[nw_arizona_granny]

August 24, 2005

Button device set off bombs

The London Times

By Thair Shaikh
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1748653,00.html

THE four suicide bombers who killed 52 other people in London on July 7
triggered the bombs themselves by pressing a device similar to a
button.

Senior police sources said last night that the finding provides
potentially important clues about the bombers' planning and technical knowhow.

It also dispels theories that the bombs might have been set off by
alarm settings on mobile phones, a method used in the Madrid bombings in
March last year. A police source said: "They were manually activated . .
. there were no mobile phone timers on the 7th."

Jermaine Lindsay, 19, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30,
and Hasib Hussain, 19, died in the attack.

The four failed London attacks on July 21 were also activated with a
push-button device. A Scotland Yard spokesman said that the investigation
was continuing.

[ExSoldier]

Some time yesterday, IRRC, Cindy published a link to a story about how Scotland Yard prevented a nerve gas attack against Parliament recently. I have not seen anything in the MSM on this and not too much here on FR. I think I saw one thread with a very minimal number of posts. This is a HUGE story with potential ramifications here on home soil. Sarin ain't something you whip up in your garage, it would take a fairly sophisticated lab and hardware to do this. IMHO, it would take the resources of a nation-state to produce a device to be used in a terror attack, even if it was a piece of military ordnance, like a landmine or artillery shell. Identifying an actual nation whose chemical weapon is used against us gives us a viable nuke target coordinate.