Friday, June 29, 2007
Catch and release
British police have a "crystal clear" picture of the man who drove the bomb-rigged silver Mercedes outside a London nightclub, and officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com he bears "a close resemblance" to a man arrested by police in connection with another bomb plot but released for lack of evidence.
Hmmm. Seems as though the early speculations that the Irish were behind this attempted mass murder were not well-founded.
The question is, if this actually is the fellow who planted last night's car bomb and if he had been successful, what would the revelation of his earlier release have done to the debate about criminal procedural rights in the United Kingdom?
6 Comments:
By 
Purple Avenger, at
Fri Jun 29, 06:29:00 PM:
early speculations that the Irish...
The IRA have competent bomb makers. Their stuff goes boom.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Fri Jun 29, 07:12:00 PM:
Damn that traitor Jimmy Smits!!!
I would suggest the FBI round up every Jimmy Smits lookalike just in case--which means any Puerto Ricans, Hondurans and Jamaicans and Trinidians of Hindu/Pakistani descent...just to be careful...
By 
, at
Fri Jun 29, 09:39:00 PM:
Hey, he could be Irish. If you think he's not just because of his appearance, you are racist!
"...criminal procedural rights in the United Kingdom?" Better to let a thousand murderers go free than to inconvenience one innocent man. That's in Magna Carta; you can look it up.
Mystery Meat
By Miss Ladybug, at
Sat Jun 30, 12:36:00 AM:
The Brits can arrest someone and hold them for 28 days. And, while in custody, they can lie in an attempt to get someone to talk. Try that in the U.S. - ain't gonna happen...
By , at
Sat Jun 30, 12:44:00 AM:
Thats what happens when a nation gose easy on terrorists and just give thema slap on the wrist the british need better persons in the parlament then the wussietards they have now
By Christopher Chambers, at
Sat Jun 30, 04:03:00 PM:
Bird of Paradise--what's "wusstard?" know where the tard part comes from (often used to describe the C minus student aptitude of our current president). But wuss? Huh? Some might say a wuss is someone who talks the name "bird of paradise" (a beautiful tropical fowl it is, admittedly) and does share his/her real name... ;-)
