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| Christmas roundup time... |
| 2002-12-19 |
| POLICE across Europe have launched a round-up of Islamic militants amid fears of a terrorist attack over Christmas and the new year. Groups linked to al-Qaeda have been thwarted for three successive years from staging attacks in Europe, and security chiefs believe that they will try again. That implies they're going to try again, I'd guess, and every year until they're all dead or we're all bowing down toward Mecca... The latest arrests came in Britain after a joint operation yesterday between Scotland Yard anti-terrorist officers and police in Edinburgh who seized seven men. The suspects, all said to be in their thirties, were still being questioned at a police station in Scotland last night. Somehow I just can't picture a Scots policeman hitting somebody with a truncheon... Four of the men were arrested in a dawn raid in West London, while the others were seized in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh. These arrests come after French police seized four men said to have links to militants in Britain on suspicion of plotting a chemical attack on a European target. Shucks, almost a week to go until Christmas, too. Wonder what else is out there? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #9 Not only do they drive them nuts playing bagpipe music all day - then they feed the the Hagis for dinner. After 3 days of this you'll convert to Calvinism. |
| Posted by: Jack 2002-12-20 05:34:22 |
| #8 Well, if you've ever been pub crawling in Aberdeen with a bunch of oil-field rowdies you'd have seen the truncheons. They know how to weild them. |
| Posted by: Bob 2002-12-19 17:01:24 |
| #7 Tis the only background music suitable for whacking 'em with cabers, laddy! |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-12-19 15:07:29 |
| #6 Now that is cruel and unusual punishment! |
| Posted by: Steve 2002-12-19 14:01:39 |
| #5 The big thing is that the Scots use bagpipes in their interrogations. |
| Posted by: Hodadenon 2002-12-19 13:40:46 |
| #4 Dasher and Dancer escaped, but Vixen was captured. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-12-19 11:15:46 |
| #3 Actually, I think the Scots are pretty handy with their fists, or maybe a soccer-hooligan style headbutt. No truncheon neccessary! |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2002-12-19 11:03:29 |
| #2 In Ireland, they call it a sheleighleigh |
| Posted by: mojo 2002-12-19 10:54:39 |
| #1 Everyone knows Scottish police use cudgels. |
| Posted by: Steve 2002-12-19 10:24:37 |