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Title: Bomb set on train in London Underground
Post by: dogmush on September 15, 2017, 09:02:18 AM
Apparently happened this morning.  Here's a link to one of the news reports.  From the description, it seems like this was more a flame or fireball then an explosion.  I've seen a couple of quotes thinking it didn't fully detonate.  Good thing functional antipersonnel mines are not quite as easy to build as some folks think.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4470415/parsons-green-tube-terrorist-search-latest-bomb-explosion

Video report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61VNHu41weM
Title: Re: Bomb set on train in London Underground
Post by: 230RN on September 15, 2017, 11:43:43 AM
Quote from: dogmush on September 15, 2017, 09:02:18 AM
Apparently happened this morning.  Here's a link to one of the news reports.  From the description, it seems like this was more a flame or fireball then an explosion.  I've seen a couple of quotes thinking it didn't fully detonate.  Good thing functional antipersonnel mines are not quite as easy to build as some folks think.
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Shades of "The Anarchist's Cookbook."  Half the stuff in there wouldn't work even if you made it spherical and in a vacuum.  The other half was designed to blow up in your face.  Or lap.

Probably one of the "match head" variants.

Title: Re: Bomb set on train in London Underground
Post by: zxcvbob on September 15, 2017, 12:27:24 PM
Quote from: 230RN on September 15, 2017, 11:43:43 AM
Shades of "The Anarchist's Cookbook."  Half the stuff in there wouldn't work even if you made it spherical and in a vacuum.  The other half was designed to blow up in your face.  Or lap.

Probably one of the "match head" variants.


The original Anarchist Cookbook didn't have crap like that, it had stuff like recipes for making HMTD from hexamine tablets, citric acid, and hydrogen peroxide.  I saw a copy back in the early 80's.
Title: Re: Bomb set on train in London Underground
Post by: HeroHog on September 16, 2017, 03:15:30 PM
Sparkler bombs seem to be pretty effective IEDs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AdP67GWU8A
Title: Re: Bomb set on train in London Underground
Post by: Angel Eyes on September 17, 2017, 04:17:38 PM
Evening Standard reports that one of the suspects is an Iraqi refugee:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/teen-arrested-on-suspicion-of-planting-tube-bomb-an-iraqi-refugee-who-moved-to-the-uk-aged-15-a3636796.html

Title: Re: Bomb set on train in London Underground
Post by: Pb on September 18, 2017, 09:28:09 AM
Well, that was unexpected...  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Bomb set on train in London Underground
Post by: Mannlicher on September 18, 2017, 10:03:23 AM
UK has a serious muslim problem.  Sad that they don't even recognize it.