“Who had convinced them they were about to face down swivel-eyed terrorists in the first place?”
From what I've read, the "specific intelligence" came from the Canadian bust of a network of alleged homegrown terrorists.
They were linked to a London-based "cyberterrorist" (ie he ran websites and posted on forums), who supposedly went by the "handle" Irhabi007, which means Terrorist007. Clearly a master of subterfuge there. It's probably the name he used when he was playing Counterstrike (http://www.counter-strike.net).
Irhabi007 was arrested last November, though, so it's not like the police just found his address book.
Re: the shoulder shooting thing - there's no way the new policy is "shoot to maim one arm". I bet you anything that the poor bloke who got shot was coming downstairs to find out what all the noise was about, and gave a police officer who was going the other way such a nasty fright that he started and his gun went off.
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Date: 2006-06-12 10:56 am (UTC)From what I've read, the "specific intelligence" came from the Canadian bust of a network of alleged homegrown terrorists.
They were linked to a London-based "cyberterrorist" (ie he ran websites and posted on forums), who supposedly went by the "handle" Irhabi007, which means Terrorist007. Clearly a master of subterfuge there. It's probably the name he used when he was playing Counterstrike (http://www.counter-strike.net).
Irhabi007 was arrested last November, though, so it's not like the police just found his address book.
Re: the shoulder shooting thing - there's no way the new policy is "shoot to maim one arm". I bet you anything that the poor bloke who got shot was coming downstairs to find out what all the noise was about, and gave a police officer who was going the other way such a nasty fright that he started and his gun went off.