http://www.barnettimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1292643.0.boobytrap_bomb_to_destroy_evidence_of_july_21_attack.php
"‘Booby-trap bomb to destroy evidence of July 21 attack’"
By Marcus Dysch
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A booby-trap bomb was laid in a New Southgate flat, ready to blow up the whole block, as part of a plotted terrorist attack, a court has heard.
Six men are on trial at Woolwich Crown Court, accused of plotting the attack on London's transport network on July 21, 2005.
Last week, the court was told the ringleader, Muktar Ibrahim, 29, rigged up the device at Curtis House, in Ladderswood Way, so that police would be killed or injured when searching the ninth-floor flat. The bomb was intended to explode if a sideboard drawer was opened, it was claimed."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The court previously heard that four bombs had been made at Omar's New Southgate flat. It is claimed only good fortune' prevented the high explosive TATP detonator from igniting the main charge of liquid hydrogen peroxide mixed with chapatti flour.
The failed bombings on July 21, 2005, were designed to be bigger and better' than those carried out on July 7, 2005, in which 52 people died, the court heard.
Ibrahim, of Farleigh Road, Stoke Newington; Asiedu, of Finsbury Park, and Omar appear with three other defendants. All deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.
The trial continues.
7:12pm Wednesday 28th March 2007"
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Race horses a target in Hong Kong? (Terrorism?)
International Herald Tribune ^ | March 26, 2007 | Keith Bradsher
Posted on 03/28/2007 4:57:15 PM PDT by RDTF
HONG KONG: It was a device worthy of Rube Goldberg or Wile E. Coyote: a dozen remote-controlled launching tubes secretly buried in the turf at Hong Kong's most famous horse race track last week, armed with compressed air to fire tiny, liquid-filled darts into the bellies of horses at the starting gate.
No horses were hurt, because the track supervisor noticed something underfoot before racing started, discovered the elaborate mechanism concealed by grass-colored tape and called in a police bomb squad to remove it.
But the discovery of the device, equipped with elaborate electronic controls, has raised concerns about security during the six Olympic equestrian events to be held in Hong Kong next year.
Few security experts expect a terrorist incident during the 2008 Olympics. But Hong Kong is a far more open, less-controlled city than Beijing, where most of the Olympic events will be held.
The equestrian events will not be held at the 162-year-old Happy Valley Racecourse, where the mysterious device was found, but at Hong Kong's other race track, in Sha Tin, just north of the Kowloon Peninsula.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...