Good grief, is that the best they can come up with? All those grainy, black and white, boastful videos taken inside some cave in the back of beyond, all those threats to destroy the 'Great Satan', all that support from the (mythical) 'Arab Street', plus the mega-zillions of petro-dollar contributions for the sacred Jihad, all those 'hoodies' standing around in front of the cameras shaking their, er, weapons - and all we get is a couple of premature ejaculations in the form of two spluttering fizzers that failed to go off. Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe it!
Still, it was a happy co-incidence that 'C' came out blinking into the daylight this week to make a public speech for the first time in the history of the 'not-quite-so-Secret' Intelligence Service. In it, he boasted that his service did not torture anyone for the purpose of gaining information, to which my snorted response was, well, you bloody well should! Of course, part of the reason it is difficult for them to slap on the old electrodes is that the Secret Service is no longer secret, and their boss coming out in public to make speeches doesn't help. However, one sensible thing he did say was that MI6 would continue to accept information from sources who were prepared to plug in the old 13-amp plug and switch on. Hints in the media today indicate that the Saudi security service provided a vital tip-off to this current travesty and somehow, you know, I don't think they could even spell the words 'human rights' - thank God!
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