Video: “Every time he threw a punch he was shouting, ‘Allah’”; Update: U.S. had intel about Glasgow threat two weeks ago?
posted at 4:23 pm on June 30, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Jim Treacher e-mails to say that pretty soon this clip is going to be all over YouTube thanks to this dude’s impenetrable accent, so I might as well be the one to put it out there. Anyone want to try translating this from whatever language he’s speaking into English? The only part I got was, “I seen a man e-gress that vehicle.” Oh, and the part about “Allah,” of course.
Update: A big scoop at the Blotter. Was there “chatter” about this in international jihadi circles?
U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible terror attack in Glasgow against “airport infrastructure or aircraft,” a senior US law enforcement officials tells the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
The intelligence reports also warned that airports and aircraft in the Czech Republic could be the targets of al Qaeda-connected terrorists.
The warnings were kept secret for operational reasons, according to officials…
A US official told ABCNews.com that the intelligence reports led to the assignment of Federal Air Marshals to flights into and out of both Glasgow and Prague.
Update: By “kept secret” they must mean from the public, not from MI5. It’s worth noting too that the Blotter’s bombshell report yesterday about British police having a “crystal clear” image of the suspect has also been challenged today. Sometimes Brian Ross and the boys seem to let their taste for their scoops get the better of them. Take this with a grain of salt.
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Can we have a Horray for the Brits day?
Gwillie on June 30, 2007 at 4:26 PM
He wasn’t, however, likely to have been a Muslim…
gmoonster on June 30, 2007 at 4:26 PM
“He canna take away our freeedooms !”
William Amos on June 30, 2007 at 4:27 PM
make that Horray for the Scots day
Gwillie on June 30, 2007 at 4:32 PM
AP, you daft bugger, that was Scots english. :-) :-)
You need to watch more BBC sitcoms! ;-)
TwinkietheKid on June 30, 2007 at 4:33 PM
“Every time he threw a punch he was shouting, ‘Allah’”
So, he was a bloody Papist no doubt!
Drew on June 30, 2007 at 4:34 PM
If it’s noht Scottish it’s Crahp!
I hope to be buying the gentleman a warm one someday for recounting this tale of jihadi extra-crispiness.
Cordially,
Uncle J
Uncle Jimbo on June 30, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Lol, that was awesome… I wonder if the broad interviewing him understood any more than we did.
Treacher, I know Kevin Godlington is in town… Do you think you could get Greg to get Godlington to take a stab at translating that for us? Perhaps he’ll be able to pick up a bit more than we can.
Yes AP, we all know that reminds you of your first date with Ace.
RightWinged on June 30, 2007 at 4:38 PM
“Wll I sceen ws I ws oht four a cigaratte*tongue click*, oht four a smok brak*tongue click*, ah herd teh cummution, passangars running *tongue click*, so Iv caum ahound the corner, louk to me laft, an sceen um, a vahacle, a jheep, crashed into the fhront of the tarmanal baulding, on flhames*tongue click*…”
TheEJS on June 30, 2007 at 4:39 PM
I spent some time in Glasgow and can understand most of this. Translation of key bits. He’s actually pretty articulate for a baggage handler!
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I was out for a smoke break, heard the commotion, seen the passengers runnin’ … flames … man E gress :) that vehicle, police ran towards him to assist, and the man ran forward to attack the policeman
Myself and members of the public went to assist … member of the public injured in the fracas…restrained both the people… the one in head-to-toe flames gets up off the ground and goes to attack the policeman…subdued him and the other man and now the vehicle is engulfed in flames…the building itself begun to take hold…on fire.
(question – so the men were trying to keep the police away from the vehicle – is that your take on it?)
I don’t know if they were trying to keep the police away (from the vehicle) or whether they were just out to (attack?) the police, because the police were runnin’ towards him …the way it looked was, as soon as he got out of the vehicle, the first thing he was looking for was a policeman …you know and he was just fliging punches left, right and center on him. I’m sure, he was shouting allah allah allah, every time he punched he was shouting allah…
Not a massive explosion, but you could tell it was more than just fuel … flames shooting, when you put a gas canister a rush of flame, not fuel but a gas flame…
carlitos on June 30, 2007 at 4:41 PM
And yeah, I’d buy him a nice cold Tennants for helping out as well.
carlitos on June 30, 2007 at 4:43 PM
I understood almost every word, and I’ve never been there. I didn’t even know I spoke Scottish!!
Anyway, isn’t gas a type of fuel? What the….
Privatestock on June 30, 2007 at 4:45 PM
I miss Jackie Stewart
tomas on June 30, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Allah means God and as far as being on fire and kicking and screaming for God nothing to see here folks move along just a bad accident.
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 4:51 PM
Where’s Groundskeeper Willy when you need him.
BallisticBob on June 30, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Here’s a start on the translation:
What I seen was… I was out for a cigarette…for a smoke brake and heard the commotion, saw passengers running, so I came around the corner, looked to my left and seen a vehicle, a jeep, crashed into the front of the terminal building, on flames. I seen a man egress out of the vehicle, come from the passenger side. As he came around the back, a policeman was running towards him, to assist, and the man then went forward and started to attack the policeman. So myself and other members of the public went forward to assist the policeman. One of those members of the public was injured in the… The police came along, the police were there within seconds, within minutes, restrained both the people. One who was in flames from head to toe, covered in flames and then gets up off the ground and goes forward to attack the police. Police then subdue him, then subdue the other man… the vehicle is entirely engulfed in flames then the building itself…
FloatingRock on June 30, 2007 at 4:54 PM
just because he’s shouting “Allah, Allah” does not mean he was a muslim, you bigots!!! He could just as easily be an Episcopalian priest.
jp on June 30, 2007 at 4:55 PM
That man interviewed was a government plant…he is reading a script.
tomas on June 30, 2007 at 4:59 PM
His last line is the perfect response to the moronic libs who believe that terrorist are simply responding to the actions of an unjust government, or that they’ll just go away if we’re ‘nicer’ to them.
Gregor on June 30, 2007 at 5:00 PM
It will be nice when Coclear comes out with an accent filter knob, but I pretty much understood what the Scottie said.
Dusty on June 30, 2007 at 5:00 PM
I can understand him well enough. Perhaps ive picked up on the accent because of my years on xbox live chatting with folks in the UK while killing terrorist in games like rainbow 6 or ghost recon.
Locrian on June 30, 2007 at 5:02 PM
Indeed.
I understood it pretty well, a carryover from the days of my big crush on Shirley Manson.
AdrianG on June 30, 2007 at 5:04 PM
He’s amped up like all get out from the adrenaline to start, then he’s realizing what has actually happened (in his mind anyway) and the adrenaline is still pumping. I could understand almost every word and I’m born and raised in Southern Cal.
The key part to understand, if no other, is the guy from the car yelling ALLAH ALLAH over and over while fighting to HINDER THE POLICE.
That’s all we need to know… like we didn’t already know what the motivation was.
SilverStar830 on June 30, 2007 at 5:04 PM
was he yelling allah or falafel? they always sound alike to me when the screamers on fire.
Locrian on June 30, 2007 at 5:04 PM
Have any of you been on fire before? Because I have, it’s not fun, but at the same time it was a rush. It is amazing what you can do when you’re under distress.
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 5:05 PM
I just returned from Scotland a week ago… I understood him well. I would buy the second round of Tennants or a wee dram of malt.
The Scots will fight if someone tries to take their freedom away. I say Hoorah for the Scots!!
d1carter on June 30, 2007 at 5:06 PM
The only difference between his accent and the newslady is ’social class’, and he came through very clear
Janos Hunyadi on June 30, 2007 at 5:08 PM
There was no car. The explosion was set off by a demolition crew hired by Bush and Cheney. You can clearly see the puffs of smoke around the entrance to the door, and why is there no debris from the car that was supposedly used? Yeah yeah yeah!! I’ve seen the photo of the burning car, but it was clearly added later using special effects.
And in the lower right hand corner, I’m pretty sure you can see the outline of Cheney bending over and lighting a match.
I’ve heard that Giuliani actually had an office in the building too.
Where are the skeptics who know what they’re talking about in this?
Gregor on June 30, 2007 at 5:08 PM
Pardon me stewardess, I speak jive…
see-dubya on June 30, 2007 at 5:08 PM
I like the part where he said “Ye make take our lives…but ye will never take…our freeeeedom!”
see-dubya on June 30, 2007 at 5:09 PM
*zing*
Readymade on June 30, 2007 at 5:10 PM
I had no trouble understanding him, but then I am part Scottish.
;-)
infidel4life on June 30, 2007 at 5:10 PM
I suppose that could be the names the dude gave to his fists instead of thunder and lighting.
VikingGoneWild on June 30, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Is it just me or is there a constaint beep beep on fox? like an alarm going off in the background.
Gwillie on June 30, 2007 at 5:13 PM
Protesting Global Warming no doubt.
billy on June 30, 2007 at 5:13 PM
There’s a backlash a-brewin’. The time for killing flies with sledgehammers is approaching because no one in power took the initial threat seriously enough.
Krydor on June 30, 2007 at 5:14 PM
You see a lot of British Anti-Americanism manifested in bashing Americans as stupid rednecks.
There are a lot of funny talking brits out there. Not everyone there lives in London or has an Oxford education
Win Win Win on June 30, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Anyone who is on fire will scream “God” and freak out and start flailing away… he most likely wasn’t throwing punches just trying to put the flames out. Nothing sinister about this.
I assume the guys were plumbers which explains all the propane tanks in the .. the .. Land Rover.
amend2 on June 30, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Yes he is, and observant too. Sounds like he may have a military background.
infidel4life on June 30, 2007 at 5:17 PM
I love this guy’s accent.
“How can ye do this to Scotland, we love everybody!”
Vyce on June 30, 2007 at 5:18 PM
A terrorist in flames and no video? They should at least film a re-enactment. How do I like my jihadi? Well done.
BDavis on June 30, 2007 at 5:18 PM
Where’s fat bastard when you need him?
csdeven on June 30, 2007 at 5:19 PM
It’s all this why I just can’t get myself to give the time of day to any middle easterner in this country or buy stuff at their stores…and I don’t care what that makes me look like. I don’t give a shit. When they start to come out against this stuff I’ll change, but they don’t. And won’t. So it’s not my fault that I look at all of them with an attitude. They’re attacking us. Prove it to me you denounce this behavior. And you know what? They make me feel this way. Ain’t my fault.
LtE126 on June 30, 2007 at 5:21 PM
I’ll bet they find the ECM which is located on the right hand side just inside and forward of the door over heated and caught fire.
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 5:22 PM
Chances are good both lunatic jihadis were drugged up.
darwin on June 30, 2007 at 5:23 PM
My boyfriend is of Scottish descent (and very proud of it) and he’s always wanted a kilt. I think today is the day. We should all do something nice for a Scotsman today :)
Keli on June 30, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Why would the terrorists attack? I’ve got it! They mean to win Wimbledon!
BDavis on June 30, 2007 at 5:27 PM
I don’t give the time of day and try not to buy anything at middle eastern owned stores. And you know what? I don’t care what that makes me look like. Don’t give a s–t. They attack us. Let them condemn this behavior. They don’t, and won’t. So until they come out and condemn this..no middle easterner will get squat from me. And that’s their fault not mine. It’s not my fault I look at them with a suspicious eye. They have to prove me wrong.
LtE126 on June 30, 2007 at 5:29 PM
sorry. double post.
LtE126 on June 30, 2007 at 5:30 PM
No, no. Come on jp, he’s clearly a Methodist.
student on June 30, 2007 at 5:34 PM
Yep… drugged up on massive doses of Quran and Allah-Ackbar
SilverStar830 on June 30, 2007 at 5:40 PM
Start watching PBS late night and in a short time you will be able to understand the Queens english, and the Scots and Irish.
Helloyawl on June 30, 2007 at 5:42 PM
As someone posted the other day.. Your all falling into media hype over this kind of thing. If it wasn’t televised they would stop.
amend2 on June 30, 2007 at 5:45 PM
I will have you know that members (only me so far) of the People’s Methodists Martyrs Brigade will stop screaming anything if you hand them a beer. The next words out of their mouths would be, “How ’bout them D-backs? Are they bums or what?”
TwinkietheKid on June 30, 2007 at 5:48 PM
“Hoot, man. Aye dunna where ya been ar what’cha been doin’, lad, but aye see ya won first prize.”
Punch line to the best Scottish joke ever.
Hail Scotland!!
Gottafang on June 30, 2007 at 5:50 PM
I had no problem understanding what he was saying. Trying to decipher what a lot of people here in PA are saying is another story altogether!
CanuckInPA on June 30, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Geez! Why didn’t anyone think of that during WWII? All that carnage over a little media hype.
RedWinged Blackbird on June 30, 2007 at 5:54 PM
Easy to understand the baggage handler. But, then again, I spent 4 years flying in and out of Scotland. Good thing he wasn’t one of the country folk that speak, “broad Scots”.
MCPO Airdale on June 30, 2007 at 5:57 PM
I hate it, when I have to subdue a flaming man. I would be more of the mind to say:” Get back! give him some air!”
We still have not ruled out the Amish or Mormons. Are they getting closer to what may have motivated then attack.
With the questionable timing, some right-wing crack pot is probably going to blame the Islamic terrorist. They are so quick to point there self-righteous fingers.
TheSitRep on June 30, 2007 at 5:58 PM
All the Jewish Scottish airport workers were mysteriously absent today. Seems like a 9/11 connection.
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 6:02 PM
As someone posted the other day.. Your all falling into media hype over this kind of thing. If it wasn’t televised they would stop.
oops I forgot to toss in my sarcastic hint.. lets try again since you obviously haven’t read any of my other posts.
As someone posted the other day.. Your all falling into media hype over this kind of thing. If it wasn’t televised they would stop…. oh never mind the Barabary Pirates didn’t have television.
amend2 on June 30, 2007 at 6:03 PM
“Jihadspotting”…omg I’m freakin’ dying.
It appears this diversion worked for bushitler, no one is talking about the gitmo poetry anymore.
tlynch001 on June 30, 2007 at 6:04 PM
He was going to “peck a fieeeeght.”
Dr. Gecko on June 30, 2007 at 6:05 PM
Gerry Rivers is on FNC talking, oddly enough, about US security measures.
PBoilermaker on June 30, 2007 at 6:10 PM
I was in Glasgow a number of years ago and an older gentleman told me and my buddie three jokes over about a 5 minute span. You could tell they were jokes by the lilt in his voice. We sat there on a park bench, eating our fish and chips from a basket lined with yesterdays news ( true story) and laughed when we were supposed to laugh. Laughed hard too. ( it was very funny)
YET, Neither of us understood a word the man was saying, not a one.
And he was speaking english, sco’-ish english. ( no ‘t’ is ever pronounced).
Glasgow is in a world all to its own.. fun, but dangerous.
shooter on June 30, 2007 at 6:19 PM
I’m pretty sure this is the guy who does the voice of Scrooge McDuck.
greggish on June 30, 2007 at 6:21 PM
My good friend Peter is from Scotland (btw, home of some of the most virulently hateful leftists you have ever met, including my friend), and he’s lived here longer than he lived there, but still holds the seeds of that amazing, impenetrable Scot language.
It’s not English — they hate the English like nothing you’ve ever seen. It’s pretty funny, though.
Jaibones on June 30, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Is he the son or husband of Joan Rivers?
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 6:22 PM
OT: The Jerry Rivers thing is an urban legend
tlynch001 on June 30, 2007 at 6:22 PM
Only thing worse I’ve ever heard was the Maine accent. And wtf is that jive that Dean Barnett spews? That’s something different altogether…Boston Yiddish?
Jaibones on June 30, 2007 at 6:23 PM
People in the US have no idea how socialist Scotland is. Cool accent maybe, but don’t think you’d like their politics.
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Comes from his days selling Knishes at Fenway.
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 6:26 PM
Ok I now no it was a attack
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 6:28 PM
What’s up with Brits calling Muslims “Asians?” I’m Asian and Jewish. WTF would they call me?
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 6:30 PM
Jewpanese maybe.
greggish on June 30, 2007 at 6:31 PM
hahaahhahahahhaahahhaahahah!
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 6:32 PM
They call them Asians based on apparent ethnicity, not religion.
You would be called Asian. Simple concept.
PBoilermaker on June 30, 2007 at 6:33 PM
jewpaness
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 6:33 PM
LOL, nice one.
infidel4life on June 30, 2007 at 6:35 PM
I wonder how Olbert goin to spin this
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 6:39 PM
Jeeps merely experiencing same problems as Ford Pintos
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 6:42 PM
Your point? I like calling him Gerry Rivers.
PBoilermaker on June 30, 2007 at 6:45 PM
I had a Pinto I loved that car
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 6:45 PM
I wonder what Craig Ferguson’s take on all this might be, if he mentions this at all.
I miss Jimmy Doohan(even though he was a Canadian doing a passable accent).
kevcad on June 30, 2007 at 6:46 PM
I love that Scottish drinking song. The Lasses who find him passed out drunk, lifts his kilt and ties a bow around his manhood. He wakes up later, stumbles off for a nature break, lifts his kilt and stares at the ribbon and say’s ” Laddie I don’t know where you been but I see you won first prize”. Funny!
Guardian on June 30, 2007 at 6:48 PM
Because they’re too pussy to just call them “filthy f’ing Muslims”.
Vyce on June 30, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Last ditch attack maybe there running out of people that know how to build and detonate a bomb. That’s good 0 for 3. The problem is the Brits did not catch this before it had a chance to disrupt life.
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Ah, good old American English beats Scottish anytime.
JiangxiDad on June 30, 2007 at 7:06 PM
Who is Jim Treacher?
Wade on June 30, 2007 at 7:12 PM
I’m guessing the Human Torch was late for his plane.
pat on June 30, 2007 at 7:23 PM
Cnyaenaeuunerstaanplynnglessh?
Speakup on June 30, 2007 at 7:26 PM
Some light Baptist humor. What are the three things the Baptist’s don’t recognize?
1. They don’t recognize the Holy Trinity.
2. They don’t recognize the Pope as Gods’ Earthly representative.
3. And they don’t recognize each other in the liquor store.
Try the veal.
cmdrsubfleet on June 30, 2007 at 7:30 PM
News Flash OBL is dead has been for over a year. The only reason I say this is because his Kidneys don’t work anymore the SOB needs to have his blood cleaned weekly. If he is not dead than the US needs better friends because the ones we have now are screwing us.
American8298 on June 30, 2007 at 7:30 PM
I’m sure liberals are questioning the “timing” of this.
nottakingsides on June 30, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Being a Canadian,it was almost perfect ENGLISH.
Let see ALLAH=MUSLIM
FLAMING CAR=TERRORIST
AND LIBERALS will still say,nothing to see here
move it along.
canopfor on June 30, 2007 at 7:46 PM
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