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Four radical Muslims were found guilty this week of trying to bomb the London transportation system in July 2005, in a parroting of the suicide bombings that killed 52 people earlier that month. Ringleader Muktar Ibrahim made the bombs out of bleach and flour, the same ingredients used in the earlier bombings, but he mixed the proportions wrong. When the bombs detonated unsuccessfully, spreading oozy paste instead of destruction, he and his cohorts, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed, and Hussain Osman, fled their respective trains and buses. Bystanders wrestled Mohammed to the ground; the others were seen by surveillance cameras and captured later. None of the men was born in Britain and only one had citizenship, but all had lived there for years.
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