21/7 Suspect And ‘Amazing’ Flour Bombs
IF you were testing whether or not a 2kg bomb was going to explode, would you stand next to it?
As Dizzy notes.
One of the alleged 21 July bombers must have been “very, very sure” that a device he claimed to have tested in a flat would not explode, a court heard.
Expert Hans Michels said Muktar Ibrahim’s story of detonating 2kg (4.5lb) of main charge to check no-one would be hurt was “amazing”.
Mr Ibrahim has admitted making the homemade hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour devices, but insisted none of them was capable of causing injury.
I don’t quite understand why he would want to do that Prof Hans Michels
The London court was earlier told that he attempted to detonate the charge at the flat in New Southgate, north London, to make sure of this.
Asked for his views of this claim, Hans Michels, professor of safety engineering at Imperial College London, said: “If he tested something which had 2kg of explosives and he wanted to survive that, he must have been very, very sure that it wasn’t going off.”
Says Dizzy, “I don’t really think that Mr Ibrahim’s claim is amazing: I think that it’s the biggest load of fucking horseshit that I’ve heard since Princess Toni told us all he was a pretty straight kinda guy. Is that really the best that the defence could come up with?
Having said that, Ibrahim doesn’t exactly look like the sharpest tool in the box, eh?”
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June 28th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Update 28/6/07
The cahrges against the 6 accused are:
CHARGES
1. That, between 1 Jan and 30 July 2005, the men conspired together “and with other persons unknown to murder other persons”
2. That they “maliciously conspired together” to cause “explosions of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property”
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6261899.stm
Now the charge of ‘conspiracy to cause explosions’ has been dropped (as confirmed by this BBC Report of 12th June 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6745205.stm ), how can the charge of ‘conspiracy to murder’ still stand?
In my opinion, there is a serious misscarriage of justice happening here.
April 14th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
The trial thickens………..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6552443.stm
April 12th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
“IF you were testing whether or not a 2kg bomb was going to explode, would you stand next to it?
No you wouldn’t. You would only stand next to it if you had already prepared it so that it wouldn’t go off, just as (coincidentally) the other 3 ‘flour power’ bombers did.
Have you noticed the large gaps in the press coverage of this trial? What I want to know is what is being discussed in court on these days.
Notice that the BBC is the ONLY press report to date on the court statements of Dr. Hans Michels.
There is a lot more to the July 21st non-bombs than what we are being led to believe.