This looks like a fiasco of no small proportion. The police operation appeared to founder when the former head of the Metropolitan Police Counter-Terror Command, Bob Quick, inadvertently revealed details of the impending arrests on a carelessly exposed folder as he emerged from his car. He promptly fell upon his truncheon, and the story was that as a result of his carelessness the arrests had...Wednesday, 22nd April 2009
Another fine anti-terror mess
8:13pm
It’s some small comfort at least that Lord Carlile, the sensible terrorism law watchdog, has taken a personaldecision to conduct a review of the debacle in which twelve men, eleven of them Pakistani students plus one British national who were arrested a fortnight ago in Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire amid claims of an enormous Easter terrorist bomb plot, are not to be charged at all but are facing instead deportation on national security grounds.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
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