[kasperl]

Seems like London dodged the bullet, indeed. I do hope they've got the bastards for interogation.

[karajorma]

Apparently they've just arrested some guy in Whitehall. Might be connected or might just be some guy who wasn't quick enough about following the police's orders.

[vyper]

And Blair just said a whole load of nothing. Oh, and why in the hell were the BBC forced to turn their cameras off outside No.10?

[karajorma]

That was a little odd. Unless they were moving everyone away after the Whitehall thing.

[vyper]

Originally posted by karajorma
That was a little odd. Unless they were moving everyone away after the Whitehall thing.

That was over by the time it happened. Very very odd. Reeks of a little information-control.

[kasperl]

http://www.police.uk/content/viewarticle.asp?xslfile=~xsl~transform_article.xsl&xmlfile=~_content~xml~news~MPS-BSW-20.xml

Some more information, straight from the horses mouth in this case.


And for the visually oriented: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4704069.stm

[Rictor]

Thankfully, it looks like a whole lot of nothing. Four bombs and no casualties suggests that this is the work of amateurs. Personally, my guess is that some ******* got inspired by the London bombings, then tried to cobble together his own attack with little time, limited resources and no knowledge.

[pyro-manic]

I was in London all day Tuesday...

My guess is copycat - it looks like they didn't have a clue about bombmaking.

[Flipside]

Or simply a poor batch of explosives. It seems the bombs were intended to explode in exactly the same manner as the bombs 2 weeks ago, but, whilst to primer charge went off with a small explosion, the maion charge failed to detonate for some reason.

My own thoughts are that they were trying to build up a momentum of attacking one city, the more often they succeed, the more recruitment. However, this may well have backfired on them at a fatal level, since this was a complete cock-up on a military level, it caused some disruption, but we've had a bit of practice at these disruptions before

Better still, I would say it is likely that one or more of the intended suicide bombers will be captured, in a way it is urgent that we do, since these people really have nothing left to live for now.

[StratComm]

Except that all reports I've seen indicate that these bombs were planted and left.  Not that it rules out suicide bombing, but it does eliminate the need for there to have been as many bombers as there were bombs.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by StratComm
Except that all reports I've seen indicate that these bombs were planted and left.  Not that it rules out suicide bombing, but it does eliminate the need for there to have been as many bombers as there were bombs.

I've seen at least 2 reports indicating that the bombs exploded whilst still in the possesion of the would=be-bombers.

[vyper]

And that one of them ran like a biatch when the people chased him.

[Flipside]

Indeed, not afraid of dying in the fiery speed of a bomb, but a little bit touchy about being ripped limb from limb by hordes of angry commuters. A threat that London Underground Staff face on a daily basis.

Who's afraid now running-boy?

[Clave]

I'd really love 5 minute alone with one of them, just to introduce their head to a variety of objects - I don't own a baseball bat, but would buy one specially for the occasion...

[vyper]

Be British about it, use a cricket bat.

[Clave]

In actuality, I would probably be more Japanese about it - there would be something satisfying about using a katana on one of those guys, or better still on one of the people that trained them.

[aldo_14]

Be Saudi.  Shove a pole topped with pesto and spicy peppers up their rectum.

[vyper]

Charming.

[Nico]

The bad thing about it is that it happened while security was, I assume, on full alert because of the recent bombing, which shows that no matter what you do, if someone wants to blow up something, he can, no matter how many policemen and others you'll deploy...

[pyro-manic]

Death by Mau Mau.....