Glasgow airport attack

[Boomer7]

All signs point toward this being terrorism.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/30/london.alert/index.html

 

[BTExpress]

Well, obviously Great Britain is the new front on the War on Terror.

When do we declare war?

 

[SoSueMe]

This is more strange than terrorism.

It was a burning car. That's it. No bombs. Not (all that) near the planes. Just seems like some cook, like those guys the arrested in Miami a while back.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

It sounds like the would-be bombers didn't rig the explosives correctly. The SUV just caught on fire, instead of exploding.

Thanks goodness for stupid wannabe terrorists.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

This is more strange than terrorism.

It was a burning car. That's it. No bombs. Not (all that) near the planes. Just seems like some cook, like those guys the arrested in Miami a while back.

There was a bomb of sorts, full of nails and gasoline. The idiots behind it just went and ****ed up what they were trying to do. Thank goodness for idiocy.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

I think I just heard **** Chaney orgasm.

 

[Platyrhynchos]

I think I just heard **** Chaney orgasm.

Who's he?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

It sounds like the would-be bombers didn't rig the explosives correctly. The SUV just caught on fire, instead of exploding.

Thanks goodness for stupid wannabe terrorists.

Larry Johnson, the ex-spook and not the ex-forward for Charlotte, said on TV that, had the London devices worked, this is exactly what would have happened. The vehicle would have burned.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

I think I just heard **** Chaney orgasm.

Who's he?

Gahhh...

I see the error of my ways.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Larry Johnson today.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/run-for-your-li.html

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Sky News reporting the hospital where one of the suspects was taken has been evacuated.

And the Blackpool airport has been closed and emptied.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The latest from the Beeb online.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6257194.stm

 

[Football_Bat]

Well, the really nice thing about these bombs failing (besides lives spared) is that there will be loads and loads of intact evidence.

 

[jgmacg]

Maybe they were just returning a rental...

 

[DanOregon]

I can only imagine how much fun the princes' concert for Diana will be on Sunday. Is it troubling, yes. It's not fun knowing there are people out there who want to harm citizens because of where they live, but how many cars crash and burn every day? I'm with FDR on this one, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Since the terrorists are now in England, do we go over there to fight them?

 

[SockPuppet]

Maybe they were just returning a rental...

Yep, especially if they read the McCarren Airport thread.

 

[JBHawkEye]

Maybe they were just returning a rental...

I hope they bought the insurance.

 

[markvid]

Wonder what the drop fee is gonna be.

 

[John]

Helluva week for Gordon Brown to take over for Tony Blair.

 

[Boomer7]

Larry Johnson today.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/run-for-your-li.html

Not sure I like the tone from Mr. Johnson here. It's one thing to mock the plots that weren't operational and were merely pipe dreams in the minds of those hatching them. It's another thing to take the same attitude when a country has had three actual attempted car bombings in two days.

And as for his critique of the coverage, give me a break. He should know better than to expect anything else from the cable news networks. If they're going wall-to-wall with Paris Hilton and the Pregnant Missing Mom, of course they're going to blow out the budget when an actual news story takes place. I thought CNN's coverage was pretty damn good (especially Paula Newton).