Re: Clearing Palladium (Off Topic)

Poked around LexisNexis a bit here are a few bits (all seem to point to
comments by Ray Kelley or other NYPD sources. Perhaps that's where CNN or
whoever put the list together got their information (if you can call it
that :) -g

http://www.newsday.com
Newsday (New York)

August 5, 2005 Friday
CITY EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A02
LENGTH: 684 words
HEADLINE: Get a grip, old chap, we need to know
BYLINE: Ellis Henican

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He said the bombers didn't use military-grade explosives, as London police
had originally thought. He said the bad guys used a home-brewed explosive
called HMDT, made from citric acid and hair dye. "It's more like these
terrorists went to a hardware store or some beauty supply store," the New
York commissioner said.

Michael Sheehan, Kelly's deputy commissioner of counterterrorism, added
that the London bombers had stored their unstable mixture in a restaurant
refrigerator at a flophouse in Leeds, then carried the deadly brew to the
outskirts of London in a medium-sized cooler in the trunk (that's "boot"
over there) of a car.

The bombs, the New Yorkers reported, were most likely triggered with cell
phone alarms set for 8:50 a.m.

Basic information? Sure.

Important for other law enforcement professionals to know? You bet.

Already common knowledge in Britain? Strangely, no.

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Copyright 2005 N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
The New York Post

August 4, 2005 Thursday
SECTION: Sports+Late City Final; Pg. 8
LENGTH: 222 words
HEADLINE: LONDON BOMB RECIPES ALL OVER 'NET, POLICE SAY
BYLINE: ERIKA MARTINEZ

BODY:

Peroxide was one of the main ingredients in the explosives in last month's
terror attacks in London - and recipes for using it to create devastating
bombs are easily available on the Internet, NYPD brass revealed yesterday.

"It can happen here," warned David Cohen, the NYPD deputy commissioner for
intelligence.

Not only are the bomb-making ingredients readily available here, but there
are people intent on using them in the Big Apple, Cohen said at a briefing
of corporate security executives on the lessons the NYPD has learned from
London's July 7 terror attack and the failed July 21 attack.

Peroxide, easily available in hardware stores and beauty shops, was the
key ingredient in the bombs, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at the
briefing.

He said empty peroxide bottles were found at several sites linked to the
bombers.

The peroxide was mixed with hexamine (chemical heating tablets) and citric
acid to make HMTD (hexa-methylene-triperoxide-diamine) bombs - highly
unstable explosive devices that deteriorate quickly and have to be kept
cool.

British police yesterday arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the
botched bombings for allegedly withholding information that could have led
to the arrest of Osman Hussain, a suspect in custody in Italy.

He was identified as Ismael Abdurahman, from south London.

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