Congratulations to the Metropolitan Police
After a rather disastrous start, it appears the Met (and the SAS, according to the Guardian) have got all five suspects (assuming they're the right people, but I have no reason to believe otherwise), which appears a fine policing job.This sterling work raises the tantalising prospect that this whole episode could be dealt with far quicker and with far less loss of life than we hoped. The Police have said everyone needs to remain vigilant for more attacks, and it would be silly to believe that we have seen the last of them. Nevertheless there is also no particular reason to believe that there are hundreds of potential suicide bombers out there.
The next few months will be crucial. One of the best indicators of how likely a terrorist attack is in the future seems to me to be how long it has been since the last one. New Yorkers on the whole don't expect a terrorist attack in the next few weeks because there hasn't been one for four years. This has been broadly true of all the other recent atrocities. Londoners' hopes of something similar were dashed on the 21st July, but maybe now there is some light.
posted by Matthew @ 7/30/2005 10:07:00 AM
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