So the second incident in the UK has occurred which is certainly more dramatic though possibly less threatening than the sitting car bombs. It’s not clear to me if this was a fire from an explosive gone wrong or the original intent.
Probably this is linked with the sitting car bombs in some way. We are all lucky this second attack was also mostly ineffective. There’s a few things that strike me here.
The UK emergency services and people have dealt with terrorism extensively before, thanks to the whole IRA rubbish, and reacted well. Apparently people were aggressive in preventing it which is a very good thing for any future events.
Apparently they were Asian, if they are also muslim it makes sense because people of ME decent are more watched and many Asian nations have large muslim populations. This is why racial profiling is not a particularly effective idea. One can’t always discount home grown islam as well.
This is a good reminder of why these people have to be opposed and why efforts to weaken terrorism have to go ahead through economics, war and espionage. Why young soldiers from far away countries are sucking up the desert dust hoping to evade the next IED as they and their command figure out how to win a war that is very different to what they were prepared and trained for. It is hopefully also a reminder that this is bigger than Iraq or Afghanistan.
These sorts of attacks are easy and in the style of terrorist tactics and probably are going to happen many more times in the future. I wonder if the action motivates other planning terrorists or the failure discourages them.
