Who's terrorising?

Yet another terror panic. Today's front pages (below) are frightening indeed.

There is a feeling however, that we've been here before. Plots to bomb Old Trafford that weren't. Lethal ricin plots that weren't. Hogmanay party poopers in Edinburgh that weren't. In each case the arrests were made in a blaze of publicity with the later news that there were no prosecutions buried in a column on page 14.

Now today the Times reports on a suicide vest that the police are not going on the record about to say actually exists. World Cup watchers in crowded pubs were at threat apparently. The house was a "bomb factory" but the people living there who were not arrested know nothing about it (see bottom).

I've seen politicians on the TV praying that the police haven't got it wrong this time. I don't know how you can pray for such things - I hope that no one was planning a chemical attack on this country.