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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Did Administration incompetence assist the London bombers?
Posted by Jill | 7:02 AM

Turns out the bombs used in the London attacks were of military quality:

British investigators believe that the 10-pound bombs used in the coordinated terrorist attacks here contained "military quality" high-grade explosives, British and European counterterrorism officials said Monday

Investigators said they still did not know whether the explosives contained plastic materials, or were made some other way. But they said the material used in the bombs was similar to the kind manufactured for military use or made for highly technical commercial purposes, such as dynamite used for precision explosions to demolish buildings or in mining.

Because of the small size of the bombs, some investigators initially said last week that they were relatively crude.

On Monday, a senior European-based counterterrorism official with access to intelligence reports said the new information on the material indicated that the bombs were "technically advanced." The official added: "There seems to be a mastery of the method of doing explosions. This was not rudimentary. It required great organization and was well put together."


I wonder if these bombs were put together using material that was stolen from Al-QaQaa and other Iraq weapons depots in the early days of the war, because Rummy wanted to fight on the cheap.
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