Fox News is now reporting that the police have cleared the streets in a London neighborhood and telling everyone to stay inside. There’s reportedly a remote-controlled vehicle looking for a bomb.
It sounds like they may be getting some good G2 from the guy they arrested, and the evidence that didn’t explode yesterday. I’d like to think that some of the British Muslim community may be coming forward, too, but I haven’t heard any specific evidence of it yet.
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
A “Christian civilization”? We can’t have hate talk like that–string him up.
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
A “Christian civilization”? We can’t have hate talk like that–string him up.
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
A “Christian civilization”? We can’t have hate talk like that–string him up.
one police hypothesis is that the bombers were tricked by a “master” who told them they would have time to escape – when in fact the devices were set to go off immediately.
“The bombers’ masters might have thought that they couldn’t risk the four men being caught and spilling everything to British interrogators,” an unnamed security official told the Telegraph.
Lending weight to the theory is the fact that all four men had paid up their parking tickets before boarding a train at Luton for King’s Cross, and that they all bought return tickets to the capital.
Moreover, the paper said, the men were carrying their explosives inside rucksacks, as opposed to strapped to their bodies as is common practice among suicide bombers.
None were reported to have cried “Allah Akbar” (God is Greatest) before setting off their charge – something which most Middle Eastern suicide bombers do.
If they were duped into it, as it looks like might be the case, it will make it harder for future recruitment, because bombers unwilling to sacrifice themselves may not trust their masters. Of course, this isn’t unprecedented. Bin Laden joked on the videotape about many of the September 11 hijackers having no idea why they were hijacking the planes.
one police hypothesis is that the bombers were tricked by a “master” who told them they would have time to escape – when in fact the devices were set to go off immediately.
“The bombers’ masters might have thought that they couldn’t risk the four men being caught and spilling everything to British interrogators,” an unnamed security official told the Telegraph.
Lending weight to the theory is the fact that all four men had paid up their parking tickets before boarding a train at Luton for King’s Cross, and that they all bought return tickets to the capital.
Moreover, the paper said, the men were carrying their explosives inside rucksacks, as opposed to strapped to their bodies as is common practice among suicide bombers.
None were reported to have cried “Allah Akbar” (God is Greatest) before setting off their charge – something which most Middle Eastern suicide bombers do.
If they were duped into it, as it looks like might be the case, it will make it harder for future recruitment, because bombers unwilling to sacrifice themselves may not trust their masters. Of course, this isn’t unprecedented. Bin Laden joked on the videotape about many of the September 11 hijackers having no idea why they were hijacking the planes.
one police hypothesis is that the bombers were tricked by a “master” who told them they would have time to escape – when in fact the devices were set to go off immediately.
“The bombers’ masters might have thought that they couldn’t risk the four men being caught and spilling everything to British interrogators,” an unnamed security official told the Telegraph.
Lending weight to the theory is the fact that all four men had paid up their parking tickets before boarding a train at Luton for King’s Cross, and that they all bought return tickets to the capital.
Moreover, the paper said, the men were carrying their explosives inside rucksacks, as opposed to strapped to their bodies as is common practice among suicide bombers.
None were reported to have cried “Allah Akbar” (God is Greatest) before setting off their charge – something which most Middle Eastern suicide bombers do.
If they were duped into it, as it looks like might be the case, it will make it harder for future recruitment, because bombers unwilling to sacrifice themselves may not trust their masters. Of course, this isn’t unprecedented. Bin Laden joked on the videotape about many of the September 11 hijackers having no idea why they were hijacking the planes.
Melanie Phillips has a disturbing letter from a British Muslim. As she says:
Truth and lies are at the very heart of this terrible problem facing us all. The sense of grievance and injustice to which this reader refers is indeed very real. But it is the grievance of a people who turn their own misdeeds into their own victimology, thus making rational discourse all but impossible. The tragedy is that this reader and I undoubtedly have much in common