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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6257194.stm

Perpetrator caught running away with his arse on fire!

Usual police knee-jerk security measures means Britain is effectively closed.

$3.50 NZ ..Bullet 303/306 to the temple not Arse , ...mm Both maybe !

Let me handle em

$3.50?? where do you buy ammo from?? I buy ex military 7.62x51 for 40c a round!!

G-HEVN wrote: Perpetrator caught running away with his arse on fire!

I heard he was punching a policeman while on fire
Talk about having your priorities wrong.

I don't get it.. airports arn't usually terroist targets- the planes that fly to and from them are.. out of all the places in Glasgow you can drive a jeep into, why make it the airport terminal?

Trolly wrote: I don't get it.. airports arn't usually terroist targets- the planes that fly to and from them are.. out of all the places in Glasgow you can drive a jeep into, why make it the airport terminal?

They are not?

What cloud in cuckoo land you been living

Airports=Large gatherings of people, weekends lots of people obvious really

What cloud in cuckoo land you been living

Auckland

Airports=Large gatherings of people, weekends lots of people obvious really

Yes I can see that- but other car bombs in Ireland/Israel/Iraq tend to be in busy city streets, near bus-stops, shopping centres, nightclubs in central urban areas. I was just wondering why the Scottish have broken the trend.. rhetorical question really- no one here would know the answer!

Well, if we can take one thing from this it's that it obviously wasn't particularly carefully planned, at least not like many of the major terror attacks in the past. As the Herald pointed out this morning though, it is a worry if it implies that more "everyday" people without necessarily a complicated terrorist organisation behind them are willing to do this sort of thing.

The first time I went to London there seemed to be bombs going off left right and centre, of course back then it was the IRA. I guess this isn't such a common occurrence for Scotland though...

Ok here we go its a home made bomb and possibly a copy cat device. You know we have some weird people out there most of them fly flightsim

You saw the TV reporter say how easy it was to buy Gas Cylinders, Petrol Cans and nails? No great shakes that makes me a terrorist because I have all those ingrediants in my garage without going to the warehouse add the couple of bags of fertiliser and diesel fuel. Plus a few lengths of copper wire and batterys.

Now someone tell me they dont have those if not all those easy too hand? See ya on the six oclock news. 4 million people in NZ arrested as terror suspects

No mention of the dozen or so people murdered every day in the UK or the dozens of cars stolen and turned in to firebombs? Course not that does not strike fear into people and get the media in a feeding frenzy. What about the USA? More people are killed in the US each day than live in the average sized town in NZ

Scarey thought!!!!!!

Thing is, back in the days of the IRA bombings, we didn't have all this mass hysteria, OTT policing and curtailment of hard fought for civil liberties. Yet the bombings were no less terrifying. But we just got on with everyday life. (okay, they did get rid of litter bins in town centres and railway stations)

I can't help think that by stopping and searching every car/person that goes near an airport or railway station (and thereby grinding the transport network to a standstill, and causing immense disruption), you're doing the terrorist's job for them. The amount of ancillary disruption engendered by these two bungled bomb attacks (counting the London bomb that was preempted, here) must have had them laughing in their graves.

No terrorist threat was ever stopped by 'stop and search' - they only have to go another way or pick a different target. The thing that catches them is good intelligence: stiletto, not sledge hammer.

It's just been announced on the lunchtime news that all eight suspects worked for the NHS, and four of them were DOCTORS!

I am stunned!