Saturday, June 30, 2007

Terrists learn their bomb making skills from movies

What other explanation can there be for the latest in "devastating" bomb plots from Great Britain. It seems a couple of guys tried to drive a burning Jeep into an airline terminal, not realizing that vehicles do not explode in real life like they do in the movies. The result, one of the guys in the Jeep was badly burned, a small fire started and damage was done to the terminal entrance. And a lot of people had their travel plans disrupted. And in the end we should be glad these morons weren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.

ADDENDUM: There was one level headed witness in Glasgow. At the end of the AP report there is this quote.
Grey said the car did not explode. "There were a few pops and bangs that seemed to be the tires and the petrol."
Good thing they stuck him at the end so he wouldn't ruin a good story.

UPDATE: Larry Johnson speaks wisely, again, about this event.
If today's events at Glasgow prove to be linked to the two non-events yesterday in London, then we should heave a sigh of relief. We may be witnessing the implosion of takfiri jihadists--religious fanatics who are incredibly inept. While I am not an explosives expert I am good friends with one of the world's foremost explosives experts. Propane tanks and petrol (gas for us Americans) can produce a dandy flame and a mighty boom but these are not the tools for making a car bomb long the lines of what we see detonating on a daily basis in Iraq.

My main beef remains that much of the cable news media reacts to this nonsense like a fifty year old guy on Viagra or Cialis--they pop major wood. And the same warnings are appropriate--an erection lasting more than four hours may be harmful. Amen.

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