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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
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Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The United Kingdom raised its terrorism threat level to critical, the highest level possible, Saturday after a vehicle plowed into the terminal building at Scotland's busiest airport and burst into flames. Police at the highest levels are assuming the fiery incident in Glasgow was a terrorist attack, CNN has learned. Authorities assume the incident is linked to the discovery Friday in London of two explosives-filled cars. They could not yet say whether the same people were involved or whether the Glasgow incident was the work of copycats. Police and witnesses in Glasgow described an SUV-style vehicle in flames being driven at full speed toward the building. Two people were arrested at the scene, police said. It was not immediately clear whether there were any injuries, although unconfirmed witness reports described a man on fire at the scene. Witness Jackie Kennedy said a man got out of the car, went to the back and pulled out a can of fuel, which he poured on himself and ignited. "The guy was in flames and seemed to be enjoying himself," Kennedy said. Images showed black smoke and flames rising from the vehicle just outside the building. CNN has learned that officials are considering raising the national threat level to its highest level, critical. It currently stands at severe. Witnesses said the car crashed into security barriers protecting an entrance to the airport's international arrivals terminal. Jim Manson said he saw a car "with a couple of guys in it trying to push their way into the airport terminal building." The vehicle "suddenly caught fire" as one of the two -- himself on fire -- tried to open up the back of the car, Manson told British television. There was then a mini-explosion and the front of the terminal appeared to catch fire. "Everyone just ran," Manson said. "We're absolutely terrified, you can imagine. The first thing on all our minds was: Is there an accident? Is there a terrorist attack?" A witness told Sky News that a man had fled from the car as it struck the building and been immediately wrestled to the ground by police. "The jeep is completely on fire and it exploded not long after. It exploded at the entrance to the terminal," witness Stephen Clarkson told the BBC. "It may have been an explosion of petrol in the tank because it was not a massive explosion." Airport authorities said the airport, Scotland's busiest, had been evacuated and all flights suspended. Prime Minister Gordon Brown led a meeting of top intelligence officers, police and senior officials in COBRA, the government's crisis committee, his office said. After the meeting, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said authorities were "doing all we can to protect the public." "The police are clear that the most important contribution that the public can make is to carry on reporting anything suspicious and to be vigilant, and I'd ask them to do that," said Smith, the government's top law-and-order official. "But I must stress that we mustn't let the threat of terror stop us from getting on with our lives." source
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
For some reason I was reminded of Mussorgsky's "A Night on the Bare Mountain" as the soundtrack for this..
But on topic.. how will this effect travel in the rest of Europe? I'm really getting sick of being searched every single time I travel through the airports. Such a threatening presence, the teenaged Nordid video gamer. Seriously, I appreciate the effort... but I wonder how difficult it is to get into the UK when I fly in from Germany in mid July... *sigh*
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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Riferimento: Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
"The guy was in flames and seemed to be enjoying himself," Kennedy said. --- Goodness, gracrous, great balls of fire! Oh yeah, baby!
Lol, what type of comment is that?
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Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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Re: Riferimento: Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
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 I can only assume it is a piece of Glaswegian humour. I read elsewhere that someone had joking commented on how it was typical Glaswegian behaviour that the nearest bystandard, upon seeing a possible suicide bomber in flames running out of a car that had just smashed through the front doors of the airport to get something unknown from the boot, decided not to run away as fast as possible but rather to run towards the guy and smash him to the ground. Any excuse for a fight 
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
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Re: Riferimento: Re: Riferimento: Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
the UK could get people from eastern europe or western for that matter or asians or latinos but no they wanted brown muslims well thats what u get
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
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Re: Riferimento: Re: Riferimento: Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
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Apparently, a policeman initially ran to help the guy because he thought it had been an accident. The man started attacking the policeman and shouting "Allah!" after each punch. It seems then that 5 Scottish holidaymakers tried to attack the man. Lastly, as the fire crew doused the man with a water hose the public were all chanting - "Let the bastard burn!"
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
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Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
Thanks again to Tony Blair who proved one person can make a difference! He gives a knighthood to Salman Rushdie (who can't stand Brits and doesn't even live there) and then he gives this interview:
Blair launches stinging attack on \'absurd\' British Islamists | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics Then he'll start his job as Middle East peace ambassador!! He reminds me of the Roman Agent character in the Asterix cartoon who spreads chaos wherever he goes. 
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
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Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
Like you said some countries are used to people blowing up their buildings, cars, people ect. than others. That has a lot to do with how their react when something like that does happen. If there is a place where it has never happened before you can expect more of a panic mode than some where, where it has been common for a number of years.
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Thursday, July 5th, 2007
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Re: Blazing car rammed into Glasgow Airport
The emails are flying around already (perhaps meadhbh will be the only one to appreciate this
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The general concensus from the whole event is that Scottish people, especially Glaswegians, should not be allowed to speak on TV *Translations available upon request
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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