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In the terror war launched by former President George W. Bush and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, everyone is suspected and many innocent have been accused or held in suspicion without cause. Sadly, this has almost become expected.

It is in this context that I say the United Kingdom appears to have one exceptional 'fuster-cluck' on its hands.

It was mere weeks ago when 12 men were arrested and Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer was stepping down for carrying classified documents in plain view of reporters' cameras. The documents, as it turned out, carried sensitive details on a series of pending police raids.

Hours after the security row erupted, police crashed in on 12 people at numerous addresses, alleging the arrests were tied to a threat by al-Qaida.

"Home Secretary Jacqui Smith made no comment about the officer's mistake [in breaching security]. Instead, she praised police for their professionalism," reported the BBC on April 8. "'The decision to take such action was an operational matter for the police and the security service,' she said, adding that she and the Prime Minister had been kept informed of developments."

Which would seem to make sense, considering how messy a terror war can get. And why wouldn't the Prime Minister himself be following the operation? After all, it was a credible threat to national security these men posed, right? Well...

"Nine men detained in a major security operation intended to thwart what the Prime Minister said was “a very big terrorist plot” were released without charge tonight," reported the Times Online on April 21.

"The men, Pakistani nationals who were in Britain on student visas, were handed by police to immigration authorities and now face deportation on national security grounds.

"They had been detained for 13 out of a possible 28 days but were released because there was no concrete evidence connecting them to terrorist activity."

"It said 11 people were targeted for arrest, 10 of them Pakistan nationals in Britain on student visas, and one British," reported The Star immediately after the arrests took place.

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told the House of Commons that the security breach had not harmed the planned raids in any way, the Times reported.

The whole bloody waste makes me wonder whether the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at any point in time, actually asked his enforcement apparatus what sort of evidence they'd collected against the formerly accused. It also makes me wonder how much unquestioned authority these police types actually wield in the U.K.

Why must it seem nearly all enforcement catches the Jack Baurer syndrome when it comes to so-called terrorists?

-- Stephen C. Webster


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News is 10 of the Pakis are being booted out of the country.
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