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Dramatic Video: Bomb Aimed at Mother, Child
January 23, 2007 2:44 PM
A dramatic surveillance video released today by Scotland Yard shows a suspected terrorist placing his explosive-laden backpack next to a mother and her child riding on a London subway car.
Prosecutors say the bomb, placed by 25-year-old Ramzi Mohammed in July 2005, failed to detonate, and the surveillance tape shows Mohammed running up an escalator entrance once the train arrived at Oval Station in south London.
Watch the surveillance video played in court.
The tape was played for a London jury last week but was only released publicly late this afternoon.
On the tape, other passengers on board the subway car can be seen trying to get away from Mohammed except for a fireman, Angus Campbell, who bravely stayed to confront Mohammed.
See Photos of a Day in the Life of an Alleged Bomber on July 21, 2005.
Prosecutor Nigel Sweeney told the jury, "Mohammed said not that it was a bomb but rather, 'What's the matter? It is bread; it isn't me,' pointing at the backpack."
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Earlier, the jury was shown surveillance video of Mohammed and others testing the explosive strength of the bombs they planned to plant.
Authorities have yet to fully explain why, if the men were under police surveillance, they were allowed to get on the subway with their bombs, all of which fizzled.
Mohammed and the five others on trial with him have all entered pleas of not guilty.
January 23, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (40)
What a coward! Caught placing a bomb next to a woman and child...but this is your typical Muslim terrorist trash for you..they are nothing but cowards.
Posted by: Gary | Jan 23, 2007 3:41:59 PM
Just another example of why we need to be in Iraq...to get a foothold on the spread of islom-fascism. They will willingly kill anyone not of the muslim faith...man, woman, or child. Stay strong, it will be a long fight, but necessary for our future.
Posted by: Kathy F | Jan 23, 2007 3:44:37 PM
these terrorists need to get a life outside of killing and spreading lies.
Posted by: joe dirte | Jan 23, 2007 3:51:42 PM
Kathy F: I hate to tell you Kathy but Muslims (Shia) are killing Muslims (Sunni) and vice versa almost exclusively in Iraq right now (with a few Americans and Brits thrown in for good measure). Many Muslims died in the WTC Towers on 9/11. AND, how did this failed subway bomber know this Mother and child weren't Muslim...did he ask?
Posted by: Marc | Jan 23, 2007 4:10:14 PM
You media scum are always so eager to highlight a pair of panties on the heads of prisoners at Gitmo, but I bet, in comparison, putting bombs next to babies will barely make a splash in the international media.
Posted by: Sven Parker | Jan 23, 2007 4:13:02 PM
Congratulations on having the exact reaction that this article was attempting to elicit.
Posted by: me | Jan 23, 2007 4:40:34 PM
No "deity" in heaven or on Earth could possibly condone such savagery this "human" is perpetrating on a mother and child.
Posted by: Bennie D | Jan 23, 2007 4:50:04 PM
This bloodthirsty attempt at random violence despite the fact that so many Brits have thrown in their lot with the enemies of the U.S. and Israel in the hope of buying peace. Wake up, Brittania!
Posted by: Kenny G | Jan 23, 2007 4:51:29 PM
Just goes to show why we need to shut down our borders. Could be your wife, sister, mother in that situation.
Posted by: gregor | Jan 23, 2007 4:52:49 PM
Allah has sent us into Iraq to kill these terrorists. Allah the great and powerful wants these muslim extremists dead. Allah has great love for the United States and its allies. Allah willing We will prevail.
Posted by: Brian | Jan 23, 2007 4:52:55 PM
Yet another example of the religion of peace.
Posted by: Jack Z | Jan 23, 2007 4:54:30 PM
Bottom line... These are cowards and criminals... And that's how we should treat them. They have no allegiance to God as Muslims. And trying these terrorists to a religion or country is only validating their act and giving them more credence.
Posted by: Frank | Jan 23, 2007 4:58:15 PM
So what "rights" should this clown be granted? He got caught in the act...comitting a crime and making a statement (loud and clear) that these terrorists DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE'S LIFE. WHat's it going to take for our country to wake up - again to the truth that we are in an ideological war for the hearts and minds of humanity?
Posted by: Brian Beatty | Jan 23, 2007 5:01:41 PM
They should really stop bombing and terrorizing people.
And simply run for congress as Democrats. They can do much more damage from the seat of a congressional bench, then with any bomb.
Posted by: JelloBiafra | Jan 23, 2007 5:03:01 PM
I guess it just show some people are worse than animals and need to be put down.
Posted by: steve | Jan 23, 2007 5:22:24 PM
Why were they allowed to carry out their plot? What if the bombs had not fizzled?
Posted by: Harlow Stephenson | Jan 23, 2007 5:25:28 PM
Very typical. Fundamental Muslims are cowards, selfish, and have to do extreme things to make up for other short-comings.
Posted by: Patriot | Jan 23, 2007 5:27:15 PM
I doubt killing innocent mothers and defenseless children is part of Allah's grand plan. This is just proof why at some point we need to do some serious carpet bombing of the terrorist encampements!
Posted by: Jon P | Jan 23, 2007 5:32:48 PM
Why are more bomb smelling dogs being used to prevent terrorist bombings?
Why are we not spending nearly enough to protect our citizens?
Why are we not performing more personal searches based on racial (that's right) profiling. We must not rest until these bas-ards are apprehended?
We must let it be known internationally we will not be sitting ducks, and that any plots originating from middle east or any other countries to harm us will lead not to resolutions, but dead serious statements that the US alone if necessary will bomb the living sh-t out of the offending countries.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: larry | Jan 23, 2007 5:43:07 PM
He should get being blown up by a bomb as his sentence. Scum.
Posted by: Faith | Jan 23, 2007 5:45:22 PM
When the attacked are fighting back with only means they have, we call them terrorists?? I dont condone kill ANYONE FOR ANY REASON! BUT SOME OF THESE COMMENT POSTERS SHOULD REMEMBER TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR BEFORE MAKING COMMENTS!
NOT ONE COMMENT ON THE 100,000 or so INNOCENT IRAQ WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED BY OUR BOMBS.
THEN WE TOO ARE SCRUM!!
Posted by: Bill | Jan 23, 2007 6:19:21 PM
I'm at a loss. Why are we treating these idiots like they have any rights what so ever? They never signed the Geneva Convention, so they aren't entitled to it's protection. I say the gloves come off and this is a war without rules except the last one standing wins.
Posted by: Mike H | Jan 23, 2007 6:20:55 PM
To all Muslim extremists: I am opening a suicide bombing training center just to ensure your success.
You're first session is free.
Come one, come all!
Posted by: Angel | Jan 23, 2007 6:22:03 PM
Anyway, failered to explode was helped people.
I know some intersting story of England, one man had imagination of bomb in ceremony in his night dream and he told police. The police prepared for the ceremony, just in case. and bombers tried to bomb in the ceremony, that was reality. The man could expect what's happen in the ceremony in his dream.
Police and staffs of the ceremony prepared for just in case, and only bombers hurt themselves.
I believe people can prepare and detect bombers and can stop the actions sometime.
In last year, some explosives were found before terrorists used them Canada, Mexico, London, Frence, and America etc.
I believe people can detect those dangerous things and people's plans.
So In this year, we should detect all terrorists
and explosicives instead of killing iraq people.
Killing people are not helping to detect explusives.
We should know.
Posted by: polala | Jan 23, 2007 6:31:50 PM
blah . . bl-blah, blah . . .
Bunch of rhetoric that will have no impact on organizations that kill others for a promised afterlife that doesn't exist . . .
Posted by: Joe B | Jan 23, 2007 6:44:33 PM
This report is so one-sided, I doubt nearly every word. Let's see: the suspect places a backpack next to a mother and child, then suddenly everyone is running away. How would everyone know what was inside the backpack? Thankfully Brian Ross is on the case; sharper than an eraser head that one.
Posted by: Ariel | Jan 23, 2007 6:48:52 PM
It's a good thing I wasn't on that subway, for his sake. I would have body slammed him like Hulk Hogan.
Posted by: John | Jan 23, 2007 7:18:08 PM
All this media has conivinced all of you that ALL Muslims are bad. Television has placed all of this into your minds and you believe it. Just like all the bad Muslims you see out there, THERE ARE ALSO BAD PEOPLE FROM OTHER RELIGIONS. For example: Bush. WHY ARE TROOPS STILL IN IRAQ! Don't you see all the innocent women and children that are killed there?!
And look at Palestine. Palestine has been at war with Israel for over 50 years. The land belonged to the Palestinians and will always. INNOCENT Palestinians are bombed and kicked out of their own homes every day. For once, please think, Muslims would not be doing this if their own countries were not being destroyed.
Posted by: Omar Abdallah | Jan 23, 2007 9:17:57 PM
I think thers a HUGE misunderstanding here. Some muslims potray things in the koran as to go kill people, some see it as peace. But, the israeites DID buy the land. The palestinians left. Then they came back. I think they just need to get along.
Posted by: Sarah | Jan 23, 2007 9:53:40 PM
What kind of a person,if he is a real person could do such a thing,who could imagine how millions of people in Iraq shouted with joy when 911 happened,that's why I thank God for our President Bush everyday.Whatever happens in Iraq or Afghanistan.We already have made a difference,Acts of kindness,Sacrifices made so others can live with dignity will never be fruitless. My advice to all of us,we all need to be united to defeat this enemy. We all need to be vigilant and be responsible .To our media people,please lets stop thinking about "what makes more news", for once let's think what is best for this country and all civilized nations.
Posted by: Mildred Rubio | Jan 24, 2007 12:49:14 AM
A couple of the posters on here are morons. You blame Bush for the civilian deaths in Iraq. It is the Muslim terrorist that are killing the majority of the civilians with their car bombs. When an American kills a civilian it is reported and if it was intentional they get prosecuted. Yes there has been some collateral damage but mainly because the 'brave' Muslim terrorist hide in the middle of civilians.
Posted by: Brad | Jan 24, 2007 4:59:14 PM
Why doesn't the Muslim in the rest of the middle East support the Iraq people that went out and voted and have a new government. Why are they not saying anything when car bombs are killing women and children in schools and markets. Do the Shia have a diffferent Alleh then the Sunni's that makes it ok for them in the sprirt of Alleh to kill each other.
Posted by: Deirdre Hurd | Jan 24, 2007 6:50:21 PM
Why doesn't the Muslim in the rest of the middle East support the Iraq people that went out and voted and have a new government. Why are they not saying anything when car bombs are killing women and children in schools and markets. Do the Shia have a diffferent Alleh then the Sunni's that makes it ok for them in the sprirt of Alleh to kill each other.
Posted by: Deirdre Hurd | Jan 24, 2007 6:57:01 PM
It is interesting to read all the extreme comments denouncing our extremist enemies. Don't wait to be told what to do --be peaceful now.
Posted by: mark | Jan 24, 2007 9:26:55 PM
Its funny to read how all the us zealots ignore the facts that these guys are UK citizens born in UK, not some Afghan or Saudi insurgents.
Shame on you, America, for being such "one eyed bigot".
You all should educate yourselves before you fly off into your "Commies are coming" -emotional outbursts. Please.
Posted by: anon finn | Jan 25, 2007 5:21:01 AM
"NOT ONE COMMENT ON THE 100,000 or so INNOCENT IRAQ WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED BY OUR BOMBS."
Concider that fleas can kill with Bubonic Plague. Mosquitoes with flues and Malaria. A pregnant dog with rabies will have pups born with the disease, and any person unfortunate enough to be assaulted by one of these creatures is very likely to die.
You can not stop a plague with a flyswatter. If you do not kill the eggs and nits, and destroy the breeding ground then you are only keeping the enevitable horror at bay. And everyone knows that creatures out number humans by many thousands. For my own peace of mind, I concider it pest control.
Posted by: roachhotel | Jan 26, 2007 6:11:57 AM
Forget and forgive such terrorists. They do not know what they are doing.
I think when all countries take off their borders and all news / media shut down their business- all these stops.
Posted by: Martin Kunnassery | Jan 26, 2007 8:45:30 AM
Most of you need to 'educamate' yourselves, do some reading, explore the internet, open your minds - try really thinking for yourselves a little, instead of being reactive and judgmental, about something you really know very little about - that ignorance makes you vulnerable - and that's scary in this day and age. Trouble is you don't know who of you that I'm referring to, do you?
Posted by: rjlacy | Jan 27, 2007 1:12:15 AM
Our war against Islamo-fascism is a secular war in which we seek to protect the lives of our people from the senseless attacks of fanatics. Their war against us is a religious war is which we, the West, have merely disagreed with their tawdry treatment of their citizens and ours (the Shia-Sunni conflict, world trade center, etc.) The only rational solution is to take total war to their leaders, soldiers and especially to the preachers of hate, the mullahs and madrassas.
Posted by: Randy | Jan 27, 2007 7:14:40 PM
Yeah Omar Abdulah, muslims are peaceful people who were thrown out of their land by Israel!!!!! A land occupied by Jews from before Christ's time. How can you claim that you owned this land?
Now for your religion of peace!! Didn't your muhammed kill, steal, and rape villages just because they did not want to convert to islam? Where do you come off blaming the West for defending themselves against your ever-present evil, and turn around and justify more violence against the West.
Wake up and realize that your soul will not be saved until you seek the truth: Jesus Christ who taught love and compassion, not hate and murder. He is the true God!!
Posted by: God&America | Jul 31, 2007 4:07:44 PM
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