Hang 'em high...

I wonder why the beauty store employees weren't suspicious of someone purchasing such a large order of hydrogen peroxide? I wonder what the bombers told the beauty store employees to alleviate their suspicions? Or did the beauty store employees turn a blind eye. Even more, why wasn't the parent company or manufacturer(from whom the beauty store had to order the surplus supply) wasn't suspicious? Curiouser and curiouser.

My God. When is this outrage going to stop. George Bush is spying on honest, law abiding , tax paying, Muslims with security cameras. Who cares if they are buying enough chemicals to level a 5 square block area of London. I hope Nancy Pelosi and Chargles Rangel do something about this.

I was wondering that too -- what was the explanation given for that? "We're.... uh.... all bleaching our hair."

Or, WERE the beauty store employees suspicious, and they DID call the cops, and that's one of the reasons they were stopped in time?

Look how easy it is to find material for a bomb over the counter

In another era the above would appear not to be British. Multi-Culturalism has taken hold in Britain and not much assimilation has taken place. Diversity may be grand but not when the diverse don't accept the culture where they are living and working.

Maybe they wanted to be Blonde.

Good point, T Nette. The problem is, if you are suspicious of a couple of Middle Eastern men, you are called a racist and a profiler. Obviously, common sense would make a ten-year old suspicious of these guys ordering 52 gallons of chemicals. These are the times we live in.. sometimes I think we don't want to win!!

People should be required to present a purchase permit and a usage license to purchase anything that can be used to build a bomb. Detailed records should be kept as to how much is being purchased.

Sort of giving away the formula for would be terrorists to follow, aren't you?

Give it time -- Dan Rather will come up with documents implicating George W. Bush.

CAIR will blame Israel.

I second that... That's an awful lot of cheesy hair highlights for the "gentlemen." There must have been a very clever alibi. (Or just ignorance - "It must be some kind of science experiment")

Yikes! Makes you wonder though if airing it is an invasion of their privacy. At least, there are some in the Democractic party would make that argument.

It does sound like a curious amount but maybe it isn't. Maybe orders of that size do come up.

Hindsight is 20/20.

If I were the clerk I wouldn't have any idea peroxide could be used that way.

How do we know the storeowners were not involved? In the US, especially in the region I live in, unassimilated Muslims own a high percentage of gas stations, cell phone shops, smoke shops, and party stores. Beauty Supply Shops, and 'Dollar an Item' stores are in that small volume, low oversight category. A Beauty Supply shop would be a good front to facilitate the movement of items like peroxide, acetone (nail polish remover) and other solvents. If the customer is busted, the store owner can feign ignorance, fold his business, and reappear under a new name down the street.

I can only hope the majority of Americans don’t EVER become this stupid or compliant.

Bet you can buy that amount in every state if you happen to know where or 'know someone'.

Remember Ok. City. 'Non farmers' bought enough fertilizer to blow up a city block.

No need for Dan Rather to fabricate some documents showing who is behind the plot. EVERYONE knows it's President Bush.

One reader wrote: "Good point, T Nette. The problem is, if you are suspicious of a couple of Middle Eastern men, you are called a racist and a profiler. Obviously, common sense would make a ten-year old suspicious of these guys ordering 52 gallons of chemicals. These are the times we live in.. sometimes I think we don't want to win!!"

Two Comments:
1. Better to be a racist and profiler than a dead racist and profiler. They're counting on PC

2. You're right -- we don't want to win.

I have read this and feel i need to say my mind. As some people here think there should be a ban on all chemicals dealing with explosives, I think it is crazy. The chemicals used to make explosives are every day things. I bet you have used or seen them every time you go to a super market. This can be pipe cleaner, first aid wash, and things as simple as aspirin. Yes, even aspirin can be used for explosives.
The idea of baning chemicals for this is crazy if even able to be done. Anyone who says this is living in a world of ignorance, and needs to wake up.

The Brits are doing a great job
in finding the bad guy, although,
I do not understand why those
apprehended do not have their
citizenship withdrawn and are
deported to the home lands. England now lookes like Indis,
Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. The
immense growth of arabs who join
the Jihad in England is unbelievable. England need a
moratorium on Immigration for 10
years. It will take hundreds of
years to assimilate those now there.

In the US, had these clerks brought this purchase to the attention of authorities, there would have been an outcry over bias and prejudice towards these beauty supply shoppers...

Do you think this is scary? Check
out "modern binary explosive"

It looks like a smoking gun taken in context of the story, but 100 liters of peroxide at a wholesale beauty supply house wouldn't normally alert anyone to a problem. Interperting what someone said, it's just a quantity of hair treatments. More likely than not, these guys were being watched.

But I doubt they were calling in their orders for cosmetics to Quiada HQ on open phone lines.

I dare ABC to run this footage as much as they ran Abu Gharib hijinks.

Surely CCTV cameras everywhere is a total invasion of individual freedom? Could phone-tapping of terrorist phone calls or racial profiling of muslims be next? These are outrages of individual rights and should be resisted at all costs by every able-bodied leftie.

Yeah Scott, great logic. Democrats are way worse than Bush (or Cheney, they're interchangable). Our civil liberties are raped, but I assume that's okay.

Actually you can buy high concentrate Hydrogen Peroxide H2O2 by the 55 gallon drum at most chemical supply stores. It is often used to treat domestic water systems that are high in sulphurs. However, it would seem a red flag would go up if someone were to buy such a large quantity in small bottles from a beauty shop. Helloooooooooooo

A few responses to some very inane comments above:
- George Bush (or any other American) cannot put surveilance on British citizens on British soil.
- I have worked in the cosmetic supply business. A $500 order is not large, happens daily, and is not suspicious, especially if a deposit is made in advance.
- Liberals and Democrats are just as concerned about the safety of this country and its inhabitants as anyone, they just disagree with you on how to maintain that safety.
- Pelosi and Rangel are more interested and dedicated to preserving your rights and the traditions of this country than those in the current administration.
Have a pleasant weekend.

wonder why the beauty store employees weren't suspicious of someone purchasing such a large order of hydrogen peroxide? They would be accused of racial profiling!! DUH!

Hydrogen peroxide is an ordinary household chemical purchased by millions. It's used for lightening hair (head, leg, arm, etc.), first aid, household cleaning, removing laundry stains... all kinds of things. Lots of household chemicals _could_ be used for nefarious purposes, but could anyone seriously back tracking or limiting these purchases? Better track other things that could be put to criminal purposes, too -- sunglasses, hats, and scarves (hiding your identity while committing a crime), baseball bats, screwdrivers (it's a burglary tool and a stabbing implement in one!). Oh, and don't forget the flour mentioned in the story -- we'd better have grocery store clerks record "suspicious" baking product purchases, too! Then we'll be safe!

Or, we could have law enforcement focus on good old-fashioned police work, which so far has been behind every successful terrorism investigation so far.

You may say that you should have to get government permission to buy anything to build a bomb, but you can't do that.

What about aluminum and iron oxide? They are the ingredients to making thermite, which, might I add, is potentially explosive. They are used by painters to add colors to paints.

You can also BUY thermite on the internet. That just doesn't work out for your "present a purchase permit and a usage license to purchase anything that can be used to build a bomb" theory is totally unreasonable.

Are you going to crack down on model rockets too? Their engines could be made into a bomb, and they are rockets, which are a lot like bombs.

What about all the other ways to make explosives with common materials? You should think about your words before you say them.

Please think before broadcasting your ideas.

And the Gov. supplied the vid, and the Gov. supplied the ID, and allegedly they did this and allegedly did that. Notice how the charges never stick? Just like 9/11, there are too many doubts about 7/7 and most false flag ops to generate hatred towards foreigners and support for murderous campaigns. Blair is a sad excuse for a man with almost as little support as the newest member of the Dictator Club, Georgie W. Bush. No courage to stand for the truth and no compassion for human life. Only the courage to protect himself and do that which those more powerful than he tell him to do. Remember when Bush said - "Yes I'd love a dictatorship, as long as I'm the dictator" (heh,heh). Well yougave him his wish America- do you have the courage to stand up and ask for your freedom back? I wonder.