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A Russian Tu-142M3 reconnaissance aircraft recently crashed twenty kilometers off the Pacific coast, during a training mission. The Tu-142 is an unarmed maritime patrol aircraft that, in the last few years, have resumed long range patrols. Such activity had been halted in the early 1990s. The Tu-142, which was introduced in the 1970s, is the patrol version of the Tu-95 heavy bomber. This aircraft entered service 51 years ago, and is expected to remain in service, along with the Tu-142 variant, for another three decades. But these elderly aircraft are increasingly expensive to maintain, and prone to developing unexpected problems....

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2009 – Iraqi security forces arrested 13 people today during three operations in connection with car-bomb networks between Baghdad and Kirkuk, military officials reported. Working with U.S. advisors, an Iraqi unit arrested a suspected member of a vehicle-bomb network in southern Kirkuk. A warrant accuses the suspect of being linked to network members associated with June 20 bombings in Taza that killed more than 90 people. During the operation, the Iraqi unit arrested a second man based on information found at the scene. In a separate operation about 55 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police arrested two...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) – A mine killed 16 wedding guests in Pakistan's tribal belt on Friday while a suicide bomber targeted an air force base, inflicting another reverse on the military in its war on the Taliban. A car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the northwestern city of Peshawar, wounding 15 and underlining the threat to civilians in a nation where more than 190 people have died during Taliban-linked attacks in 19 days. The explosion ripped through the wedding party minibus in the Sorandara area of Mohmand, where security forces have been pressing an offensive against Islamist rebels for...

Travellers to Europe face being treated like drug smugglers as security chiefs are expected to recommend new intrusive security measures. French anti-terror chiefs are expected to propose the new measures, such as full body X-rays or handing in all electronic devices, after a terrorist tried to kill a Saudi prince with a bomb he had inserted into his body. Al Qaeda's latest ploy was first pioneered by Abdullah Hassan al Asiri, who blew himself apart in Jeddah in late August in an attack on Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the Saudi anti-terrorism chief. The 23-year-old terrorist blew himself into 70 pieces...

Officials from 8th Air Force here reached a milestone in nuclear enterprise transformation Oct. 1 with the transfer of nonbomber units to 9th Air Force and 12th Air Force. Under this unit reassignment, 12th Air Force officials at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., gains control of the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale AFB, Calif.; the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB, Neb.; and the 552nd Air Control Wing at Tinker AFB, Okla. Officials from 9th Air Force at Shaw AFB, S.C., is now responsible for the 116th Air Control Wing at Robbins AFB, Ga.; and the 819th RED HORSE at Malmstrom...

England, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- British aviation regulators say the investigation into the accidental takeoff of a vintage Cold War bomber is closed.

TEL AVIV: An Israeli art exhibition featuring photos of Palestinian suicide bombers pasted on to classic Madonna with Child paintings was cancelled A picture of a suicide bomber depicted as Madonna holding baby Jesus was removed from an exhibition in Tel Aviv. on Thursday amid protests from victims’ families The works, entitled “Ferror (Female Terrorism)” by two Israeli artists, show the faces of seven Palestinian women suicide bombers grafted on to famous paintings of the Virgin Mary. Neither the organisers nor the artists could be reached for comment, but several hours ahead of the planned opening workers were seen removing...

Minot Air Force Base is preparing to activate a new B-52 bomber squadron that will send 10 more B-52s to the North Dakota base. The new unit will be the fourth B-52 squadron in the Air Force. Minot base already has one squadron and Barksdale Air Force Base has the other two B-52 units. The Air Force has not said whether the planes will be transferred from Barksdale or taken from backup aircraft. Air Force officials say adding the new squadron at Minot is part of plans to put a stronger emphasis on nuclear mission training for B-52 units.

OTTAWA -- Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said he has asked the Russian government to start notifying Ottawa before sending bombers on training missions that approach Canada's borders and trigger intercepts by NORAD jets - saying he is puzzled as to what Moscow's ultimate goal is here. "I do sometimes wonder why the Russians would want to spend so much fuel to fly up to our borders," Mr. Cannon told reporters yesterday. "I don't have an answer on that." Arctic security experts say Norway is asking the same questions about other military operations the Russians have resumed in recent years...

MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian Air Force chief said Saturday that the country could base some strategic bombers in Cuba or on an island offered by Venezuela, the Interfax news agency reported, but a Kremlin official quickly said the military had been speaking only hypothetically. The U.S. and Russia have been trying to reset their relationship, severely strained over U.S. plans to position missile defense elements in Poland and the Czech Republic and by Russia's invasion of U.S. ally Georgia last year. Russia has nothing to gain strategically from basing long-range craft within relatively short range of U.S. shores, independent...

Obama pick faces questions over bombers' clemencyBy PETE YOST Associated Press Writer Originally published Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 2:05 PM WASHINGTON — New York police detective Anthony S. Senft's life changed forever when a bomb set by Puerto Rican separatists exploded, blowing him 15 feet in the air and blinding him in one eye. Now, he's angry that Eric Holder, who played a key role in awarding clemency to the bombers, is in line to be attorney general. Holder, as President Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general, worked closely with the Justice Department's pardon attorney to raise the possibility of...

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A British Muslim convert who nursed an ambition of becoming a suicide bomber has admitted attempting to blow himself up in a restaurant with a nail bomb. Nicky Reilly, 22, who uses the adopted the Islamic name Mohamed Abdulaziz Rashid Saeed-Alim, pleaded guilty to launching the failed attack in Exeter on May 22. The Old Bailey heard that Reilly considered attacking a naval dockyard and a police station but instead deliberately chose to target civilians at the Giraffe restaurant in the Princesshay shopping centre. Reilly researched how to make a bomb, acquired the components and made three devices using caustic...

NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) - Groups of Shiite extremists trained in Iran are returning to Iraq with plans to bomb high-profile targets, the chief of Dhi Qar province's police said Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Brigadier General Sabah al-Fatlawi told AFP "Special Groups" (Shiite extremists) of around 10 fighters each are returning by crossing the border from Amara, the capital of Shiite Maysan province in the south. "The Special Groups are returning from Iran after receiving training in using new tactics. We have seized 20 motorcycle bombs in Nasiriyah. Some groups have arrived in Nasiriyah," Fatlawi said, referring to the capital of Dhi Qar,...

BAGHDAD – Coalition forces detained 25 suspected terrorists, including two men wanted for their ties to Baghdad bombing networks, during operations Friday and Saturday targeting al-Qaeda around Iraq. Coalition forces captured two men wanted in connection to car bombing networks and seven alleged associates in Baghdad and Taji. One of the wanted men is also believed to share his bombing expertise with several terrorist cells. Coalition forces detained an additional suspected terrorist while targeting associates of AQI senior leaders in the Southern Belt around Baghdad An operation in Baqouba Friday that resulted in the capture of a wanted man and...

The United States is seeing a sharp drop in the number of foreigners entering Iraq to become al Qaeda suicide bombers, according to intelligence and Bush administration sources. An administration official and a military adviser to Iraqi commanders attribute the decline to a fairly new phenomenon: Al Qaeda's call for mass killings in the name of Islam is losing some of its appeal with young Arabs in North Africa and Saudi Arabia, where most of the bombers originate. The decline also parallels the battlefield losses al Qaeda has suffered in the past 12 months in Iraq's Anbar province and the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The mother's voice lacks emotion as she recalls how her daughter became a suicide bomber. art.car.cnn.jpg A woman used this car in a February 13 attack in Iraq. "God willing, she went to heaven," her mother says. "She wanted to die in the name of God," she says on a videotape, her face peering out from under a dark brown head scarf. "She told me she is sick of this life. ... So she spoke about the Americans. I told her, 'Where will you get Americans?' She said she will go after the Americans."

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed two terrorists and detained four in operations April 27 targeting a known suicide-bomb and homemade-bomb handler in the Bati Kowt district ofAfghanistan’s Nangarhar province. One Afghan security force member was killed during the operation. Coalition forces reported no casualties. In other operations the same day, Afghan National Army commandos and Afghan National Police, alongside coalition forces, killed an undisclosed number of insurgents in Galuch village, in Laghman province. (Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 101 news releases.)

Glasgow Airport bombers 'planned nightclub terror campaign' By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Last Updated: 11:23pm BST 11/04/2008 Islamic extremists planned to carry out a series of spectacular terror attacks against British nightclubs, the Old Bailey has heard. Glasgow Airport bomber's email to brother Hundreds of people at one club in London escaped death last June only because two car bombs packed with improvised explosives and gas cylinders failed to go off. Sabeel Ahmed will be deported as soon as he is released One of the devices was left directly outside the Tiger Tiger club in the capital’s Haymarket area and...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two U.S. Air Force F-15s escorted two Russian Bear long-range bombers out of an air exclusion zone off the coast of Alaska, U.S. military officials said Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - NATO forces sent jets to escort two Russian long-range air force bombers patrolling neutral skies near Alaska on Wednesday, Russian news agencies quoted the defense ministry as saying. Russia's military has resumed its Cold War practice of flying regular patrols far beyond its borders, and in the last year has also sent turbo-prop Tu-95s over U.S. naval aircraft carriers and the Pacific island of Guam. Accompanied by two Il-78 refueling tankers, the two Tu-95 "Bear" bombers flew for 15 hours over the Arctic and Pacific oceans, Interfax news agency quoted Russian Air Force spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky as...

ISLAMIC cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has returned to his hardline rhetoric with a call for followers to beat up Western tourists and for young Muslims to die as martyrs. In the sermon, organised by an Islamic youth organisation and delivered a few kilometres from the home village of convicted Bali bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas, Bashir likened tourists in Bali to "worms, snakes, maggots", and specifically referred to the immorality of Australian infidels. The address was caught on video by an Australian university student. "The youth movement here must aspire to a martyrdom death," said the cleric, who was convicted of...

BAGHDAD – Coalition forces killed seven terrorists and detained 20 suspected terrorists during operations in central and northern Iraq Wednesday and today.Coalition forces targeted several suspected improvised explosive device emplacers southwest of Samarra Wednesday. During the operation, Coalition forces engaged two terrorists observed planting an IED in the road, killing them. The assault force also engaged a vehicle believed to be associated with the group. Coalition forces were engaged by small-arms fire by one of the occupants. Responding in self-defense, Coalition forces returned fire, killing four terrorists. The vehicle, which contained rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, land mines, homemade explosives and other...

March 10, 2008: Stung by rumors that they were not serious about developing a new heavy bomber, the U.S. Air Force announced that it was developing such an aircraft, that it would be in service by 2018, and would be able to operate with, or without, a crew. The implication was that the design of the new bomber was already quite advanced, and that it was, like the B-2, being handled as a "black project" (all work done in secrecy, until ready for production.) The new bomber would be similar to the current B-2 in many ways. That is, it...

MOSUL, Iraq – Two terrorists detonated suicide vests, killing three Iraqis and one Iraqi Policeman outside a mosque in Tal Afar Feb.15. Sixteen Iraqis were injured during the prayer time explosion. “Our condolences go out to the families of those who lost loved ones in this senseless act,” said Maj. Gary Dangerfield, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment spokesman. Information from the city’s mayor indicates the damage and loss of life would have been much greater if the terrorists were able to enter the mosque and detonate their vests. After being identified as terrorists with suicide vests, the IP engaged them with...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2008 – Coalition forces condemned today’s nearly simultaneous suicide attacks in two Baghdad markets that left dozens dead or injured in the Iraqi capital. “We share the outrage of the Iraqi people, and we condemn the brutal enemy responsible for these attacks,” Multinational Force Iraq officials said in a news release. “This indiscriminate violence, targeting families enjoying themselves on the holy day, again shows the nature of this barbaric enemy.” Multinational Division Baghdad forces are working closely with authorities to ensure they have sufficient medical supplies and humanitarian assistance for the victims and their families. “We stand...

A British Tornado escorting a Russian bomber away from British air space in a previous skirmish WARNING: This is a picture of the Tu-95, NOT the Tu-160 Russia has sent two long-range bombers to the Bay of Biscay, off the French and Spanish Atlantic coasts, to test-fire missiles in what Moscow billed as its biggest naval exercise in the area since the Soviet era. Firing missiles off the coastline of two Nato members is the latest in a series of Kremlin moves flexing Moscow's military muscle on the world stage. Russian bombers joined aircraft carriers, battleships and submarine hunters...

The first of dozens of supersonic Air Force bombers have begun to land at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to be upgraded as part of an effort to increase the jet's role in conflicts abroad. The U.S. Air Force's entire fleet of 65 B-1 Lancer bombers is scheduled to move through D-M in the coming months as base personnel and defense contractors outfit the aircraft with the latest targeting and surveillance technology. Work on the first B-1 already has begun and should take another week and a half to complete, said 2nd Lt. Mary Pekas, a base spokeswoman. Another bomber is...

/10/2008 - FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq (AFPN) -- More than 40 targets were hit after precision air strikes destroyed reported al-Qaida safe havens Jan. 10 in Arab Jabour, Iraq. The precision air strikes supported Operation Phantom Phoenix, the overarching operation that includes Operation Marne Thunderbolt. Thirty-eight bombs were dropped within the first 10 minutes, with a total tonnage of 40,000 pounds. A joint operation between the Air Force and Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division required extensive planning to prevent collateral damage and to deny the use of the area for attacks into Baghdad and...

Russian bombers fly Alaska, Canada coastsPosted : Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:08:47 GMT MOSCOW, Sept. 21 Russia resumed long-range military flights along the coasts of Alaska and Canada after a 17-year hiatus. The two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers participated in scheduled exercise drills that began Tuesday and were to end Friday, Itar-Tass reported. The bombers, monitored on their flights by NATO planes, returned to their home airfield Thursday via the North Pole, Col. Alexander Drobyshevsky told Itar-Tass. Russia resumed long-range flights to remote areas on order from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has said the flights are a security precaution...

09/21/2007 | 11:13 Two Russian Bombers Spotted near Iceland Two far-reaching Russian Tupolev 95 bombers entered the Icelandic air observation zone north of the country yesterday morning. British military jets flew towards the bombers and followed them to the northern limits of the observation zone. The Russian aircrafts circled Iceland and flew as close as 43 nautical miles offshore, but without entering Icelandic airspace, ruv.is reports. According to a statement from Iceland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it received information from Russia about the flight on Wednesday night. Iceland’s Radar Agency monitored the bombers during the entire flight and exchanged information...

President Vladimir Putin flexed Russia's military muscles once again yesterday when his government said that 12 strategic bombers would practise firing cruise missiles during a show-of-strength exercise over the Arctic. The giant Tupolev 95 aircraft were due to take off from five air bases, including one near the Bering Straits, separating Russia from Alaska. Mr Putin has made great efforts to extend Russian influence over the Arctic, which may have untapped mineral wealth. Russia has dispatched a scientific expedition to the polar ice-cap and last month a submarine dropped the national flag on the seabed beneath the North Pole. Monday's...

Russian bombers launch missiles over Arctic By Richard Holt Last Updated: 7:24pm BST 03/09/2007 Twelve Russian strategic bombers are taking part in military exercises above the Arctic involving the launching of tactical cruise missiles. The Russian air force spokesman did not specify the exact location of the exercises but confirmed that the TU-95MC bombers would take off from five air bases stretching from the Volga River city of Engels to Anadyr on the Chukotka Peninsula overlooking the United States. Russian bomber being shadowed by a RAF jet last month "The planes will also practise mid-air refuelling from Il-78 transport planes,"...

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin sent 14 bomber aircraft on patrols far beyond its own territory today, marking the permanent return to a Soviet-era practice. Mr Putin said the resumption of flights was a response to security threats posed by other military powers. “We have decided to restore flights by Russian strategic aviation on a permanent basis,” Mr Putin said at joint military exercises with China and four Central Asian states in Russia's Ural mountains. “Today, August 17 at 00:00 hours, 14 strategic bombers took to the air from seven airfields across the country, along with support and refuelling aircraft. “In...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Long-range Russian bombers are flying more often and closer to US territory, a top US commander said Tuesday, as Moscow made its latest show of military might with exercises over the North Pole. General Gene Renuart, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command, the agencies charged with protecting US and Canadian airspace, said that US forces would continue to monitor the activity. "Over the last few months the Russian air force has been flying a little bit more than we've seen in the past; certainly they're ranging farther than they have...

An attempted suicide bomb attack in Morocco missed its intended target, a bus-load of foreign tourists, but seriously wounded the suspected bomber... The explosion, which occurred in the former imperial town of Meknes in a central square popular with foreign visitors, ripped off the arm of the 30-year-old Moroccan man who was carrying the gas cylinder. "He tried to get in the bus where tourists of several nationalities were staying, but the driver had the presence of mind to close the door in his face," ... The bomber, Hicham Dokkali, was an engineer who worked in the tax office... Morocco...

Russian bombers buzz US base in Guam By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 7:36pm BST 09/08/2007 Russian bombers are reported to have buzzed an American military base for the first time since the Cold War when they flew over the Pacific island of Guam. Google Map: The island of Guam in the West Pacific Moscow said that US fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the two Tupolev-95 warplanes as they resumed the Cold War era practice of flying over Western offshore military installations in a mission on Wednesday. The incident, seen as the latest attempt by a revitalised Russia...

'Ring of steel' plan to protect New Yorkers By Tom Leonard in New York Last Updated: 2:03am BST 10/07/2007 America's deep-seated sensitivity about the privacy rights of its citizens is being challenged in New York where police want to set up a London-style "ring of steel" to protect the city against terrorism. Officials say that 116 licence-plate reading cameras will have been installed in Lower Manhattan by the end of the year, the initial phase of a $90 million (£45 million) surveillance programme that will be the first in the United States. The Lower Manhattan Security Initiative will resemble the...

July 21 bombers guilty of London terror plot By Matthew Moore and agencies Last Updated: 7:22pm BST 09/07/2007 Four men who attempted to detonate homemade bombs on the London transport network on July 21, 2005, have been convicted of conspiracy to murder. Guilty: Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohammed, and Hussain Osman (left to right) Muktar Said Ibrahim, the alleged leader of the group, Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussain Osman were found guilty today at Woolwich Crown Court after a six-month trial. The court had heard how it was mere "good fortune" the devices packed with...

Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that Muslim suicide bombing has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran (except for two lines). It has a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.

(From an article titled:Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature)Most suicide bombers are Muslim Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that Muslim suicide bombing has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran (except for two lines). It has a lot to do with sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex.

CNN now reports that the Glasgow attack was staged by the same men who drove the car bombs in London. British authorities have arrested two more men in connection with the series of failed attacks, and they have concluded that al-Qaeda planned and launched the attacks: Authorities suspect the two men who rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into Glasgow's airport on Saturday are the same people who parked two car bombs in central London a day earlier, security sources told CNN. ... One of the suspects, who is in critical condition at Royal Alexandra Hospital near Glasgow, is a doctor at...

WASHINGTON, June 26, 2007 – A suicide bomber attacked a Baghdad hotel yesterday while community leaders were meeting to discuss peace efforts, and a vehicle-bomb attack struck civilians and damaged businesses in Mosul. As Iraqi tribal leaders met at the Al-Monsur Hotel in the center of the Iraqi capital to try to put an end to the violence in Iraq, a suicide bomber entered the hotel lobby and detonated his vest, killing nine people and wounding 11 others, officials reported. "This attack highlights how dangerous reconciliation is to the terrorists, who are willing to go to any extreme to stop...

This article is anecdotal recounting of a young man from outside Iraq who did his best to martyr himself. What is important, is the recounting of actually who is and who is not a suicide bomber. Remember, these bombers have been described as fomenting a civil war and proof positive of a civil war. This is not the case as can be seen below: "...The stories of the men from Zarqa help explain the seemingly endless supply of suicide bombers in Iraq, most of whom are believed to be foreigners. "...Suicide bombings in Iraq are averaging roughly 42 a month,...

Fertiliser bombers jailed for at least 95 years By Duncan Gardham and Bonnie Malkin Last Updated: 6:02pm BST 30/04/2007Page 1 of 3 The leader of a British al Qa'eda cell has been jailed for at least 20 years for plotting a bombing campaign to rival the September 11 terror attacks. (L to R) Jawad Akbar, Omar Khyam, Salahuddin Amin, Anthony Garcia, and Waheed Mahmood His sentencing was welcomed by Home Secretary John Reid, who has ruled out a public inquiry into the July 7 attacks in London in the wake of new disclosures about the bombers' links to other terrorist...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - The founder of the group that claimed responsibility for last week's deadly Algiers bombings called on militants to put down their weapons under a government amnesty and stop trying to turn Algeria into a "second Iraq." Hassan Hattab made the comments in a letter to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika published on Monday by Echorouk daily after three bombs exploded in Algiers on Wednesday killing 33 people. He described the group that claimed responsibility for the bombings, which changed its name in January from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) to al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic...

Bombers blow themselves upFrom correspondents in Casablanca April 11, 2007 07:45amDeadly raid ... police look for evidence on the body of one of the bombers / AFP Three men blow themselves up to avoid capture Fourth gunned down after brandishing sabre Police and civilians killed and hurt in blasts THREE bombing suspects have blown themselves up after a police raid on a house in a Casablanca slum in which a fourth man was shot dead. The carnage began when police launched a dawn operation in the el Fida district of the Moroccan city looking for suspects involved in a bomb...

WASHINGTON, March 30, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces captured 12 suspected terrorists today, and bombers continued to target Iraqis over the last few days, military officials reported. In Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, Iraqi and coalition forces captured a suspected criminal tied to explosively-formed projectile facilitation networks. The suspect is believed to be involved with several violent extremist groups responsible for attacks against the Iraqi people and coalition Forces and facilitating the movement of EFPs into Iraq, officials said. Near the Syrian border, coalition forces captured six suspected terrorists with alleged links to al-Qaeda and the smuggling of foreign...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2007 -- Coalition forces nabbed two suspected al Qaeda-affiliated bombers during a morning raid in west Taji, Iraq, today, military officials reported, while three Iraqi children were killed and a dozen other residents were wounded today as the result of a insurgent mortar attack on a village north of Baghdad. Coalition forces escort Iraqi women and children to safety after a morning raid on a suspected terrorist “safe house” in west Taji, Iraq, today. Coalition forces detained two suspected al Qaeda-affiliated bombers and also found weapons and materials used to make roadside bombs. The “safe house”...

Court hears how hero took on 'tube bomber' 16.01.07 Suspects: (Top from left) Manfo Asiedu, Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed, (bottom from left) Yassin Omar, Hussain Osman and Adel Yahya Dramatic CCTV footage of the moment when one of the alleged July 21 bombers tried to detonate his rucksack bomb and failed was revealed for the first time today. Ramzi Mohammed was the first of four men to try to cause chaos on London's transport system that day. A heroic off-duty firefighter tried to tackle a would-be suicide bomber after his device failed to detonate on a Northern line Tube...