No, a scientist who was passing information about targets in Europe to an al Qaeda group.
Sheesh. Slashdot is increasingly infantile. Just because you don't want to think about there actually being Islamic religious fundamentalists who want to kill you, that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Or it could be that, you know, al Qaeda really exists, and that they are really trying to conduct terror attacks, and that the two arrested really were participating in planning for those attacks. The French had comprehensively bugged their communications and knew what they were up to. From the Daily Mail:
"Adlene Hicheur is a former research fellow at the Rutherford Appleton and still visits the UK for conferences and other meetings. He and Halim are accused of compiling information about possible targets and sending it to contacts in North Africa involved with Al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
European intelligence sources said that Adlene Hicheur, who studied at Stanford University in California before moving to Oxfordshire, had expressed a ‘very strong wish to carry out attacks anywhere where Western security interests can be damaged’."
Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes flying from London to America with home-made liquid bombs. A Woolwich Crown Court jury convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to activate bombs disguised as drinks.
So now everyone can go back to the original story and check up on who was full of it and who wasn't."
Look at the CERN data on disk error rates. They found the system error rate to be about 3X10^7.
Just open up a bugzilla ticket.
Do they have free WiFi in the room? Hope they have at least DSL.
In what way is having "real police" paw through your trash better than having citizen busybodies check up on you to make sure you're recycling?
The outrage is the nanny state, not the pay grade of the ninnies enforcing the nanny state.
If all else fails, lower your standards.
