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1. #1
   On June 30th, 2007 at 12:56 pm, zorro said:

   Hot Air and Allah are all over this, better details than FNC… thanks, y’all are the best.

2. #2
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:04 pm, JJwclink said:

   Umm, I wonder how many double decker buses would it take to transport all the non-citizens back to their respective countries? Better yet, cut off the free health and welfare benefits that they receive, so they may transport themselves.
   BTW: The US has many available buses for the same purpose, remember all the idle buses in New Orleans?

3. #3
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:04 pm, Brad said:

   I dunno what that big deal is. Olby tell me that these are just gasoline fires with a couple of propane tanks that if they did explode just might give me ear damage from the pop. Nothing more.

   The damn conservative media is just blowing this WAY out of proportion. Fear mongering and covering up for idiocy of our criminal president!

   Sheesh.

4. #4
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:08 pm, corona said:

   Notice that the terrorists are described by the BBC as “Asian”.

   Anybody think they’re from, say, South Korea?

5. #5
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:17 pm, Brad said:

   “Ching chong. Ching ching bomb. Ching chong chong Glasgow. Ching ching chong Rosie next chong.”

   – Signed the terrorists.

6. #6
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:20 pm, pbachran said:

   Just a reminder that English English is not the same as American English.
   For example: British cars have a boot, bonnet and windscreen rather than a trunk, hood and windshield.
   American Asian - A person of Far Eastern Oriental extraction
   English Asian - Anyone from anywhere in Asia which would include the middle east and Pakistan and India.

7. #7
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:28 pm, G. Charles said:

   From BBC, an eyewitness account:
   The section of road in front of the terminal was not open to public transportation.

   “The car came speeding past at about 30mph. It was approaching the building quickly. Then the driver swerved the car around so he could ram straight in to the door. He must have been trying to smash straight through [into the terminal].

   “Luckily he did not get the car too far in. He just managed to get the nose of the Jeep inside.”

   He said an airport official had told him the men in the car got out and started throwing petrol about. ”

   Two “asian” [term in England for middle-eastern-looking] men were arrested. One had caught on fire from the Petrol. One had fought with police as they restrained him from spreading the Petrol.

   Another eyewitness said it was fortunate for the two that the police were there, otherwise they would have been brutalized, or worse, by the surrounding people.

   Sky News: “Obviously a terror attack.”
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6257292.stm

8. #8
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:49 pm, YoungAndRestless said:

   I love the fact that Britain’s emergency meeting is called COBRA. Are we sure their new PM isn’t Cobra Commander? Better watch out for Destro…

9. #9
   On June 30th, 2007 at 1:49 pm, bdfaith said:

   So, when the same thing happens at LAX or JFK, then can we get serious about illegal immigration?

10. #10
    On June 30th, 2007 at 1:53 pm, PBoilermaker said:

    These thwarted attacks are very amateurish. I wonder what the competent, well funded jihadis are planning?

11. #11
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm, denmother said:

    I’m afraid that “amateurish” attacks can wreak plenty of havoc. The unexploded car bombs wouldn’t have caused widespread damage over a large area, but with all the nails that were packed in with the gasoline, they would have caused massive death and injury in the immediate vicinity.

    It doesn’t take a high-tech well-connected terrorist to do lots of damage. Ask the people in Oklahoma City.

12. #12
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:06 pm, PBoilermaker said:

    Denmother, I meant amateurish in execution. I don’t have any illusions regarding the potential these devices had to kill.

    The one thing it would be very easy for these jihadis to do these days is inflict max damage on a civilian, Western populace. The bush league execution of these last few seems a bit odd to me.

13. #13
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:06 pm, PHenry said:

    It seems to me to be somewhat significant that we are hearing about failed attacks in Great Britan, and not for a long time have we heard about successful attacks in the US.

    Seems like something has made the terrorists less polished and far less effective than they were 5 and 10 years ago.

    Could it be that we are seeing the fruit of successes in the war on terror?

    Could we be winning?

14. #14
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:36 pm, JJwclink said:

    ..winning? Perhaps for the moment here in the USA, but when anti-terror laws sunset during a democratic presidency, we’ll be cleaning up car-bomb messes at Time Square, Union Square, Water Tower Place, and the Vegas Strip in due time.

15. #15
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:39 pm, laser9999999 said:

    Could it be that we are seeing the fruit of successes in the war on terror?
    

    Nah…the Democratic leadership (Reid/Pelosi) have already said we lost.

    Weren’t you listening?

16. #16
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:54 pm, Craig said:

    Sadly, it will take a death count before people like Keith Olbermannlymann will acknoweledge that the world has a problem.

17. #17
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:56 pm, Ron Rockstar said:

    It’s too bad they didn’t let the fellow, that jumped out of the vehicle, burn until the flames ran out of fuel. The English evidently do not learn any better than the Americans. If they want to die we should do our utmost to help them in that quest.

18. #18
    On June 30th, 2007 at 2:57 pm, almeehan said:

    We really should not be too concerned about all this. Our Homeland Security chief has assured us that the bigger threat is a shortage of lettuce and tomatoes this summer. That’s really serious with 4th of July and outdoor cooking and camping going on. So let’s concentrate our resources to the end of assuring things get picked this season. Mr. Turnoff has everything under control. In fact he was picking his nose the other day while two car bombs were diffused in London!

19. #19
    On June 30th, 2007 at 3:06 pm, ajmontana said:

    Dont be an alarmist,Olberdork will disect this as nothing more than a Jeep commercial gone bad.

20. #20
    On June 30th, 2007 at 3:32 pm, Miss Ladybug said:

    I’ve been watching Fox News. They’ve been carrying the Sky News broadcast. Sky News was interviewing an eyewitness. The eyewitness said one of the two men was screaming “Allah, Allah”…

21. #21
    On June 30th, 2007 at 3:47 pm, joeblough said:

    Most likely revenge for knighting Rushdie.

    We’ll see what’s left of the famous British backbone.

    =========

    Re. the queen.

    As Paul McCartney said,

    Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl …
    Wanna tell her that I lover her a lot …

22. #22
    On June 30th, 2007 at 3:52 pm, The Raging Republican said:

    Anyone care to venture a guess as to what Keith Olbermann (D) will have to say about all this??

    ‘Uh, maybe it was just a bad valet parking job……uh yeah thats it…..nothing to worry about here……uh, uh, uh…..I hate Bush!’

23. #23
    On June 30th, 2007 at 3:53 pm, DaleC said:

    Does anyone know if these are muslims ? I do not want to be accused of stereotyping .
    This is our future . Reality check , righteous defenders of all people .
    What will it take Pearl Harbor take #2 .

24. #24
    On June 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm, CC said:

    #3 Brad: Please go bury your head back in the sand, and take it out only when you can admit that these people want to kill us by any means. Minimizing this kind of murderous potential attack is completely irresponsible.

25. #25
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:00 pm, The Raging Republican said:

    #3 Brad: Please go bury your head back in the sand, and take it out only when you can admit that these people want to kill us by any means. Minimizing this kind of murderous potential attack is completely irresponsible.

    I think brad was using a something they call sarcasm.

26. #26
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:01 pm, reppac122 said:

    On June 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm, CC said:
    #3 Brad: Please go bury your head back in the sand, and take it out only when you can admit that these people want to kill us by any means. Minimizing this kind of murderous potential attack is completely irresponsible.

    I think you missed the sarcasm.

27. #27
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:06 pm, reppac122 said:

    I am sure that Olby will spin this into two men who were feeling guilty that they were “polluting” the environment in their SUV and decided to take radical action to save the planet. Darn, I should write for his show.

28. #28
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:12 pm, Keli said:

    “Another eyewitness said it was fortunate for the two that the police were there, otherwise they would have been brutalized, or worse, by the surrounding people.”

    lol nice, don’t mess with the Scots

29. #29
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:17 pm, Miss Ladybug said:

    #23~

    Since there are reports from eyewitnesses that at least one of these guys was shouting “Allah” with each punch he threw, yeah, I’d say they were Muslims…

30. #30
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:27 pm, ammonrae said:

    Question? How do we keep jihadists out of America?

31. #31
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm, PBoilermaker said:

    Question? How do we keep jihadists out of America?

    Unfortunately, that is impossible to do…these people don’t carry cards. There is simply no effective way to blockade jihadist ideas as a matter of law because someone will always be susceptible to the poison that is out there. However, we can start by focusing on the people in the US who unabashedly -say- they want to kill us and destroy our way of life.

32. #32
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:42 pm, reppac122 said:

    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:27 pm, ammonrae said:
    Question? How do we keep jihadists out of America?

    Unfortunately, they are already here. To what capacity, I don’t know. As someone who lives in NYC, it is quite commonly known, in intelligence circles, that there are several mosques in the city that are known to be radical. Maybe not known “jihadist”, but there are people here in America with jihadist thinking (think Kennedy bomber, Fort Dix Six, Lackawana Group). We, as a society and as a community, need to remain vigilant and hope our law enforcement officials are on top of things. I guess the main thing to do is fix our porous borders. Simple idea, but it would be a start. Don’t let me even get into shamnesty…

33. #33
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:46 pm, DaleC said:

    #28 WW2 . The Japanese lost there rights here until the war was over . I know the muslims are a religion not a race or country .It worked then and of course it would work now.
    To punish innocent people because of the actions of others seems wrong but at some point self-preservation must come first .

34. #34
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:51 pm, Brad said:

    Dang CC. #3 was dripping with sarcasm. Sorry you missed that. For my reference go over here and check out what Olberdouche had to say about yesterday.

35. #35
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:52 pm, Brad said:

    forgot the link. Here it is.

36. #36
    On June 30th, 2007 at 4:56 pm, EdDantes said:

    #28 WW2 . The Japanese lost there rights here until the war was over . I know the muslims are a religion not a race or country .It worked then and of course it would work now.
    To punish innocent people because of the actions of others seems wrong but at some point self-preservation must come first .

    Yeah, but it didn’t work in 24.

    These guys are 0-3 in the last two days, but I don’t think they’re looking to hit for average.

    The scary part is that because of the “freedom” Americans are given, we let radicals and fanatics of any religion preach violent doctrines that justify revenge and death. I’m reading a great book about it now, “Life After Death” by Alan Segal that links religion with society and explains how, among other things, radical Muslims justify suicide bombings and death by convincing their followers of the dark haired virgins that are awaiting them in the after life.

    I guess when you can’t get any in this life it makes sense to douse yourself with gasoline…

37. #37
    On June 30th, 2007 at 5:24 pm, FL Mom said:

    Guess the immigrants are coming out of the shadows in the UK.

38. #38
    On June 30th, 2007 at 5:42 pm, dkeppner said:

    Could this have been another failed fuel/air explosive? The articles I’ve seen haven’t mentioned or discounted that yet.

39. #39
    On June 30th, 2007 at 7:33 pm, corona said:

    BBC radio has reported that the “Asian” sent to hospital (a little British lingo there) was indeed wearing an explosive belt.

40. #40
    On June 30th, 2007 at 7:43 pm, Redog70 said:

    What has not been noted so far as i can see is that Her Majesty the Queen was in Edinburgh to mark the Third Session of Parliament.

    Also the Schools here went on holiday for the summer on Friday and today the airport had a lot more famlies than usual going on holiday.

    The Romans couldn’t Conquer Scotland so just let the Jihadis try!!

    For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12

41. #41
    On June 30th, 2007 at 8:33 pm, corona said:

    CBS: Two more arrested in Northern England.

42. #42
    On June 30th, 2007 at 8:43 pm, corona said:

    Here’s what a DUmmy has to say:

    Tony Blair just left office, and it was reported that as he left #10 Downing Street, he was faced with a group of angry relatives of British soldiers who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The day I left England, The Independent, one of the national newspapers, had a headline about two soldiers from the home district of Gordon Brown (the new prime minister) being killed in Iraq.

    The Iraq War is widely considered THE issue that finished Blair off.

    So now, with a new prime minister and widespread public sentiment against the war, we suddenly get a new “terrorist threat,” which may serve as the excuse to continue the war, whether anyone over there wants it or not.

43. #43
    On June 30th, 2007 at 8:52 pm, soldiers.dad said:

    Waiting for the Algore to tsk tsk these people for not getting carbon offsets before driving their SUV into an airport terminal, setting a fire that generated, only Allah knows, how much CO2, into our fragile environment.
    These heathen are accelerating the worlds rate of global warming, for Allah’s sake, please stop these environmental terrorists!!

    When will Nancy and Harry condemn these terrorist attacks against our mother, Gaia?

    If you connect the dots, Car bombs are the cause of global warming. Global warming wasn’t an issue until the Muslims started setting off all these car and human bombs.
    We were headed for a new ice age, when, the Muslims started setting off all those bombs. Nuclear winter has been replaced by the Muslim global warming hell.

44. #44
    On June 30th, 2007 at 8:57 pm, corona said:

    Glasgow police spokeswoman Elisa Dunn said five bystanders were treated for injuries, and one was hospitalized with a leg injury.

45. #45
    On June 30th, 2007 at 9:44 pm, Frantic Freddie said:

    Comin’ in late….

    Dunno where I saw or heard it this mornin’,but I saw/heard a report that when the guy on flames was fightin’ with the cops,some folks were yellin’ “Let him burn!”

    I’d buy those folks a drink.

46. #46
    On June 30th, 2007 at 10:25 pm, drillanwr said:

    [ Two “asian” [term in England for middle-eastern-looking] men ]

    Yeah, much like they use “gangs of youths” for Muslims rioting, assulting civilians and police and fire persons, killing, and torching cars in France.

    How bad does it suck to be all geared up for those 72 virgins, and not only do you screw the pooch in the suicide terrorist attack, but your laying in the burn unit smelling your own charred flesh?

    Sucks to be you!

47. #47
    On June 30th, 2007 at 11:13 pm, Miss Ladybug said:

    Well, I’ve heard it explained several times today that British “Asian” is a lot more broadly defined than American “Asian”. To us, it means someone from a country like Japan, China or Vietnam. To the Brits, add in Pakistani, Indian and even Middle Eastern…

48. #48
    On July 1st, 2007 at 1:54 am, todd said:

    #22-DaleC Have no fear of stereotyping. Eye witness reported on BBC television “as he struggled with the police, (he)”was throwing punches and shouting ‘Allah, Allah.’ ” As we continue to allow them to exploit our liberties to destroy our freedom we must remember to be politically correct and only refer to them as “Asian”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/world/europe/01britain.html?ei=5090&en=f921e1f0886eca33&ex=1340942400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

49. #49
    On July 1st, 2007 at 3:12 am, pgtips said:

    In Britain, the term Asian generally refers to people of Indian/Pakistani origin. Sometimes even middle easterners. Us chinese/korean looking people are occasionally called Asians, sometimes called Orientals. But since we always keep our heads down and bury our heads in books, we rarely appear in the news so I guess it’s hard to know what we’d be referred to

    If it’s Asians who perpetrated this bombings, you can be certain its a muslim group. We’ve had radical Islamic preachers in this country for way too long. The tolerance of Islamic radicals is amazing. Remember those photos of Muslims holding the “Kill all who insult Islam” placards? Those were British born Muslims of Pakistani descent demonstrating in London. Ironically, while these murder-soliciting mob was allowed to demonstrate, the police arrested some people from the BNP who were holding a counter protest.

    Now that springtime in Londonistan is over, I wait with baited breath for the summer.

50. #50
    On July 1st, 2007 at 1:50 pm, Welder said:

    Just a Jihadi Driving School lesson gone bad. Nothing to see here; move along. We all know the R.O.P. is nothing if not peaceful. The castrati may return to their kool-aid klatsch.

51. #51
    On July 1st, 2007 at 9:34 pm, Dex Sinister said:

    Ron Rockstar said:It’s too bad they didn’t let the fellow, that jumped out of the vehicle, burn until the flames ran out of fuel. The English evidently do not learn any better than the Americans. If they want to die we should do our utmost to help them in that quest

    .Sky News in the UK were interviewing an eye witness to this, he said that one of the men was still on fire…
    

    ..I said to another man present, who was wearing an reflective jacket an looked like he worked at the Airport, “shouldn’t we put him out?” and he replied “let him F.. burn!”..

    sometimes it’s hard to disagree with a Glaswegian!