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Fire at Glasgow airport
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CNN is reporting that a Jeep has crashed into the arrivals section of the Glasgow airport and has caught fire. There are conflicting reports from witnesses: one has said he saw a man taking a gas cylinder out of the vehicle, one said the man was on fire when he left the car. Apparently, one man has been taken into custody.
There seems to be some confusion about the cause of the fire: the CNN anchor said that it might be the result of two cars colliding.
Needless to say, coming directly after the car bombs found in London, it's hard to assume this is just an accident.
I haven't seen anything online about this yet, not even on CNN.com or the BBC Web site.
There seems to be some confusion about the cause of the fire: the CNN anchor said that it might be the result of two cars colliding.
Needless to say, coming directly after the car bombs found in London, it's hard to assume this is just an accident.
I haven't seen anything online about this yet, not even on CNN.com or the BBC Web site.
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Because...? Flawed logic much?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had this reaction.
Well, there's the fact that those were car bombs involving gas cylinders, and this is, or at least appears to be, a vehicle bomb involving gas cylinders, both on the same island.
Needless to say, that doesn't prove a connection to 100% certainty, but I think it's reasonable to assume some connection.
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also its worth noting that Scottish schools broke for summer yesterday, so its very likely that the airport would have been packed with families flying out on vacation.
The bbc have had eye witnesses on, it was definitely deliberate. They tried to drive into the terminal building but collided with advertising boards. They tried to reverse but couldn't so they brought out petrol and doused themself and the jeep with it.
The Jeep went on fire with the guys inside it, they both tried to run away but one was attacked by bystanders and then arrested and the other one was caught by police.
I live in Glasgow so I've been paying particular attention.
What the hell happened to the competent terrorists.
At least you could trust the IRA to blow shit up properly and in an organised fashion.
Right: multiple eyewitnesses have confirmed both men arrested to be of Asian descent. BBC 24 has been telephoned by people who saw the incident, who claim the man driving the first jeep (which reached the doors of terminal 1) was dousing himself with petrol even outside the car. This same man (now clearly on fire) attempted to reach the trunk of his car, was brought down by a civilian and restrained - though not without resistance - by four police officers.
Strathclyde police have yet to formally speak on the matter, nor have they yet expressed a belief that this is connected to the bombs found in London.
The airport will be closed until at least 1.00 pm tomorrow afternoon.
My girlfriend arrived back (via Glasgow airport) yesterday. Still, the article doesn't say anyone was hurt, and it really does sound like the kind of plot concocted while drunk.
we've had them for years, though we usually replace 'terrorist' with 'irishman'. :P
That was kind of the point.
I love the UK.
It's unlikely that it was co-ordinated due to the shear fuck-muppetry of the execution.
London was an obvious attempt that was picked up straight away and this latest attack seems to have failed through incompetence.
If this is supposed to be terrorism, who the fuck is scared?
I love it when the BBC clean up eyewitness accounts. I'm sure the word he actually used did start with "f", though.
Anyway, it doesn't seem like there's been any loss of life, and the police say they've arrested them. This'll blow over after the trial.
How hard is it to blow shit up. The IRA need to start doing some night classes or something because terrorists these days are just so god damn incompetent.
"I say, there's a chap on fire over there."
It's also gotta take some serious balls to try to put out a gasoline fire with a bucket of water.
Apparently we're at threat level Critical. According to the 1 minute news on BBC Three.
Still, these people are shitty terrorists.
EDIT: Ah, Coldred was watching too. That eyewitness needs to stop saying "obviously."
Is critical the equivalent of red?
Or is that orange, fuck, what are the retarded colors we use again?
It's the maximum one. As it says in the link I provided.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/current-threat-level/
Another one for the lazy.
http://www.dhs.gov/xinfoshare/programs/Copy_of_press_release_0046.shtm
I was trying to make a joke, but I think I did it rather poorly.
Mainly poking fun at how our system is color coded as if we're morons and yours is nice and clear.
Sorry. We also have a Counter-Terrorist Response Level, which I guess must be Exceptional as opposed to Heightened at the moment. Hopefully that'll have gone down though by Monday.
Seriously. If you want to blow up an airport by driving your car into it, learn how to drive first.
Of course, it is somewhat unsettling that apparently one has to rely on terrorists screwing up to prevent stuff from happening.
Seriously, who in the UK is actually scared right now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIKINI_state
The "BIKINI state" has just as unclear as the US one. I mean "Black Special" what the hell?
Gorak: Frankly, I'm pissing my underpants.
With laughter.
Edit: Damn, it's weird seeing Gordon Brown giving a Prime Ministerial statement.
That's not news.
I dunno, it's only when they screw up spectacularly like this that we hear about them anyway.
But seriously I could build better bombs with an A-Level in chemistry. The 21/7 bombers just made a bomb using the combustion of sugar in flour, sped up with O2 from the hydrogen peroxide degrading. And they still fucked it up.
But then again these guys don't look as if they're the smartest guys about:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6730953.stm