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Exclusive: U.K. Terror Plot -- Why the Bombs Failed
ABC ^ | July 4, 2007

Posted on 07/05/2007 5:41:50 AM PDT by NCjim

The London bomb plot allegedly planned by a cell of doctors failed early last Friday morning because a medical syringe used as part of the firing mechanism caused a malfunction, ABC News has learned.

According to nonclassified documents reviewed by ABC News, and confirmed by multiple sources, both mobile telephones initiated firing mechanisms rigged inside a Mercedes E 300 parked several yards from the front door of Tiger Tiger nightclub failed despite multiple calls to the cell phones designed to remotely trigger the devices.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cellphones; foiled; gla; haymarketcarbombs; nightclub; nightclubs; syringe
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Thanks, ABC. Given your publishing the analysis, maybe they'll have better luck next time...
1 posted on 07/05/2007 5:41:52 AM PDT by NCjim
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They failed because the makers were doctors, some of the least mechanically apt people I’ve ever met.........


2 posted on 07/05/2007 5:48:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: NCjim

Why didn’t they detonate the cars on-site? Where they afraid of all those virgins chasing after them forever?


3 posted on 07/05/2007 5:51:57 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Red Badger

Wonder if any of them can program their VCR?


4 posted on 07/05/2007 5:53:17 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: NCjim

Sweet Jesus...


5 posted on 07/05/2007 5:56:31 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: Red Badger

I had to show a Dr. how to use a web browser to access his email.


6 posted on 07/05/2007 5:59:29 AM PDT by EricT. (The tree of liberty needs to be watered...)
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To: neodad
Wonder if any of them can program their VCR?

Only if it keeps billable time..........

7 posted on 07/05/2007 5:59:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: Red Badger

“They failed because the makers were doctors, some of the least mechanically apt people I’ve ever met”

No kidding. They used a syringe as part of the firing mechanism? </slapping forehead with heel of hand>


8 posted on 07/05/2007 5:59:59 AM PDT by ex-NFO
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To: EricT.

The reason is they spend all their early years becoming doctors, and there is little time left for other pursuits. Inside their profession they are really educated and outside of that world they are lost...............


9 posted on 07/05/2007 6:02:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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To: Red Badger

In general you are correct. I won’t say I’m an exception but I can do most minor home repairs, including electrical work. I installed 4 new light fixtures and three new Roman shades yesterday. I know several physicians that are expert small engine repairmen.


10 posted on 07/05/2007 6:02:56 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Monet should have been smothered as a child." Pablo Picasso)
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To: AU72
Why didn’t they detonate the cars on-site? Where they afraid of all those virgins chasing after them forever?

They had an appointment in Samarra -- in Glasgow.

11 posted on 07/05/2007 6:05:42 AM PDT by Grut
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This is not the type information that should be released to the public...or to the terrorists.


12 posted on 07/05/2007 6:07:59 AM PDT by O6ret
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You are an exception. I would bet that you and your Engine repairmen friends were very close to your fathers who taught you before the med school exile..........


13 posted on 07/05/2007 6:08:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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And mechanics are inept surgeons.

So what?

14 posted on 07/05/2007 6:10:47 AM PDT by verity (Muhammed and Harry Reid are Dirt Bags)
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To: NCjim

Exactly. Give them a full and detailed assessment so that they can get it right next time.


15 posted on 07/05/2007 6:10:49 AM PDT by Clara Lou (Fred Thompson, '08-- imwithfred.com. Please note: Hillary is a hag.)
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To: Red Badger

I can’t speak for the others, but my father couldn’t hammer a nail without hitting his thumb. In their defense, my parents forced me to take 2 years of shop class in Junior High. The rest is self taught.


16 posted on 07/05/2007 6:13:57 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("Monet should have been smothered as a child." Pablo Picasso)
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To: Clara Lou

Well, we know they weren’t suicide folks. Wouldn’t want any of these dudes operating on me!!


17 posted on 07/05/2007 6:14:06 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: NCjim
ABC is PR agent for the Pentagon.

Apparently, some people just want to help the terrorists AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN ....... .


18 posted on 07/05/2007 6:15:07 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: verity

Now you tell me.


19 posted on 07/05/2007 6:17:04 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: CholeraJoe
In their defense, my parents forced me to take 2 years of shop class...

Ah, then they realized that it was not within their power to give you what you needed, so they did the next best thing! Good for them! Not many parents nowadays are so astute..........

20 posted on 07/05/2007 6:17:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Bite your tongue. It tastes a lot better than crow................)
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