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Thursday, September 29, 2005

Suspect Behaviour

Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, who is in charge of London's anti-terrorist operation, gave an interview to the Guardian today. He was very informative. Scotland Yard is tracking "a number of potential terrorist suspects". Presumably this means that the people in question are not under suspicion, but are being tracked anyway. The not-quite-suspects "may be planning further attacks", but "you can't predict where or how or when". This is certainly useful.

The Assistant Commissioner said that none of the not-quite-suspects was linked to the atrocity of 7 July or the attempted atrocity of 21 July, but that "other terrorist cells, which may well be British, would launch attacks." Detectives are also actively pursuing "other lines of investigation", as opposed to passively pursuing the same line of investigation. This is certainly reassuring.

Along with this wealth of life-saving information, the Assistant Commissioner noted regretfully that "getting the Muslim community to trust the police was proving a long and difficult process." The Assistant Commissioner said that he "fully understood" the difficulties involved in "the repercussions of arrests and so on", but advised Muslims to weigh this against "the mass loss of life that could result from further atrocities." This is certainly helpful. No doubt there are millions of Muslims who would never have thought of the mass loss of life, had Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman not been around to remind them.

By coincidence, Assistant Commissioner Hayman's highly informative, thoroughly honest, deeply sensitive contribution to public safety took place on the same day as the family of Jean Charles de Menezes spoke of their distress on viewing CCTV footage of the protectively detrimented non-Briton's last moments.

The CCTV footage, which police originally claimed did not exist, apparently showed de Menezes not leaping any barriers as police claimed he did, not running from police as police claimed he did, and not being dressed, as police claimed he was dressed, in a manner commensurate with a potentially possible suspect of a potential terrorist possibility. In a vindictive attempt to distract public attention from Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman's useful hints for survival, the family have accused police of a "cover-up". Well, really.

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