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May. 7th, 2004 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphRemember the ten anti-terror arrests a week or two back? The "plot to bomb Old Trafford" that the tabloids talked about?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3692543.stm
All ten have been released without charge, and the police are are quoted as saying "We have never said there was a plot against Old Trafford".
One of the men arrested lived not far from here - a few roads away, in Stoke Aldermoor. The Coventry Evening Telegraph spent three pages covering the story, with the usual 'I suppose we should have been suspicious' / 'we never liked him anyway...' style quotes from not-quite-neighbours.
I bet they won't devote another three pages to saying that he was never charged and that there are now calls for a police apology...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3692543.stm
All ten have been released without charge, and the police are are quoted as saying "We have never said there was a plot against Old Trafford".
One of the men arrested lived not far from here - a few roads away, in Stoke Aldermoor. The Coventry Evening Telegraph spent three pages covering the story, with the usual 'I suppose we should have been suspicious' / 'we never liked him anyway...' style quotes from not-quite-neighbours.
I bet they won't devote another three pages to saying that he was never charged and that there are now calls for a police apology...
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Date: 2004-05-07 04:03 am (UTC)I think we all know that the asylum system is a bit broken right now. The government is not very good at transporting people out of the country (even people who are willing to go...) when their applications are turned down - and when the people concerned have little money (and, in some cases, no passports) they're unlikely to leave until the government sorts that out...