dread brazilian

* "The SRR soldier at Scotia Road (given the codename Tango 10) used equipment which sent realtime pictures of all who came and went from the flats. Those receiving the pictures could check them against footage of who they were looking for. One security source said: “In this kind of operation you never leave. You need to pee: you use a bottle; if there’s no bottle, tough. You never leave.”" (link)
no shit. (pun intended.)

* "A post-mortem report does not take its information from media reports. The police are contacted directly and written accounts are delivered. Details of the barrier being “vaulted” therefore came from the police. Why?" (link)

* "However, the day before the admission that there was no anti-terrorism link, Sir Ian wrote to John Gieve, the permanent secretary at the Home Office, arguing that an internal inquiry into the killing should take precedence over an independent investigation. But why was Ian Blair worried that an IPCC investigation could impact on security and intelligence? Was he concerned that it was not just his force’s officers, but also the personnel of the new special forces regiment, the SRR, who would be exposed? He told Gieve that he feared the IPCC would have to inform the family of everything that was found – and “this investigation involves secret intelligence”." (link)

* "Jenny Jones, the deputy mayor of London and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority which oversees the conduct of the Met, said she had been told “categorically” by the police that the man killed at Stockwell tube station was a suicide bomber." (link)