As I write this post, the TV news reports that police bomb squads in Scotland have blown up a suspicious car.
In yesterday’s podcast Siggy and I were asking what unsophisticated terrorists?, since an often-repeated meme has been that “we need not worry since the terrorists are unsophisticated”, bumblers.
I heard this argument when people discussed the plot to blow up NY airports, the Fort Dix six, and now with the three (possibly four) car bombs in the UK.
Here we are, at war with the world’s most depraved beasts, and their attempts at killing us are dismissed because they are “unsophisticated”.
As many as five of the eight people in police custody in the fast-moving investigation are either doctors or doctors in training (including the much-touted NHS, to which they all were connected), and they are part of an international plot that spans years. Two of the doctors are in Australia legally, where they passed all the security checks.
These are well-educated, well-travelled, well-connected people who have had every opportunity the best of Western societies can offer.
Today Dr Sanity explains DOCTORS, SADISTS, AND THE BEASTS OF RADICAL ISLAM. I would add another motivation to the ones she lists: the desire to play god. If you, as a believer of a death cult, relish the power over life and death, what more amenable to your mentality than bringing the infidels to the fate they deserve? What better than sending the faithful to their reward?
It all boils down to one thing: a war for supremacy.
Any of us who have been lulling ourselves to sleep by sucking our thumbs and holding on to the “unsophisticated terrorist” security blanky should, by now, wake up to the fact that brute force is deadly, no matter its level of sophistication.
Update
A friend emailed this: Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim” in connection with the terrorism crisis.
The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – that the phrase “war on terror” is to be dropped.
The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more “consensual” tone than existed under Tony Blair
I’d prefer to call it the war against Caliphate Islam, but Caliophate Islamists aren’t consensual at all.
Fausta, Dr. Sanity has it right, and Gordon Brown is quite insane. I just can’t believe that days after a potential devistating attack perpetrated by Muslims that GB wouldn’t want the word Muslim associated with “Terrorism” Well Mr. Brown, I have a word for you: IDIOT
what it means is that the attack was probably planned over a year ago…and they recruited doctors because they are not screened closely as terrorists.
Even if you aren’t able to pass exams you could probably get false papers to put you into place as a mole…http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=83218
Indeed, there is an ongoing investigation in Manila about false documents to get British Visas, and some of the Indian papers have similar stories…
Gordon Brown just donned his “useful idiot” crown. Only a few days into his new job and he’s already cutting the legs out from under The Empire. The Queen is probably building a bunker under Balmoral as we speak…