Attack on Exeter

A Muslim convert made a failed attempt to attack a restaurant in Exeter when his pipe bombs misfired as he tried to arm them in the toilet.

Stand by for the inevitable-but-never-evident Anti-Muslim Backlash^tm.

Update: The suspect turns out to be a mentally ill man with the mind of a ten-year old, who was primed and set off by his "brethren".

What a charming lot these Jihadists are.

Copenhagen Bombing

A bomb has destroyed a solarium in Denmark. No one was hurt and two "foreign looking" men were seen fleeing the vicinity.

Since we are not "really" at war, this was obviously an hallucination.

Update: Meanwhile, one of the Danish cartoonists is homeless because he's "too much of a security reisk".

Pakistan Bombing

A bomb blast at a political rally in Parachinar, Pakistan has killed 37 people.

Pakistan is starting to look like Beirut 1983-- with NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

Oopsy Daisy

A suicide bomber in Afghanistan tripped and fell down a flight of stairs on the way to "work" with obvious results.

This what is known as a happy accident.

The Pope, Bears, & Islam

From the BBC:

The failed bomb attacks on London and Glasgow have damaged public perceptions of Islam, a survey has suggested.

No doubt that would be the "No #&%$, Sherlock" survey.

The Australian Connection

In the wake of last week's bombing attempts in London & Glasgow, Australian authorities are carrying out raids and are questioning five more doctors with (if you read the BBC) nothing in common beyond being doctors.

By a staggering coincidence, at least one is named "Mohammed", so I suspect that they are not Methodists

Now We Are Eight

The bombing arrest toll has risen to eight.

It also brings the number of doctors under arrest to three.

Update: Make that five doctors. This is starting to slip into surrealism.

Update: Six doctors and arrests in Brisbane. Surrealism achieved.

And This Just In From Planet Livingstone

The capital is attacked by Jihadists and London Mayor "Red Ken" Lingstone steps up and confronts the real problem-- the inevitable, but always non-existent "backlash." Only this time he spices it up by comparing the Jihad to the far more pressing, but equally non-existent white terror campaign that London is not in the grip of.

Net Widens

Two more men have been arrested in connection with the recent bombings, bringing the total to seven. The BBC describes the suspects as "not thought to be of British origin," so I presume that they are Lithuanian Buddhists.

Also reported, one of the people arrested in Cheshire is named "Mohammed." What are the odds?

Update: The connection between the Glasgow and London bombings is more of a unity, according to CNN:

Authorities suspect the two men who rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into Glasgow's airport on Saturday are the same people who parked two car bombs in central London a day earlier.

Damn It, Jim; I'm a Doctor, Not a Jihadist!

Five people from Glasgow to Cheshire to Liverpool have been arrested in Britain in connection with the recent bombing attempts with more to follow over the next few days.

Interestingly, two of the five are physicians.

So much for the "poor and disenfranchised" theory of Jihadism.

Still, it's perplexing that we keep finding so many people from such diverse backgrounds and over such a wide area of the country involved in terrorist attacks. I keep looking at the news reports for something that they all have in common, but it still remains a mystery.

Catch and Release

According to ABC News, British police have identified the suspect and (surprise!) it isn't a rogue IRA operative or Mafia hit man, but is Al Qaeda (emphasis added):

British police have a "crystal clear" picture of the man who drove the bomb-rigged silver Mercedes outside a London nightclub, and officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com he bears "a close resemblance" to a man arrested by police in connection with another bomb plot but released for lack of evidence.

Officials say the suspect had been taken into custody in connection with the case of al Qaeda operative Dhiren Barot (pictured), who was convicted of orchestrating a vehicle bomb plot involving targets in London, New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington, D.C.

And some people can't understand why it's a bad idea to use the police and civilian courts to solve what is a military problem.

Algeria Blast

Al Qaeda has taken credit for two explosions in the city of Algiers that killed 23 people.

It's clear that this is payback for Algeria's misguided policy of sending troops to Iraq as part of... Hang on.

Doing the Maths

Problem 1:

Pakistani suicide bombers on bicycle + bump = ?