Why do the authorities feel it necessary to seal off such a large area when
they have already made the bomb safe and removed the explosive material?

Someone said that it was so the police could forensically search the area
for stuff the suspect might have dropped. However there have been no teams
of police on hands and knees conducting fingertip searches or anything like
that.

Or is it not really needed at all and its just to make a statement to the
public about how serious it could have been?

"MichaelJP" wrote in message

Why do the authorities feel it necessary to seal off such a large
area when they have already made the bomb safe and removed the
explosive material?
Someone said that it was so the police could forensically search the
area for stuff the suspect might have dropped. However there have
been no teams of police on hands and knees conducting fingertip
searches or anything like that.

Or is it not really needed at all and its just to make a statement to
the public about how serious it could have been?

Perhaps they want to make sure there aren't any more bombs in the area?

"Recliner" wrote in message
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"MichaelJP" wrote in message

Why do the authorities feel it necessary to seal off such a large
area when they have already made the bomb safe and removed the
explosive material?
Someone said that it was so the police could forensically search the
area for stuff the suspect might have dropped. However there have
been no teams of police on hands and knees conducting fingertip
searches or anything like that.

Or is it not really needed at all and its just to make a statement to
the public about how serious it could have been?

Perhaps they want to make sure there aren't any more bombs in the area?

If that's really the case then they should close all of central London.
There is no particular reason that another bomb should be within 200 yards
of the Mercedes. A typical Al Quaeda plot would involve multiple bombs, but
spread over several miles.

Its almost as though the response is calibrated according to the seriousness
of what could have happened if the bomb had exploded, rather than the real
situation on the ground. Maybe they hope to get a better response from the
public that way.

MichaelJP wrote:
Why do the authorities feel it necessary to seal off such a large
area when they have already made the bomb safe and removed the
explosive material?

What area is sealed off? The RAC traffic report seems to indicate that
it's just the southbound route from Piccadilly Circus to Trafalgar
Square via Haymarket that is closed, and the BBC has reported that
Piccadilly Circus tube station has reopened.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

On Jun 29, 3:17 pm, wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:44 +0100, "MichaelJP"
wrote:

Its almost as though the response is calibrated according to the seriousness
of what could have happened if the bomb had exploded, rather than the real
situation on the ground. Maybe they hope to get a better response from the
public that way.

The point is though no matter the situation or where the police are
being paid a very large amount of money for doing the job they do
so why are they are for ever asking the pubic to help them . Seems to
me all they are good for is catching speeding motorists, police on
foot would I am sure would have spotted that car but no they would
sooner sit in their cars and let Joe Public do their job for them .


Translation please


Peter

"MichaelJP" wrote in
:

If that's really the case then they should close all of central
London. There is no particular reason that another bomb should be
within 200 yards of the Mercedes. A typical Al Quaeda plot would
involve multiple bombs, but spread over several miles.

And it turns out the second bomb WAS within 200 yards. Sitting down in
Cockspur Street, probably an area where people would have been evacuated
to had the first one gone off. Except that they'd parked it illegally and
it had been towed to just off Park Lane.

Iain

On Jun 29, 9:54 pm, Iain wrote:
"MichaelJP" wrote :

If that's really the case then they should close all of central
London. There is no particular reason that another bomb should be
within 200 yards of the Mercedes. A typical Al Quaeda plot would
involve multiple bombs, but spread over several miles.

And it turns out the second bomb WAS within 200 yards. Sitting down in
Cockspur Street, probably an area where people would have been evacuated
to had the first one gone off.

We were joking at work about a case where a car bomb hadn't paid the
congestion charge, towed to a carpark miles away, and ended up blowing
up in a deserted car pound

On Jun 29, 11:36 am, "MichaelJP" wrote:

The ****ing Paddies get on my nerves. Why are they so heartless? If
they like Ireland so much why don't they go and live there?

Not really.

On Jun 29, 12:00 pm, "MichaelJP" wrote:
"Recliner" wrote in message

...

"MichaelJP" wrote in message
m
Why do the authorities feel it necessary to seal off such a large
area when they have already made the bomb safe and removed the
explosive material?
Someone said that it was so the police could forensically search the
area for stuff the suspect might have dropped. However there have
been no teams of police on hands and knees conducting fingertip
searches or anything like that.

Or is it not really needed at all and its just to make a statement to
the public about how serious it could have been?

Perhaps they want to make sure there aren't any more bombs in the area?

If that's really the case then they should close all of central London.
There is no particular reason that another bomb should be within 200 yards
of the Mercedes. A typical Al Quaeda plot would involve multiple bombs, but
spread over several miles.

Who said anything about Al Qaida? The last nailbomb in London was a
facist plot against the gay community wasn't it? Isn't it gay pride
this weekend? Probably just a co-incidence.

Maybe they hope to get a better response from the
public that way.

Suits the media though, one headline screamed that 1700 people would
have been killed.

Paul Weaver wrote:

Who said anything about Al Qaida? The last nailbomb in London was a
facist plot against the gay community wasn't it?

A lone individual cannot plot.