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UK: Industrial firework packed with nails and screws explodes outside cafe

Sep 16, 2017 2:38 pm By Robert Spencer

“While many people may think we are talking about the kind of fireworks you would purchase for bonfire night, we are not. These are extremely dangerous devices, which would cause serious injury to anyone nearby when they are ignited.”

“Police are also probing whether the incident could be linked to another explosion on Saturday night which saw a similar firework blow up the exhaust pipe and rear bumper of a Vauxhall Corsa in nearby Grafton Avenue, Eccles. Both incidents have led to the arrests of four men on suspicion of possession of explosives. They were detained on Thursday following a dramatic police chase which saw the suspects’ Lexus ram a police car in Salford. The occupants – four men aged 20, 24, 24, and 29 – then tried to escape on foot but were caught. They have since been bailed pending further enquiries.”

What do you bet those four young men are not named George, Peter, Thomas and John?

“Manchester ‘nail bomb’ attack: Salford explosion was ‘industrial firework packed with screws,'” by Paul Wright, International Business Times, September 16, 2017:

A device which exploded outside a cafe in the Salford area of Greater Manchester was reportedly packed with nails and screws. The “industrial-type firework” was left outside The Lounge in Douglas Green, Pendleton.

Residents reported hearing a loud bang and feeling their houses shake as the device exploded at around 12.30am on Tuesday (12 September).

It caused damage to the cafe’s shutters and windows, with photos of the aftermath showing smashed glass and debris littered on the pavement.

Greater Manchester Police say the nature of the device, the motive and the perpetrators are still under investigation.

Detectives described the device as an “industrial-type firework”, adding: “While many people may think we are talking about the kind of fireworks you would purchase for bonfire night, we are not. These are extremely dangerous devices, which would cause serious injury to anyone nearby when they are ignited.”

A source close to the investigation also told Manchester Evening News: “It was packed full of nails and screws and forensics have been pulling them all out of the woodwork.” The newspaper said a second source confirmed nails were in the device.

Police are also probing whether the incident could be linked to another explosion on Saturday night which saw a similar firework blow up the exhaust pipe and rear bumper of a Vauxhall Corsa in nearby Grafton Avenue, Eccles.

Both incidents have led to the arrests of four men on suspicion of possession of explosives.

They were detained on Thursday following a dramatic police chase which saw the suspects’ Lexus ram a police car in Salford.

The occupants – four men aged 20, 24, 24, and 29 – then tried to escape on foot but were caught. They have since been bailed pending further enquiries….

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  1. nicu says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 2:44 pm

    ” Small incidents ” like that happened in our small town several times — they are planning a BIG one — these freaks !

    • paul says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 4:58 am

      Ask the mayor of London. He can explain it.

  2. nicu says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 2:46 pm

    You never hear anything from London Mayor – remember : a Muslim ! when anything happens caused by his brothers !

    • mortimer says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 3:00 pm

      Sadiq Khan claims to be ‘secular’, but he has defended jihadists and speaks in muted tones about jihad. If he is considered ‘moderate’, then his ‘moderation’ means never aggressively denouncing JIHAD.

      So what help are ‘moderate’ Muslims in stopping jihad? NO HELP WHATSOEVER.

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Sep 16, 2017 at 4:55 pm

        “Moderate” Muslims only provide cover for the True Believers, and help to confuse non-Muslims regarding the threat posed by Islam.

        • Bob says

          Sep 17, 2017 at 9:53 am

          The ‘moderate’ muslims – if they actually exist!- are probably too afraid of their co-death -cult members to sprak out!

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 16, 2017 at 9:33 pm

        True, Mortimer.

      • aDhimmiSaysWhat? says

        Sep 16, 2017 at 10:25 pm

        And don’t forget. Sadiq Khan considers ‘moderate’ Muslims to be “Uncle Toms”.

      • paul says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 5:02 am

        Moderate is dead

      • Anne Smith says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 6:12 am

        He may claim to be “secular”but his legal practice before entering Parliament was based on defending the extremists. He has also shared platforms with them.

      • IQ al Rassooli says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 6:41 am

        Since every Muslim is Sharia compliant (London mayor Khan is a prime example who made Haj to Mecca as well as Linda Sarsour who LOVES Sharia and this misfit Nadia Chan) every Muslim cannot ever be a Law abiding LOYAL citizen in ANY non Muslim nation because these nations do not submit to Allah’s Sharia.

        Hence every Sharia compliant Muslim (just reading what Nadia Chan says as a perfect example) is by his/her belief system the Mortal and Eternal ENEMY of every human being on Earth who is NOT a Muslim (Infidels/ Kuffar) who hide their disloyalty by PRETENDING and deceiving (Taqiyyah) non Muslims that they are part and parcel of the American or European dream.

        Therefore, Ummat Muhammad (Muslims) 20% of humanity aspires to do one of two things to all non Muslims (80% of humanity): To SUBJUGATE them to Sharia or to EXTERMINATE them.

        Let me put it in an even shorter way: Muslims cannot possibly be BOTH Good Muslims and Loyal citizens among Kuffar/Infidels

        Every Muslim is hence a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough (just like in the recent Muslim terrorist attacks in UK and the Afghani Muslim soldiers who murder their American benefactors etc)

        Although it is true that Not ALL Muslims are Terrorists BUT 100% of all Terrorist attacks against Infidels/ Kuffar are committed ONLY by Muslims. Therefore, every Muslim is a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off (It is also a FACT that it is IMPOSSIBLE to point out who among Muslims is a terrorist or not)

        Only in the WARPED imagination of leftists can one find Moderate, Militant, Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate, Militant, Radical or Extremist. (Just ask PM Erdogan of Turkey to prove my statements)

        All other explanations are superfluous and redundant It is time for every decent and patriotic person to unshackle yourselves from the pre conceived but erroneous notion that ANYONE who is not a Muslim can make PEACE with Islam.

        All anyone in doubt has to do is READ only chapters 2 to 9 of Muhammad’s Quran and watch the repeated mass slaughter of unarmed innocent European, American, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Iraqi etc. civilians by Muslims proclaiming they are doing the butchery to PLEASE their demonic god Allah

        As usual, all that Europeans and Americans get from their criminally negligent leaders after every Islamic mass murder are platitudes, meaningless expressions of sympathy to the hapless victims by the very leaders who are not willing to protect their citizenry because of their abject denial of all Facts and Reality regarding the simple TRUTH about Islam and Muslims

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTuFA1fQ-yg&feature=youtu.be&a

        IQ al Rassooli
        Kafir & Proud!

    • TONY says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 4:16 pm

      The mayor of London has to go since he is a member of the TERRORIST OUTFIT CALLED CAIR.

  3. mortimer says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    With Guy Fawkes Night coming on November 5, the UK police must be fretting about who is buying fireworks and for what.

    Any Muslim buying a lot of fireworks SHOULD BE PROFILED.

    • Gerald Mucci says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 10:40 pm

      I don’t doubt that half of England is “profiled.” Trouble is, they don’t do anything with these people that deserve to be deported or jailed.

  4. Alien Republican says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 3:24 pm

    Test run. More to come. Courtesy of Dis-May.

  5. Quota Raven says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 3:57 pm

    At least we who abhor Islamophobia can take comfort in the fact that these four would-be terrorists have at least been set free on bail! (SARC OFF)

    Cheers!

    quota raven

    • TONY says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 4:17 pm

      They must be rounded up and returned to jail.

      • Bob says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 9:56 am

        The ‘moderate’ muslims – if they actually exist!- are probably too afraid of their co-death -cult members to sprak out!

      • Bob says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 9:59 am

        IF they’re ever rounded up again!

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 9:35 pm

      Good to see you posting, Quota. Hope you are well.

      • Quota Raven says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 12:17 am

        Graven – I’m fine; thank you for asking!)) Just bizzy recently, and more into reading than writing . All the best to you and yrs and ours! Cheers! qr

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 17, 2017 at 12:23 am

          Glad to hear it, Quota!

  6. Terry says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    What idiot judge gave these people bail?

    If in the U.S., ( and Federal) I would have say Obama or Carter.

    Sick bastards- the 4 of them and the judge

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 9:37 pm

      Yes–granting them bail is *grotesque*.

      • Anne Smith says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 6:14 am

        Absolutely agree but our judiciary is under strict orders from the Government to keep people out of custody at all costs. Our jails are filled to overflowing and the judiciary is tasked with trying to find reasons not to jail people.

        Protection of the population just does not come into it any more.

  7. Jack Holan says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    How novel! Bail for Four men accused of a bombing and having used their motor vehicle as a lethal weapon towards the Police in an effort to evade Police. What and the HELL is the Brirish Judiciary smoking, crack cocaine? It looks like they are assisting the Islamo Jihadists in their effort to defeat the Crown (England).

    • Gerald Mucci says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 10:37 pm

      I don’t think the Crown gives a rats patootie. I sense the Crown is every bit as much a Muslim apologist and enabler as May is.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 3:37 am

      The preliminary hearing would have been before a magistrate, not a judge.
      Maybe the magistrate is a muslim: it is Salford, Manchester.

  8. gravenimage says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    UK: Industrial firework packed with nails and screws explodes outside cafe
    ……………………

    I just got back from a neighborhood cafe, where I enjoyed an iced coffee at their outside tables. I am more and more aware that indulging in such innocent pleasures make me a target for Muslims.

    God, I hate Islam. What are they doing in the civilized West? (Yes, this is a rhetorical question).

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 16, 2017 at 9:37 pm

      makes

      • Quota Raven says

        Sep 17, 2017 at 12:20 am

        Graven ! – Just one of the many things I love about you: you’re a stickler for detail! Cheers again, qr

  9. Gerald Mucci says

    Sep 16, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    And what do you wanna bet they already left town?

  10. underbed cat says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 9:53 am

    These guys got arrested, and their Lexus, a great car should be seized. They are bona fide terror inducers…so if I were investigating these maybe jihadist on a run, they should also have their bank accounts investigated since so many seen to have enough money to purchase expensive cars, check the money trail, unless a cheap rental, but anyway they are old enough to be considered dangerous and this is not a drunk youth fun for the night excuse. Ramming a police car…using deadly explosives with nails, goodbye, they are terrorist and go directly to the jihad jail without accessories.

  11. underbed cat says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 10:07 am

    underbed cat….O.K. U.K. what is with the bail…remove bail from anyone who uses explosives, nails, swords, knifes, vehicular ramming, truck ramming this might help in rounding up and comparing their motives and expelling the easy mark that they see, unless you prefer to let your country just suffer their arrogance.

  12. Richard James says

    Sep 17, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    I live not far from the sites of both these incidents and much though I expect Mohammadans to carry out attacks of this type, I expect these particular attacks to be linked to a white english gang-war over territory and drug-dealing that has been under way in this sector of Manchester for at least the last three years.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 17, 2017 at 11:54 pm

      Are you serious?

      How does blowing up a cafe aid drug gangs in claiming turf?

      However, this *does* sound like a Jihad terror attack.

      • Richard James says

        Sep 18, 2017 at 5:07 am

        The same technique of attacks with ‘enhanced’ industrial fireworks was used in Liverpool, just a few miles down the road, in a drug gang turf war a few years ago. There have been, for Britain, a lot of shootings, including fatal shootings, in this present turf war. Muslims aren’t the only evil bastards in the World.

        I live here. You don’t.

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