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FOUR CAR BOMBS EXPLODE IN
SHARM EL-SHEIK – EGYPT
88 persons killed and nearly 200 wounded
Latest News – Egypt Blasts Kill 88
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ORIGINAL DIARY!
London Bombing :: Perfect Timing
July 7 – G8 Summit to advance USA/UK policy on terror/Iraq
July 11 – Israel and Sharon seizes the opportunity, annexation of East-Jerusalem
July 13 – UK presidency of EU from July 1 to advance security policy
July 16 – UK visit by Karzai, PR speak has been coordinated: It’s not Iraq
July 19 – UK Home Secretary Clarke forges anti-terror consensus
July 21 – Bush promotes Patriot Act, House approves
July 22 – Howard London visit in support of Blair Iraq policy
USA/UK Iraq policy and appeasement
UPDATES and LINKS on the London Bombings
It is entirely plausible that the master bomber would not have relied solely on the timer. If a timer failed to detonate one of the bombs, a dupe would be left alive and in possession of the evidence. A simple fail-safe detonator might also have used a mobile phone, perhaps the same one used as the timer in each of the bombs.
The London Tube system is not equipped for mobile phone reception, but if the master-bomber backed up the timer by sending a text message to the four bombs, the message would have been delivered to the bomb detonators as soon as the unwitting bomber left the underground and entered a mobile phone reception area on the surface.
◊ by suskind @ Daily Kos
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