Explosives found by detectives investigating the London bombings were home-made using ingredients that can be found in high street chemists. The highly volatile explosive – acetone peroxide – has been discovered in a house in Leeds thought to have been used as a bomb-making factory. The discovery has raised fears of other British fanatics making their own explosives and following the example of the London suicide bombers. Instructions for making acetone peroxide are readily available on the internet. The home-made explosives found in Leeds are similar to those used in other al-Qaida-linked attacks. They were also used by shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Police are hunting an Egyptian chemistry student who has fled his Leeds home as well as the suspected mastermind behind the suicide attacks. A security source said: “The explosive that has been recovered at the house in Leeds – some of it is still in there – is in fact acetone peroxide. “It’s the same kind of explosive Richard Reid had in his shoes when he tried to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001. “This is a shocking development in the sense that earlier ideas about commercial or military grade explosive being used in the bombs themselves would therefore seem to be wrong.”http://themuslimweekly.com/newsdetails/fullstoryview.aspx?NewsID=98C81ACB48DCF47163A02538&MENUID=HOMENEWS&DESCRIPTION=UK%20News
