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Britain
Nine arrests in London blast investigation
2005-07-28
Police arrested nine men in last week's attempted bombings in the British capital in two south London raids Thursday. The men were seized at two addresses in Tooting: six at one location and three at a second. None of those arrested is believed one of the suspected bombers and no explosives were found. Three women were arrested Wednesday night following a raid at an apartment near Stockwell station.

The first of the suspected July 21 bombers, Yassin Hassan Omar, 24, was seized during a raid in the Small Heath area of Birmingham at around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and taken to London's high security Paddington Green police station for questioning. The arrests came as British Transport Police went on high alert, undertaking what it called the rail system's "largest ever deployment of police." The alert was not in response to any specific information, they said. However, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair warned Thursday more attacks were possible either by the bombers who had not been caught or another cell.
Posted by:Steve

#7  LOL CC, but I can't remembers why.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-28 15:09  

#6  Cows..give them the cair...er..I mean chair.
Posted by: Caryl Chessman   2005-07-28 15:04  

#5  Same difference. Can't quiz the cow about how exactly the means might differ.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-07-28 12:53  

#4  It can't be more human if it's a cow, silly raptor! ;-) But it is more humane than the usual method of slaughter, which involves clubbing the critter just enough to stun it into standing still, then carving it up. That 22 thing isn't commonly used in slaughter houses, I believe. And while I don't know about halal, the rules for kosher slaughter require that the knife be so sharp that the animal can't feel it's throat being cut, and the cut must be deep enough that it bleeds out in moments. Right, Liberalhawk?
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-28 12:42  

#3  So,your saying slicing a throat is more human than a.22 to the brain?Sorry ain't buying it.
Posted by: raptor   2005-07-28 12:17  

#2  very hard to slaughter an animal thats already dead.

And yes, thats the same in kosher slaughter.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-07-28 11:40  

#1  Residents in Tooting said police had arrested three Turkish men who worked at and lived above a fast food restaurant selling halal burgers — made with meat slaughtered according to Islamic dietary laws.
Halal is meat from a herbivore slaughtered in a humane way, by cutting their throats while they are still alive. Guess you can't use a nail bomb on a cow.

The restaurant owner, who gave his name as Ali, declined to identify the men but said they were aged about 26, 30 and 40. The oldest man had worked for him for eight years, and the other two had started about two months ago, he said.
Six other men were arrested from a property in nearby Garratt Terrace, a street opposite the Tooting Broadway subway station.
"There were about a dozen armed police officers shouting `Come on out or we'll send the dogs in.' And then I saw one large, older-looking Asian man being led out. He was dressed in a white gown or robe," said local resident Ben Astbury, 25, who watched the raid from his house in Garratt Lane. "After that I saw about three other men but I couldn't see clearly what they looked like. My girlfriend then saw two more."
Posted by: Steve   2005-07-28 11:10  

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