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British bombs and the 'Zero option'.

Henk Ruyssenaars | 17.07.2005 08:56 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles

Zero Option? - Why did they buy return train tickets to Luton? Why did they buy pay & display tickets for cars? The London bombers may have been duped into killing themselves so their secrets stayed hidden.



by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF - July 17th - 2005 - During the ten years I worked in the area, I often heard people speak about the 'Zero option': Palestinians and others that sometimes were trained in - what they thought were 'Jihad camps' - and got hand grenades or bombs with timers to execute attacks.

They wrongly thought they needed return tickets too.

The problem afterwards showed to be the fact, that those timers on the bombs and the ignition on the - mostly fragmentation - hand grenades which were very powerful, had a so called 'Zero option': a normal handgrenade will give the thrower 7 to 8 seconds before it explodes.

Those specially made timers and handgrenades exploded the very second the timer was activated or the hand grenade's pin was pulled: it gave the attackers zero seconds to escape...they immediately were killed themselves and went to their forefathers...

In the main$tream media it than was described as a 'suicide attack' or 'a botched attempt'.

In England - in 'the Mirror' - yesterday an article* was published about the 'Bin Laden Blitz' on London, with the logical question: do suicide bombers by return tickets? Asking: "Was it suicide?" - Why did they buy return train tickets to Luton? Why did they buy pay & display tickets for cars? Why were there no usual shouts of 'Allah Akhbar'? Why were bombs in bags and not on their bodies?

The London bombers may have been duped into killing themselves so their secrets stayed hidden.

FPF: A New Zealander working for Reuters in London says two colleagues witnessed the unconfirmed shooting by police of two apparent suicide bombers outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf in London. - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/az27n)

Police and MI5 are probing if the four men were told by their al-Qaeda controller they had time to escape after setting off timers. Instead, the devices exploded immediately. A security source said: "If the bombers lived and were caught they'd probably have cracked. Would their masters have allowed that to happen? We think not." The evidence is compelling: The terrorists bought return rail tickets, and pay and display car park tickets, before boarding _ a train at Luton for London.

None of the men was heard to cry "Allah Akhbar!" - "God is great" - usually screamed by suicide bombers as they detonate their bomb.

Their devices were in large rucksacks which could be easily dumped instead of being strapped to their bodies. They carried wallets containing their driving licences, bank cards and other personal items. Suicide bombers normally strip themselves of identifying material. Similar terror attacks against public transport in Madrid last year were carried out by recruits who had time to escape and planned to strike again.

Bomber Hasib Hussain detonated his device at the rear of the top deck of a No 30 bus, not in the middle of the bottom deck where most damage would be caused. Additionally, two of the bombers had strong personal reasons for staying alive. Jermaine Lindsay's partner Samantha Lewthwaite, 22, mother of his one-year-old son, is expecting her second baby within days. Mohammed Sidique Khan's wife Hasina, mum of a 14-month-old daughter, is also pregnant.

Our source disclosed: "The theory that they were not a suicide squad is gathering pace. They were the weakest link. "We think it's possible they were told that when they pressed buttons to set off timers they'd have a short time to abandon the bombs and get away before the blast. Instead, the bombs exploded immediately." Another intelligence source added: "Whoever is behind this didn't want to waste their best operatives on a suicide mission. Instead they used easily recruited low-grade men who may have believed they'd walk away."

AT LEAST 54 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE 7/7 BLASTS.

Khan, 30, of Dewsbury, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, of Leeds, and Jamaican-born Lindsay, 19, of Aylesbury, Bucks, detonated devices on the Tube at Edgware Road, Aldgate and King's Cross. Hussain, 18, of Leeds, blasted the bus at Tavistock Square. The Tube explosions went off almost simultaneously. But the bus went up an hour later. Yesterday, Hussain's family told of their horror at the teenager's involvement in the massacre. They said in a statement: "We are devastated over the events of the past few days. Hasib was a loving and normal young man who gave us no concern and we are having difficulty taking this in.

"Our thoughts are with all the bereaved families. We have to live with the loss of our son in these difficult circumstances. "We had no knowledge of his activities and, had we done, we would have done everything in our power to stop him. We urge anyone with information to cooperate fully with the authorities." Police are urgently investigating the missing 81 minutes between Hussain arriving from Luton in London and the time his bomb went off.

HIS DEVICE MAY HAVE MALFUNCTIONED.

He may have lost his nerve. Or he may have panicked when he discovered the Northern Line, on which he is thought to have been due to travel, was suspended.

Officers want to discover if Hussain met anyone else who either strengthened his faltering resolve or reset his flawed bomb.

[end item] - Mirror - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/7oksd

Wall Street Journal - AP: 'Israel Official: Scotland Yard Alerted Israel Pre-Blast " - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/92n46

The only ''Al-Quada cell'' ever found was an Israeli secret service Mossad front - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/b8tby

FPF/Online Journnal - London blasts boost Bush and Blair - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/b4fex

''Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches" - Ariel Sharon - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/29ljg

FPF: No answer concerning the Zero- and Seymour Hershes 'Samson Option' since May 2001 - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/b6yax

Handgrenades - Url.: -  http://tinyurl.com/8xkww

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*Colin Powell: ''It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel' - Said as 'US Secretary of State' in a speech at the 'Conference on Anti-Semitism of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe' German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin - April 28th - 2004 - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/22p6c

*Help the troops come home! Url.:  http://www.bringemhome.org - We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.:  http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Henk Ruyssenaars
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