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[mrph]

Remember 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...

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[tals.livejournal.com]

Jesus H! *shakes head* Welcome to 1984 and then some. This kind of thing is only going to get more frequent. Who WILL guard the guardians...?

Too right.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I wish I could shake the nasty (and probably inaccurate) thought that this happened partly because someone, somewhere couldn't believe that a Kurdish immigrant was actually a football fan... but it just keeps creeping back into my brain.