wendy
01-31-2003, 11:45 AM
So why did they have Chemical warfare protection suits hidden inside?
Scotland Yard tells me (no kidding) that the fabled police agency will neither confirm nor deny an Australian newspaper report saying that "chemical-warfare protection suits" were discovered during the recent police raid on London's notorious Finsbury Park mosque, home pulpit to enemy-imam Abu Hazma. According to the Melbourne Herald Sun, Scotland Yard and MI5 detectives decided to withhold the discovery of these nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) suits — raiment not usually associated with even the most exotic religious services — fearing it "would spark panic."
True report or false? Scotland's Yard officials are "not prepared to discuss" the matter, which pretty much confirms a hot little story that has gotten the cold shoulder in Great Britain and beyond. Meanwhile, it seems unlikely that more reporting on What They Really Found in the Mosque — besides the stun gun, the imitation rifle, the gas canister and all the fake IDs — would cause an honest-to-goodness panic. This is not to say that perfectly normal cases of the jitters wouldn't — and shouldn't — break out. Still, as recent events make clear, "panic" isn't the worst fate citizens of the free world now grapple with.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030131-1319144.htm
Scotland Yard tells me (no kidding) that the fabled police agency will neither confirm nor deny an Australian newspaper report saying that "chemical-warfare protection suits" were discovered during the recent police raid on London's notorious Finsbury Park mosque, home pulpit to enemy-imam Abu Hazma. According to the Melbourne Herald Sun, Scotland Yard and MI5 detectives decided to withhold the discovery of these nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) suits — raiment not usually associated with even the most exotic religious services — fearing it "would spark panic."
True report or false? Scotland's Yard officials are "not prepared to discuss" the matter, which pretty much confirms a hot little story that has gotten the cold shoulder in Great Britain and beyond. Meanwhile, it seems unlikely that more reporting on What They Really Found in the Mosque — besides the stun gun, the imitation rifle, the gas canister and all the fake IDs — would cause an honest-to-goodness panic. This is not to say that perfectly normal cases of the jitters wouldn't — and shouldn't — break out. Still, as recent events make clear, "panic" isn't the worst fate citizens of the free world now grapple with.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030131-1319144.htm