A Lincolnshire Police spokesman said: "Following extensive inquiries during we are now satisfied that the men arrested from the GNER train at Grantham at 11pm last night are not connected to any terrorist activity.
"They have been released from our custody without any charge and the matter is now closed."
I expect the off-duty officers who made the erroneous tip-off are having a great laugh at all the trouble they caused.
The quiet beginnings of Britain's very own Nazi-style kristalnacht carries on apace.
Unless people start doing something about it...
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silly billy
27.07.2005 23:35
You guys are such a bunch of paranoid drama queens you could get jobs on the script team of Sunset Beach.
magoo
How about...
27.07.2005 23:43
shab
Where?
28.07.2005 02:21
The Government which brought you "Saddam has WMD!!" hasn't proven its Conspiracy Theory yet.
Don't Fall for the PsyOps
How About?
28.07.2005 05:45
Number of people killed by police to date - one, plus another tazered.
Note: tazers are potentially lethal.
Over the years our police have killed many people, if you include custody deaths. There are at the moment 3,000 police armed with machine guns roaming the streets of London and they are shortly to have their massive powers reinforced with yet more repressive legislation.
Outrider
Number of people killed by successful suicide bombers in London:
28.07.2005 08:17
Just a little stat that you missed out. And now you're complaining that the police DIDN'T shoot someone who had threatened to blow them up along with himself.
What, exactly, would you suggest they do? Ask him nicely to stop? Get on the phone to the PM and say "Hey, Tony, if you'd just pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and get George to bomb Israel, I reckon this guy might have a sudden change of heart about western civilisation and decide to put his bomb down and come out for a cup of tea"?
A
Media circus -roll up, roll up!
28.07.2005 08:21
Flymo to the moon
Outrider
28.07.2005 08:30
Maggie
Ah, yes kristallnacht...
28.07.2005 09:15
artaud
Wahrheit macht euch frei
28.07.2005 09:28
Flymo: what is so surprising about the right-wing press' reaction??? They are after all by their nature PRO Establishment. Are you suggesting that there should only be one opinion allowed?
I really do think that with all this carping about media coverage, people here should look at a real oppressive regime before posting. Would we get such gems as 'The Downing Street Memos' or the Kelly Interview or such open derision at Hutton or Shayler or diplomats (*cough* spooks *cough*) leaking info like colanders?
I'm not saying that everything is hunky dory, but they could be a millions times worse.
magoo
"As expected?"
28.07.2005 10:00
Now tell us what you'd do instead.
1. Let suspects go about their business for fear of causing them some minor inconvenience. This assumes, of course, you're happy to run the risk that real terrorists will be free to murder and maim.
2. Aggressively prosecute everyone who's arrested despite a lack of evidence. We all know this has happened in the past. Do you think it should happen more often?
3. Investigate the matter as quickly as possible and release suspects who are exonerated.
You probably need to know that the biggest unwritten rule of debate is that the first person to draw a comparison with Nazi Germany in the absence of credible evidence of genocide goes home with egg on their face.
Get a grip, ok?
Zorro