yes! they played TENNIS! According to the BBC, the accused airplane bomb plotters played tennis. TENNIS! I mean, COME ON!!! how could that be news worthy, does this mean that anyone who plays TENNIS (TENNIS FFS! ) is now a terror suspect?! Should we all be looking out for tennis playing bad people? How do we tell a terrorist apart from the rest of the world?..... TENNIS!! It beggers belief, the rest of the news story is just backround to what the suspects are suspected of doing. The main story is, THEY PLAYED TENNIS!!!
Yeah i seen that headline and decided not to read the article to avoid the reaction you just had in my office, best to try and avoid drawing attention that your browsing the bbc site.
This just proves that people who play racquetball or Squash are better people. But seriously, the stuff that passes for news these days is just sad.
It's just a line at the end of a 1000 word article, it doesn't suggest any connection between tennis and terrorism. All it does is paint a picture of their life during the bomb plot.
My Ex played tennis and left me for a tennis player... they are all evil! terrorists, no. On another note, if they played tennis whilst discussing their plots, surely someone would have heard them? You have to shout quite a bit to be heard over a tennis court, especially whilst playing.
Calm down now... deep breaths. As yodasarmpit says: Basically (and I can't believe I am actually explaining this), the hideous act of coldly plotting the murder of hundreds of innocent people is strikingly juxtaposed by the casual, lighthearted activity of a game of tennis engaged in while plotting the crime. It is meant to illustrate (somewhat effectively) their mindset: what a bunch of psycho's these guys really are.