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| Terror timeline: airport inferno |
| 2007-07-02 |
| AS THE green Jeep Cherokee swept through the roundabout at Glasgow Airport and approached the terminal building, its two occupants steeled themselves for an apocalypse. The driver was dressed in a blue boiler suit with black plastic bags tied around his feet. His partner, in the front passenger seat, wore a dirty, grey T-shirt and sand-coloured cargo trousers. It was the first day of the summer holidays, yet these men were not tourists. At 3:15pm on Saturday, on a day when an estimated 35,000 passengers were due to pass through Scotland's busiest airport, the Jeep sped along a road restricted to taxis, suddenly veered right and then, just as swiftly, the driver spun the wheel hard left. The Jeep passed between the protective steel bollards and smashed into the front of the main doors of Terminal 1, scattering stunned passers-by. The vehicle's wheels were jammed under an advertising board and witnesses rushed to assist what they believed to have been an accident. So charitable a notion was quickly corrected by the driver, who, witnesses said, poured out petrol which set the front of the car alight. Climbing out of the car, he was quickly engulfed in flames, yet he still struggled to the boot where several gas canisters are believed to have been stored. As one witness said: "It was amazing how calm he appeared." As the driver, a massive man, described as over 6ft tall with a broad build, struggled with the boot, Stephen Clarkson, an off-duty police officer, snatched up a fire extinguisher and tried to put out the flames. The man turned and is alleged to have screamed: "It's a bomb. It's a bomb." A confused struggle then took place with police officers who arrived and squirted CS spray into the driver's face. Meanwhile, witnesses said the Jeep's passenger tried to run into the terminal with canisters of gas or petrol, before being tackled by security guards, police and members of the public. Airport staff began spraying the car with a fire extinguisher but were forced back when it exploded. At 3:16pm, the two men were dragged out on to the central reservation as the fire alarm began to sound and a mass evacuation of the airport began. As passengers streamed out of the terminal, they passed - and some filmed - the driver, his clothes incinerated and his partially naked body badly burned. One shouted: "Let him burn." The Jeep's passenger, meanwhile, had his hands cuffed behind his back and was led off to a police van. THE airport's major incident planning procedures were swiftly launched. The airport was shut down. Air traffic controllers began contacting flights en route and steered them away to alternative terminals, including Edinburgh, Prestwick and Newcastle. Those planes already queuing on the runway were instructed to wait - a long afternoon and evening had begun. On board, some passengers switched on their mobile phones and downloaded images of the blazing car. The first of 16 fire engines arrived at Glasgow Airport by 3:23pm, followed shortly after wards by a major incident control unit, a large articulated truck from which the work of dozens of staff was co-ordinated. The blazing car had ignited part of the roof of the terminal building, and it and the Jeep were bombarded with thousands of gallons of water from high-pressure hoses. more at link |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #8 Ticker: "An SUV crashed into the front of Glasgow Airport...the SUV's motive is not known." Tabloid headline "When Doctor's attack" Sympathetic psychological view: "It is this expert's opinion that these two certainly did not try to hurt anyone--this was a 'cry for help'" Right-wing view: "Terrorists today rammed and detonated a mass-casualty bomb at Glasgow Airport...failing only to detonate the main charge" Left-wing view: "Certainly there must have been a reason the good doctors did what they did" Not mentioned anywhere: Islamic or Muslim terrorists. Their names: Dr. Mohammed Jamil Abdelqader Asha Ahmed Asha Marwah Asha Dr. Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla "Asha's family said that he was born in Saudi Arabia and raised in Jordan. His family, they say, is Palestinian." Pardon me while I 'hold my breath' and watch outside for 'winged swine'... |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2007-07-02 23:07 |
| #7 You'd think the left wing would at least critize these jihadis for using non green vehicles. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-07-02 09:45 |
| #6 Uh, the guy's on fire; a little CS isn't going to deter him in any way. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-07-02 09:41 |
| #5 "So sorry, Mister....Abu. We seem to be freah out of morphine." |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-07-02 08:47 |
| #4 CS spray? Sheesh ... The officers should have had sidearms and shot the Son of Allan. |
| Posted by: doc 2007-07-02 08:26 |
| #3 And while I'm at Youtube, something *totally* OT : #8 Reverend Horton Heat, #7 anon? I really don't want to know.... Posted by Barbara Skolaut (from the "Mes Aïeux" dégénération clip thread) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-W5afL3X1c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn4lJqbv7So http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVaQ3v0svE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHaNrRoZ6LY |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-02 06:43 |
| #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpvcylydULU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5bWYp75JVA |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-02 06:32 |
| #1 "Let him burn." Agreed, well done, crispy jihadi is the only good jihadi. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-07-02 02:41 |