What got me onto this theory was reading that the shoe bomber, a Muslim convert named Richard Reid, had been described by someone who knew him well in England as 'very, very impressionable.' I had already decided that the man was a complete bozo.
In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.
While Crawley has a proportionately much smaller Muslim population than others on the list, the West Sussex town was in the spotlight last year as the home of the first British jihadi suicide bomber of the Syrian civil war, and of three men jailed in 2007 for a bomb plot investigated by police under Operation Crevice.
His first office in October 1945 was a coal-hole among the wreckage left by a German bomber.
Alban Maginness, the SDLP candidate, narrowly beat the former IRA bomber Gerry Kelly into second place in the assembly elections.
In 2009 he took part in negotiations over the controversial return home of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasset al-Megrahi.
Take, for instance, Labour's inaction over the fact that a Sinn Fein Euro election candidate spoke at commemoration for the IRA bomber and Nazi advocate Sean Russell earlier this autumn.
"A female suicide bomber exploded as soon as she stepped out of a motorised rickshaw," said Gamandi, who was at the scene.
The family have called on the PSNI to question the convicted bomber Donna Maguire, 57.
The police spokesperson said the bomber escaped in a red Volkswagen Golf, with the registration number YIB 8658, which was driven by another man.
Employees at East Kilbride engineering yard in Scotland refused to fix bomber-plane engines destined for Chile, forcing Rolls Royce to break its contract with the Chilean air force.
