[ABC News] Richard Esposito and Jim Sciutto - The London bomb plot failed because a medical syringe used as part of the firing mechanism caused a malfunction, despite multiple calls to the cell phones designed to remotely trigger the devices. Had the fuel-air bombs rigged inside the Mercedes parked near the front door of a nightclub successfully ignited into a superhot fireball filled with roofing nails, casualties were almost a certainty. A second Mercedes rigged with a similar incendiary device was parked several hundred yards away. The same two men believed to have planted the bombs in London attempted the incendiary attack at Scotland's Glasgow Airport.
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