Posted on 07/04/2007 5:23:14 AM PDT by naturalman1975
A HERO cabbie who took on the Glasgow Airport terror suspects told yesterday how he booted one of them in the privates.
Alex McIlveen, 45, kicked the man, whose body was in flames, so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.
But he said last night: "He didn't even flinch. I couldn't believe he didn't go down.
"A doctor told me later I'd damaged a tendon in my foot."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyrecord.co.uk ...
If this were New York, the cabbie would either be a Muslim Paki, a Muslim Bengali, or a Muslim from West Africa.
“went Braveheart on the guy’s ass “
Thank you for increasing the diversity of my stock repertoire of
“Open a can of Whoop-@$$”
and
“Get medieval with you @$$”
“After the drama, police confiscated Alex’s trainers for forensic tests.
And when he went back to the airport to pick up his cab, he was stunned to find that he’d been given a parking ticket.
Alex said: “The police took all the clothes I ‘d been wearing so I lost my Nike trainers. They’re a good pair too.
“I didn’t get out of the police station until late on Saturday night and I found the parking ticket on my cab next day. I couldn’t believe it.””
Or maybe something else was on his mind. Like being on fire. That would tend to compartmentalize my thought processes.
I heard on Fox news, one of the commentators said that this guy doused himself and lit himself on fire. That's how he was burned, not by being in the flaming car. Anyone else hear anything to that effect?
On another thread, I recommended liberal application of salt...
Maybe there is something to that game of soccer after all?
"Michael went outside to load the family's luggage into their car moments before the madmen drove their blazing Jeep into the terminal building.
He told Sandra: "At first I thought it was a stolen car but then I saw the guys get out and one doused himself in petrol and went up in flames. flames. The other guy was going for a policeman so I just went for him - it was instinctive. "
That's they way I heard it also, that'll teach 'em. Must be some new tactic I never heard of, set yourself on fire and maybe run around and set other people on fire.
A firefighter friend of mine said that once the surface nerves are burned he probably didn’t feel too much but his lungs are gone.
Give that man the best health care social medicine can provide.
ROTFLMAO!!!
We will NOT be de-feeted!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070704/ap_on_re_eu/britain_terrorism
Canon Andrew White, a senior Anglican priest who works in Baghdad, said he met the man privately with a translator and sheik after holding talks with Sunni Muslim tribal and religious leaders April 18 in the Jordanian capital, Amman. He meets regularly with extremists in an attempt to calm Iraq’s sectarian violence.
He said religious leaders told him the man was an al-Qaida leader who traveled from Syria to the meeting. The man, an educated Iraqi in his 40s and dressed in Western clothes, warned of attacks on Britain and the United States, White said.
“It was like meeting the devil,” he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Baghdad. “He talked of destroying Britain and the United States and then said, ‘Those who cure you are going to kill you.’”
White, who runs Baghdad’s only Anglican parish and has been involved in several hostage negotiations in Iraq, said he did not understand the threat’s significance at the time. He said he passed the general threat along to Britain’s Foreign Office, but did not mention the comment that could be interpreted as hinting at the involvement of doctors in a terror plot.
Then came the news that six physicians were among the eight suspects detained in the failed attacks in Britain.
“As soon as I heard many of the suspects were doctors I remembered those words,” he said. “I work with a lot of people who are not necessarily good people. It becomes very difficult to distinguish what threat is real and what is not.”
White said he gave the man’s identity to the Foreign Office but would not say publicly what it was. He also said he gave the same details to American authorities in Baghdad.
A spokesman for the Foreign Office, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy, denied White relayed the man’s identify but confirmed he reported his meeting with the alleged al-Qaida leader.
He also said that White did not pass on the reference alluding to medical practitioners and that because his information was vague it “didn’t really merit further analysis.” But White’s report has now been given to British police in their investigation, the spokesman said.
There are pictures at yahoo slideshow of the police removing propane cylinders and of one of the suspects meeting Queen Noor of Jordan not long ago.
Allah Akbar, perhaps?
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