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Police Discover, Defuse 'Massive' Explosive Device in West London
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Posted on 06/29/2007 12:14:31 AM PDT by AVNevis

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To: mware

yep sure does.
Hey - does it look like they wanted to crash the car into the building thru the glass, but either lost control or chickened out?


341 posted on 06/29/2007 1:59:57 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: RDTF

There has been some speculation that the smoke was actually gas fumes. If they were in the car, breathing in the fumes could have caused them to lose control of the car.


342 posted on 06/29/2007 2:02:40 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: RDTF

I think I saw the car on Haymarket St had 7 boxes of nails in it.


343 posted on 06/29/2007 2:04:28 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: RDTF
It looks like they had this guy on some charge and he got released for lack of evidence. The staggering away I think help confirm he was affected by the fumes in the car,

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 (pictured), who was convicted of orchestrating a vehicle bomb plot involving targets in London, New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington, D.C.

Officials say a surveillance camera caught the suspect "staggering from the Mercedes" shortly after parking it outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub.

344 posted on 06/29/2007 2:09:38 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware

dumba$$ terrorists!


345 posted on 06/29/2007 2:13:12 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: mware

by the way - I am really surprised that there are only 2 cars. That doesn’t fit their MO.


346 posted on 06/29/2007 2:29:28 PM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: RDTF
by the way - I am really surprised that there are only 2 cars. That doesn’t fit their MO.

Yup, I agree... and the whole "Thursday night attack on Tiger Tiger" picture we were initially presented with seemed odd to me from the beginning.

347 posted on 06/29/2007 2:52:09 PM PDT by USF (I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade)
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To: AVNevis

Serious business,but I couldnt help laughing watching with my father the Sky feed onto Fox this morning and today....

Thinking of the phrases and names that must have confused the US public: ‘autumn’, ‘chief whip’, ‘David Cameron’, ‘Sir Menzies Campbell’..........lol

And a ‘helluva way’ for most Americans to be introduced to Brown,the Cabinet and major British politicians.

Listen,we have survived 1940,the IRA,July 7th and 21st....this is the same.


348 posted on 06/29/2007 3:05:47 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: mware

I have seen not one word about that on British tv.

Thanks for that.

That is interesting as birmingham is some way away from London - clearly they have some hard intel.


349 posted on 06/29/2007 3:13:13 PM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: UKrepublican
Like I mentioned in an earlier post. M15 better not tell anything to the US that they dont want on the front pages of the news.

We got some folks in the intelligence agencies that dont belong there.

350 posted on 06/29/2007 3:19:10 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware
Second London Car Contained Bomb Fuel, Nails, U.K. Police Say

Birmingham's mentioned. Quelle suprise.

351 posted on 06/29/2007 3:21:01 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla; UKrepublican
The three men are believed to be from the Birmingham area, a center of radical Islamic unrest in Britain, U.S. officials who had been briefed on the developments told NBC News

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aassia4UTkEU&refer=home

FYI....

Apparently British media is keeping this under its hat, or at least the intelligence agencies are.

352 posted on 06/29/2007 3:27:09 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware
From this past February...

How al-Qaeda ‘tried to bring Baghdad to Birmingham’

353 posted on 06/29/2007 3:29:32 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mware
The three men are believed to be from the Birmingham area, a center of radical Islamic unrest in Britain...


The authorities need to DEPORT each and every Muslim in the country, if they wish England to survive.

If these people are so full of "unrest" (translation: murderous hatred), then they should be happy to leave.
354 posted on 06/29/2007 3:41:27 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: mware

Yep, I guess they’ve all gone home for the day. lol

Its definately not been reported yet, and thats a surprise being as theyve been on top of everything else thats happening.


355 posted on 06/29/2007 3:49:04 PM PDT by UKrepublican
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To: mewzilla

“Birmingham’s mentioned. Quelle suprise.”

It figures......


356 posted on 06/29/2007 3:59:44 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/terror-plot-inv.html

“Terror Plot Involves Islamic Extremists; Police Have ‘Crystal Clear’ Picture of Suspect”

June 29, 2007 2:56 PM
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “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 (pictured), who was convicted of orchestrating a vehicle bomb plot involving targets in London, New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington, D.C.”

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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001263.html

June 29, 2007
“Why we support the practice of preventive detention”


357 posted on 06/29/2007 4:26:45 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/06/london_car_bomb_found_second_c.php

“London Car Bomb Found; Second Car Bomb and Suspect Identified (updated)”
By Jeffrey Imm
(June 29, 2007, 5:00 pm)


358 posted on 06/29/2007 4:35:46 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843491/posts?page=1413#1413

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6255960.stm

Last Updated: Friday, 29 June 2007, 23:41 GMT 00:41 UK

“Two car bombs found in West End”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police have confirmed they are now investigating the discovery of two car bombs in the West End of London.

Police said the second device had been found in a Mercedes hours after the car was given a parking ticket in Cockspur Street and towed to Park Lane.

Another Mercedes, with a bomb made up of 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, had been found outside a nightclub in Haymarket at 0130 BST.

Both bombs were similar, potentially viable and clearly linked, police said.

‘Troubling discovery’

At a news conference on Friday evening, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command, said the discovery of the second device was “obviously troubling” and “reinforces the need for the public to be alert”.

“There was a considerable amount of fuel and gas canisters, as in the first vehicle. There was also a substantial quantity of nails,” he said.

Speaking earlier about the first bomb, DAC Clarke said: “It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been serious injury or loss of life.”

See map of where devices were found

Police sources said it would have caused “carnage” if it had exploded.

“International elements” were believed to have been involved with the bombs, Whitehall sources told the BBC.”


359 posted on 06/29/2007 5:08:26 PM PDT by Cindy
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See Map Where Devices Were Found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6255960.stm#map


360 posted on 06/29/2007 5:09:23 PM PDT by Cindy
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