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Two men rammed a flaming sport utility vehicle into the main terminal of Glasgow airport Saturday, crashing into the glass doors at the entrance in what appeared to be the third terror attack on Britain in two days, witnesses said. Police said two suspects were arrested.
There were no reports of injuries but the airport -- Scotland's largest -- was evacuated and all flights suspended, a day after British police thwarted a plot to bomb central London, discovering two cars abandoned with loads of gasoline, gas canisters and nails.
"One has to conclude ... these are linked," Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, former head of Britain's joint intelligence committee, told Sky News. "This is a very young government, and we may yet see further attacks."...
When will they realize that small aircraft and even large aircraft are not the biggest threat to public safety. Remember the damage McVeigh accomplished with nothing but a truck and some fertilizer?
It's time to stop singling out aviation. Although I'm sure that since this attack (although with a car) was aimed at an airport it's just going to mean more headaches for aviation.
Well it still proves my point that you don't need airplanes to do that much damage.
AND the people who believe these conspiracy theories also believe that the WTC and Pentagon were staged and hit by cruise missiles and carefully placed bombs... SO once again, the should just leave aviation alone!
Oh yeah, and typical conspiracy theorists website. Leaves out all the information that doesn't help their theory. Whole paragraphs on how McVeigh couldn't have done it alone and that it was set up by the CIA and FBI etc... No mention at all of the fact that he WASN'T alone, no mention of Terry Nichols, Michael Fortier or the Militia group that they were members of.
Dash-Ate wrote:Kiss more freedoms goodbye in 5 4 3 2 ...
Airside especially. Amazing how 1 incident can do all of this to us.
what freedoms have we lost? I feel pretty free still. Maybe cause I'm not a bad guy.
How about all the crap of taking nail clippers away from pilots, searching rampies for folding scissors and other items they have access to on the secure side, patting down AME's when they need to get on the plane to sign the log book. Last time I traveled as a passenger security gave me a hard time because my flight itinerary I had printed out was in my pocket and it should have been x-rayed. I guess paper is next to go? The only reason they found it was there was a staple through the three pages in the top left corner. And don’t even get me started about this liquids crap. I bet you the average passenger has a 100 times better chance of dieing from Syphilis that they caught during a drunken night in Cancun from a drunken whore than ever being hurt from a terrorist liquid attack.
I friend of mine was driving down, I believe number 4 road in Richmond, when a female Asian driver in a tricked out Honda Civic decided to pull a u-turn from the curb lane without looking, going around 70km. She hit my friend, crushing the two cars together. My friend told me that when the car finally stopped, she felt that she was still slowly moving, that’s when she realized that the other girl still had her foot on the gas and was dragging the two crushed cars in a slow circle.
Hotel Tango wrote:It's important that you point out that they're asian because we shouldn't have drivers licenses right?
Yeah, that's what I said; and last Halloween I went as a ghost with a pointy hat.
No, I just told a true story with all the descriptors I was given about a really shitty Richmond driver.
I had two ex girlfriends who should be the first ones on that list. They are a danger to themselves and everyone on the sidewalk every time they put a key into the ignition.
One of my niece takes me for a ride in her new used car, a couple of months after she got it. As we are driving I notice a little piece of duct tape on her instrument cluster. Puzzled I ask her what it's for, and without even flinching she answers: "it's for the check engine light, it came on and wouldn't come off, and it was annoying me...."
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