(KUNA) -- Video footage of two of the alleged July 21 bomb plotters buying more than 200 litres of the main ingredient for their home-made rucksack bombs was played in court Friday. The CCTV pictures showed Manfo Kwaku Asiedu and Muktar Said Ibrahim grinning at each other and chatting casually as they completed the purchase of 52 gallons of hydrogen peroxide, just two days before the July 7 terror attacks. Their order, which comprised 13 boxes, each containing four four-litre bottles, was so large that the manufacturers had to make a new batch of hydrogen peroxide just to meet it.
| So it's not the case that they were 'inspired' by the 7/7 bombiings to be copycats, as the MSM has been telling us. |
At Woolwich Crown Court, east London, today, the jury in the July 21 trial was played CCTV footage from Pak Cosmetics, in Finsbury Park, north London, on July 5, 2005. It showed Asiedu and Ibrahim strolling into the store to pick up their order for 50 gallons of liquid peroxide at its highest available concentration. The pair could be seen casually chatting to each other and the store's staff as they waited at the counter to pay. After handing over 170 pounds in cash, which followed an earlier deposit of 100 pounds, the men were taken by a sales assistant to collect their bottles of liquid peroxide from an area at the back of the shop. The footage then showed both men, Asiedu first and then Ibrahim, wheeling the boxes out of the store on upright trolleys. The jury was told how they then loaded them into the boot and back seat of their car.
Asiedu and Ibrahim are accused, along with four other men, of plotting to carry out a series of suicide bombings on the London transport system using an explosive mixture of hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour. It has already been alleged that the co-conspirators in the case purchased more than 400 litres of liquid peroxide from various stores in the weeks prior to their attempted attack on July 21, 2005, just two weeks after the July 7 bombings that killed 52 people and injured hundreds more. |