Planned terrorist attack on English Defence League

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Sorry, I can't post links yet. You'll find it on the BBC news site.

So five Islamic extremists turned up at an EDL rally with a nail bomb. Fortunately for the EDL it had finished early due to a lack of speakers.

Said terrorists were discovered on their way home when stopped by police because their car insurance wasn't up to date. They've pled guilty, the evidence being fairly overwhelming.

I must say it was like reading the pitch for a Four Lions sequel.
 
BigFace42 said:
Sorry, I can't post links yet. You'll find it on the BBC news site.

So five Islamic extremists turned up at an EDL rally with a nail bomb. Fortunately for the EDL it had finished early due to a lack of speakers.

Said terrorists were discovered on their way home when stopped by police because their car insurance wasn't up to date. They've pled guilty, the evidence being fairly overwhelming.

I must say it was like reading the pitch for a Four Lions sequel.
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Does sound like it. A bunch of soi-dissant mujihadeen try to attack a fringe group that is even fringer than they thought they were.

I wonder if the Islamist guys tried to disguise themselves as IRA terrorists to fool the police. ;)
 
I can't find the Deliverance clip........the "you're not from round here, are you?" quote......

I think it's probably very old English, and sits alongside Mrs T's "frit". It certainly isn't something you'd expect to hear on radio 4 :)
 
MikeG said:
I can't find the Deliverance clip........the "you're not from round here, are you?" quote......

I think it's probably very old English, and sits alongside Mrs T's "frit". It certainly isn't something you'd expect to hear on radio 4 :)
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Its the past tense that I would naturally use, so doesn't sound odd to my ears at all. Pleaded sounds much more clumsy.

/language derail.
 
So this is how mixed feelings feel like...

Sadly, all they have accomplished is to turn more people to the likes of the EDL.
 
angrysoba said:
Does sound like it. A bunch of soi-dissant mujihadeen try to attack a fringe group that is even fringer than they thought they were.

I wonder if the Islamist guys tried to disguise themselves as IRA terrorists to fool the police. ;)
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It's like a sequel to Four Lions, isn't it?

EDIT: And, now that I reread the OP, I've been beaten to that observation by ages. Ooops...
 
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geni said:
Its generaly accepted that Chris Morris is pretty good at what he does.
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He went to the Bluewater terrorist trial and heard surveillance tapes which helped in the writing:

I went to the high court and watched the Bluewater terrorist trial and got to hear a lot of MI5 surveillance tapes of the suspects, and you start to realise these people are klutzing around in a very average way – like men at stag parties or five-a-side football. Everyone reporting on it knew it was like “The Keystone Cops”. There’s a recording I heard where one guy says, “Hey bro, what’s the date today?” And the other guy says it’s the twenty-third. “So is tomorrow the twenty-fourth?” You wondered if they were stoned but the police said no.

‘There’s a bit where they’re arguing about who’s cooler, Bin Laden or Johnny Depp. You hear ridiculous things like, “My wife’s really pissed off with you ’cos she made you these sandwiches and you didn’t eat them and then you ate a load of chocolate spread. Hey, wouldn’t it be brilliant if we pulled an airliner out of the sky? Yeah bro, that’d be fantastic! What’s on telly tonight? Ah that Richard Littlejohn, I don’t like him. When’s Jeremy Clarkson on, he’s brilliant?”

‘You have to unload a lot of cultural and factual stuff to create a context for these – actually really normal – reactions between blokes. The one who wants to be leader, the thick one, the bullied type…’
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http://www.timeout.com/london/film/chris-morris-and-the-writers-of-four-lions-interview-1
 
Professor Yaffle said:
He went to the Bluewater terrorist trial and heard surveillance tapes which helped in the writing:
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I hadn't realised this was a source for his writing. Makes me appreciate the film even more.

I guess the standard view of the crazy extremist with emotions and intentions outside the norm of everyday folk is an easy and maybe even a reassuring one to cling to.

The idea that garden variety idiots are happily plotting away seems somewhat scarier. Although it does make for great comedy. I guess there's always a trade off.
 
This very good documentary features some Keystone Talibans: Behind Taliban Lines

They try to ambush a convoy with two remote controlled IEDs. Fails miserably, but not without comedic device.

- If anyone trusts you to make a mine, they're a fool! Three guys with rockets should sit 20 meters away and shoot like this. Screw the mines! Mines are useless! We press the button and nothing happens. I told you not to shoot until I moved the kids.

- Why are you saying I broke the remote? You're the instructor. I pressed it. It doesn't work.

- Is it D? [proceeds to press D]

*boom*
 
ANTPogo said:
It's like a sequel to Four Lions, isn't it?
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Considering they were all ready to go but couldn't carry out the act because they arrived late and the EDL had gone home, then I think these loons consider Four Lions to be a training manual!

Last week a four others were convicted of plotting to bomb a Territorial Army using a radio controlled car.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10003146/TA-bomb-plotters-jailed.html

The first bloke cracks me up just for his eyes alone.
 
Regardless of their incompetence.

Britain had three of these foiled plots last week alone.

It must cost a fortune to keep tabs on all these idiots. I once read that a secret service needs twenty full time people to keep round-the-clock surveillance on just one suspect.

And once in a while one will slip through.

Britain seems to have rather large community of very insular people with very primitive and bizarre beliefs.

If I was British I wouldn't exactly jump for joy at having the worst bits of failed state Pakistan imported into my liberal democracy.
 
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