The chief prosecutor in the United Kingdom, Sir Ken Macdonald, on the war on terror:
London is not a battlefield. Those innocents who were murdered on July 7 2005 were not victims of war. And the men who killed them were not, as in their vanity they claimed on their ludicrous videos, ‘soldiers’. They were deluded, narcissistic inadequates. They were criminals. They were fantasists. We need to be very clear about this. On the streets of London, there is no such thing as a ‘war on terror’, just as there can be no such thing as a ‘war on drugs’.
A prosecutor who’s not interested in increasing their own power is a refreshing thing to see.
By way of Bruce Schneier.
January 26, 2007 at 12:59 pm
But then a day or two later, we learn that an SAS unit has been stationed in London. That sounds pretty warlike.