In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

The two terrorist attempts over the pasat week, that is, the Fairford vans with mostly empty cannisters and Flydubai flight FZ1073, were as best we can tell so far both badly bungled. Let's look at Fairford first. Eight to ten dudes wearinbg black and in masks turn up after midnight in three vans in a rural village not far from the Fairford airbase. Most of the cannisters in the vans are empty, although one is full of gasoline. One of the dudes calls 999 on himself and the rest of the group, although police don't turn up for nearly an hour, and then only after a local resident has also called 999. At that point, they scatter in apparent panic, but five are caught. What on earth did they think they were going to accomplish? Some UK commentators ventured the theory that it was some sort of "dry run", or maybe an attempt to see how the authorities would react, but the problem with the latter is that five of them got caught and have apparently been talking to author...