Beating the Bomber - Sir Ian Blair tells the Truth - Shock Horror.

Sir Ian Blair in Rupe’s Rag , the Soaraway Sun hits out with the improbable headline
'Trust us to beat bombers'

Fresh from the sombre service at St.Pauls, the graduate of “The House” (Christ Church, Oxford to the unwashed who read the Sun) hoped that ,“ it gave families of victims of the July 7 bombings — and the survivors — a sense of how Britain mourned with them.”

Fear not, “the Security Service and the Met have prevented other attacks in the last few weeks”, he continues, but leaves us gasping for a few details of where and when and how. He warns us again ….

“The sky is dark. Intelligence exists to suggest that other groups will attempt to attack Britain in the coming months.” Is the sky dark with Flu ridden jihadist Islamofascist Brent Geese ?

With all the gravitas he can muster on the pages of the Sun he tells us….”In the House of Commons today, MPs will debate how long police can detain people in terrorist cases.”

Well PC Plod needs to bang thenm up for 90 days, no messin’ We need evidence and we need to keep askin’ ‘em for 90 days, you understand chummy ?

"The reasons are simple. These people present a threat so profound that as soon as we begin to understand they are planning an attack we must disrupt them by arrest."

"One case involved an encrypted computer, which held the equivalent of 60,000 feet of paper" …presumably Sir Ian refers to the PNC computer which holds vast amounts of data but they couldn’t find that essential bulky file on the Soham murderer – because …er .. well the files had been as our technical staff call it…cleaned.

It took us two weeks to enter the bomb factory in Leeds after July 7, let alone analyse it, because the scene was so dangerous. But we still cannot tell you exaclty what explosives the 7/7 bombers used, if they were timed, or triggered etc., etc.,

Enquiries into these cases can also stretch across the world. Everything takes time….. You bet it does…. And money ... £77Mn on enquiries alone, after 7/7 …how much compensation paid to de Menezes family …not my Department Gov.

Will that do Mr Murdoch, Sir ?250 words you said, send the cheque along to the Commander Stepens’ office for the David Blunkett Retirement Fund.

PS. There is the possibility that I have misunderstood the Headline “Trust us to beat the bombers” to mean that having read that Pat Roberts (Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman) said about interrogation “The rule book has been thrown out the window” .. to be shortly followed by the accused… the Met are going to resort to the old tactic of beating the bomber …. a short heavy truncheon, I find usually does the trick.

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