so, looks like the UK is under attack...
 

two car bombs, and now this at Glasgow airport...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...rport2_203.jpg

I guess its hard to judge... innocent people are always the victim, but I think civilians are under worst threat in Iraq than they are here...

Although all in all so far the terrorist attacks havent seemed very competent (although perhaps I'll regret saying that)... so far two unexploded car bombs, and this time the terrorists seem to have set themselves on fire rather than blow up the terminal.

There were lots of police in town today, and after this, i expect security everywhere to be beefed up.

Fortunatly it seems that the people involved in this are inept, lets hope it stays that way for this round of attacks.

Most of the reports about the 2 found bombs were people sounding very nonchalant about the whole thing, though that could be the slant the media wanted.

But Britian has had plenty of experience with domestic terrorism, so in some ways I can see people being nonchalant about it.

Well, I remember the day of the July 7th bombings... certainly no one I knew was shaken by it to any extent. People were just talking about because of what we were doing in Iraq this kind of thing was going to expected and was bound to happen more. Of course, the death toll of that attack (while any death toll is tragic) was not especially high.

But most people grew up with IRA bombings being a reality - of course it is disruptive and tragic that innocent people are killed by these criminals (and the IRA and Al Qeida are both a bunch of murderers and gangsters at the heart of it in my opinion - while one group was funded by the Irish community in the US and Southern Ireland and one by Saudi religious maniacs - whatever politics they start out fighting for, they end up simply as killers of women and children)

that goes for everything.

It's odd - I walked through those same airport doors in Glasgow not long ago.

Anyway, we're booking another trip to the UK - not going to let some terrorist scum affect us.

Nice welcome for the new prime minister.

I worry that the british people influenced by the tabloid press will pass the tipping point of tolerance of muslims. Thick twats who read the red tops are easy to influence, and the narrow minded, blinkerd middle class readers of the 'Mail' & 'Express' are almost there already.
The 'BNP' must be loving this state of high alert, they are probably knocking on doors today playing on peoples fears. 'Fuckwits'
It was different with the IRA cos it was home grown, they gave warnings most of the time, and they did'nt want to kill themselves.

Riiiight...because its the British who are so intolerant of others' customs and religions.

:lol:

Some people (Okay, my activist friend who reads into conspiracy theories too much said it) are saying the government staged it. As poorly executed as it was, maybe he's right.

He should probably take another puff on the old crack pipe.

Why is it hard for people to believe that there are bad people (not just governments) in the world who want to hurt other people to make some twisted point?

What is somewhat concerning to me about these attacks is that a doctor was apparently involved.

We understand when it is some young, disaffected radical, someone without a future easily persuaded by the rantings of some imam - we don't approve but we get it. You think you have nothing to live for and you're likely to do stupid things and not care who you harm along the way.

But when a doctor - an educated, intelligent person with a future - gets involved (not to mention his capacity to inflict harm on people within his care on a day-to-day basis), that is very worrying.

Ha. Yeah I think they stuffed this up. I can't quite see that putting petrol in a car is much of an attack. And didn't they use a mercedes? That's an expensive delivery device I'd have thought.

Of course, I've got safety of distance in that I'm on the other side of the world. But thinking historically, this is, er, not quite the Battle of Britain is it. I mean, UK has been under much worse attack and has come through. This seems no more major than a car accident.

Still... More and more I just think these guys are nuts. Through and through.

They screwed it up to be sure, but what they were going for was essentially a fuel air explosion which - when done right - is devestating. Had these things gone off, we'd be talking hundreds of casualties. But it's very tricky to pull off, even trained military explosives experts find it a hard task. For amateurs like these ass-hats, its extremely hard.

UK chaps: On the anniversary of the 7/7 tragedy, I want to say how sorry I am as an American. Bush pulled Blair's choke chain and now you're getting it worse than we are. It seems like just as the Irish calm down, someone else steps up. It's not fair, and I hope things get safe there soon.