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| Beebâs Alert on Bombs (BBC Targeted? WTF?) |
| 2004-03-18 |
| SECURITY bosses fear al-Qaeda are plotting to attack the BBC. Biting the hand that feeds them. An alert was sparked when a Moroccan posing as a newspaper photographer was seen taking pictures of the TV Centre in White City, West London. When he was challenged, he gave false details â and fled in a car driven by another Arabic looking man. Probably just tourists desperate for some good chow. Security has been stepped up at all BBC buildings since the incident on Sunday. Special Branch, foxes guarding the chicken house. On the same day, two more Arabs asked reception staff at the TV Centre for a tour of the premises â and for details about the buildingâs lay-out. ARABS!! They actually used the word, racist infidel dogs! How do they know it wasnât some of those notorious British Mexican Methodist terrrorists? A BBC insider said: âWe are on a state of alert. Security is tight and these incidents have made people nervous.â 5000 nervous twits made more nervous? The floors must be buzzing. A security source said: âThe BBC is considered a prime target for terrorists because of the publicity it would generate worldwide.â "EET ees nezezzary to shoot a dhimmi now and again, pour encourager les outres." Actually, it makes sense for AQ to go after the BBC. Such an attack would play to a couple of common themes among the appeasement lobby: victimization and the need to blame those who oppose terrorism rather than the perpetrators. Surviving Beeb-dhimmis would pull out all stops to portray themselves as victims of Bushâs policies. The predictability of their response invites attack. Like jihadism, the LLL media culture is a suicide cult. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #40 Big day for the Deanie Babies yesterday NMM? Liken the new DFA? Woot! Deano 44! Yaaaaaaargh! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-19 7:50:21 AM |
| #39 Super Hose--Dennis Kucinich was never the governor of Ohio--and had nothing to do with the Seatbelts Fastened?" license plate--but of course--being a right winger you never let the facts get in the way of a good "story"! Maybe you should apply for a Faux News job as a "news" writer--you'd fit right in with the lies pumped out 24/7 by them! |
| Posted by: NotMike Moore 2004-3-19 12:09:03 AM |
| #38 Just our of curiosity.... Fred is there anyway to (quickly, quickly) map I.P.s to origins? Might be kinda fun to see. Naturally I fear it may show a preponderace? preponderence, that is to say bias towards towards the British Isles. You know what I mean of course. Look at your buddy. Is he Irish? LOL! If not, why not? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-18 7:06:03 PM |
| #37 Never had the pleasure(?). I didn't make it London much while I was still in the UK. I'm from the North, Carlisle to be exact. (that's the bit on your map marked "Here be dragons.") Makes two of us, though I was just born there but spent most of my early years in the Peoples Republic of Murkyside... well it was when Derek Hatton was running things (for those outside the UK Degsy was a sort of Trotskyite version of William M. Tweed.) Things aren't quite so bad up there now but it's still shellsuit & Heldenbrau land. Despite everything I do miss the place, NOT! |
| Posted by: Dave 2004-3-18 6:13:13 PM |
| #36 Yeah SH, I shudder to think of the possible weenie replacements for "Live Free or Die". "The Granite State" ? Puh-leeze. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H 2004-3-18 6:00:12 PM |
| #35 I'll put down a few bucks for JS as long as he promises to waste it on liquor and low women in the US. Seriously Jon, GO, you will find your natural British traveling genes. Don't check, you're already equipped. No body travels as well as the Brits. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-18 5:56:42 PM |
| #34 Carl, I hit the recommended website. It appears that chavveys are trailer park trash that are more culturally influenced by Eminem than they are by Shania Twain. BTW, my Hampton residing grand folks used to be tickled by my families Ohio plates from the late 70's that said, "Seat Belts Fastened?" I think they were amused by our domination by the burgeoning nanny state that reached it's apex in Dennis Kucinich. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-18 5:43:28 PM |
| #33 F*ck it Shep, GO. Can we start a Rantburg sponshorship programme? |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-18 5:01:12 PM |
| #32 love to go over some day but i'm constantly pennytless and don't even have a passport yet.have made a promise that when i do go abroad the first destination is the USA, then OZ then not sure, just a pipe dream but if you don't have the dream then you'll never have any ambition i supose.If my financial situation were to pick up i'll definatly try and cross the big pond.Oh Russia thats another one but only cos they have those 5000quid a ride in the Russian Knights SU-27 no holds barred full on joy ride :) |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 2:43:33 PM |
| #31 Shep, c'mon over to the US. May I suggest a flight to Phoenix AZ. Take a few weeks checking out the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon and the Sedona desert. From there its an easy drive out to LA-LA land, beaches and babes. Go to Blackies in Newport Beach. With your accent and an easy smile you'll be well watered. It's cheap to camp in the parks. BBC=UK+Crusader=target. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-3-18 1:39:43 PM |
| #30 "speaking of chavveys have a look at the site called 'chavscum' . com, An absolutly brilliant site dedicated to taking the piss outa chavs" Help, John, Howard, translation please ! "divided by a common language" and all that... |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H 2004-3-18 1:04:06 PM |
| #29 arabic looking? Must have been Mossad....... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2004-3-18 12:59:58 PM |
| #28 SH: Yep, "Live Free or Die" is still there. 'course, that might be "free" meaning "not costing anything" -- we're a bunch of cheap bastids. |
| Posted by: Carl in N.H 2004-3-18 12:59:30 PM |
| #27 The Beeb is targeted because they are Brits. Indeed, AP. I actually think the BBC may be on the verge of getting a clue, listening to the radio reports today. Liberal (not in the political sense of the word) usage of the word "terrorists" with a non-sneering tone, and a perceptibly approving reference to the mob attack on the Basra bomber. It might not last, but I think that realising they're al Qaeda targets, like just so many other blameless victims, has woken them up somewhat. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-3-18 12:01:38 PM |
| #26 Nah, Jon. It's an excellent motivation and way to get fit, they don't demand too much time at all (just about 1 w/e per month), and you get to play with all sorts of cool kit and vehicles. Beer's cheap too. What better way to spend weekends?! |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-3-18 11:49:45 AM |
| #25 The Beeb is targeted because they are Brits. It doesn't matter what they do. If you are a Brit, the only thing you can do to redeem yourself is to don one of those stylish suicide belts and go boom somewhere, and then the jihadis will love you. They are too crazy Mo-Fos to rationally take advantage of appeasement. Europe better wake up to that fact. Convert or die. I say FOAD. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-3-18 11:43:57 AM |
| #24 Count me in! |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-18 11:38:34 AM |
| #23 AC, just for grins, which unit were you with in Nam in '71? I had a few "interesting jaunts" with a bunch of slick drivers from the 3/12 out of Da Nang and a funky group flying from Pleiku (can't remember their org). Would be a riot to discover we'd actually MET 30+ years ago! I was an Air Force SSgt, working on special assignments with the 2nd MIBARS and a nasty bunch of Marines. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-3-18 11:31:48 AM |
| #22 need a fair few of us to distract hooks mates,hey someone go in shout out 'theres an infidel out side' they rush out we rush in and bag him,kindy scooby-do style but would be a top mission. Good idea about the TA bulldog but i fear i'm to lazy :) |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 11:29:58 AM |
| #21 Has anybody tried going over to Finsbury and beating the crap outta hook-boy, just on GP? Hey, it couldn't hurt... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-3-18 11:04:51 AM |
| #20 AC--If your little bro or anyone in his unit wants some Care packages from home send me their APO. Since my MP pal got back from Baghdad about three months ago, I haven't had anybody to send stuff to over there, and the back issues of Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Discover, et al are piling up! |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-3-18 9:42:55 AM |
| #19 Are the Arabs looking for volunteers? If Gordon promises not to raise license fees to pay for rebuilding, I'll bet they could get some very Brit looking sympathisers to cooperate, same as ETA. In fact, given the BBC victim orientation the Arabs should subcontract this one to the IRA. |
| Posted by: Mr. Davis 2004-3-18 9:38:58 AM |
| #18 Jon, join the TA. It's a laugh, and you'll get to travel around a bit more than you already have done. You can volunteer to go overseas if you wish to, and if you can spare the time. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-3-18 9:36:39 AM |
| #17 It's grim up North AC. That's one hell of a tale you have there - surely there were better things to be doing in 69 than signing up for a living hell? (Like getting out of it and listening to The grateful Dead et al.). Hope your bruv comes through OK! |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-18 9:21:04 AM |
| #16 hey least you sound like you've had an exciting life, Huey flying must be pretty cool,and an exciting aunt too.My family are all dull,I am dull to when it comes to seeing the world and going places and all that,At 25 i still havn't been more then 80 miles from my home in my whole life. |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 9:18:29 AM |
| #15 "Ever eaten at the beeb canteen?" Never had the pleasure(?). I didn't make it London much while I was still in the UK. I'm from the North, Carlisle to be exact. (that's the bit on your map marked "Here be dragons.") I emigrated to the States in 1969. At that time, Carlisle was a world center for the production of fog, rust, and decaying brickwork. The outlook was bleak, so I escaped through the admittedly imprudent stratagem of flying to New York, hanging about for a while, and enlisting in the US Army. Things are much better in Carlisle these days, but I never regreted leaving. I became a US citizen in 1974, my parents and siblings emigrated a few years later and we all settled in Texas. My youngest brother, born in Carlisle in 1971 (while I was in Vietnam, incidentally) is currently in Iraq with the 4th ID. I still have family in England, including a crazy Quaker aunt who is very active in peace protest circles, and who frequently mentions her "Vietnam bomber pilot" (actually a Huey slick) and escaped war criminal of a nephew in her peacenik tirades. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-3-18 8:58:24 AM |
| #14 Absolutely top site. Burberry caps and Suped-up Novas RULE! |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-18 8:49:55 AM |
| #13 hey speaking of chavveys have a look at the site called 'chavscum' . com, An absolutly brilliant site dedicated to taking the piss outa chavs |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 8:03:50 AM |
| #12 I wish they'd bomb some Godforsaken Chavvy shithole like Corby or Hayward's Heath. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-18 7:26:00 AM |
| #11 yeah i know what your saying makes sense but surly if they had a choice BBC or Sky, Sun or Mirror i still think they'd target the Sun and Sky. Yeah sure thier whole way of thinking is seriously fucked up but they must still have a sense of who they hate the most out of us lot |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 7:13:58 AM |
| #10 The fact that some think that bombing the BBC or Guardian is like biting the hand that feeds them is exactly what AQ wants you to think. They could care less about whether you are liberal, conservative, pro or con.....only if you faithfully subscribe to their ideal of the world and are willing to blow yourself up. The Beeb and Guardian are extremely liberal which in itself is more a reason to get rid of them to AQ than the fact that they are sympathetic to Paleos or are anti-American.... |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2004-3-18 7:09:17 AM |
| #9 calm down howard its only the BBC,the lying sneering bunch of AQ lovers,the more i think about it the less i see it happening,surly they'd go for the sky news offices or the sun instead. I'm sure the BBC and probably the Mirror too are free to carry on preaching thier pro AQ, pro Saddam, anti-war rehtoric.I just think AQ would value them too much in thier propaganda war |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 6:55:00 AM |
| #8 Bomb Aunty and I'll be donning a suicide vest and walking into the Mosque across the road. Probably just tourists desperate for some good chow. Ever eaten at the beeb canteen? Prob on a par with what's served up at your average terrorist training camp - Donkey anyone? |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-18 5:44:19 AM |
| #7 ....and fled in a car driven by another Arabic looking man. ....two more Arabs asked reception staff at the TV Centre for a tour of the premises.... HMMmmm. I thought the BBC was against racial profiling. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-18 5:12:25 AM |
| #6 SH, most of that "ceasefire" in Eygpt is due to the islamakooks getting whacked, not really due to sadat getting assasinated. What happened is that the groups were hitting civvies right and left and that caused the people in general to turn against them and turn them into the government forces. Essentially the terrorist groups burned down their own house in order to sake their blood thirst. As for Spain.. they wont get it yet, maybe not for awhile even. This is just the mere calm before the storm, they will be viewed by terrorist groups all over the world as an easy target now in the west that they KNOW they can influence by bombings. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2004-3-18 5:07:32 AM |
| #5 This threat speaks to the fact that appeasement cannot work with jihadis because they see the BBC as a symbol of Western dominance and don't pay any attention to the content of BBC broadcasts. Also the jihadis are hyper-sensitive adherents to a code that it is unlikely that a Western mind can understand. The BBC may have become a target because Nigella may have used too many bacon bits during her last cooking show - who can tell. Trying to understand jihadi rationale is like trying to comprehend what the Son-of-Sam's dog was getting at when Fido commenced his wall graffiti. Is the he ceasefire in Spain an honest offer, an Arafat scam, or a recognition that the majority of the AQ cells in Iberia have been broken. The Isamokooks have relatively adhered to a ceasefire in Egypt since Sadat was whacked. Maybe the Spanish people are now safe and can live perpetually safe as long as they keep electing socialists. My advice to them is to go light on the bacon bits. Last time I was in NH, I forgot to look and see if their license plates still had the same motto. There is something about the phrase "Live Free or Die" that resonates in my soul. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-18 4:56:44 AM |
| #4 hehe,shouldn't laugh,I know it sounds bad but if theres one target in Britain that needs the kick up the ass to get them to change their tune,but like you say they'd turn and twist the blame on GWB. Wonder if the goverment is terribly willing to provide security for the Beeb,i wouldn't be |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-18 4:34:21 AM |
| #3 but...but.... we're neutral and objective--blimey nigel the the bloody wogs are touchy--major lawrence?--general allenby?--anybody--glubb pasha?--HELP!!! |
| Posted by: SON OF TOLUI 2004-3-18 4:23:48 AM |
| #2 ... when the booms go off? // paste #1 | #2 Argh, read before posting. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-3-18 2:29:53 AM |
| #1 On the same day, two more Arabs asked reception staff at the TV Centre for a tour of the premises â and for details about the buildingâs lay-out. So as to not disturb the Islamic prayer rooms? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-3-18 1:13:30 AM |