John Reid has announced that a terrorist attack over the Christmas period is "highly likely". The rather cynical element in me is asking why he should announce this. As far as information goes it is actually completely redundant. It doesn't allow us to do something to rectify the situation, it is so vague that we can't do anything to protect ourselves. So we are absolutely no better off for this news. In fact, as a population we are probably worse off as some will find this very frightening.
Coming at roughly the same time as news of an operation by the Met to bug the phones of black and Asian policemen I can't help get the idea of smoke and mirrors out of my mind. Just when the police are under question then the Home Secretary tells us waht a wonderful job they are doing preventing the threat to our lives from islamic fundamentalists.
No, I must be imagining it, the last thing this government would want to do is to distract us from one story by releasing another one.
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