Friday, June 29, 2007

"Massive" Car Bomb found in Central London

A "massive" explosive device found in a car in central London has been defused, Sky sources say.

It is believed that a major terrorist attack in the heart of the capital has been thwarted.

Sky News

9 comments:

Pastorius said...

Wow!!!

Good for you guys.

Unfotunately, this will produce the result that few people will comprehend the magnitutde of the threat we face, but it is good that lives were saved.

Pastorius said...

Wow!!!

Good for you guys.

Unfotunately, this will produce the result that few people will comprehend the magnitutde of the threat we face, but it is good that lives were saved.

Anonymous said...

Yes, very true. Some people here at work at barely interested that a car bomb nearly went off. But those same people just arent interested in poltics at all.

We're all pretty suspicious of vehicles and packages in London, we've had this stuff for decades with the IRA. So the general public are pretty on the ball thankfully.

Pastorius said...

Good!

In that sense, you are much further along than America.

Epaminondas said...

Exsqueeze me, but HOW LONG AGO did we read the story about bomb squads being sent from Iraq/Afghan/pushtu heaven to the UK and USA?

What will it take?

Anonymous said...

I call for expulsion of all Mohammedans.

Anonymous said...

Bollocks to the last two comments. You sound as bad as the jihadis.

Anonymous said...

It's a minority who are causing the problem.

Have you read the statistics lately? Tens of percent of them are sympathetic to Islamic terrorists.

When you say "muslim" you include friends of mine. They are not the problem. The Islamic text is the problem, and those who act on it's violent verses.

Muslims, by definition, follow Islamic texts. Those who pick and choose the verses they want to follow are really apostates. True Muslims are problematic because they swallow the numerous problematic parts of Islamic texts wholesale. Attempts to differentiate between "good" and "bad" Muslims are not practical when there are so many of them (there isn't enough time, money, and manpower), and are exercises in futility (there will never be enough time, money, and manpower to vet all of them in perpetuity).

Pastorius said...

Jonz,
We have stumbled onto an important conversation here.

Anonymous is right when he says we don't have unlimited resources to make the distinction between good and bad Muslims.

It really is up to the Muslims themselves to clear up that distinction; just like it would be up to your wife, or girlfriend, to show whether she is fit to be trusted.

Do you see what I mean?