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Bad form to answer my own post, but a suicide run makes sense for a hardened target and thinking about it, Haymarket is the southbound leg of the one way system around there - which means that the driver was on a plausible route to Whitehall, which has plenty of hardened targets to choose from (including the obvious one of course).

This is all purest speculation of course.

Regards
Luke

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by silburnl on Fri Jun 29th, 2007 at 09:27:26 AM EST
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The hardened targets are - well - hardened. You'd break a few windows and scare people, but that would be about it. And the early morning is hardly peak time for Whitehall or Westminster.

No one seems to have commented on the fact that propane cannisters make very bad bombs. The steel casing is extremely thick and you have to leave it to burn for a long time before it explodes.

If the plan was to set fire to the car and then wait for the propane to go up, or even just to fill the car and light a match, that was only ever marginally likely to work.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Jun 29th, 2007 at 01:25:14 PM EST
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True, all true.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Fri Jun 29th, 2007 at 01:51:56 PM EST
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