Turns out someone in London overheard some Algerian guys talking about the Pope's visit, thought it sounded suspicious and reported it to the police, who arrested a bunch of people and searched a bunch of properties.
The police said it was standard procedure to take such reports seriously, but that they had no other indication of a plot. The men were held overnight but haven't been charged with anything yet. The Vatican said it was unconcerned by any of this. According to a brief follow-up story published on the Daily Express website today, "a Met Police spokesman last night said the investigations had finished without the discovery of anything significant."
Sounds like a damp squib, all told. Of course the Daily Express could just wait to see if anything concrete actually does turn up, but why waste a good old reactionary, xenophobic headline that might sell a few more papers?
Tabloid editors are horrible people and they make me want to cry.
overheard yesterday in a conversation between two post-grads: "it's not the muslims, it's the qur'an that flew those planes into the twin towers. that's why we should burn them."
ReplyDeletei think they were being funny.