al-Qaeda

I'm sitting here watching the mist descend down the hills as evening draws in, and as usual my mind begins to wander and ponder.

I began thinking about the chief "ooh scary" bogeyman as used by Government, TV and the Press to keep us all scared and off balance, I refer to (cue Dragnet theme) "Al - Qaeda".

Now, am I  the only person that thinks that this is a lot of tosh invented by Governments or more likely the CIA to justify their "War on Terror"?  Or was it an invention of a three time loser in Buffalo NY, to get himself off the hook?  I somehow think that they have given a load of dissipated extremists a name, a banner headline and we are responsible for inventing something that does not exist, for the convenience of the powers that be.

I was thinking back to the attack on Glasgow Airport a few years ago by highly trained, highly funded and intelligence led "Al Qaeda" operatives. So lets look at this in a wee bit more detail. First off these idiots try to set off two devices in London, which fail as they are total crap. Over and above that the Police now have these  idiots mobile phones and laptops in their hands and all the information they need on these operatives.

So now the daring duo head for Scotland and Glasgow, not a very good idea as it turns out. They pick up patio gas and some fuel at a petrol station in Dumfries. Remember brave reader that patio gas is designed to be mishandled by numpties (ie the general public), and is very hard to make it go "bang". Anyway, this pair of  galoots then head to Glasgow Airport and decide to crash a Land Rover into the airport concourse in the name of "Allah". Now a few problems start to arise, a) Land Rover is wider than door opening thus will not go through. b) Patio gas does not go "boom". c) In fact, zilch happens, couldn't get the matches to light.

So where are we? Oh yeah, two highly intelligent, highly funded "Al Qeada" operatives are jammed in a door at an Airport with patio gas, petrol, no matches, no sense, no BBQ and marshmallows as an alibi, a highly dubious insurance claim and their no-claims bonus shot.  So one decides to set himself on fire, providing the BBQ alibi for his pal, very intelligent, and his buddy, who literally shits himself, gets a serious kicking before going to jail for ever.  I guess the welcome mat is not oot in Glesga for "Al Qeada! The whole thing was more like Al Bundy than Al Qeada!

Now this beggers belief, this pair were Doctors but couldn't measure a door opening, I wonder what their reverse parking skills were like?, left personal evidence on phones and laptops, could not make anything go "boom", but one did suceed, eventually in setting himself on fire. Can anyone tell me were the terms "highly trained", "highly funded", "intelligence led" come into this? I can't. What I saw was a pair of thickoes with a death wish make a cheap, shoddy and really crap attack on Glasgow Airport.  This highly organised attack resulted in a small fire, a damaged Land Rover, a broken door, one shit covered twat and one medium to well done twat. And who on earth employed them as Doctors within the NHS?  I thought Doctors were supposed to be intellegent people, or at least a bit brighter than yer average punter?  Whoever hired them has an awful lot to answer for.

Also, next day folks had to queue for hours outside the Airport, why? Did the Authorities actually believe another attack was coming in? Look out! there's a posse of Zippo/Scottish Bluebell armed "Al Qeada" operatives in Toyota Landcruisers on the horizon! Don't worry the door is too wee and they have failed the "how wide is the vehicle?" question...again! Or was it to reinforce the "ooh Scary" again? I somehow suspect and believe it was the latter.


 The Beast of Ettrick