I can’t get my head around the fact that someone could go through all the trouble to create a car bomb, then drive it in such a reckless manner that it immediately gets noticed!
I can only assume from this brazen stupidity that there really is a God who influences human events, and he or she really likes Earl Grey tea and cricket.
A question, Chowder: How do you (collective ‘you’) feel about the video surveillance in London? Not that there’s any shortage of cameras here, but for the most part they are not operated by law enforcement. Should law enforcement suggest London-style surveillance, I don’t think Americans would stand for it.
So does a bunch of cans of gasoline really make that great a bomb? Even the gas cylinders would need some kind of brute force failure to get a big explosion.
I was under the impression that real car bombs used high explosives.
Reports say that there was over 60 liters of petrol. That combined with large calor gas cylinders and the nails could cause a hell of a lot of harm/damage.
The two cars were parked/situated close to each other (before one was towed away) if they had exploded with the figure given of 5-10 mins between each the carnage would have been terrible given that the cars were in the heart of Londons theatre land.
Johnny LA I can’t really comment of London CCTV cameras as I live in the North West about 250 miles from London. I’ll say, however, that I’m all in favour of CCTV if they help in catching or deterring criminals
Well, I was in that parking lot about a week ago - I go past it every day. And my office is about 1/4 mile from where the other bomb was found.
But I think their discovery is the best thing that could have happened (absent there being no terrorists around, which is unlikely), since there is going to be so much evidence revealed by the two cars that the active terrorist cell will almost certainly be busted apart. Much kudos to the ambulencemen, and to the police and bomb squad that defused the first device in situ.
Better than even odds that these two bozos who crashed into the airport were drunk or high or something; if they were terrorists they probably need to find a new occupation (aside from chipping rocks at a British prison).
I have spoken on more then a few occassions to people in the middle East who you would be more then glad to have as friends or neighbours ,good parents,intelligent ,apparently sane ,self deprecating sense of humour and then they’ll add a comment quite casually “of course its gods will that any western infidel deserves to die and its our duty as the faithful to kill you Brits and Americans who are occupying our country ,of course I’m not including you in that”(I think for politenesses sake )
I find it in my mind to be almost schizophrenic in nature .
Is it unique to their religion or culture?
Or what really frightens me is the question would all of our cultures and religions
cause us to be as inhuman if we were put into a similar situation ?
I’d like to think no,but its chilling to think that the answer might be yes.
The reason is quite simple ,the individual involved was most probably very nervous which would make his driving erratic anyway and there is a liklihood that he may have had some dutch courage before the event .
Many if not most British Muslims drink alcohol in my experience.
Most Americans have not experienced Irish terrorist scum detonating explosive devices in parks.pubs and shopping streets designed to (and succeding very often )to kill women ,children ,old people and other innocent civilians who couldn’t care less one way or the other about their so called cause, for several decades .
I think you’ll find if it comes to pass that Americans do have to experience this for themselves they 'll be more then happy to put up with increased CCTV surveillance.
Your impression as an ill informed civilian? or as someone trained in I.E.D.s and anti terrorism ?
You can make a very effective explosive device just from a hanging jerry can full of gasoline with the cap off,I dont know if in this case there was or was not an explosive trigger using a dedicated explosive (high or low )along the lines of Semtex,but you dont actually need one for the device to detonate.
Do you think that the security services are hyping this up?
If so why for gods sake ?
In recent years many Brits have died from terrorist acts ,we dont actually need a wake up call as to the dangers of terrorism .
I would however respectfully suggest that there are more then a few Americans who do need one .