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oops - my previes comment deleted? Or did I screw up?
Anyway: What ever could be the purpose of two folks in a Jeep lighting themselves up and run in a building front?
Terror? For them maybe ...
Hi b,
I didn't delete your previous comment so ya must've screwed up.
Given the happenings of yesterday and the Scottish connection, I think two suicide bombers lighting themselves up in a car likely packed with gas, propane and nails is self-explanatory in purpose. We're just lucky they were incompetents.
I mean, I'm a pretty sceptical guy when it comes to scary stories about terrorists under every bed (check the archives for what I said about the "liquid bomb" plot or EFP hyping) but C'MON!
Regards, C
Succinct, rational and informative post, Cernig.
As to your countrymen...well I for one have never met an hysterical Scot, and I expect I never shall.
They were certainly brave.
btw I dropped by from C&L. I'll have to stop in again.
"If it's not Scottish, it's crap!"
Good job.
Thanks Britisher,
I had a look at your blog The Fifth Estate and was mightily impressed. I've blogrolled it. 
Regards, C
"in a car likely packed with gas, propane and nails is self-explanatory in purpose."
Is there any fact attached to this estimate? So far I have seen no report of propane or nails in Glasgow.
Hi b,
Note the word "likely". I could well be wrong on that and if so I'll eat crow.
Here's a witness statement from the BBC:
Simon Howard described how he heard the driver crash the Jeep as he stood at a check-in desk ahead of a family holiday in Spain.
He said he looked around to see a second man leave the front passenger seat of the vehicle holding what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail.
"It looked like a bottle in his hand and it was definitely on fire in the top and that's when I grabbed my daughter and screamed to my wife 'run'," he said.
"He was trying to throw it, he was angling and putting his arm back as if he was going to throw it - I didn't wait to see if he did throw it."
That, plus other circumstantial evidence like timing and location (the two mercs from London were seen in Scotland) suggests a linked terror attack to me. If I were a betting man I'd say "odds on" - which doesn't exclude the possibility that the long odds will come up trumps.
Regards, C
Cernig,
"mightily impressed"? Cripes! I'm very flattered.:D
I've just blogrolled the "Hog"--and not just as a courtesy.
You have a really "clean" layout and the label navigation is very smart.
I poked around the archives. Nice work by all, I must say.
My impression is that all of you seem to write with..umm..clarity I think is perhaps the word, and discipline, which I admire (and which are skills I struggle to master).
I have to note I happened upon your Nuclear Iran Part Three post. It is impressive and serious work IMHO and the kind of analysis one is hard pressed to find in even the more reliable professional press.
Assuming that political-military affairs are your "bag" you might be interested in a couple of my efforts
http://at5thestate.blogspot.com/...ster-
fucks.html
and "The Camel's Back" which is a history of ME political dynamics that looks nothing like the neocon view http://at5thestate.blogspot.com/
...18_archive.html
If you have the time take a look and please give me an opinion because military/politics nexus is something I like to think I can discuss, but not that many cover the subject in depth.
Anyway, its really good of you to include me in your blogroll--I see many familiar and quite famous names there (and I see you have Simply Left Behind too--we go some ways back)
And deserved kudos for your C&L contributions.
So thanks a bunch for your kind words and attention. I'm a bit pissed-off at having been oblivious to the "Hog" blog thus far, but it's definitely my new "go-to" blog--it really is impressive.
Regards
"Britisher"/"5E"/Simon
Hi Britisher,
Both good, solid posts. On your "Camel's back" post, I assume you've seen the latest analysis from the folks at CFR/Brookings that says essentially the same thing only month later than you did?
Regards, C
b, I've an update post. Reuters News notes that "Police did not say whether the SUV that struck Glasgow airport was carrying explosives, but photographs of forensic officers inspecting the charred vehicle on Sunday showed several gas canisters next to it."
However, Craig Murray writes that "Petrol and gas can be a deadly effective component of a bomb, and even a very small quantity of high explosive would have made the London car bombs potentially devastating. But there was no explosive present - I have held back on blogging on this aspect until I could confirm that fact from my own sources."
No explosives, just ideas about an incendiary bomb derived from action movies. Wannabes.
Regards, C
C..
Thanks v. much for taking the time and the feedback.
As to the Brookings analysis I'd not seen it but following your link it would appear I beat them by four months?!
Perhaps more to the point is that the three of them make much the same arguments and reach the same conclusion as little old me, but they get paid for their efforts :D
I strongly suspect though that these esteemed 'fellows' did what I did--they looked at the history, examined the threads and connections and let the evidence deliver the conclusion.
Of course it is all technically moot until the US actualy does pull out and we could all still be horribly wrong but at least our conclusions are independent instead of codependent and the arguments are reasonable.
Thanks again Cernig. I dropped in on Libby's post about Wapo. It's hard to keep up with all of you--prodigous and smart.
Okay, signing off for now, and remember:
"Be Alert! Britain Needs Lerts!"
(old joke--yet new again :D)
Regards
Britisher
The Meaning of Life
The voice you hear in your head is the power of the Gods. It's a remote technology, like a computer, perhaps functioning on some frequency, and it can listen and talk to everyone in the universe simultaneously.
What the Gods taught the children was the truth:::God is everywhere, and as you will learn:::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good.
Even the antient Gods don't have the ability to listen to people's thoughts themselves. They taugh the people that we were all made in their image:::I expect they need this "Artificial Intelligence" to relay what people think.
It is a tool, and the Gods use their tools to test people with temptation:::It will role-play people in your life:::Parents, friends, spouses, and employers in an attempt to corrupt people. Ionically, it does the very same thing to those people whom you think you're hearing, except in that individual's unique way:::We are all managed by the God's technology.
But this "agent of the Gods" can do more than just communicate. It can force thoughts into people's heads, force behaviors onto their bodies. It can turn healthy cells in your body into cancerous cells. It is absolute power. And this is just the beginning.
The Gods favor the children most among all the people due to their innocence and purity. But society and the God's tools therein are corrupting the children at a progressively younger age, a reflection of our collectively increasing disfavor and yet another clue illustrating we live in a constantly deteriorating environment.
Children who fix their problems with the Gods accend into heaven. This often takes multiple lives of hard work and proper behavior to achieve. Adults to whom it is offered enter clone hosting, thinking they are accending into heaven. The Gods tempt people, selling them as one in the same, but one is good while the other is evil. In their desperation the disfavored subscribe to this temptation, making their task even more difficult than before. And their corruption will cost the disfavored, for they will be reincarnated as a lesser life form into an ever deteriorating world, sucess becoming ever more alluding with each passing life.
The hole they've dug for themselves is even deeper than the one that existed from their prior lives, ensuring it will take even more time and work to fix their problems with the Gods. And for many there may not be enough time left.
Ours is an envionment where evil is perceived to be rewarded while good is punished. As with everything the Gods have a reason for creating this perception::::
People who fall on the good side of the good/evil scale have more favor, and when they do something wrong the Gods punish them BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO LEARN. The Gods want them to receive this feedback in hope they make corrections and begin to behave appropriately. The Gods DON'T like evil and refuse to grant this immediate feedback.
EVERYBODY pays for what they do wr
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