Both the London and Glasgow attacks have all the hallmarks of failures due to lack of training, both look like the work of cells with extremely limited knowledge of how to actually manufacture and detonate explosive devices. My guess would be that these men were organized into cells at the local Mosque level but did not receive training abroad, which is a huge mercy. The Glasgow attack in particular was obviously an attempt at a martyrdom mission and had they known how to prepare and detonate a fuel/fertilizer bomb they would have likely killed scores in the main terminal building. Reports are coming in that 17 hrs prior to the London bombings, a post on Jihadi internet site called Al Hesbah warned that London would be bombed particularly in "response" to the Rushdie knighting (you naughty Brits, they warned you what would happen if you knighted him, but you just don't listen, do you?)
Anyway, this is something that Britain in particular is probably going to have to get used to, my hope is that while they have nothing that will squelch the zeal of the would be
shaheeds who will carry out these operations, and no ability to remove the threat entirely, that the security forces would continue to be effective in ensuring that the quality of training and equipment remains low and that the majority of the really ambitious attempts continue to be detected and broken up.
Sadly though, as in most of Europe, all the Jihadis have to do to win is continue to immigrate and massively out-reproduce the indigenous population. In a hundred years, Europe will have become "Eurabia" without the need to fight a war of conquest.
- SEAGOON
