Breaking: TERROR ATTACK AT SCOTLAND AIRPORT: SUV Rams Gates Of Glasgow Airport And Blows Up ***UPDATE: British Raise Terror Alert To Code Red: Attack Imminent***
***UPDATE: Police Now Officially Characterizing It As A Terrorist Event, 10 AM PST***
Eyewitness on Sky TV: Car was full of gas cans. Driver and passenger were throwing gasoline all around the scene after they crashed the SUV into the terminal door. After ramming an airport gate, the guy charged the terminal as flames began to burst from the vehicle, and angled it in order to best ram through the glass terminal door and kill passengers inside. One man from the vehicle burst into flames. Amidst the fire and chaos, the terrorists were wrestled to the ground by Taxi drivers and passengers.
Passenger Eyewitness: “Things like that happen in England all the time. You never expect it here in little Glasgow. There were no police around right away.”
INJURIES REPORTED: “There were people injured, because I’ve seen them lying on the road; I was standing next to departures, I heard a great big massive bang, and then all the folk from departures were running through arrivals.”
Another Eyewitness: “They wrestled him to the ground - the fire was burning through his clothes - and finally put him out with a fire extinguisher.”
Another eyewitness said one of the men had tried to open the boot of the vehicle but was not successful.”Police tried to restrain him but the guy was quite strong and he started fighting off the police,” he said.
Sky Update: Two people have now been arrested.
POLICE STATEMENT: WE ARE INVESTIGATING THE LINKS TO YESTERDAY”S FOILED TERROR ATTACKS IN LONDON
English Prime Minister’s Statement: “We are monitoring the events in Glasgow”
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.’s Reaction: “What’s important to understand from this, is that we are at war. We are at war with Global terrorism.”
Factoids: Glasgow Airport caters primarily to short-haul flights, and lacks the security of major airports. It has no concrete airport barriers.
One British report described the men as “Asian” which is a common British term for Pakistanis
Britain estimates there are 2,000 “potential Islamist terrorists” living in the U.K.
Sky News
Burning Car In Airport Terminal
Updated: 16:23, Saturday June 30, 2007
A jeep has driven into the terminal building at Glasgow airport and caught fire, police have confirmed.
Witnesses reported hearing a series of loud “bangs” and saw a man on fire.
The scene
It is thought a Cherokee 4×4 smashed through security barriers at the airport, the busiest in Scotland.
Police say it is too early to say whether the incident - which comes after failed car bomb attacks on London - was related to terrorism.
James Edgar told Sky News: “People were running past like they has missed their flight.
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Just remember, as John Edwards said, the Global War On Terror is just a bumper sticker……attached to a Jeep Cherokee loaded w/ gas & nails raming an airport terminal full of vactioning women & children. Rudy, we need ya now more than ever.
June 30th, 2007 at 7:50 amThat’s why I’m getting my concealed weapons permit, never know when I’ll need to discharge some .45 slugs.
June 30th, 2007 at 7:51 amIs this another failed attempt to please Allah? If there is film of this fool on fire, perhaps it should be shown to the children under Fatah and Hamas control.
Put this caption on the clip: So you want to be a Shaheen huh? Well, this fool, could be you someday.
Sometimes the sauna is also a tad bit warm in this life too.
June 30th, 2007 at 7:57 am“Police say it is too early to say whether the incident - which comes after failed car bomb attacks on London - was related to terrorism.”
Sure, jeeps fulla gas cans smash thru barriers and roar up to airport terminals with occupants splashing gasoline all over the place every day, right?
Let’s not jump to conclusions…
June 30th, 2007 at 8:09 amI bet they’ll blame this on Bush too. Gee
June 30th, 2007 at 8:13 amHey Dan,
It would make a good complimentary video of Al Zachary’s video of him shooting the SAW 249 and burning his hands in the process as he tries to pick it up. Amazing how incompetent they can be at times.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:14 amHow retarded is that? An Act of terrorism might not be related to terrorism. stupid ass people
June 30th, 2007 at 8:19 amThe children under fatah and hamas control are already poisoned, they would just think mickey mouse was driving the jeep on his way to paradise
June 30th, 2007 at 8:23 amis it just me that gets a sense that these acts or just decoys..a prelude to a big attack coming soon..pretty odd 3 attempts failed so close together
June 30th, 2007 at 8:29 amIn a related story, Department of Homeland Security officials have announced that there is conclusive evidence that the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon may have been acts of terrorism.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:44 amI heard their was a scuffle when they subdued on of the guys in trying to flee the Jeep. He was probably in a rush to get his deposit back at the rental counter or something like that.
You can bet your bottom dinar that this has been brought the free world courtesy of the “practitioners of peace” or would that be pieces? Shrapnel = Pieces, hmmm, yup “practitioners of pieces”.
June 30th, 2007 at 8:45 amTHERE IS NO TERRORIST THREAT,,,,, THERE IS NO TERRORIST THREAT….
June 30th, 2007 at 9:13 amWE NEED BUSH FOR A THIRD TERM,,,WE WILL ALL DIE IF THE DUMMYCRATS WIN ANOTHER ELECTION,,,
June 30th, 2007 at 9:14 amI agree Jerry, but Steve In NC is probably right. The only hope in such an enterprise would be to scare a few of them into reality and perhaps convince those few little piss-ant shaheens that their version of Paradise is a Paradise Lost.
June 30th, 2007 at 9:31 amProbably no connection to the failed London bombings at all
Do they execute terrs in Britain or do they let them languish in a cell with Bubba?
June 30th, 2007 at 9:40 amAnd speaking of the children of Hamas and Fatah: Here is the REAL roots of the Palestinian problem:
June 30th, 2007 at 9:49 amhttp://www.shoebat.com/
Let’s see what happens to the apologists when one of these cars actually blows a crowd to smithereens.
The UK crowd is easily placated by their silver-tongued politicos. The US crowd is armed to the teeth and just waiting for an excuse to…well, you get the idea. My suspicion is that this sort of thing will probably not happen here because the Muslims here know that the mass of redneck infidels are not to be confused with the toffs that wag their fingers at people like Christopher Hitchens.
Still, if it does, we’re in for an interesting election next year.
June 30th, 2007 at 9:56 amThis just proves that with their successful attempts that even a blind squirrel gets a nut from time to time.
LOL
Allah must be shaking his head, sighing, and asking himself “why did I end up with the idoits”? (but then again we know that Allah is a big farse!!)
June 30th, 2007 at 9:57 amDrop the effing hammer already. What good will leftist political correctness do in this GWOT? Not a damn thing. Ask the Israeli’s how well profiling works. AL EL Airlines knows how to operate in this type of climate.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:10 amThe Dems must be shaking in their boots right now. It’s easy to trash-talk the war when its half a world away but its slowing creeping back into our lives. London, Glasgow…..who knows where next. They know that the American public (whether left or right) will be pretty quick to want the calvary called in when bombs start exploding on our doorstep and the Dems have no credit when it comes to fighting fire with fire. Lets hope for a Gulliani/Romnney ticket.
On a side note, how long before we see a bomb rigged with Chlorine. I’m calling it now…not long.
CD
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June 30th, 2007 at 10:38 amIt is important to be sure it is terrorism before recognising it as a terrorist attack- if it turned out to be some psycho with a death wish, rather than a terrorist, then the mistake would be huge. We aren’t all left wing apologists in Britain, everyone I speak to these days wants a hardline right wing solution rather than the appeasement of the current government. I hope the democrats lose the next election; the last thing we need is more appeasement.
June 30th, 2007 at 3:39 pmMarineDoc:
Naw. Allah is no farce. If that is who the Jihadis worship then Allah=Satan. Satan wanders the world seeking whom he might devour. And isn’t that what the Jihadis are doing?
June 30th, 2007 at 7:24 pmPoint well taken Dan. I may have spoke with thinking that one through trying to be witty. I agree they are one in the same - the antithesist to Christianity.
Thanks for reining me in..lol!
July 1st, 2007 at 7:11 amoops…..”without thinking”
July 1st, 2007 at 7:11 amSemper Fi MarineDoc. I got your back dude!!
July 1st, 2007 at 8:02 am