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Alledged UK terrorists nailed by their cellphone calls


From: <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:28:59 -0400

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070702151035.1owv4xdu&show_article=1

 

The attempted London car bombings were meant to be detonated by calls to
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22mobile+phones%22&sid=breitbart.com>
mobile phones in the two vehicles, but failed for technical reasons, the
Evening Standard reported Monday. 

The calls made on the phones allowed police to trace those behind the failed
attacks last Friday, the London daily evening newspaper said, without giving
sources. 

The phones were meant to set off blasts when they were called, but the
devices failed to detonate the mixture of gas canisters and nails in the two
Mercedes cars parked in London's entertainment district. 

The bombers twice called the car outside the "Tiger Tiger" nightclub on
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22haymarket%22&sid=breitbart.com>
Haymarket off
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Piccadilly+Circus%22&sid=breitbart.com>
Piccadilly Circus and the one in nearby Cockspur Street off
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Trafalgar+Square%22&sid=breitbart.com>
Trafalgar Square four times, it added. 

 

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