2nd London car bomb aimed at rescue workers

Scotland on Sunday:

THE terrorists who attempted to bomb central London last week deliberately placed the second vehicle to catch rescuers attending the injured from the first explosion, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

The senior security source also said the primitive gas and petrol devices were most likely the work of determined terrorists struggling - because of the security crackdown - to get their hands on the ingredients needed to create high explosives.

Yesterday, a huge police manhunt was under way for the terrorists responsible as forensic experts continued to examine the vehicles involved for clues.

The attack was thwarted after fumes were spotted leaking from the first vehicle, parked outside the packed Tiger Tiger nightclub in London's West End in the early hours of Friday morning.

A security source said: "Make no mistake, if the people behind these bombs could have got their hands on high explosive then they would have used that.

"However, following on from recent high-profile court cases and obviously, the 7/7 attacks, the authorities have had a major crackdown on obtaining the necessary ingredients to make such devices.

"And whilst this has had major benefits as far as law enforcement is concerned, it has not put off the bombers - they have just changed their methods."

He added: "If either of these devices had been detonated, the resulting effects would have been devastating.

"Both of these bombs were designed to kill as many people as possible and the addition of the nails means that even those who survived would have suffered dreadful injuries.

"The bombers knew they were not able to get their hands on high explosive or fertiliser because this would have alerted the authorities and so they went for whatever was to hand and easy to obtain, hence the gas canisters, the nails and the petrol."

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This is a pretty typical terrorist tactic of setting traps for those responding to the first terrorist attack. These particular bombers just had terrible luck with their plan thankfully. Other reports indicate that the cell phones intended to detonate the bombs had both received two calls.

For libs who want to dismiss these guys as a figment of a George Bush bumper sticker it was also bad luck. I noticed some on the left have attempted to dismiss these attacks because they failed. That is interesting, because they certain;y don't dismiss failed attacks in Iraq. Their the left counts them all as reasons for retreat.