreds of nails. There were also two more cylinders on the back seat.
The size of the bomb could have caused major structural damage to the club which is spread over four floors.
One senior anti-terrorist source said: "This was a viable device which could have caused massive damage and killed hundreds if it had worked.
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
Trying to peel off the UK from the coalition? New leadership and all that...
Often I see this “coexist” bumper sticker on a volvo when I’m driving to work.
Naive at best, dangerous in reality.
Don't be surprised if this gets tied into Al Qaeda, and if my train of thought is correct, to Tehran.
I hope they didn’t “evesdrop” or “violate someone’s civil rights” in order to foil this bombing.
Seems like they had trouble finding a guy willing to kill himself in this plot. I think even in his drugged induced state, he was not quite ready to meet Allah.
You get my vote for most ridiculous post of the day.
I thought only adults were on this site?
Inside officers discovered a significant quantity of petrol, nails and gas cylinders. They used a remote-controlled device to check the vehicle before bomb squad officers made it safe.
If the bomb had exploded, police said that the shrapnel would have killed or injured anyone within a wide area. The bomb itself could have caused a fireball as big as a house followed by a large shock wave.
LOL, Indeed!
“Lets see. Threats to attack England. Numerous attempts. All obviously done by the death cult. AND WHY THE HELL DONT THEY EXPEL ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE DEATH CULT?”
Same reason we didn’t expel all the people of Irish descent when the IRA were setting off similar devices in London and other cities.
‘OK, now lets see how the PC Brits respond. Will they continue to have more cries of islam is peaceful religion?
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It’s odd having America call us Brits PC - you invented PCism and we’re well behind you on that score! :)
What do you suggest we do about Islam? We’ll kick out our 1.7m muslims if you’ll kick out your X million muslims.
*Apologies for the X, but no-one seems to know how many muslims are in America, just that it’s somewhere between 5 and 20 million and it’s your fastest growing religion. In the UK muslim immigration is declining sharply and catholicism is the fastest growing religion.
We can assume that the Brits are setting up a different Security mode....and the bad guys are watching. That’s what they did with the Kobar (sp) Towers. A week later...kaboom. So a repeat July 7th date is looking good.
‘AND WHY THE HELL DONT THEY EXPEL ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE DEATH CULT?’
We don’t expel our muslims for the same reason America doesn’t expel her muslims.
I suggest you study up on explosives.
If this bomb went off Muslims world wide would have been joyous and titillated at liquored up Britons being mass murdered at a decadent nightclubNow, with this outcome, there will be sadness and disappointment in Mosques around the globe.
If you take two of these bulleted items and combine them:
1. One witness said the car was seen being driven “erratically” before it collided with some bins or bin bags on the pavement
2. There was so much petrol in the vehicle that the highly flammable vapour it gave off is believed to have looked like smoke.
The driver must have been totally gassed (excuse the pun) which accounts for the “minor accident.”
‘Actually, I think theyre starting to get it slowly. Hopefully, they will totally get it before its too late.’
Hmmm. Britain has let in less than 1m muslims in the last 50 years and including second and third generation muslims born here now has around 1.7m muslims. Muslim immigration is declining sharply. Catholicism is our fastest growing religion.
The US has open borders, somewhere between 5 and 20 million muslims depending on who’s guessing, it’s your fastest growing religion and your muslim immigration is sharply rising.
When is America going to ‘get it’ before it’s too late?
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