Yeah! Now is a great time to surrender in Iraq and hand a huge victory to Al Qaeda that will super-charge their fund raising and recruiting, and offer them a large sanctuary in to develop plots and train operatives! Better yet, why don't we also turn over the Middle East oilfields to control by Iran and its allies so that they can destroy the American economy?

i am glad that the bomb was stopped in time.
i really hope the authoritys apprehend the terrorists that did this and then capture all of their associates.

ONCE WE LEAVE QAEDA WILL BE THE ONES GETTING KILLED. WHY BECAUSE IRAN DOES NOT NEED THEM ANYMORE. IF YOU ARE SO WORRIED ABOUT THE AMERICAN ECONOMY WHY DID THE SENATE DENY PRES BUSH HIS OPEN BORDER PROPOSAL? IF IT NOT IRAN ITS THE MEXICANS RIGHT? LOOK UNDER YOUR BED TO NIGHT YOU NEVER CAN TO SAFE.

We denied the proposal because taxpayers didn't want to pay for millions of more poor people to come here and take government handouts. Previous immigrants had a sense of pride about refusing help from the government. This group thinks it's entitled to everything. Illegal immigrants cost the city of Los Angeles $1 billion a year, not counting how much it takes to educate their kids. 10 ERs have closed thanks to people demanding free health care. Guess we didn't want to reward that behavior. It's not good for the economy, it's good for big business who was trying to create a slave class out of the Mexicans. We did you a favor.

These ARE NOT CAR BOMBS. Someone standing right by the car might get burned,very small chance it would work at all. Very sad media reporting, do you ever question these idiot officials? Anyone with high school chemistry should know better!

I agree with Miles. Propane/gasoline without oxidant would make a pretty poor bomb.

Makes you wish America had the British security system instead of the bumbling Bush incompetents, who failed to stop 9/11 after being specifically warned of it months beforehand in the CIA briefings they ignored. I doubt the new British Prime Minister Brown is taking a three month vacation like "Brush-Clearing" Bush did in 2001.

First the Blitz Then 30 years of the IRA sponsored by NORAID (bet you're proud of that now) Now we've got 30 years of AL Queda bombings to look forward to. I dare say we'll cope.

Now is a great time to surrender in Iraq

We lost the war in Iraq in the summer of 2003 when Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld refused to send more troops to deal with the rising insurgency.

"Yeah! Now is a great time to surrender in Iraq and hand a huge victory to Al Qaeda that will super-charge their fund raising and recruiting, and offer them a large sanctuary in to develop plots and train operatives! Better yet, why don't we also turn over the Middle East oilfields to control by Iran and its allies so that they can destroy the American economy?"

This never ceases to amaze me. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is there because Duhbya created an ideal situation from them. If the action in Afghanistan had gotten more attention, and Iraq was left alone, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now. Use of the word "surrender" is just idiotic.

This also shows that the statement "if we fight them over there we won't have to fight them over here" is ridiculous. They're already over here, Iraq or not.

Whether or not this was an effective device should not be the issue. That there was a device at all is the point to be remembered. Terrorism works when there is violence against the innocent at any scale of damage or how many die or how badly they are maimed.

Ask our brave servicepersons returning returning from the mideast what they have seen or heard and see the terror well in their eyes when they remember.

We are not fighting a war against a foe fighting with rules of engagement in a country's uniform. We are fighting against a distortion of truths, a perpetuation of lies.

Muslim leaders have been recorded as saying that a goal of Islam is the eradication of the infidel.
Remember this the next time you vote for a weak congressman who campaigns against defending our boarders and country.

I for one am amazed at the abilities of their bomb squad in the U.K. and especially the person that took "the long walk". what courage he/she must have as well as pride in their abilities to save the lives of innocent people. This is true heroism in action! it's good to know that the cowardly fools that made this sword of evil have been thwarted be such fine human beings! The good guy's won this one!!!!

Not only is it brave to manually defuse a bomb but to do it in a paper haz-mat suit (as is seen in the photo) really takes some nerve.
Someone should let the Brits know about body armor and containment shielding that can be placed over and around explosives so they can be deliberately detonated in a controlled environment without the need of someone attempting to defuse them...in a paper suit and particle mask.

I've seen photos of just this sort of things used in US cities.
Uh, in these days of terror, someone in England has thought of such a device haven't they???

"Civilized war is the kind we fight against them, whereas savage war is the atrocious kind that "they" fight against us!"
This manure has been spread about by each side in every war that man has manufactured and played a role in.
Enough already.

Miles nails it. This wasn't a credible threat, it was either a bunch of real bumblers or it was a propaganda theatre piece, someone sending a welcome wagon to Gordon Brown on his second day in office. If the Media would stop hyperventilating and dig into their stories a bit, do a little research, ask, maybe a physicist or explosives expert, maybe people wouldn't be terrrrrrrized in ignorance.
Because if this is the level of threat that we face, we could much better spend the DHS money on important things.

some of you people commenting kill me - instead of putting the root cause as Islamic Jihad/fanaticism, you immediately start blaming Bush and the US - how truly sad and ignorant. and I'm sooooo impressed with you explosives experts calling this incident meaningless. I guess you won't wake up until we have another 9/11 - of course that will have nothing to do with muslim extremists either . . .

The jury is still out on 9/11 for many people on this planet!
And these terrorists are either highly trained, meticulously organized and technologically sophisticated as we have been led to believe for 6 years now, or they are just a bunch of renegades from F troop who can't find their posteriors with both hands and just happen to get lucky now and again.
Well, which are we supposed to believe. What we see or what the new world order governments tell us?
Because there's a big, big disconnect between what the establishment has told us about these guys and what we see going on in the news since 9/11.
Lots of busts but no conclusive evidence to back up the theories of the authorities...especially in England.

Gameshow hostess Keith Olbermoronn had like-minded leftist kook Larry Johnson on her unwatched gameshow "Meltdown with Keith Olbermoronn" to discuss the London bomb. Johnson, who knows absolutely nothing about explosives, bombs, warfare or anything else, claimed that the bombs were "non-bombs" that would mereley do "damage to the interior of the Mercedez." He also claimed that if someone "were within 20 or 30 feet of the bomb they would have ear damage but not much more." ROTFLMAO! Avoid drinking any beverages while watching to avoid spitting on your computer as you laugh hysterically. Of course, Johnson also claimed prior to 9/11 that terrorism was no threat. Is anyone surprised that Johnson is a darling of Miss Olbermoronn and other kook fringe leftist freaks?

The fact that someone with a little know how could actually do a lot of damage is scary. That's the real story, someone that dumb could get that far, there was never any danger of a large loss of life. The reporting is pathetic. How could we possibly know what to believe anymore? Officials quoted, talking about a hundred yard radius of death and destruction narrowly avoided, is complete and total propaganda. They couldn't possibly believe that crap.

Tom - It's great that you post on these forums. Your arguments and pre-school name calling perfectly illustrate why you, and people like you, support a bumbling incompetent like Bush. Are you also one of the 68% of Republicans who believes the universe is 6,000 years old (Gallup Poll - June 2007) and that Iraq attacked us on 9/11 (Dick Cheney - June 2007)? No wonder Republicans haven't won a war since 1898...the Spanish-American War.