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Breaking: Car on Fire Drives Into Glasgow Airport Terminal

HotAir is tracking a story out of the UK. Go and read.

It’s interesting to watch the story as far as AP is concerned, be sent as a mere car crash, when everyone else on the planet was calling it a deliberate act of terrorism. Watch, in the updates:

Update: An eyewitness now tells the Beeb that the car didn’t actually explode [1], but was merely giving off “pops and bangs” which he suspects was burning gasoline. Another eyewitness reports hearing what sounded like an explosion.

Update: Maybe it’s the greatest coincidence [2] in history.

Another witness told the BBC that the vehicle was a Land Rover and that there was a heavy stench of petrol after the car crashed. He said he did not believe the vehicle was a car bomb, saying that the explosion was relatively small.

That could simply be due to the car burning, but the powerful smell of gasoline is what tipped off bystanders to the second car bomb found yesterday in Park Lane.

The AP is still the only news agency to report this as a car crash.

Update: More from Sky [3].  It seems safe to say that this was deliberate.

[T]here are reports the men were trying to fling petrol onto the flames.

Scott Gleeson said he saw the jeep speed up and swerve towards the terminal at an angle to hit the door.

Update: Some of the bystanders claimed to have tackled the Jeep’s passengers after they got out even though at least one of those passengers was on fire. If this was a car accident like the AP claims, why did people in the area react by attacking the “victims”?

Update: The AP appears to be backing off [4] the collision scenario: “Amid fears of further attacks, a burning sport utility vehicle crashed at full speed into the terminal building at Glasgow airport in Scotland, police and witnesses said.”

Update: “Some people who were close by shouted ‘let him burn [5].'” More: “There was a lot of anger – if the crowds had got hold of this gentleman it would have been the end of him [3].”

Well, clearly, what’s going on here, is that the AP is resisting reality at all costs until there’s no escape… and I suspect it’s because it doesn’t match with someone’s world view.  As I asked, earlier this morning; when are we actually going to admit that we have a terrorist threat on our hands?

Oh… and people getting ticked and reacting, correctly in my view to the threat, is encoruaging… they have a better handle on the reality of the situation… the real world.. than the anti-war left… and the idiot apologists for the Jihad.

Rusty Shackelford [6] looks at the reports, and says in what has to be a candidate for “Snark of the Day”…

Must be those damn rightwing Christians again [7]. Perhaps even the Jooooos.

Update: Noted David had a post going up on the topic same time I did. I’ll leave them both online.