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| Mobile phone calls failed to trigger London blasts: report |
| 2007-07-02 |
| The attempted London car bombings were meant to be detonated by calls to mobile phones in the two vehicles, but failed for technical reasons, the Evening Standard reported Monday. The calls made on the phones allowed police to trace those behind the failed attacks last Friday, the London daily evening newspaper said, without giving sources. The phones were meant to set off blasts when they were called, but the devices failed to detonate the mixture of gas canisters and nails in the two Mercedes cars parked in London's entertainment district. The bombers twice called the car outside the "Tiger Tiger" nightclub on Haymarket off Piccadilly Circus and the one in nearby Cockspur Street off Trafalgar Square four times, it added. Calls logged on the phones led detectives to addresses in Liverpool, Glasgow and Staffordshire in the English West Midlands, the Evening Standard said. |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #5 LMAO Doc! |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-07-02 17:47 |
| #4 I'm sure that Reuters, AP or BBC will happily report what those technical difficulties were so that the bad guyz can get it right the next time. |
| Posted by: GK 2007-07-02 14:23 |
| #3 It's the Network! |
| Posted by: doc 2007-07-02 12:52 |
| #2 "Can you hear me now?" |
| Posted by: Raj 2007-07-02 12:42 |
| #1 thank God for morons! And for alert and brave London police. That said...this was a bullet dodged by accident. The ineptitude of the Jihadi wannabes cannot be counted on to save the day in the future. The Brits need to start listening in on some of the phone calls these morons make BEFORE those calls are to a cellphone linked to explosives! |
| Posted by: Justrand 2007-07-02 12:38 |