saint_monkey

Some things bother me about this london bomb thing. I can't stop thinking about it. It's like Lt. Columbo is always saying ... the little details... they bother me:

1) Timing. Keeps coming back to timing. It's all wrong. A day too late. The previous day, and massive casualties could have been inflicted. I mean, you have the devices, everything is in place, and here is this giant crowd in trafalgar waiting for the olympic announcement. Thousands in one place, televised. And now we find that the bombs were synchronized, which #1 is hard to do, and #2) to me means that the exact time was very important to the bombers. More so even, than location, since they seem to have been placed on moving objects. Why have the devices go off within seconds of each other, when minutes would have been sufficient?

2) The relative lack of damage. Small charges, scattered across the city. Seems set to create massive distraction for as little human cost as possible. Or perhaps to generate as much buzz as possible with a limited amount of explosives, which brings me back to the timing issue. Just gives me a lot of questions, and the facts they keep uncovering make it all the more puzzling.

EDIT: An article on The Huffington Post has some info that is helpful in explaining both things. 2) The bombs were made in london, by people who didn't know how to make bombs. So no casualtioes, just falderol. Digital watches are fairly accurate and cheap timers. 1) That type of person isn't going to do anything on their own initiative, so for them there would be no such thing as a "target of opportunity."

"avoid london" flikr pic
these flikr feeds seem to be getting hit with updates of the london affair:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/bomb/pool/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/underground/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tube/

Not many photos relating to the issue at hand on "london" yet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/london/