Gentle Giant Goes Down

A Muslim convert described as the "least cunning" terrorist ever to come before a British court was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in prison for a bungled suicide nail bombing.

Nicky Reilly - who changed his name to Mohamed Saeed-Alim - accidentally detonated his homemade device in the toilets of the crowded Giraffe restaurant in Exeter, injuring only himself.

The 22-year-old was given a life sentence at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to attempted murder and preparing an act of terrorism last May.

They should hang the bastard

I can remender

ALL OF THE MSM AND AND BLOGSPHERE Had BEEN TRYING TO PUT THE BLAME ON MUSLIM EXTREMISTS AND MAKE THE EXETER BOMBER APPEAR TO BE A VICTIM

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP

HE WAS NOT A GENTLE GAINT

HE WAS A WHITE ENGLISH MUSLIM
WHO
WENT INTO A FAMILY RESTAURANT WITH A BOMB

A bomb that was especially designed to cause agonising injuries to those it didn’t kill outright.

Detectives believe the Gente Giant planned to commit suicide and allegedly had help in constructing three “rudimentary but viable” bombs that had never been seen in Britain before. They were constructed from sodium hydroxide, aluminium foil strips and an essential oil, combined with kerosene.

The nails would tear the flesh open and the oil would produce a napalm type of burn, with the drain cleaner (caustic soda) continuing to produce chemical burns after the oil was extinguished. The aluminium foil would produce explosive hydrogen in contact with the drain cleaner, and then would itself ignite, peppering its victims with white hot burning globules of molten aluminium.

If it had gone up it would certainly have caused a huge fireball and the idea that this was happening in a family restaurant packed with children is awful.

So much for the Gentle Giant

The bombs that terrorists use are among the most evil weapons invented within todays world. The explosives are bad enough, but palestinians have chosen to add metal pieces to the bombs to increase their deadliness, and to deliberately wound as many people as possible.

X-ray picture of a 17-old girl, who was killed by a suicide-bomb's nail penetrating her skull.

The mechanics of a terrorist bomb

The explosive belt usually consists of several cylinders filled with explosive (de facto pipe bombs), or in more sophisticated versions with plates of explosive. The explosive is surrounded by a fragmentation jacket that produces the shrapnel responsible for most of the bomb’s lethality, effectively making the jacket a crude body-worn claymore mine. Once the vest is detonated, the explosion resembles an omnidirectional shotgun blast. The most dangerous and the most widely used shrapnel are steel ball bearings 3-7 mm in diameter. Other shrapnel material can be anything of suitable size and hardness, most often nails, screws, nuts, and thick wire. Shrapnel is responsible for about 80 or 90% of all casualties caused by this kind of device.

The metal shards do the most damage

The main killing power of any bomb is not the explosion itself (the shock wave is rather small because of small quantity of explosives used) but the fragments of its jacket, which are launched in all directions by the explosion. In air force bombs and in many types of artillery shells the pieces are formed out of the steel casing, which is split into small pieces in an explosion.

In anti-personnel tank shells and in some kinds of artillery shells part of the internal payload is dedicated to shrapnel- such a shell is filled with several thousand of needles (”flechettes”). Sometimes these flechettes are made of plastic, which do not show up on x-rays. Palestinian terrorists realized this principle long ago and use it widely. It is most likely that between 80 and 90% of the victims injured are hit by the bomb shrapnel.

The most widely used and the most dangerous shrapnel consists of ball bearings 3-7 millimeters in diameter. In the most severe terrorist acts the bombs of the suicide-bombers were filled with steel balls.

In an explosion, the balls are launched with such speed, that their power is close to a bullet’s. You could say that in an explosion the suicide-bomber shoots several hundred bullets in a single moment.

Aside from steel balls, nails, screws and so on, nuts and washers are also used. Nuts are easily glued together to form tiny plates that can be pressed in, or even tied by a tape to the plates of the explosive to hide it better. Likewise, nuts are also stringed on a thread or on a piece of wire.

Primary blast injury is caused by the rapid outward spread of the shock wave. Injury to gas-containing organs, such as perforation of the middle ear and blast lung injury (BLI) are most common (22.1% and 18.2% of victims, respectively).

Of all patients with BLI, 82% of victims aboard buses and in semi confined spaces will suffer from moderate and severe forms of BLI compared with 33% of victims in open spaces.

Secondary blast injury is caused by penetrating missiles that are propelled by the blast wave. More than 85% of victims of suicide bombing attacks (SBA) suffer from penetrating shrapnel and debris, most commonly to the head.

Tertiary blast injury results from a patient’s body being displaced by expanding gases. Burns are termed quaternary blast injury and are also notably more common after explosions inside confined spaces compared with open spaces (33.9% versus 5% of victims, respectively).

The hallmark of injuries after an SBA is the combination of blunt injury, multiple penetrating injuries with extensive soft tissue damage, and burns. Half of all patients hospitalized will be seen in a trauma unit setting and the same proportion will be admitted to an intensive care unit. Victims of SBAs are more severely injured compared with other trauma victims. Typical injuries include penetrating injury to the head (55%), extremities (49%), and torso (40%), burns (27%), open fractures (22%), and BLI (18%).

Here is an article which contains X-Rays of the victims of palestinian terrorist bombs.

Front view of an abdomen imbedded with nails and metal fragments

Side view of lower back and abdomen. Note orientation of whole nails that entered head first

CT scan of head. Metal, bone, blood and air are within normal brain tissue

Front view of a pelvis imbedded with nails and metal fragments

But even this is not enough for the terrorists. They also soak the shrapnel in rat poison, because it causes hemorrhaging - victims may bleed to death before they can get to the hospital.

Remember all of this, when you hear the world tell us that Islam is a religion of peace in responding to this attack.

Remember all of this, when you read about the innocent gentle gaints

Remember all of this, when non muslims demonized by the blind, hateful people who wear checked kaffiyehs at anti-war protests, and call Israel an “apartheid state” for building a separation barrier — to keep out the monsters who would use bombs like I have just described.

Remember this, when you look at the pictures of the results of the bombing, and the carnage inflicted.

These are the people with whom 'some' others sympathize: Those who create and set off the bombs. Not the victims. The fucking bombers.

This isnt just ethically irrational, it's sick... fucking sick

They should shoot them