London Investigators Find 16 Unexploded Devices in Attacker's Trunk

[gilliam]

London Investigators Find 16 Unexploded Devices in Attacker’s Trunk…LONDON, July 27, 2005 — The plot for the July 7 transit bombings in London, which killed 56 people, may have been much larger than previously known, ABC News has learned.

Sources familiar with the investigation tell ABC News an additional 12 bombs and four improvised detonators were found in the trunk of a car believed to be rented by suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer. Police believe the bombers drove the car to Luton, where they boarded trains to London.

 

[gilliam]

The deadly nailbombs meant for London commuters
By Jenny Booth, Times Online
http://images.thetimes.co.uk/images...ttp://images.thetimes.co.uk/images/trans.gifA nailbomb, in a picture obtained by ABC news
timesonline.co.uk/article/0,22989-1710339,00.html

Shocking new images have emerged of unexploded bombs, some packed around with nails, which were found in a car left behind by the July 7 London bombers. In total, 16 bombs were found in the red Nissan car parked at Luton railway station. It is is believed the car was rented in Leeds by Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four bombers who killed themselves and 52 others in a co-ordinated attack on three London Underground trains and a bus earlier this month.

The sheer number of devices has raised fears that the scale of the July 7 bomb plot was much larger than originally imagined.

The presence of nailbombs graphically illustrates that the bombing cell wanted to inflict the maximum possible pain, injury and risk of death on innocent London commuters, security analysts say.

“You see what is bulging on the sides of the bottle are nails. Many, many nails,” said Robert Ayers, a security expert who was shown the pictures by the American ABC News channel last night.

“And the nails are put there so that when the bomb goes off, the nails will tear tissue and kill people in the area. Bombs don’t kill by concussion. Small bombs, they kill by the blast effects of fragments of glass or metal, and this is designed to kill people.”

 

[mdzialo1]

It’s a religion of pieces.

 

[jdnation]

Why would suicide bombers ‘carrying ID with them to be identified (so the story goes)’ leave behind bombs in an easy to find place?

 

[gilliam]

My guess is that they thought they were planting bombs and planned on leaving the scene.

 

[Ani_Ibi]

jdnation:

Why would suicide bombers ‘carrying ID with them to be identified (so the story goes)’ leave behind bombs in an easy to find place?

Evidently the bombs were supposed to be picked up by Team 2, but the police got to the bombs first.

This last batch for Attack 2, was either mixed by an unskilled person or was too old. In any case, the police seem to have seriously crimped the style of the would be martyrs who it appears planned a much more enormous serious of attacks than actually happened.