Re: Al Qaeda terrorist caught in Gloucester

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 12/01/03 

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:19:54 +0000

In message <bqf590$d9s$1@string.physics.ubc.ca>, Bill Unruh
<unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> writes
>"Andrew Swallow" <am.swallow@eatspam.btinternet.com> writes:
>
>]A member of Al Qaeda was caught in Gloucester today.
>
>Horse***. A man the police claim might have links with Al Qaeda was
>arrested and is being questioned. The commentary hee in Britian has been
>worth of Rush L. Rumours are taken as fact, and then embellished

But some people notice: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3248656.stm

>Given
>the propensity of the police here for the past 15 years to find IRA
>terrorists all over the place and lock them up only for the people to
>discover 10 years later that their links to the IRA were that both they
>and the IRA are irish, the believability of such statements is low. It
>looks ar more like an attempt by the police and government to terrorise
>the population so that they can push through even more radical reforms
>of the "justice" system here.
>
>]Gloucester is a small town near the English-Welsh on the river Severn.
>]It is a place of no strategic interest. However a 20 minute car drive away
>]is the town of Cheltenham. Cheltenham is famous for its horse racing
>]and containing the headquarters of the GCHQ codebreaking base.
>
>??? And this is a further example of that same contribution to rational
>debate.

Guilt by association. Gloucester is also within about 30 miles of a
nuclear power station, two major RAF bases, the Severn Bridge, SAS
headquarters, Qinetiq at Malvern, ... A typical English town, in other
words.
>
>]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/3242812.stm
>
>]The days when the most aggressive feature a cryptographer had to
>]worry about was the length of the key variable may be over.

Anything for a story. 

-- 
Richard Herring