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Posted on 07/01/2007 8:43:06 PM PDT by jdm
A picture is emerging of the men who allegedly drove that car bomb into the terminal building. This morning, police raided their home in Houston, a quiet village just a few miles from the airport.
"The guys in black uniforms and things like the balaclavas went in first," an eyewitness said, "and they surrounded the house … and there was a lot of shooting. I heard glass breaking."
Locals say two young Asian men moved into number 6 Neuk Crescent a few months ago. One neighbor described seeing one of the men washing what she says was a Jeep SUV parked out front just a few weeks ago.
Officials say the men came to Scotland ostensibly looking for work.
"Our indications at this stage are the people who were involved in this incident had not been in Scotland for any length of time," said Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister.
In Scotland's small Muslim community, it is some relief that evidently the attackers are not home-grown terrorists.
"It's not entirely surprising," said Osama Saeed of the Muslim Association of Britain. "We've not seen a peep of this kind of extremism or al Qaeda terrorism here. I mean, you hear about these individuals in London and other places in England."
In Glasgow, the police remain on high alert. This afternoon, they carried out controlled explosions on a suspicious vehicle at the hospital where one of the attackers was being treated for severe burns. They believed the vehicle was connected to the airport attack.
At the airport today, three propane canisters similar to those used in the London devices, were still clearly visible on the sidewalk next to the Jeep.
Glasgow airport is open, but vehicles were being kept well back. Flights were severely delayed.
Glasgow police said they are receiving, on average, 100 calls every hour from members of the public giving information to help the investigation. But, they added, piecing together how this plot was hatched will take weeks.
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Locals say two young Asian men moved into number 6 Neuk Crescent a few months ago.I don't know about you but my mental image of Asian men doesn't resemble my image of Muslim men.
AND KEEP IT SMALL!
In the UK, Middle Easterners are often called Asian. It’s a usage difference between US English and UK English.
That's because the British call people from much of the Middle East Asians and people from the likes of China, Japan, Korea, and southeastern Asia Orientals.
The Brits for some reason call Middle Eastern men “Asian,” I would guess in reference to the many in Britian from Pakistan, although it isn’t exactly in Asia, either. I haven’t yet figured out how the Brits refer to the people whom we call Asians.
In the UK, Middle Easterners are often called Asian. It’s a usage difference between US English and UK English.I know but are you sure it's not for PC reasons rather than simple "usage difference"?
I thought the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were called Asians.
As in the geographical area that covers what used to be referred to as Asia Minor, hence Asians.
Bangladesh
British Indian Ocean Territory
Bhutan
India
Maldives
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Afghanistan
Iran
South Asian is a term that is starting to creep into our MSM lexicon.
Isn’t everything in the contiguous land mass east of the Bosphorus and west of the Pacific and north of the Indian ocean considered ‘Asia?’
Something like this?:
It seems like an issue to be ultra PC by not refering to the obviously Islamic Extremist nature of the event as middle Eastern. The terrorists have rights too you know. /s
Chinese, no doubt.
Just doing the jihad attacks Scots aren't willing to do.
I liked the “washing the Jeep” bit, at least they were rolling to their firey deaths in a clean automobile....
FLAME ON!
I'm going to have some fun with this one today. Please forgive the re-posts.
Heaven is a place where nobody says “alleged”.
“I know but are you sure it’s not for PC reasons rather than simple “usage difference”?”
We call ‘South Asians’ Asian because that is the bit of Asia that we had most interaction with, as India was the most significant part of the Empire.
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