July 21st trial views explosion footage
The footage shows the controlled explosion was shown to jurors
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Monday, 12, Mar 2007 10:36
Jurors at the July 21st bomb plot trial have been shown a video illustrating the potential effects of the failed bombs alleged to have been used by suspected terrorists.
The footage shows an explosion at an outdoor test site where the prosecution's bomb expert, Clifford Todd, demonstrated the potential effect of bombs predominantly made of chapatti flour and hydrogen peroxide.
A white cloud rises at least 20 feet in the air in the aftermath of the blast, while fragments of a chair to which the bomb was attached fly out in all directions.
The high-speed video shows the shockwave created by the explosion, which quickly radiates out from the bomb as a shimmer on the screen.
Prosecutors claim that alleged bomber Ramzi Mohammed, 25, from north Kensington in west London, attempted to detonate the explosives while travelling on the London Underground on July 21st 2005.
Jurors in the trial at Woolwich crown court have already been shown pictures of the pool of sloppy liquid found on the Northern line train at Oval tube station on July 21st.
The images contained nails, screws and other shrapnel which prosecutors maintain were designed to travel at "several hundred metres a second".
Mr Mohammed denies conspiracy to cause murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. So do his five fellow suspects, Muktar Said Ibrahim, 28, from Stoke Newington, north London; Yassin Omar, 26, from New Southgate, north London; Hussein Osman, 28, of no fixed address; Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address; and Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London.
The trial continues.