Search for London car-bombers continues..
The UK government’s emergencies committee, Cobra, has been meeting again as police continue to search for those responsible for the unsuccessful car bomb attacks in London early on Friday morning. Slate has a round-up of blog links and there are unconfirmed reports that a clear image of a suspect has been identified from CCTV footage. Meanwhile worrying events in Glasgow too, where the airport has just been evacuated after a Jeep Cherokee, reportedly in flames, was driven at speed at the terminal building. Adds Whether or not the Glasgow incident is terrorist related isn’t clear.. but local Airports are, quite rightly, taking note. Update Another Cobra meeting.. and a heightened terrorism threat level. And along with the heightened threat level, the BBC are now reporting there has been police confirmation that the incident at Glasgow airport was an attempted terrorist attack. More below the foldAdded opinion
Speculating about the intention behind the timings of these attacks, I can’t help thinking that there might have been an expectation among those responsible that such attacks would increase pressure on the new Brown-led government to declare an intention to withdraw from Iraq – in order to differentiate themselves from the Blair-led government.
And much of the media coverage might well lead some to believe that to be true.
But it’s not.
In fact such attacks would, in my opinion, make it less likely, not more likely, that an announcement along those lines would take place.
Simply put, a Brown-led government is no more likely to want to be seen to bow to a terrorist threat than a Blair-led government was. And before I get references to here – If you think that’s what happened here.. then you haven’t been paying attention.
explain please?
Dropped by to see if parcifal has explained why I am a fraud. I shall not wait too long since he has yet to answer the post from the devil. Tell us again Parcifal why do muslims as opposed to westerners need role models? And why am I a fraud for posting abreviations? Ahhhh I know! you can’t work them out.
I wonder
Save us the bs about the innocent Birmingham Six and the Guildofrd four. The facts are that Sinn Fein/IRA incinerated people in Birmingham and Guildford in methids now being copied by British (and Irish?) Muslims. The Birmingham Six were on the fringes of the Provos and had attended Republican demos, Paul Hill’s mother was definitely involved and Hill had been pulled in about shooting a soldier. Also, as Grizzly will be quick to tell you, Irish Catholics have since voted in huge numbers for the perpetrators of these acts. Ask Martin Ferris, Arthur Morgan and other convicted criminals. So the British were right to target the Irish fish the same way they have a right to crack down now on the immigrant Muslims who are bombing their cities. Sinn Fein Mark 2.
GK
I don’t respond to someone using that name and saying such things as you’re plainly a troll and probably otherwise known as Madradin Ruadh. And, by the way, it would be “methods.”
Putin
Calling my post and my supporters *dumb* doesn’t address my argument. I wonder why I keep Slugger under my *news* category in Explorer. However, the book on my experience in Irish blogging proceeds apace.
Also, as Grizzly will be quick to tell you, Irish Catholics have since voted in huge numbers for the perpetrators of these acts.
So people can be legitimately targetted for violent action based on how they acted at the polling booth. Which must mean that Labour and Conservative voters are all legitimate targets for Al Quaeda since they voted for the parties which backed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yes ?
So the British were right to target the Irish fish
So you say violence rightfully begets violence. Does that mean that IRA attacks on Britain could be, at the time, justified by British killings in Ireland such as Bloody Sunday which preceded the Birmingham and Guildford bombings ?
Don’t feed the troll. He’s been at the bottle…
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer’s pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
I wonder: Your book should be fascinating. When it is finished, check how many times you use the pronoun “I”. I am not Gerry Kelly, the indiscriminate London bomber btw.
Stalin: All the combatants targeted the innocent. If Muslim nuts want to argue with you, all they have to do is some slight editing on the Provo line. The Birmingham Six and Guildford Four would not have done a day’s porridge if SFIRA had not indiscriminatly bombed those bars. Talk about forgotten victims. Birmingham and Guildofrd were as bad as Dublin and Monaghan.
Is it ok for the Provos to train narcoterorists but not Islamic terrorists? Is this some new found sensitivity to multiculturalism?
These two articles show that the Joint Terrorist Action Centre was clearly infiltrated by the ‘bombers’ of London and Glasgow airport, especially the bits about the actions likely to happen when Blair departed, nightclubs being quite likely targets, looking for vehicles coming into London, etc.:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2116321,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6252276.stm
Just you guess who might have had access to such information. It could hardly have been Al-Qaeda.
“I am not Gerry Kelly, the indiscriminate London bomber btw.”
…really?
I wonder….. I am beginning to wonder. At least you have given me a laugh. I did not criticise your post, did I call your supporters dumb? LOL Do you mean parcifal? Is parcifal your supporter. Then teach him how to speak for himself he’s beginning to sound like he is talking in riddles.
Mr Putin
As I have never yet seen your face in laughing mode, I am privileged to be the cause of same.
To quote Tommy Tiernan: The British invade countries and then get pi$$ed off when these people follow them home…
Either way, isn’t it strange that the last few “terrorist plots” in England/Scotland were so severely lacking in thought and planning and that they occured when support for the war BY terrorists is low? Are the extremists on this side of the Atlantic suffering an intelligence deficit compared to their buddies across the pond or are British intelligence sources just that more finely tuned to uncovering these (ineffectual)attemps?…. The conspiracy theorists may just have a point….
I wonder, am curious if this book of yours is to be a romantic thriller, complete with villains and heroes. A roller coaster blockbuster
Perhaps the noble prince / 007 turns up with
” a stacked tarot deck of only cards showing “The Lovers”, Bond seduces her. Solitaire, as a result of coupling with Bond, loses her foresight abilities and is forced into cooperating with Bond to bring down Kananga/Vance.
lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_
(film)
Mauds. Think back on the Provo camapaign, which spawned these latest outrages. There were plenty of points and own goals scored. But eventually they got La Mon, Enniskillen, Harrods, the Motorway coach bomb and many more. Though I doubt the Provos are directly advising the Arabs who did this, they do have al ong standing relationship. Their attempt at retaliation after some of their own were sent down at the Old Bailey was also standard Provo fare.
Harry Briscoe
I think you missed my point. Although I doubt that was unintentional. What is your point?