[bill1952]

Muktar Said Ibrahim (left) and Ramzi Mohammed as they are held by armed police in London on July 29, 2005

What is wrong with this sentence? Or should I say, this reality?

[Toddsterpatriot]

The 21/7 bombers only failed to kill and maim dozens of Londoners because the bomb-making "mastermind" could not do basic mathematics it emerged today,

Math is hard.

[Slump Tester]

The result of generations of inbreeding.

[Paladin2]

Aren’t maths banned by the koran? AK47s? Nuclear Reactions?

[fatrat]

Hmmmmm. a doctor who can’t do basic math like ratio and proportion? wonder how he passed the pharmacology segment of his medical education? wonder how many patients he has killed?

[jiggyboy]

Again with the “wedding” excuse. That must be on page one of the terrorist handbook, you’re either going to a wedding or it was a wedding that got bombed.

[Right Wing Assault]

Why do we always tell the bad guys what they did wrong when the bomb doesn’t go off?

[RichInOC]

IBRAHIM: WHAT HAPPEN?
CONSTABLE: YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DOING.

[snowsislander]

...hydrogen peroxide distilled from hair bleach and chapati flour...

Chapati flour? I didn't realize there is anything particularly special about flour for chapatis (or rotis.)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Allah claims all the incompetents as his own.

[river rat]

In a sane world, wishing to survive — all immigration of Muslims would be banned until the Jihad is “over”.....

Perhaps then, the rumored “moderate Muslims” would rid their communities of lunatics who “don’t speak for them”...

Right....

[A CA Guy]

Wow, they sure look like middle eastern Muslim types to me.

No way, I hear they are all innocent, Allah their false god said so.

[wideminded]

I was trying to guess which one of the six men pictured was the mastermind by scanning the faces to pick out which one looked the most intelligent. In the process I had written off Muktar Said Ibrahim as the dumbest looking one.

[aruanan]

However, none of the rucksack devices exploded as ringleader Muktar Said Ibrahim had a poor grasp of mathematics and wrongly calculated the ratio of ingredients needed to trigger the explosions.



The six men on trial: (from the left, top row) Manfo Asiedu, Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed

Why am I not surprised old Muktar had difficulty in math?

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Turning to God [sic], he wrote: "I beg Allah to accept this action from me... he promises martyrdom to whom he wishes. "What I have done (is) for the sake of Allah for he loves those who fight in his sake."
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It is disgusting when reporters make the basic mistake of equating the Muslim deity "Allah" with God. In actual fact, a stronger case can be made (using Islamic sources at that), that "Allah" is a manifestation of Satan. Just look up any reference to Satan/Lucifer appearing as a bearer of light, being a deceiver, promising all the goods and power of this world, and on and on. The main thing separating Islam from being a real religion (instead of the totalitarian political strategy that it is) is the concept of "love".

[Northern Alliance]

We have used up a lot more than our fair share of luck avoiding catastrophe from these scum. It can’t keep up.

[jmcenanly]

It is not their competence that worries me, but their persistence. Recall that it took two tries for them to knock down the WTC.

[Girlene]

Wasn't the store owner just a little suspicious of what Muktar Said Ibrahim planned to do with 52 gallons of hydrogen peroxide?

[etcetera]

"A scribbled note found at the bomb factory showed that Ibrahim, who had failed maths GCSE, had wrongly calculated the ratio of ingredients, rendering the bombs harmless."

So now AQ will be publishing tables of ingredient ratios along with the bomb-making recipes.

[Thinkin' Gal]

The mathematically gifted for allah ping.