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2 July 2007 |
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|  | Talking Points Memo
'Hopeless incompetent', 'almost laughable': Scotland Yard officer on London/Glasgow bombers
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Keith Olbermann interviews Larry Johnson: London car bombs could not have killed: former CIA-agent - Watch the video and Beavis and Butthead in London jihad - Former Scotland Yard detective John O'Connor on the London/Glasgow bombers: 'hopeless incompetent terrorist attack', 'ludicrous'. 'All they got was a bonfire', 'they set fire to fuel', 'almost laughable'. -
"So incompetent as to be almost laughable." That's how former Scotland Yard detective John O'Connor described the botched UK bombings this morning on CNN. He also noted that it's probably wrong to refer to these guys as 'al Qaeda'. Check it out ...
Late Update: A reader at Andrew Sullivan's site has more thoughts on the way the Brits are handling this, as opposed to the way this is getting played in the US media.
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