Over on El Reg, a grumpy former UK bomb disposal operator points out that the vehicles used in the terror attacks in London and Glasgow were horribly amateurish and basically ineffectual. “Frankly, if this kind of thing is the only backlash the West experiences for Iraq, we’ve got off pretty much scot-free…” (courtesy scimon)
I guess I find it hard to be impressed by this whole thing. The tube attacks two years ago were horrible and worthy of attention, but international headlines over cars with gas cylinders in seems a bit overwrought to me.
Or as Warren Ellis so witheringly put it:
Scottish terrorists trying to kill an airport with a Volvo. Bet they were from Govan.
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Today I played ultimate, had Dim Sum, worked on Sekret Projects #1 and #2, read several academic articles, did a sudoku, sent some overdue emails, and felt bemused that yesterday’s entry written by the internet got more readers than the day before’s entry written by, er, me. Maybe I should let the internet write more often?
A friend of mine (from Glasgow) made a comment the other day there.
“It’s a sign of how bad things are getting in this country that even our terrorists are crap.”
Is it bad that I sniggered when I found out the second car bomb had originally been towed away for violating parking restrictions?
You’ve hit the proverbial nail on the head with your assessment here Morgue. This car-bomb thing has been the lead article over here in the U.K for the last ages. And in other news:
Culture of fear! Culture of fear!