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Originally Posted by Pierre
The concern is that compared to recent Radical Islamic attacks this was a sophisticated nail bomb. To construct one is tricky and to construct a stable one that goes off when you want it to is even trickier and takes some skill. Bowlacks! It is a bomb with a detonator triggered with the press of a button by the suicide bomber. A simple trigger device with either nails or other shrapnel packed around it. Nothing complicated. He himself wanted to watch the concert before triggering it (At a guess).
This begs three questions.
1. Did the bomber build the bomb? Well let's hope so, now he's dead.I doubt it
2. Was the bomb built o/s the UK and shipped in? - you would expect not.Assume ATM the builder is here in the UK.
3. Did someone else in the UK build the bomb and give it to the attacker? This is the worst option, this means there is a person with sophisticated bomb making skills in the UK, which would suggest and organised IS sympathetic cell in the UK. See above, I think that's obvious. The IRA did it for many years without outside help.
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I hope the above comments help. A nail bomb is easy to build and if used by a suicide bomber is less complicated than one with a timer or remote trigger.