Killer used posh perfume in bomb

[stickdog]

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15974458%255E663,00.html

ONE of the London terrorists bought more than $2000 worth of designer perfume as a deadly napalm-style ingredient in the bombs. Just three days before the carnage, Jamaican-born Jermaine Lindsay bought dozens of bottles of scent that investigators believe were to make the bombs more flammable.

They included Jean Paul Gaultier, Fahrenheit, Emporio Armani and Boss brands -- all symbols of what Islamist extremists consider the height of Western decadence. Investigators believe the perfumes were used to maximise the number of burns victims in the attacks, which killed at least 55 people, including Australian Sam Ly.

"The active ingredient in any perfume is alcohol," said terror expert Dr Andrew Silke.

"The effect would be more incendiary, like napalm, rather than highly explosive. It would create more fire and therefore more burn injuries."


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Does anyone else think this story, um, smells?

[spooked911]

1. It's ridiculous. Plus, where did the money come from?????

He didn't seem like a guy who had $2000 to throw around.

[mcctatas]

3. Maybe he just spent the last year going back and forth to all the

department stores and grabbing samples out of the baskets...or maybe this story is a little fishy. Oh yeah, and on edit...why not just use booze?? It's cheaper, has a high alcohol content, and I'm pretty sure would get their message acrossed just as well. Then again, maybe it's a crock of shit altogether.:crazy:

[tridim]

2. I call total bullshit

Why not just use rubbing alcohol or lighter fluid?

[spooked911]

4. exactly-- or petrol, for that matter.

plus, wouldn't the damn bomb stink to high heaven if he put tons of perfume in it?

[dweller]

8. might be difficult to buy $2k worth?

without drawing suspicion?

of course, at the rate it's going, gasoline purchases of that amount to fill the hummer one day might not seem unusual.
dp

[Maeve]

29. You could get the same amount of alcohol for MUCH less $$$

Shoot, 16 oz of rubbing alcohol is less than a dollar--how much for those perfumes? $35+ per ounce?

[acmavm]

5. Who makes up this shit? Have they been talking to bush* and the boys

again? Or do the British really have some guys of their own that are as bat shit crazy as the bush** administration?

[PartyPooper]

6. Why do they hate the French and their perfume?

:eyes:

[Oversea Visitor]

7. This is so dumb

:rofl:

[pimpbot]

10. Anyone whos ever read the Anarchists Cookbook...

Should know that its pretty easy to make real napalm! By easy I mean extremely dangerous and crazy. Is that .txt still around, or is it on the patriot act banned books list? In fact, by mentioning it, will I become a FBI target :)

I printed that thing out one day in HS about 8 years ago. It was an interesting read. Somehow I think determined, trained, and crazy terrorists could learn how to make a little better product than "designer perfume". GAG!
:nuke:

[Oversea Visitor]

13. They

need some designers perfume to get rid of all the fishy smell.
:rofl:
Gee what is the IQ of the average person nowadays. I means can they believe we really that dumb :rofl:

[MisterP]

14. thing is, we don't know if it's on the BANNED or the ENCOURAGED list...

with *, the FBI turns a blind eye to people killin' people

[Gman]

9. Their budget was way too big

[leesa]

11. Did Tony mix in some of Cherry's good stuff by mistake?

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. and now, Perfume gets added to the list of "dual use" products?

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Homeland Security will be at ur door cuz ya bought too much perfume . . .

Terra reigns . . .

[daleo]

15. Why spend $2000 on perfume instead of $20 on alcohol?

This seems way over the top. Isn't this a Murdoch source?

On edit - Now, if the Pentagon was to make a bomb like this, spending $2000 on perfume instead of $20 on alcohol would make perfect sense.

[daleo]

16. It makes me think of the Spice Girls.

The words "posh" and "bomb" in the same sentence.

[cmd]

31. My first thought, too n/t

[frylock]

17. did you know that if you mix equal parts of gasoline..

and equal parts frozen orange juice concentrate, you can make napalm?

</tylerdurden>

[wli]

18. what a crock of shit

What kind of morons do they take us for? If they're putting out this kind of bullcrap, it can only mean one thing...

[bribri16]

19. More than likely he bought the pefumes to re-sell. A lot of Jamaicans

do that. Why buy expensive perfume when regular gin or rum would do the trick? And they are much more a symbol of western decadence than perfume. We are grasping at straws here. None of what they are saying about the alleged bombers makes any sense whatsoever.

[FormerOstrich]

22. but......they know he didn't buy them for re-sell because he

wasn't going to be around to re-sell them. Therefore, he must have needed them for the bomb. See? Process of elimination.

[spotbird]

35. or he resold them to make the bomb

or he resold them to take care of his mother after he is gone....

Short list for elimination eliminates likely possibilities.

[truthisfreedom]

20. all of these types of press releases are engineered to distract us from

the facts. ignore them for best results.

[bdot]

21. I would have died easily.

I can't breath around perfumes, colognes, hair sprays, candles, popourri... etc..etc..etc.. That concoction would have killed me without the need of an explosion.

[CentralEuropeanDude]

23. Is there a non-Murdoch source for this?

WHO OWNS WHAT - News Corporation
http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/newscorp.asp

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. The source seems to be The Mirror in the UK

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15747958&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=7-7--war-on-britain--scent-from-hell----name_page.html

which isn't Murdoch, but has plenty of reliability issues of its own. It does specify the shops he went to. It also says his bank was investgating the unusual spending patterns.

Using perfume in a bomb a stunningly stupid thing to to do me - while it seems a lot of perfumes do have more alcohol than spirits, it'd be far cheaper to use methylated spirits. I'd wonder if he was just running up a credit card bill (with something he could easily and quickly sell on), if the stories are correct.

[CentralEuropeanDude]

32. Ok, Thanks! nt

[NuttyFluffers]

24. Suicide Bombing as Performance Art?

Honestly, how dumb does the media who spout this shit think we are? Bombers care about oblique symbolic aesthetics over efficiency and damage now. Yeah-huh, sure, ok, I buy that.
:silly: :nuke:

[Bridget Burke]

30. "Performance Arsonists"?

One episode of "Due South" featured an inmate of an institution for the criminally insane & his girlfriend on the outside. He was "in" for setting fires (as artistic statements) & she was following in his footsteps.

What accelerant did they use? Perfume!

[truthisfreedom]

26. this is more stupid "western" symbolism. they want scents associated with

terror.

ignore this. it's crap.

[sendero]

27. I'm missing something here..

... because I have no problem at all believing this.

Ever see the ads these perfume makers run? I'm anything but a prude but I find them more or less sickening - and not just from a "sexual" standpoint.

It's not a question of what would be more effective, of course you could use any number of flammable liquids, every American has them around the house - it MIGHT be what the whole "terrorism" thing is about - the encroaching of Westernism on countries that don't want it.

[Algorem]

28. 4 delivery boys got tricked?

[bassman79]

33. First it was military explosives with timers found

Remember...

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=918193
"Police also have recovered what they believe are the remnants of timing devices on the subway explosions, leading them to believe they were not suicide bombs but explosives planted in packages or bags and left behind."

[WhiteTara]

34. real perfumes are oils

it is cologne that has a high alcohol content.

[MetaTrope]

36. Maybe there is some substance to the rumors

that this was France's revenge for losing their Olympics bid?