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 trigger by hand, he said. Security sources told CNN that the "relatively 
 crude 
 device" in the first car contained at least 200 liters, or about 50 gallons, 
 of fuel in canisters. 
  
 You know what you call a vehicle with 50 gallons of gas? A Cadillac 
 Escalade. 
 The media meltdown over this incident is simply shameful. 
  
 For starters, gasoline is not a high explosive. If we were talking 50 pounds 
 of Semtex or the Al Qaeda standby, TATP, I would be impressed. Those are 
 real 
 high explosives with a detonation rate in excess of 20,000 feet per second. 
 Gasoline can explode (just ask former owners of a Ford Pinto) but it is 
 first 
 and foremost an incendiary. If the initial reports are true, the clown 
 driving 
 the Mercedes was a rank amateur when it comes to constructing an Improvised 
 Explosive Device aka IED. Unlike a Hollywood flick the 50 gallons of gas 
 would 
 not have shredded the Mercedes into lethal chunks of flying shrapenal. 
  
 The fact that "officers courageously disabled the trigger by hand" coupled 
 with the report of the smoke in the car leads me to believe that the mad 
 London "bomber" tried to construct a Molotov cocktail of sorts and lit a 
 cloth 
 fuze. Fortunately he left the windows in the car up and there was not enough 
 oxygen to really get the fire going. Looks like the brave British police 
 reached in and snuffed the flame. 
  
 Judging from the overreaction to this non-incident I think we can safely 
 conclude that Osama Bin Laden will remain holed up in Pakistan and let the 
 fear mongers at CNN, MSNBC, and FOX do the dirty business of scaring the 
 shit 
 out of people. 
  
  
  
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