F ire cloaked his body, as Kafeel Ahmed danced toward the hydrogen peroxide cylinders loaded in the boot of his Jeep Cherokee: This final macabre sacrifice, he perhaps hoped , would work where science and his prayers had failed. A highly-regarded PhD in computational fluid dynamics, Kafeel had designed detonators using mobile phones, wired to light bulbs surrounded by match heads. The detonators, though, failed to generate enough energy to set off the hydrogen peroxide and fuel mix. Kafeel had won the race against MI5 to get his car-bomb to Glasgow airport—only to lose it all to a quirk of fate.

Ever since Monday’s blast in Delhi—the largest bomb strike in India since the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, allegedly plotted by at least four doctors from Kashmir and a fifth from Luck

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