Independent:
There is much more about the bombs. The bombs may have been in the vehicle because the group did not have access to a more secure location to hide the material, once it was made.The terrorist cell that killed 52 people in London may have been planning to throw nail bombs into a nightclub or a football crowd. A cache of 16 bombs and bomb components was left by the 7 July suicide attackers in a car in Luton, raising the possibility that yet another terror unit may be at large.
The discovery provides another link with the men behind the 21 July attacks on London, one of whom used a similar device. Yesterday, police arrested one of the four suspected failed suicide bombers.
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The 16 bomb parts found in Luton, including one nail device and a number of other packets of explosives, were discovered by police in a rented Nissan Micra at the main railway station five days after the 7 July attack. The types of bombs are far more alarming than police had previously disclosed. They include a Molotov cocktail-style bottle bomb, packed with explosive and studded with nails. Security agencies warned after the 7 July attacks on three Tube trains and a bus that future attacks could be against nightclubs, sports stadiums or large public gatherings. The warning could have been related to the bombs in the car used by the Leeds-based terrorists.
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The disclosure of a cache of different types of bomb components raises disturbing questions. Was the car a bomb store for another team of bombers who, for whatever reason, failed to collect them? Security sources have said there is no evidence yet of a "missing" team. The nail bomb poses the question of whether terrorists were planning a different form of attack. It may be that the four suicide bombers - Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, Shahzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Germaine Lindsay, 19 - merely brought with them a choice of devices and dumped the ones they did not need.
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