Sucicidal failure in Glasgow

AP/Washington Times:

When two doctors crashed a Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow's Airport and then set it on fire in a desperate attempt to ignite crude bombs, it was clear to a policeman on the scene that they were on a suicide mission.

"They did not have a Plan B," said Sgt. Torquil Campbell, who apprehended suspects Bilal Abdulla and Khalid Ahmed after the botched attempt to wreak havoc among Scottish vacationers packing the airport terminal.

"They both appeared very calm and collected, very assured of themselves," Sgt. Campbell said yesterday on Sky TV. "They had nothing else to do — it was as if they were waiting there to get blown up."

Baggage handler John Smeaton jumped into the fray, helping police grappling with the suspects. "I got a kick in," he told the Guardian newspaper. "Other passengers were getting kicks in. The flames were going in two directions."

The eight suspects arrested in the aftermath of Saturday's airport attack and two failed car bombings a day earlier in London were all foreigners working for Britain's state health system, and investigators are pressing to find what brought them together. They also are looking for links between the six Middle Eastern suspects and two Indian nationals arrested in the case.

Police have refused to release "operational details" of the case. But the investigation would now be at the analysis stage, said Bob Ayers, a former U.S. intelligence officer now at Chatham House, an international affairs think tank in London.

"They've got all the evidence they're ever going to have. There may still be information coming in, but it will be based on what they've already got, like DNA from the cars," Mr. Ayers said.

Using cell phones recovered from two Mercedes sedans loaded with gasoline and propane tanks in London and other telephone records, authorities are building up a "link analysis" of what calls were made, Mr. Ayers said.

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This has the appearance of a typical wrap up story. However on of the interesting aspects of this episode is the reaction of the Scots to the attempted mass murder by Islamic terrorist.

Baggage handler John Smeaton jumped into the fray, helping police grappling with the suspects. "I got a kick in," he told the Guardian newspaper. "Other passengers were getting kicks in. The flames were going in two directions."

Indeed a cabby whose vehicle got ticketed as he was kicking the flaming bomber claimed he kicked him in the crotched so hard that he injured a tendon in his foot. You might say the Scots were inflamed in their own way that these religious bigots would attempt to murder their countrymen. Smeaton and the cabby have both become folk heroes, not withstanding the attempts at political correctness by the new Brown government which has taken the absurd position that none of its ministers may acknowledge the obvious connection between the terrorist monsters and their religion which motivated their heinous acts.