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33 YEARS JAIL FOR BOMBER WHO LOST HIS NERVE AT LAST MINUTETHE fifth failed July 21 suicide bomber was jailed for 33 years yesterday and will be booted out of Britain once he is free. Manfo Asiedu, 34, joined the gang of would-be mass murderers setting out to attack London’s transport network with rucksack bombs. But then he lost his nerve and dumped his device before fleeing. His bomb was made of chapati flour and liquid peroxide, inside a plastic container with screws and washers taped to the side. It was to be set off by a detonator made of...

Dramatic film of a fireman confronting one of the alleged July 21 bombers on a Tube train as other passengers fled in panic was shown to a jury yesterday. The CCTV footage showed Ramzi Mohammed, 25, wearing a rucksack and boarding the busy Northern Line Tube at Stockwell, south London. He turned his back towards a mother with a child in a pushchair before detonating his device. The detonator exploded, although the main charge, made up of liquid hydrogen peroxide and chapati flour, failed to go off. As other passengers tried to run, Angus Campbell, an off-duty fireman, stayed and...