Scotland Yard officers found a hidden device in a printer cartridge at East Midlands Airport around 2 pm last Friday after another one was found just like it in Dubai. One of the devices in the package was diffused in only 17 minutes before it was set to go off. Although it was unclear whether Brice Hortefeux, the French interior minister, was talking about the bomb in Dubai or in Leicester. There was a US official that said they did not have time to plan their attack. At first British police could not find the bombs and gave the all-clear sign in the airport. The device is being currently investigated at the Defense Science and Technology Laboratories at Fort Halstead in Kent. Sources say that the device was set to go off using a dismantled mobile phone alarm clocker as a timer. “It is thought that the detonator was made of lead azide in a syringe which was set to react with PETN high explosive inside the toner cartridge of two desktop printers. They believe the person who made the bomb was al-Asiri of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Their target was set to be passenger jets in which cargo is transported.
This type of behavior is what keeps people afraid of terrorist. They continue to plan their attacks to have the people more vulnerable once they “try” to take over another country and continue to spread their beliefs. If this continues to happen more people will be afraid of the terrorist groups and since people become more vulnerable it will be easier for them to create their attacks.
3 comments:
The people that found this bomb are so lucky they found it just in time. If the bomb would have worked correctly it could have killed several people caused many to become scared. Like we have talked about in class before, the terrorist are always trying to instill fear in people to get us to do what they want. Thankfully this didn't turn into a huge terrorist attack like it potentially could have.
How did they get past all of the inspections with a bomb? Like you said, stories like these definitely scare me. Nobody knew that 9/11 was going to happen, and people travel on planes everyday and not think twice about bombs. I also agree that if this continues to happen, more people will become more vulnerable so it will be easier to plan an attack.
I'm glad they did find that bomb. If they didn't find it, it would've been a terrible thing and many lives would have probably been lost. It's nice to see that the terrorist's attempt was a failure.
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