'Terrorist' group who turned out to be the president's men

[David Hansen]

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2255007,00.html>

"Diplomats have made a humiliating apology to six Pakistani men close 
to President Pervez Musharraf's ruling elite after they were wrongly 
arrested at Gatwick on suspicion of terrorist activity, interrogated 
and held for 21 hours."

My, my, my. All these people in white hats making us safe.

Of course Mr Musharraf's bunch are not people I would write home about. 
However, they are people the UK government is keen to embrace as part 
of their "war on terror", though we are not allowed to call it that at 
the moment. Presumably any Johnny Foreigner who is not white is fair 
game for the white hatted bunch.

I note that, "The government promised to erase the arrested men's 
fingerprint and DNA testing from police databases". It is interesting 
to compare this treatement with that of other people in England whose 
details are taken. With other people the police claim that the innocent 
have nothing to fear (though when the police were offered the 
"opportunity" to all be put on this database some years ago they 
refused) and they almost never remove such details. One rule for those 
with the right connectiosn and one for us plebs.







-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
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