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2005-07-19 Britain

Primed bombs could point to more suicide attacks

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-07-19 10:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Most interesting. If the police do find a single primed bomb, let alone nine, then that suggests that not all went according to plan. If it was indeed planned as a suicide mission, whether the boomers knew or not, additional explosives wouldn't have been left behind. These bombs were reportedly at or less than 5 kg. Each bomber could have easily added an additional bomb to his payload, if all terrorists did not meet at the rendevous point. I believe there can be only two explanations:

1)There was a mistake in setting the timers. In a failed terrorist attack in the Philippenes in early 1991, terrorists working on behalf of hte Iraqi government set thier bomb timers to minutes instead of hours. You can imagine the results. It became known in the CIA as "Operation Dogmeat". Such a mistake might could imply that the bombs, or at least the timers, were prepared across the channel. I recall an instance where a Palistinian terrorist set a bomb to his time, forgetting that Israel had moves to daylight savings time ahead of the Palestinian areas.

2)The plot was stopped in progress by the authorities. The Israeli warning was literally last-minute. However, this still may have allowed UK security forces to stop some bombers from reaching their targets, indeed from reaching their bombs. We may have a reportof this.

The two scenarios I have laid out are not mutually exclusive, e.g. Four bombers did not return due to "short rounds" and the fifth man was intercepted.

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2005-07-19 19:52|| 2005-07-19 19:52|| Front Page Top

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