Posted on 06/28/2007 11:55:13 PM PDT by HAL9000
An explosive device found in a car in central London has been defused.Police were called to reports of a suspicious vehicle parked in The Haymarket area shortly before 02:00 this morning.
The area was cordoned off by police who examined the car.
They discovered what appeared to be a potentially explosive device, which was then made safe.
An investigation has been launched by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.
More follows...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Actually, the DUer's are saying it is a US plant from Bush, intended to get Gordon Brown's support in the war on terror.
Just one of the thousands of reasons we call them moonbats.
Exactly how did they foil the attack?
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DU`ers and the libs at HuffPo are ridiculing this. What a shock. One DU`er thinks this is just a ploy by Brown to make himself look good.
A nightclub employee notice what he thought was smoke in the car - they think it was vapor from the 60 liters of gasoline in the vehicle.
Even worse, it’s the ZEN Buddhists, who are like the hardest hard core faction of their philosphical brethren, Al Qaeda. And to think, I still hang on to my old Zen beliefs.....the Zen bombers are ruining it for all decent Zen guys like me....they have hijacked our religion.
Religion of Peace alert!
Boom Boom ain’t it great to be crazy.
In answer to your first two questions, about the UK, I don’t know what is really going on with Britain, which I visited for the first time about 3 years ago. On the surface, British life looks pretty normal, but that country, like ours, is no longer “for” the people who live there as Brits, and are there as traditional Brits in the sense that their lineage goes back many generations AS Brits. THAT is the way the world should be, but things have gotten out of hand. The tipping point has been reached in the West in general, with this “glorious mosaic” that also includes huge populations of aliens with different cultural “requirements”, worst and most intractable being Islamists, moderate or otherwise. No one seems to realize ANYWHERE just how subtle this infiltration has been , and just how culpable WE are in aiding and abetting it. THEY can always “play dumb” and plead innocence as to why they are here, and that plays right into the dumb and innocent denial that the Western governments are still in the grip of. Nations in the West
are making a HUGE mistake that could cost them their identities, and sooner rather than later. I know that if I were in charge in Britain, that after the subway and street bombings, EVERY mosque would have been closed,and MASSIVE numbers of Muslims would have been deported. That they weren’t only shows how deeply dysfunctional British institutions are , and how dangerously flabby the sense of British identity has become. Instead, the problems were taken , as they have been elsewhere, and (for some people) here, as nothing more than “police problems”. To think of them any other way, apparently, would make us REALLY nervous, at having to confront our little example of Global Jihad. But THAT is what’s really happening.Thinking of them as police problems presupposes “it is all our fault, we brought this about, these are British citizens, boo hoo hooo, etc.”, which is EXACTLY the reaction the Islamists want and have come to expect. Most of them in Britain, HAVE been on the dole, so Britain has even helped subsidize its own problems. Another HUGE area of denial they’d better get over very soon.
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As for Geraldo, your little typo of his last name, brings up the idea of going all the way and calling him “Geraldo Riviera” -—if you’ve ever seen him up close you know how different he looks from the pancake makeup slathered commentator we see on TV. About a year ago, I was in a strip mall in Ft. Lee , New Jersey, just a couple miles down the road from the big CNBC studios, where Geraldo sometimes works from: that explained the arrival in the parking lot of a noisy Harley with a little bow-legged guy wearing one of those idiotic little half-helmets Harley owners wear. He was wearing shorts and as he disembarked from the bike I saw it was Geraldo. He made a bee-line for some little Nail Salon, and walked in and did I know not what , but in a few seconds, was out again, and getting on his bike. I stood there JUST to see how he would leave the parking lot. THere is a HUGE univeral symbol NO LEFT TURN sign on BOTH exits of this strip mall’s parking lot. I knew he would ignore them as he left. He did, turned left and noisily barreled up Lemoine Ave. toward Englewood Cliffs. That is Geraldo “Riviera”,
“Harley Liberal”.
I don’t about Brown setting this up, but with each one of these bungled, foiled near-misses, the islamists look like less and less of a real threat.
Look at this thread. 50 posts, maybe? And half of them are recycled jokes that stopped being funny years ago.
Who benefits when we stop taking the threat seriously?
The DUers are playing right into their hands. But I wouldn’t discount the possibility that these “attacks” are designed to fail.
could this have been the work of an IRA affiliated group? I know there are still a few hostile splinter groups that don’t buy into the recent peace accords. Islamist usually use chemical bombs, or other sophisticated types of explosives and they usually blow themselves up with the device for that added shock value and to get their 72 virgins....
In a new security alert, Park Lane has been closed to traffic due to a suspect vehicle, thought to be an open-top double decker bus.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/home
KRLA radio says the same thing, scare on a Park Lane ‘Tourist Bus’
7 7 07 is coming up .A cpl years ago they had those bombings in the u.k....is this a test for 7 7 07?
(sarcasm)
BUT BUT BUT THAT”S IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS NO TERRORIST THREAT!!!!!!!!
What is the significance of July 7, 2007? Is something special supposed to happen on that date?
Well, at least DU had a theory (as usual), but Atrios insists the Brits could care less and it’s nothing.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_06_24_archive.html
Note: This is my fairness doctrine post for this topic. See, I didn’t even add a sarcasm tag.
They have a lot of this... of course the stinking MSM doesn’t show it, hence lulling everyone into taffy. People need to wake the hell up.
And to that other poster: Yes, Ferdinand and Isabella had the right idea.
Something that should be highlighted here:
A great number of Londoners owe their lives to some alert person that noticed something out of place. Sure there’s been false alarms, but the value of alertness and a willingness to report something as suspicious has apparently prevented untold suffering.
Thank you, whoever you are.
Park Lane has been closed to traffic due to a suspect vehicle in an underground car park that police believe is connected to the attempted bombing.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/home
According to the Telegraph, the vehicle in Park Lane is a car. The double-decker is a separate lead.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/29/report-car-bomb-found-in-london/
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