Posted on 07/01/2007 12:24:41 PM PDT by Alouette
London terror analysis: Online manual on car bombs instructs terrorists 'not to park illegally'
Yaakov Lappin Published: 07.01.07, 16:18 / Israel News
The three botched terror attacks launched in Britain in the past 72 hours bear all the hallmarks of first-time British-born jihadis attempting to emulate al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Multiple car bombs designed to slaughter hundreds of civilians and strikes against critical infrastructure are daily events in Baghdad, and al-Qaeda in Iraq has decided to put its experience in mass murder on the internet for the benefit of its members around the world, in the form of an online training course on bomb attacks.
The bombing manual, available in Arabic on a jihadi website, contains a number of key pieces of advice for car bombers. It instructs terrorists not to park their vehicles illegally, and advises the car bomber to leave the scene quietly, if he plans to detonate the vehicle from a distance, in what al-Qaeda terms "non-martyrdom operations."
Fortunately, these guidelines were not adhered to by the two London car bombers, one of whom crashed his vehicle and fled the scene, arousing suspicion, while the other parked his vehicle illegally, resulting in the car being towed away from its intended target.
The manual details precise locations inside the vehicle where explosives should be placed, and recommends various targets such as "cinemas" and "stadiums."
Other forms of explosives, the guide says, should be aimed at "groupings demonstrations, celebrations or festivals."
The guide calls on terrorists to "monitor and identify the route of the enemy, how they leave a cinema or a stadium at the end of a game," and also gives instructions on how to carry out suicide car bombings.
"Drive the car on the road passing the crowd. If a car passes near these places, it could draw the attention of the enemy, and the car could be inspected," the guide said. It went on to explain in detail how suicide car bombers can fool security guards, and suggests a correct speed to drive a vehicle packed with explosives into a target.
The placing of such a guide on the internet allows al-Qaeda members around the world to access this experience. In Britain, the target audience is a radical core of jihadis made up of thousands of young British Muslims who have sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda.
In Janury of 2005, six months before the July 7 bombings, their Syrian-born leader, (now exiled to Lebanon) Sheikh Omar Bakri, declared Britain to be a "land of War."
In Islamic terms, the Dar al-Harb, or land of War, is a territory in which jihad must be carried out, and is distinguished from the Dar al-Islam, or House of Islam. Up until 2005, UK jihadis were told by their leaders that they lived in Britain in a ceasefire condition, in what is known in Islamist terms as "the covenant of security."
According to that covenant, the UK could not be targeted for acts of jihad, so long as the British government did not interfere with UK-based jihadi organizations, who were then busy exporting soldiers and raising funds for jihad campaigns around the world.
During her visit to Israel at the start of June, Baroness Caroline Cox, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords, and a co-author of a book on the jihadi threat to the UK, expressed the view that the covenant of security may well have been unofficially agreed to by the UK government, in the hope that Britain would be spared from the jihad.
That hope proved misguided, and in an internet audio broadcast, Omar Bakri told dozens of followers that the covenant of security had ended. "I believe the whole of Britain has become Dar al-Harb," he declared. "The kuffar (non-Muslims) have no sanctity for their own life or property," he added. Since then, four suicide bombers murdered 52 Londoners, and security forces have scrambled to thwart further waves of attacks.
Due to the large number of British Muslims who are affiliated with al-Qaeda, some terror plots have not been picked up on the radar screens of UK security forces, including the botched car bombings in London on Friday, and the subsequent attack on Glasgow's airport on Saturday. Those attacks showed, however, that the cell which carried them out is unsophisticated, and that its members are in the 'kindergarten' stage of complex jihadi capabilities, despite the attempts of veteran al-Qaeda commanders to communicate their experience and tactics around the world.
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So this is why Kenneth Livingston is getting on teevee and telling everyone not to be suspicious of the muzzies!
I’ve been reading the UK car bombs are like the AQ car bombs in Iraq, the UK car bombs were gasoline and propane, is that really how the car bombs in Iraq are built???
Some investigators have note that some sophisticated planning almost certainly went into the attacks: the booby-trapped Mercedes parked outside the Tiger Tiger club near Piccadilly Circus was parked in a legal parking zone, a rarity in a traffic-clogged district where parking is mostly banned. This suggests the bombers conducted advance reconnaissance on their target.
What these british chimps managed to create was a firebomb. I guess they expected an explosion, which is why they carried shrapnel in the cars, but that was never going to happen.
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I agree. The official statement this morning that these are not British-born jihadis is wishful thinking. It looks like yet another case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
This operation obviously WAS planned, since it seems to have involved at least four cars all set to explode within a limited period of time. And the car parked at the Glasgow hospital was probably set to welcome victims from the airport. But there were some errors in the planning.
Still, with a little luck they could have killed many hundreds of people in both London and Glasgow. The luck was on our side, thank God.
It would be interesting to find out if the hospital parking lot was an area designated for triage during major disasters. i.e. would the car have blown up in the middle of ambulances and doctors?
Have you ever seen a tank or should I say depot of propane tanks blow up? If not than I would say that you had better do some studying. The propane alone would have sent the nails flying in all directions doing some potentially critical injuries. And you are right in saying that the petrol would have made a real nasty firebomb.
E/A bombs are difficult to make and these idiots weren't even close.
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A gas and propane explosion could be devestating. The trick is to get it to all explode at one time, instead of catching on fire and the burning until it’s exhausted. There’s not enough oxygen in a filled gas can to make it go boom.
More indication that this op was not Al Queda. I contend it is Palestinian in origin, that is their part and specialty in the Empire of Islam.
No, the bombs in Iraq use military explosives, this is an Urban bomb style, exactly like the ones used in Palestine.
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking of our enemies from a western viewpoint. This is a serious error, our enemies are eastern, not western. They are not a Greek/Roman City/State model but a pre-feudal Empire model. Every one has a part in the empire, that is why almost all bomb terror groups use Palestinian operatives. It is their job in the empire.
What these chaps may have created was a FAE bomb. A small charge is placed to rupture the tanks, a one second delayed charge fires off the Fuel Air combo. It is possible to get liquid fuel tanks to detonate but that is rather hard to acheive without custom mix in the tank.
The only country they never name is Palestine. Other cases they generaly name the country. Makes the "Road Map" look bad.
The Palestinians are pretty busy this month.
I would guess Iraqi, Yemeni or Saudi.
Although their nationality, as we know it, is not important. They all belong to the ummah.
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