Police blame government for terror leaks - to divert attention from cash-for-honours

Astonishing article in the Guardian suggesting that the government used the anti-terror arrests in Birmingham this week to divert attention away from their own problems, most prominently the cash-for honours affair and the prisons crisis.

One newspaper is said to have known about the arrests the night before they happened.

Police are said to be furious about the situation. As such, on this occasion they've distanced themselves from the leaks. Which kind of does leave the government rather hung out to dry - if only anyone would bother querying the morality of the practice. An MoD spokesperson were less than robust in denial:

"I can only speak for what has been done on the record by the press office."

Nine people have been arrested. None have been charged. The police claims are not a million miles from what Muslims are being demonised in the press for as "paranoid". It seems some people will never learn. We've had Old Trafford Bomb plot that never was, Edinburgh Hogmanay bomb plot that never was, ricin bomb plot that never was, and the Forest Gate chemical vest that never was. All commanded lurid headlines thanks to leaks from yon high. Over 1,100 people have been arrested under the Terrorism Acts, with only 12 Muslims convicted. Yet we're expected to believe this latest chapter with not so much as a single charge, never mind conviction, made.

Comments

[Infidel & Kafir Watch]

Some more information relating to this at the link below.

This pattern is becoming more obvious and more repetitive. I think the word to use here is a smoke screen.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/040207Beheading.htm

[Yusuf Smith]

As-Salaamu 'alaikum,

TypePad keeps refusing my trackbacks, insisting that I fill in a captcha check which, of course, you can't do with trackback.

Anyway, I've posted extracts from an article on police leaks and media disregard for the law here.

[Yusuf Smith]

As-Salaamu 'alaikum,

TypePad keeps refusing my trackbacks, insisting that I fill in a captcha check which, of course, you can't do with trackback.

Anyway, I've posted extracts from an article on police leaks and media disregard for the law here.

[Osama]

Thanks Yusuf, let me apologise on Typepad's behalf.

Will try and sort that out.

[Puffy]

We've had Old Trafford Bomb plot that never was, Edinburgh Hogmanay bomb plot that never was, ricin bomb plot that never was, and the Forest Gate chemical vest that never was...

And 52 people dead on 7/7. Muslims, Christians, the lot - none of whom can be brought back, or released after 28 days.

It's sad, though I suppose human nature, to move on. But some people never can.