Car Bomb Scare In London

Sky Newx (UK) ^ | June 29, 2007

[HAL9000]

An explosive device found in a car in central London has been defused.

Police were called to reports of a suspicious vehicle parked in The Haymarket area shortly before 02:00 this morning.

The area was cordoned off by police who examined the car.

They discovered what appeared to be a potentially explosive device, which was then made safe.

An investigation has been launched by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.

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[Shelayne]

Thank you, pollywog. That is exactly why I have it as my tagline. It convicts me, rightly.

Blessings to you. And heading over there myself.

[Shazolene]

Here’s some news/analysis from Threats Watch:

Update: See also - Counterterrorism Blog: London Car Bomb Found, Defused

This type of car bombing plot is typical of other British Jihadist car bomb plots in the past, including both the July 2005 bomb plots, and the Dhiren Barot Jihadist group bomb plots.
—- In July 2005, a number of bombs and components, some packed with nails to cause death and maximum injury, were recovered from a car parked by the July 7 bombers at Luton station.
—- British Jihadist Dhiren Barot pleaded guilty to plotting a series of attacks, including detailed plans to explode limousines packed with gas cylinders, explosives and nails after leaving them in underground London parking garages or hotels.

Update II: Consider another potential explanation for the crash:

ThreatsWatch: A bomber seeking out the Tiger, Tiger club on a suicide mission would likely want to drive the bomb into the building, not park outside on the street, for maximum casualties inside. Another possible explanation therefor may be that the bomb did not go haywire after hitting the trash cans near the club, but well before. This might explain the “erratic” driving and stopping just short of what we are assuming as the target.
If the bomb malfunctioned before reaching its target (which in this scenario could clearly be other than the Tiger, Tiger club) and the car began to fill with choking noxious smoke while driving, the visibility and breathing may have proved so difficult that the bomber simply could drive no further to his ultimate destination, forced to abandon his malfunctioning rigged vehicle. If surveillance video exists, it would be interesting to see how soon after impact the driver exited the vehicle and if smoke was already billowing out of the opened door.

Update III: From ABC News -

“the bomb was composed of tanks of propane, butane and 125 liters of gasoline (33 U.S. gallons), roofing nails and a fuse that initial reports indicated was constructed of simple light bulb or flashbulb filaments and designed to be triggered by a mobile telephone.”

Update IV: Second car bomb found “in a Mercedes apparently towed into a car park pound beneath London’s Park Lane after being found illegally parked in the West End of the city.”

Update V: A suspect - this from ABC News -

British police have a “crystal clear” picture of the man who drove the bomb-rigged silver Mercedes outside a London nightclub, and officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com he bears “a close resemblance” to a man arrested by police in connection with another bomb plot but released for lack of evidence.
Officials say the suspect had been taken into custody in connection with the case of al Qaeda operative Dhiren Barot, who was convicted of orchestrating a vehicle bomb plot involving targets in London, New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington, D.C.

[UKrepublican]

Thanks for that. It will certainly be interesting to learn more about any prior contact he had with the intel agencies.

[omega4179]

Irish? Christian Fundamentalists? disaffected youth?, The damn Swedes?

[driftless2]

"evangelical Christians"

The beeb has a new crime show called MI5 or something like that. A recent episode had a plot concerning Christian fundamentalists who bombed abortion clinics as part of an international effort. I couldn't believe it. Apparently the Beeb feels that those nutty Christians are a much bigger threat than Islamic terrorists. How many abortion clinics have those awful Christian fundamentalists bombed lately? I haven't heard of any in the last five years. Leave it to the Beeb to get it wrong as usual.

[driftless2]

"moops"

The moops were the people the moors evicted from Algeria I believe. Thanks for the laugh bubbleboy or should I say bubble Dave?

[concretebob]

Appears to me to be a genuine case of "Divine Intervention" if I ever saw one.
Imagine the destruction in the middle of one of London's most heavily visited tourist spots.
With the discovery of the second car, no doubt timed to explode after rescue workers arrived on-scene, the vision gets ugly and twisted.
If there is anyone left with any doubt as to the level of evil we are dealing with, then you're just insane and disconnected from reality.

[Levante]

“I read that on DU, it must be true. /sarc”

Those “people” over at DU are truly a bunch of dumbasses.

[Levante]

Damn! And here I thought that gorillas were indigenous to equatorial Africa!!!

[Grampa Dave]

The link, provided by TexKat, below is excellent re these incidents, the Scotland incidents and arrests of Islamofascists wanting to be serial killers of innocents.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23402548-details/Two%20doctors%20held%20over%20bomb%20attacks/article.do