(Daily Record)
Posted on 07/05/2007 2:07:38 PM PDT by Stoat
(Daily Record)
One of the men who attacked Glasgow airport being hosed down with a fire extinguisher. He is currently in a critical condition (Daily Record)
Two police officers today described the moment they foiled the plans of two would-be bombers to bring death and destruction to Glasgow aiport.
The officers said that the two men, one of whom was trying to keep them away from the car while the other was covered in flames, “were resigned to death”.
Constable Stewart Ferguson, 40, was off duty at the airport on Saturday and was talking to Sergeant Torquil Campbell when they ran around to the front of the terminal to find a burning Jeep wedged into building.
One of the occupants, believed to be the passenger, unoficially identified as Dr Bilal Abdulla, started attacking Mr Campbell, and trying, he said, to keep him away from the flaming vehicle.
Eight suspects have been held by anti-terror police investigating the failed car bomb attacks in Glasgow and London
As he fought with the man, his colleague grabbed a fire extinguisher and hosed down a second man, said to be Kafeel Ahmed, coming out of the flames.
Once the flames were out he aimed the extinguisher into the man’s eyes to disorientate him.
Speaking about the incident for the first time, Mr Ferguson said: “I remember his injuries and to me they were the most horrific injuries I had seen on a living person.
“In my opinion he was resigned to death.”
Mr Campbell, 49, said: “They were just waiting for death. The fact that they were still alive perplexed them a little bit and they didn’t know what to do.”
He added that he soon realised he was dealing with something “out of the ordinary” and that it was a terror attack.
“It struck me when the second male came towards me on fire that this was something different, something out of the ordinary, and that this was indeed a terrorist attack.
“It was hard to comprehend but I just had to accept the fact that terrorism had arrived at Glasgow Airport.”
Speaking of the moment he faced the first man, Mr Campbell, a father-of-two who has almost 30 years’ service, said: “I knew his intention was to keep me back from the vehicle.
“He was also looking back at the vehicle. He then ran back to the vehicle and tried to open the back hatch of the Jeep.
“I think he managed to put his hand in but my attention was drawn to the front of the vehicle and the second male appeared out of the flames, on fire.
“I believe he had doused himself in petrol but I never saw that.
“At that point I saw Constable Ferguson coming out with a fire extinguisher in his hand and trying to douse the fire on this male who was just standing in a bit of a daze at the time.
“The second male then turned round and saw me and again started to lash out with his hands and feet.
“I thought, ‘what is in the vehicle?’ because at that time I could hear popping and banging coming from the vehicle.
“By that time I was already sending out an emergency signal on my radio.”
Mr Campbell used his CS spray, but the wind also blew it into his face and he said he was standing in the road blind for a minute until the wind and rain washed it away.
Mr Ferguson, who had gone to the airport to pick up his parents, told Sky News that he followed his colleague to the front of the building.
The father-of-two, from Erskine, Renfrewshire, said that at first he thought it was a road rage incident when he saw Mr Campbell being assaulted.
“But it quickly dawned on me that this was no angry motorist - this was something completely different.
“Then I was aware of some airport personnel trying to assist Sgt Campbell by trying to subdue this chap. It was only when the chap had been subdued that I then was able to look at the vehicle again to see the second guy.
“He was well ablaze - clothing, hair, skin - and from the attitude that he was in, lying on his back there was a kind of resignation about him.
“I remember his injuries and to me they were the most horrendous injuries I had seen on a living person.”
“I was free to act, so, knowing where the fire extinguishers were in the building, I grabbed one.
“I went back out, pulled the pin out, and I just began to spray.
“Once the flames had been extinguished in his hair and body I aimed the jet in his eyes, just trying to disorientate him.”
Mr Ferguson, who is based in Paisley, said of his attempt to save the burning man: “It never entered my consciousness to walk away from the guy - I would have been failing in my duty."
Five men and one woman are currently being questioned at Paddington Green police station in West London in connection with the Glasgow attack and two failed car bombs in London. A seventh suspect is being questioned in Australia while the driver of the burning Jeep is critically ill in hospital.
(PA)
Sergeant Torquil Campbell (left) and Constable Stewart Ferguson, who tackled the two men after the attack
From the article:
Mr Ferguson, who is based in Paisley, said of his attempt to save the burning man: “It never entered my consciousness to walk away from the guy - I would have been failing in my duty."
May God Bless all Police and other emergency workers who have similar dedication....they truly are the 'thin blue line' that stands between a civil, safe society and utter madness.
Apparently, the British media and political elite are also resigned to death.
That statement is true of all Islamofascists.
Mr Campbell, 49, said: “They were just waiting for death. The fact that they were still alive perplexed them a little bit and they didn’t know what to do.”
It’s too bad they gotta wait a liitle longer!!
Rack these cops or Snugs you say Constables RIGHT
It is becoming increasingly that our duty is to do everything in our power to end Muslim perplexity!!
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Okay, so Bilal and I get psyched up, check all the equipment to make sure it’s ready for a big boom, point the Jeep at the terminal, and mash the throttle. I’m shouting “Allahu Akbar,” and Bilal’s shouting “Allahu Akbar” and “Go Martyrs” just like the old pep squad days at CJU. And I’m thinking, “oil up them virgins Allah, ‘cause Dr. K’s luck is about to change.” BAAAAM! Right into the glass.
I was probably out for a two, three seconds. Bilal and I peeled our broken noses out of the airbags, which meant we were still alive, which meant the goddamn cannisters didn’t explode, again. Maybe we went through into the terminal and killed some infidels, I thought, then I saw we hadn’t made it in more than a couple inches into the terminal. I mean, WTF? The Jeep salesman kept going on about how the Jeep was this awesome unstoppable American SUV that crusader cowboys use to bulldoze their way through mountain forests, with an easy payment plan, and the damn thing can’t make it through a bloody plate glass window. I restart the engine and now the piece of sh** just sits there spinning the tyres. “All wheel traction,” my arse.
Okay, plan B. Bilal and I start pushing backup detonation buttons and cell codes. A couple of pops, but they were all duds. Then I see the cops coming at me.
As Allah is my witness, I really can’t explain what happened next; maybe it was stress, or confusion, or frustration. Whatever the reason, I decided it was a reasonable idea at that point to pour a can of petrol over my head and hit the Bic.
I sincerely hope Mr. third degree burns lingers on for a long, agonizing time.
After reading that, I’m sure that a few hundred others have come to the same conclusion as I: there is no dealing with these people. There is no negotiating with these people. We have nothing in common with them. They are not of the same species as we are.
Apparently allah thinks they’re rejects too.
Send Nancy Pelosi over there to negotiate. She never met a terrorist she didn’t feel sorry for. Ask Nancy baby to get a group of her cohorts to fly over there with her on her “taxpayer” provided jet and negotiate with all these wackjobs.
It’s too bad they gotta wait a liitle longer!!
And won't they be surprised when they finally enter the gates of Hell that there will not be 72 virgins waiting for them but a Satan who really likes Arab men?
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LMAO!!
OMG that is so funny, thank you so much for posting!
No essential arguments here, although in terms of methodology and targeting we might want to consider strapping them to a very stylish, nuke-tipped Raytheon cruise missile and send them into the bedroom windows of the second in command of Syria and Iran. After the smoke clears, send the top guys a very polite message: "Knock it off with this jihadist crap or you will be next."
I have a sneaking suspicion that the world might be a much more peaceful place thereafter.
They have only one use....as targets for our military.
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