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Question about the bombs in the UK

Posted on 07/02/2007 2:23:35 PM PDT by Graycliff

Exactly what were they trying to accomplish with these type of devices. Was it an attempt to just cause a large fire, or was it attempt to cause something more destructive, such as a FAE or fuel air explosive?

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/fae.htm


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1 posted on 07/02/2007 2:23:36 PM PDT by Graycliff
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To: Graycliff
Had the vehicle at the airport managed to enter the building I believe there would have been considerable death.

But perhaps next time they will hold off until Iran has sent them better explosives.

2 posted on 07/02/2007 2:29:32 PM PDT by Voltage
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To: Graycliff

I think it was a poor attempt at fuel air explosions. If they had been able to get the propane tanks to explode first, it would have spread the gas.


3 posted on 07/02/2007 2:31:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: cripplecreek

Kinda what i was thinking.


4 posted on 07/02/2007 2:37:49 PM PDT by Graycliff (Long haired freaky people, need not apply.)
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To: Graycliff
John Gibson, Fox News, just reported that there are now five doctors in custody.
5 posted on 07/02/2007 2:38:46 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: cripplecreek
It wasn't a poor attempt. These attacks got thwarted by outside influence.

It's entirely possible the bomb set for use against that club was put out of commission because the attackers couldn't get a signal across a very busy Cell tower ~ during Midsummer must be 50,000 Swedish and Danish teenage girls in that part of London, all on cellphones, plus the other 100,000 tourists, all on cellphones.

The Jeep attack at the airport was thwarted by simple concrete piers that blocked the Jeep's entry into the terminal building.

It doesn't take rocket science to set these kinds of bombs off.

6 posted on 07/02/2007 2:40:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Graycliff
It was an attempt to coerce the new PM to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan.
7 posted on 07/02/2007 8:54:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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