Keep screening those blue haired grannies, and let the young muslim males go through.
Posted on 01/16/2007 7:11:17 AM PST by 1066AD
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 carriage.
Angus Campbell showed amazing courage in standing his ground to argue with Somalian Ramzi Mohammed as he tried to flee the train near Oval station, the jury in the 21/7 terror trial was told today.
They were then shown CCTV footage of the alleged bomber trying to detonate his device in the packed Tube train.
Father of two Mohammed, 25, appears to point a rucksack bomb at a young mum, then activates a detonator with his left hand in his trouser pocket, but the deadly device fails to ignite.
As passengers flee in panic Mr Campbell shouts at Mohammed as he tries to protest his innocence.
Instead of admitting he was carrying a bomb he claims “what's the matter, it's bread”.
The court heard he then tries to pass off the blame by adding, “it wasn't me, it was that” pointing at his rucksack.
Once the Northern line train pulls into Oval Station the cameras catch Mohammed fleeing, pursued by brave passengers.
He is seen racing from the platform, running up the downward escalator and escaping through the barriers onto the street.
Another courageous bystander at the station's florist's gives chase but is unable to catch Mohammed.
The jerky pictures in grainy and hazy black-and-white were played to the jury at Woolwich Crown Court on the second day of the 21/7 trial.
Nigel Sweeney, QC, prosecuting, told how Mohammed, together with co-defendants Muktar Said Ibrahim and Yassin Hassan Omar, had driven from North Kensington to Stockwell Station to launch their attacks just two weeks after the 7/7 bombings.
Omar, 26, was to board a Victoria line train from Stockwell and attempt to detonate his bomb as the Tube approached Warren Street.
While Ibrahim, 28, would take a Northern line Tube to Bank, catch a number 26 bus and attempt to blow it up by Shoreditch High Street and Hackney Road.
The CCTV cameras first pick up the trio as they drive into Stockwell and park. The three are seen walking down the road carrying the bombs in rucksacks on their backs — each about 100 yards apart.
As they enter the Tube station, Mohammed already has his left hand in his pocket.
Said Mr Sweeney: “As he went to board the train fellow travellers noticed he appeared to be whispering to himself. He boarded the second carriage of the six-car train. The carriage was quite full.
“There was a woman with a small child in a buggy. While the train was in the tunnel, Mohammed turns his rucksack to face the mother and child by him and fires the bomb. The detonator fires but the main charge doesn't.
“People fled in panic but Angus Campbell, a fireman, was made of firmer stuff. He remained and remonstrated with Mohammed.”
Earlier, the court heard Hussain Osman, 28, had intended to detonate the fourth bomb on a Hammersmith & City line Tube going from Paddington towards Hammersmith.
The fifth alleged would-be suicide bomber, Manfo Kwako Asiedu, 33, is said to have got cold feet and dumped his bomb in woods on Little Wormwood Scrubs.
The sixth defendant, Adel Yahya, 24, left Britain a month before the alleged bombing attack.
All six defendants have pleaded not-guilty to conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.
Keep screening those blue haired grannies, and let the young muslim males go through.
Too bad there weren't a bunch of soccer hooligans around to beat the living daylights out of him and then put him on a plane back to East Africa. "While the train was in the tunnel, Mohammed turns his rucksack to face the mother and child by him and fires the bomb." This POS should be jailed for a good, long time and then deported. How much longer are we and the Brits going to have to put up with having these animals live among us? Enoch Powell was right.
Disembowel them, and grind their bodies with those of pigs, and feed it to the beasts of the field.
You are wrong here. He should be jailed long enough that he dies before he can be deported.
If some of his fellow inmates decide to help the government out, let them do it.
Guns, SUVs, now rucksacks.
I hope they sentence the rucksack to a lengthy term.
Good man Angus, aye.
Regards.
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