Re: Glasgow airport attack

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Does dousing a car in petrol sound like an efficient way to carry
out a terrorist attack?


in the circumstances you state above, then generally no. However,
lets add the bit you missed -

"dousing a car in petrol, and crashing it at high speed into the
terminal of a major international airport"

Simple Answer...Yes.

Glasgow closed to all flights -
knock on to other flights -
Edinburgh closed to cars -
other airports tightening security -


Seems like a perfect way to cause some chaos to me.

Okay then. answer this.

Why douse the car in petrol? Would the effect not have been the same
if the car was undoused?

why fly a plane into a tower block?

Because that's pretty much guaranteed to kill thousands and cause mass
hysteria.
The fact that the world is a very different place since it happened is all
the evidence you need.

Why not use something big like a van or a minibus?

why not use a moped with the rider strapped up with TNT?

Why not indeed?
That would surely have caused more damage than a jeep that's been doused in
petrol. Petrol evaporates pretty quickly in air.

Why was there more than one person in the vehicle? Surely the effect
would have been exactly the same if there was just a driver.

why, why, why...

Exactly, Why?
It doesn't make sense for there to have been a passenger.

No, I'm sorry. This one just doesn't add up.


I sense you are clutching at straws now.

Not really.
These are all things that point to it not being a terrorist attack.
If only the public would open their eyes and see it.

My own feeling its that there is a chance this is not a terrorist
attack (slim in my mind), but I'm happy for it to be treated as one
until such time as it is proven it was not.

Kind of like Maria, your stance is one of actually closing your mind
to the obvious but trying to dress it up as being open minded. "there
are none so blind.... blah blah blah"...

Hardly.
I see an incident which on the face of it looks like a terrorist incident.
Then I see evidence that suggests it might not be.
I am open to both possibilities, but at the moment, the evidence is swaying
me towards the non-terrorist option.
That's not a closed mind.
That's called taking stock of the available evidence and drawing a
reasonable conclusion from it.

Dismissing these bits of evidence in the way you have done in your last post
would be displaying a closed mind.
It's like saying "The evidence doesn't fit my take on things, so I'm going
to declare it irellevant"


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