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| 40 held in Pindi blast probe |
| 2003-12-17 |
| At least 40 suspects have been arrested in the initial probe in to a bid to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf, sources said. The suspects are part of the initial investigation into blowing up of the bridge in Rawalpindi used by the president’s motorcade. The guys listed below are the cops who were guarding the bridge. According to the FIR, DSP (Security) Sultan Mehmood Chidhar said he was deputed at the route duty of the president. According to the programme, at the bridge near Ammar Shaheed Chowk, constable Hafizullah was deputed at the East corner and constable Sajid Hussain at the west corner while constable Babar Ali was deployed under the bridge. Babar has a lot of explaining to do. He said ASI Wazir Ali and Inspector Haji Muhammad Saeed were present on the duty as the route inspector. Them too. Meanwhile, the agencies have found almost all the devices used to blow up the bridge, including seven detonators, a control box bearing, and supply line leading to detonated explosives. Sources said the time of blast appeared at the timer fixed in the box was 7:12:36 pm. That’s strange, how would you expect to hit a moving target with a timer, unless this was a failsafe to detonate the device if it didn’t get a remote command. They said the time limit of the jammer fixed in the president’s car to jam the explosive devices was 55 seconds. I guess that means the moving car with the jammer would have been in effective range of the bomb for 55 seconds as it passed. So, divide by 2 and the bomb would not receive the detonation signal until about 27 seconds after the limo passed. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 The advantage of a cell phone is that you can detonate from a safe distance. If the garage door openers work like mine do, you would need to stand fairly close to the door/bomb to make it reliable. The front bumper almost has to touch the door before it triggers. My wife tells me I am going to need a new door and a bumper shortly. |
| Posted by: john 2003-12-17 3:30:10 PM |
| #1 I'm guessing that the "timer" was a cell phone and that 7:12:36 was the time of the last call received. Any chimp can set up such a bomb with a cell phone, a relay, a battery and a soldering iron. I'll leave the actual configuration as an exercise for the student. A cell phone bomb is a lousy way of hitting a moving target. What if the call doesn't go through? It happens all the time in the USA; who knows how many times it happens in Pakistan. IMHO, a garage door opener is more reliable. This is what the apes in Iraq are using anyway. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-12-17 12:12:29 PM |