Nail bomb in Tipton

[Buckaroo]

Police treating it as terrorist incident.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/12/police-nail-bomb-mosque-terrorist-tipton

Lee Rigby's funeral today.

 

[kittyP]

I am an idiot.

 

[Pickman's model]

This was on the 12th of July and I think there was a thread on it.

fyi: today IS the twelfth day of july

 

[kittyP]

fyi: today IS the twelfth day of july

I am a month out

 

[Pickman's model]

I am a month out

you'll wish your life away

 

[kittyP]

My appologies Buckaroo

 

[kebabking]

no casualties ccording to police - BBC5L saying it placed in/near a Mosque, and detonated at a time when normally there would have been people in/around the Mosque - however due to Ramadan, prayer timings have changed, so there was nobody about.

 

[lizzieloo]

My old home, I love Tipton, a lot of right wing activity when I was there, pubs you'd never go near.

 

[Buckaroo]

And there's been two other attempts.

"West Midlands police are still investigating an explosion which occurred near a mosque in the Caldmore area of Walsall on 21 June.
The remains of a homemade explosive device were found on 22 June in an alleyway adjoining the Aisha mosque and Islamic centre in Rutter Street, Caldmore."

 

[Das Uberdog]

nails found scattered about the area by locals too

 

[dylanredefined]

no casualties ccording to police - BBC5L saying it placed in/near a Mosque, and detonated at a time when normally there would have been people in/around the Mosque - however due to Ramadan, prayer timings have changed, so there was nobody about.

Be happy for crap terrorists its only a pity they were not a bit crappier and set the bomb off when they were planting it.

 

[Part 2]

Except the purpose of letting off devices like this isn't necessarily to physically hurt people.

 

[JimW]

Shame all the undercover plod were busy shagging swampy, or they might have had some intelligence on your actual mad bombers.

 

[JimW]

Except the purpose of letting off devices like this isn't necessarily to physically hurt people.

Get off it, nail bomb? Anti-personnel classic.

 

[framed]

Except the purpose of letting off devices like this isn't necessarily to physically hurt people.

Words of comfort to the victims of the fascist nail bomber who planted a device in the Admiral Duncan pub?

It's more luck than design that no-one was injured today. Ignorance of how Ramadan prayer times differ from the normal Friday prayers at other times of the year appears to have added to the luck of the intended targets and the apparent incompetence of the would-be terrorist.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

And there's been two other attempts.

"West Midlands police are still investigating an explosion which occurred near a mosque in the Caldmore area of Walsall on 21 June.
The remains of a homemade explosive device were found on 22 June in an alleyway adjoining the Aisha mosque and Islamic centre in Rutter Street, Caldmore."

There was that incident in Liverpool the other week too. Very worrying to say the least.

 

[Buckaroo]

There was that incident in Liverpool the other week too. Very worrying to say the least.

What was the one in Liverpool?

 

[cdg]

Except the purpose of letting off devices like this isn't necessarily to physically hurt people.

Bullshit! Unless I have misunderstood your post?

 

[CyberRose]

Strange, there's been a terrorist attack in this country and a fire on an unmanned plane is the main news story on the BBC? Even the Daily Mail has "Terror in Tipton" splashed across the top of its website (as do the other right wing news papers). Then I go to the Guardian and they have Snowden as the top story, and the Independent has some shit about the CIA using Harry Potter to torture someone as their main headline. I would have thought the right wing news would be playing down this attack and the left wing news would be lauding it up...have I missed something here?

 

[CyberRose]

Oh yes, and a nail bomb is designed to stick nails in people, it's not for 'show'...

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

What was the one in Liverpool?

Controlled explosion on a suspect package left inside a mosque. Although I've just read an update on the story that no explosive material was found. Seems like it was someone wanting to stir up tension and put fear into people. All the same, it's not a great sign.

 

[Smyz]

lauding?

 

[Pickman's model]

Strange, there's been a terrorist attack in this country and a fire on an unmanned plane is the main news story on the BBC? Even the Daily Mail has "Terror in Tipton" splashed across the top of its website (as do the other right wing news papers). Then I go to the Guardian and they have Snowden as the top story, and the Independent has some shit about the CIA using Harry Potter to torture someone as their main headline. I would have thought the right wing news would be playing down this attack and the left wing news would be lauding it up...have I missed something here?

you don't know what 'to laud' something is.

it means to praise it. why do you think left wing papers should be praising this incident?

 

[CyberRose]

lauding?

Probably a poor choice of words, but I mean making a big deal out of it to attack the right (if it is them of course)

 

[CyberRose]

you don't know what 'to laud' something is.

Erm it would appear you're right...

 

[Pickman's model]

Erm it would appear you're right...

it's from the latin, laudo, laudare, to praise. now, why should e.g. the guardian praise this attack?

 

[cdg]

Oh yes, and a nail bomb is designed to stick nails in people, it's not for 'show'...

If it hadn't been a nail bomb or if a warning call had been made then you could argue the toss, but fuckinell. Thankfully the thick fucks hadn't accounted for prayer times changing.

 

[CyberRose]

it's from the latin, laudo, laudare, to praise.

Let me rephrase then...why are the right wing newspapers making more out of an attack against Mosque than the 'left' wing newspapers? I don't understand, it just seems a bit strange?

 

[JimW]

laud-a-tory adj. usual purpose of Daily Telegraph political diary writer.

 

[CyberRose]

the guardian praise this attack?

Erm...?