LONDON, June 29 — The headline of London’s Evening Standard newspaper today said 1,700 people could have died at “ladies’ night” in the Tiger Tiger night spot. The police gauged the potential death toll as “significant” if the car had exploded.
But, in the manner of a city that shrugged stoically at the July 7 bombings two years ago, many people in the streets near Piccadilly Circus seemed less than troubled here today after police announced that they had defused an explosive mixture of gasoline, nails and gas canisters in a car abandoned outside the Tiger Tiger on a thoroughfare called Haymarket.
“It’s something you get used to, living in London,” said Andrew Fowler, a 39-year-old lawyer who was sipping coffee at an outdoor café near Piccadilly Circus.
“And given the stance our government made on the war in Iraq and elsewhere, I think we are just getting used to being a target,” he said. “It’s something we have to live with.”
This had been another episode of How Not to Wet Your Pants.
Really true?
I’ve read in one source the car was full of propane, and another said it was a truly amateurish affair that never would have gone off. Sorry to be so skeptical of MSM these days.
That’s the trouble with our involvement in Iraq–we’ve encouraged every idiot to be a terrorist wanna-be.
last night on Olbermann who made the observation that five actual car bombs which killed many actual people in Iraq went practically uncovered while two failed car bombs in London which injured nobody became a worldwide headline.
It was Larry Johnson.
He also wrote a post that totally debunks the hoopla and gnashing of teeth on Cableland.
A car filled with 50 gallas on gas is equal to any mid-size SUV.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/london-bomb–wh.html
That’s the nice thing about Larry. He seems to have an unlimited supply of buckets of cold n’ refreshing reality to dump on whatever piles of flaming bullshit the press comes up with.