Not that I recall
T’wasn’t exactly nice being Irish in the UK when there were bombing campaigns going on.
I knew someone who had an Irish surname, and he did get a couple of very nasty phone calls. I imagine they just picked his name at random out of the phone book.
I read the police report, and it appears the trigger mechanism (on the car bombs0 was amateurishly-constructed, and 9thanks to God) unlikely to have detnated. This little fact makes me think that these guys NEVER went to one of those Afghan-border-region-Al-Quedah Terrorist training camps. They seemed to have learned their explosives 101 from the internet. Now: the fact that ANYBODY trained as a doctor (and sworn to save human life) could plan this is terrifying enough-hope they all get life sentences!
According to the BBC yesterday, the guy who was badly burned is “close to death”. I suppose the authorities would like him alive to they could get as mush information from him as possible concerning his terrorist contacts.
A quick search suggests that it’d be quite unusual for a patient with 90% burns to survive.
Curiously I’m slightly disappointed; I’d rather he live and face the music.
I must apologise for the mistakes in my last post. The last sentence should read “I suppose the authorities would like him alive, so they can get as much information from him as possible concerning his terrorist contacts.” :smack:
T’wasn’t exactly nice simply being in the U.K. when there were bombing campaigns going on.
Oh, well, pardon ME. But that IS what I see mostly on BBC here.
If those are third-degree burns, then no, he will certainly not make it.
The fact that someone gets to be a doctor without having the modest brain power necessary to figure out how to make things go BOOM! is quite terrifiying too.
Way to entirely miss the point of yojimbo’s post.
The stupidity involved is just mind numbing. Firstly they seem to have based their bomb on the movies, in which petrol and gas cylinders blow up if someone breathes on them too warmly, and secondly they seem to have had no clue whatever about how not to dump your contacts deep into the shit by the clues you leave. They left a freakin’ phone with a sim card and telephone numbers in it in the car! I mean what the effin’ eff were they thinking?
Their incompetence would be almost heartwarming if it were not for the thought that these guys may be representative of the sort of brains that will allow you to gain qualifications sufficient to treat sick and injured people without adult supervision.
I find it disturbing that there is a connection between the doctors in GB and the US in the form of a common mode of operation. Hopefully the call to arms by al-Zawahri won’t cause Cat Stevens to spontaneously combust at the upcoming Live Earth Concert.
It’s now being reported that the badly burned man is not a medic but a doctor of engineering and has a doctorate in “computational fluid dynamics” . According to the Times this is a “highly specialised subject in which computers are used to simulate the flow of liquids and gases over complex structures such as outside of vehicles and aircraft.” Even with all that specialised knowledge the bombs were still duds.
They say failed suicide attempts are a cry for help.
Maybe, but there was an Irish kid I knew well at school, and a lady of Irish extraction that my 'rents were friends with, and neither of 'em got a whiff of grief that I ever heard of. I guess it varied from place to place.
As in “Fuck me, that’s my 72 virgins up the swannee”
Yeah, something like that. 
Replace the word “thugs” with “the police”, the words “beat up” with “shoot repeatedly in the head” and the words “a Muslim” with “someone not white”.
Now think back to July 2005.
There you go.