Article

2005-07-12 Britain

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by tipper 2005-07-12 11:20|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lucky break that bus boomer was at least with regard to sorting and following the trail of the scum.

Posted by Tkat 2005-07-12 11:51|| 2005-07-12 11:51|| Front Page Top

#2 The car connection may make those London camera recordings quite useful.

Posted by Neutron Tom 2005-07-12 11:57|| 2005-07-12 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 The police mood is said to be "buoyant" about the developments.

I think this "buoyancy" is from the free rein given them to do their job, before civil rights, amnesty or whatever people try to interfere.

Posted by SwissTex 2005-07-12 12:36|| 2005-07-12 12:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Was the bus explosion unintentional? changed his mind, missed a connection, or bag failed to explode in the tube at the appointed time so he took it and tried to get away? might explain the nervous looking down into the bag that some passengers reported. Maybe one of his "friends" called the phone used to trigger the bomb.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-12 12:51|| 2005-07-12 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Go Fred!

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-12 12:58|| 2005-07-12 12:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Leeds? Dang my Great-g-g-g-g-g-g Grandpappy and grandmammy hailed from there. What's happened to the neighborhood? Seriously, it looks as if these terrorists weren't as careful as was first thought. If they didn't die in the explosions I mightily hope they are caught. Too bad they won't get the death penalty. On the other hand, if they only get life in prison maybe they don't get those 72 white grapes.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-07-12 13:12|| 2005-07-12 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 I am betting that this cell hasn't made any mistakes with leaving stray cell phones or hard-drives.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-07-12 13:39|| 2005-07-12 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Was the bus explosion unintentional? ...

Apparently the northbound Northern Line wasn't running at the time the boomers arrived at Kings Cross, and it's likely this was the fourth boomer's intended target. He may have scratched his head for a while, got thrown out of the station with everyone else when the others went off, and made the best of the situation by getting his package to go off on a crowded us instead. Alternatively, he may have taken another tube, the thing didn't go off at the right time, he was turfed out soemwhere else, got on a bus or two and let it off - either trying to deactivate it (unlikely) or managing to detonate it manually...

Posted by Bulldog ">Bulldog 2005-07-12 14:48|| 2005-07-12 14:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Bulldog, do you think that their original plan might have been for the bombing to take place prior to the election - this being a fallback date. The G-8 summit wasn't even in London after all.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-07-12 17:01|| 2005-07-12 17:01|| Front Page Top

#10 they couldn't get on the Virgin train to Edinburgh...

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-12 17:48|| 2005-07-12 17:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Evacuate all the people with first names like Mahmoud, Muhammed, etc., to Truro. Evacuate all the Jones, Smiths, and Tynsdales to Boston (England, not US). Evacuate all Pakistanis to Lundy, and everybody else to Land's End. Once everything's taken care of, let the people walk back to Leeds.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-07-12 20:31|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-07-12 20:31|| Front Page Top

13:12 play poker
23:58 Super Hose
23:55 Sherry
23:52 Frank G
23:45 Super Hose
23:41 Atomic Conspiracy
23:36 Phil Fraering
23:33 Super Hose
23:32 anymouse
23:29 Super Hose
23:28 anymouse
23:26 trailing wife
23:25 Old Patriot
23:24 Sock Puppet 0â Doom
23:22 Super Hose
23:21 trailing wife
23:19 Mike Kozlowski
23:16 Super Hose
23:14 Phil Fraering
23:09 Barbara Skolaut
23:07 Super Hose
23:00 ed
23:00 whitecollar redneck
22:59 Super Hose