Thursday, May 11, 2006

MI5 on ouzo

Here and here.

"We remain concerned that across the whole of the counter-terrorism community the development of the home-grown threat and the radicalization of British citizens were not fully understood or applied to strategic thinking," the parliamentary panel said.

You don't say!

The head of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, confessed after the attacks — which killed 52 Tube and bus passengers — that they had been unexpected and had come as a surprise to her. Dame Eliza’s admission that suicide bombs were unlikely “to be the norm” has shocked other counter-terrorist agencies.

Well, Eliza, I guess we're not in Kansas any more.

2 comments:

Mr roT said...

Wow. Is she stupider than Michèle Alliot-Marie?

Tecumseh said...

They are certainly in competition.