[jimbo123]

[mylife]

L0L a 5 gal tank of propane for the BBQ?

[Buffettfan]

OK, now let’s see how the PC Brits respond. Will they continue to have more cries of “islam is peaceful religion”?

[NonValueAdded]

AlQ thinking "Welcome, Gordon Brown, let's see what you're made of" figuratively, of course, since the bomb wasn't parked outside of No. 10

courtesy of al_c

[Cindy]

Related links - updates here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1858162/posts

[dennisw]

A pathetic bomb and pathetic attempt. This may be a warning or a message. Next time may be a real propane bomb with a real trigger such as C4 or dynamite

If this bomb went off Muslims world wide would have been joyous and titillated at liquored up Britons being mass murdered at a decadent nightclub

[BuffaloJack]

200L.
That’s 53 gallons.
That would be quite a big bang.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I wonder who the brave bomb squad officer who had to disarm this thing is?

[jdm]

Police find bomb in London, open terrorism probe

British police forensics officers approach the area where police defused a bomb in central London, June 29, 2007.

Guy Dresser and Luke Baker
Published: Friday, June 29, 2007

LONDON (Reuters) - British police defused a car bomb in central London on Friday and said the device made up of gasoline, gas cylinders and nails could have caused significant loss of life, anti-terrorism authorities said.

The bomb was left in a car parked outside a nightclub in the busy heart of London shortly after 1 a.m. (midnight GMT), when "hundreds" of people were in the vicinity, Peter Clarke, the head of London's anti-terrorist police, told a news conference.

"It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been significant injury or loss of life," he said.

Clarke said all lines of investigation were open, but that it was too early to speculate about who might have been responsible. Responding to a question about possible links to a bomb found in France, Clarke said he was in contact with international partners, but gave no details.

He said he could not ignore the similarities between the latest case and an earlier plot, uncovered in 2004, in which an al Qaeda-linked militant had planned to detonate gas-fuelled bombs inside vehicles in London and other cities.

Security services were called to investigate the vehicle, a light green Mercedes, after ambulance workers, attending an unrelated incident outside the nightclub, noticed what they thought was smoke billowing inside the car.

The security services discovered "significant quantities" of petrol, a number of gas cylinders and a large number of nails, Clarke said, and then manually defused the bomb.

The discovery came hours after new Prime Minister Gordon Brown named a cabinet to succeed Tony Blair's. It posed a first major challenge for Brown's three-day-old administration, and particularly his new home secretary, Jacqui Smith.

Smith was to chair a meeting of the government's top emergency committee, Cobra, on Friday, Brown said.

"The first duty of a government is the security of the people and as the police and security services have said on so many occasions we face a serious and continued security threat to our country," Brown told reporters.

"This incident does recall the need for us to be vigilant at all times and the public to be alert."

Security around parliament was stepped up, with police body-searching drivers of vehicles entering the compound.

The bomb alert came almost two years after a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks on London's transport network killed 52 commuters, the first Islamist suicide bombings in western Europe. London has frequently been on edge since.

(Additional reporting by Mark Trevelyan, Adrian Croft, Michael Holden, Avril Ormsby and Katherine Baldwin)

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Let’s see. Threats to attack England. Numerous attempts. All obviously done by the death cult. AND WHY THE HELL DON’T THEY EXPEL ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE DEATH CULT?

[pacelvi]

we should tell them what they told us...

terrorism is just something you have to cope with.

[PGalt]

BTTT!

[KosmicKitty]

But the Breck Girl assures me that the WOT is just a bumper stcker slogan

Guess it’ a BBQ too

[Malesherbes]

Well, the Brits brought it on themselves, having imported a few million Muslins to live amongst them in socialist harmony. Having said that, no schadenfreude here, since we are next.

Somewhere among those 12 to 20 million imports that Bush wants to turn into citizens are X number of bomb experts just waiting to put their skills into effect.

[jdm]

Excerpt from The Telegraph:

What do we know about the car bomb discovered in London's West End?

• An ambulance crew on an unrelated emergency call in The Haymarket reports a smoking silver Mercedes car to the police around 2am this morning
• Officers inspecting the car discover large quantities of petrol, a number of gas cylinders and containers holding nails inside
• There were at least 60 litres of petrol on the back seat and in the boot of the car in various sized containers
• Police sources said the car bomb was a "big device"
• They also said it was potentially moments away from killing a "significant number" of people
• One witness said the car was seen being driven "erratically" before it collided with some bins or bin bags on the pavement
• The driver ran off, apparently uninjured by the minor collision, which did not damage the vehicle. The lights of the car were left on
• Police used a remote-controlled vehicle to investigate the car before bomb squad officers made the device safe
• The massive quantity of petrol coupled with several propane gas cylinders could have combined to create a massive explosion
• There was so much petrol in the vehicle that the highly flammable vapour it gave off is believed to have looked like smoke
• A source said it was "impossible" to know whether the perpetrator was acting alone or as part of a large group
• Whitehall sources said that the police and security services were looking at possible international links - including similarities to car bombs used by insurgents in Iraq
• A police cordon was thrown around the Haymarket, causing massive disruption to thousands of rush-hour commuters
• Forensic officers supervised the removal of the metallic light-green Mercedes saloon in a covered transporter lorry
• Security experts said the bomb could have been timed to coincide with the change at the top of Government
• Piccadilly Tube station remained closed, while 16 bus routes which normally pass through the area were being diverted, said a spokeswoman for Transport for London.

[The Great RJ]

Watching CNN this morning (not by choice...it was what has on in a hotel coffee shop) Christina Amanpour and some former Clinton CIA shill went out of their way trying to tie this attack to the US and UK presence in Iraq. They virtually stated that if the US and UK weren't in Iraq this terrible thing might not have happened.

The tragedy is that such attacks will happen in the US sooner or later and that Iraq will have nothing to do with them. The retreat of US forces at the behest of a white flag Congress will have emboldened the terrorists to do more hoping to force the ultimate retreat in the surrender of the US to Islamic domination.

[Pistolshot]

Fox News was reporting last night was 'Ladies night' at that bar. It would have been quite a statement for Al Qaeda to kill a lot of 'sluttish' women of the decadent West.

Don't be surprised if this gets tied into Al Qaeda, and if my train of thought is correct, to Tehran.

[Pookee]

We need to make sure that when attacks like this are thwarted we make heroes out of those who stopped them. Brave efforts such as these are intentionally not mentioned in the MSM because it would show that we are making huge improvements in fighting terrorism and that doesn't fit with their game plan. If the attack had been carried out we would have heard about it for months. To me it is far bigger news that we prevented the loss of hundreds of civilians (call me crazy). Everyone knows about all the scewups that allowed 9/11 to happen and is quick to point fingers but can anyone detail how the London plane bombings were prevented and who the heroes were?

[fight_truth_decay]

"War on terror: A bumper-sticker" -- John Edwards

[maine-iac7]

But but - how can this be??? there is no terrorist war - no threat - only mean old Bush’s attack on them,

And is the press going to emphasize that this was aimed to blow up the patrons on “Women’s Night” ???

nah. Let’s not make the barbarians look like - ah, barbarians.

[CommerceComet]

Was the bomb really in a Mercedes? I think that if I were a terrorist, I would blow up a cheaper car.