Well, in fairness, they didn’t do any harm to anyone but themselves (and the Jeep).
They are Errorists. Fortunately.
Judging solely by the information revealed so far, if they ‘bombs’ in London had gone off, they would probably have killed or injured a handful of people, but they would have caused widespread fear and disruption, which is plenty good enough for terrorists. In regard to the seemingly odd timing, bear in mind that Tiger Tiger (a crap cheesy nightclub) alone had something like 1100 people inside when the first car was found - plenty of victims around even at that time of night, and a lot easier to park a car.
But they didn’t go off, and instead everyone is laughing at the twits who managed to subject themselves to agonising burns, while achieving nothing.
There’s a picture in today’s paper of one of them being pinned to the ground by a couple of coppers, with most of his clothes burnt off and his skin peeling off like wet paper. It could be captioned “You fail at suicide bombing. Go straight to hospital, then to jail for the rest of your life - do not pass gates of paradise, do not collect 72 virgins.”
Your government stood idly by, knowing full well that NORAID was funnelling money directly to Northern Irish terrorists. It was well known, even in the 80’s, that Sinn Fein’s presence in America was merely a front. Even after 9/11, Northern Irish politicians had to petition Bush for him to even crack down on this money flow, the best part of twenty years after several American court decision had determined American money was being funnelled to terrorists.
You may not have known, but the people who mattered, those who could have stopped it, certainly did.
According to an eye witness to the Glasgow incident a copper managed to mace himself by spraying into the wind.
Take that Infidels!
According to a BBC update the doctor is not the burned man, but he was the other person in the Jeep.
Whatever. I’m sure you have your facts correct. Hope you get your chip off your shoulder someday, although whether you do or don’t probably won’t affect me personally either way.
Oh how I hope they can’t find the cream/jelly or whatever it is they use to cover burns
I just heard BBC TV say there are two doctors involved now, one of them the burned man. Maybe both in the Jeep were doctors?
From what I understand the other doctor was arrested (with his wife) on the M6 motorway in Cheshire, on route from London. He seems to live in Staffordshire in the English Midlands.
From what I hear, the burned doctor is Lebanese of Syrian training and being treated in the hospital where he worked. The other doctor is Iraqi.
Seems like these doctors were violating their Hippocratic Oath-do muslim physicians eschew this oath? I suppose a good muslim would not "swaer by Aecpelius).
CNN here is listing three (3) doctors involved now.
It seems to me that doctors could create a lot more havoc by messing with medications, etc. than by trying to ram a flaming car into an airport. Something seems wrong here.
It might be that they thought they were going to get away with the London bombings but once they failed, they knew they were going to be caught, and switched to suicide bombing.
Still…
BBC is now reporting a total of eight arrests, although they don’t say if the new arrest is the third doctor.
It’s not a matter of a chip on anyone’s shoulder - it’s a perspective thing - just remember next time someone moans about “the Arab street” (or whoever) not caring as much as they should about 9/11 (or some other atrocity), to them the suffering of Americans is a “Whatever”
That’s the way it is, it shouldn’t be, but it is
Physician, singe thyself
Maybe Harold Shipman was an early Al Q operative…
Judging by the increase in security (across the board) The US is gearing up for an attack in the near future. Don’t know how the nutjobs pick their dates but it wouldn’t surprise me to see something close to the 4th.
Beeb reporting 12 in custody. 12 doctors that is.
The fucking clever, pernicious, nasty bastards that are Al Qaeda. I have to say, I am impressed with their deviousness. Doctors are needed over here. It’s really easy to get a visa if you’re a doctor. Doctors are respectable - few would suspect a doctor to be a murderous Islamist asshole.
Strategically brilliant; thankfully the healers have so far made shitty killers.
What will they think of next? Librarians? Elementary school teachers? Armies of wild-eyed pensioners in explosive wheelchairs?
Which means jjimm that all over the country any doctor with questionable origins will be viewed with suspicion, not only by authorities but by patients themselves.
Oh I know. It’s a bit of a disaster all round.
Hopefully most people will be able to control themselves. I sat on a bus in London yesterday evening, surrounded by five young Arab men carrying backpacks, one of whom was reading the Koran. It took a lot of self-control to resist my burgeoning prejudice: I had to force myself to acknowledge that we were about to pass through Little Lebanon, so of course they were on the bus. And sure enough, that was where they were heading.