"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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ember.org, at 21:21:18 on Fri, 15 Sep 2017, Recliner
remarked:
And as with other attacks, there may be a bomb-making cell behind it.
We can laugh at their incompetence with this bomb, but they may get it
right with a second one.

Hence the sharp increase in security resources now being devoted to
finding
them, as after 21/7.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/15/four-lions-factor-how-terrorist-incompetence-is-saving-lives

"initial examination of the device led explosives experts to
conclude it was 'viable', meaning it was meant to explode more
fully."

Is that really what 'viable' means? I'd always thought it meant
"constructed in such a way that it

yes

would in fact usually explode",
rather than merely wishful thinking on the part of the bomb-maker who
meant it to explode, had it been constructed properly.

in these terms Viable means - is made up of the correct parts to cause an
explosion - if it has been constructed correctly

The salient point being that a viable device is one that has to be handled
very carefully by the disposal people, because it still has the capacity to
explode in their faces if they handle it incorrectly

tim