Sue bin Laden?? Sue a dead suicide bomber?? McTaggart, you're right. The responsible people here are criminals. But this is just another example of the official unwillingness to treat jihad terrorism as anything but a series of isolated incidents apparently designed solely to wreak havoc. There is no recognition of the larger jihad agenda, or any coherent effort to oppose its many non-military manifestations. "Sue Bin Laden Over Bombs," from SkyNews, with thanks to Twostellas:
...One man who lost his son in a suicide bombing in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh has been told to seek damages from "the perpetrator".Trevor Lakin, 56, told the paper how ministers responded when he asked for help to bury his son Jeremy.
He said: "It's just stupid. You can't just go off and sue suicide bombers can you?
"I certainly wouldn't want to approach the terrorists - and I think they're dead anyway."
Jeremy was on holiday with his girlfriend Annalie Vickers when three bombs hit the resort. Both were killed....
Home Office minister Fiona McTaggart told the BBC's Real Story programme: "Let's be very clear, the person who is responsible for this dreadful act is the criminal."
They can, though, cough up cash to pay for pilgrims going for the annual 'Dances with Rocks' in Mecca. This bunch really, eally are plumbing new depths in the ir utter, despicable dhimmitude.
Sue them? And what is that supposed to do, put em' in the poorcave?
The govt should force Muslims to pay Jizya tax until there is no more Islam and force Muslim countries that want to have business with the West to pay up. Islam wants this done to the west, so it should be reciprocated towords true Muslims. The tax can be used to compensate.
Fiona McTaggert is not the brightest tool in a relatively dim box.
There is a little more detail to the story here from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4800478.stm
I have said here, and elsewhere that it would not be bad advice, to the survivors of the Aldgate bomb, that they should sue the estate of Shehzad Tanweer who left £121000 after debts and funeral expenses. That would be feasible, an action against the estate of a named UK citizen, with his assets in the UK, about an incident which occured within the UK. But so far as I know that has not been official advice from any government body.
This advice is ludicrous. Any action abroad will be a pathway of obstacles. Buying a villa in Spain is difficult enough. This is hostile territory, crimes committed by anonymous men, where the chain of causality is so thin it may not stand in a court of law. I am sure that Tanweer's representative would dispute the evidence that he carried a bomb; in a country whose legal system is so difference there would be no chance.
My grandfather during WWI was one of the lions led by donkeys.
Truly me and mine are plough horses led by jackasses.
"Home Office minister Fiona McTaggart told the BBC's Real Story programme: 'Let's be very clear, the person who is responsible for this dreadful act is the criminal.'"
What a refreshing change. I mean she could have blamed it on Israel's injustices to the Palestinians.
Unless McTaggart was willing to lend her government's support to such an action, it was disgusting for her to make such a statement. It may be rather difficult to file an action in any court against an individual whose whereabouts are unknown and whose assets are probably well hidden too, but the UK could go after the assets of those who fund terror groups and the governments who aid and abet terrorists. Instead the UK's courts can be hijacked by a wealthy non-resident Saudi who wants to silence American citizens like Dr. Rachel Ahrenfeldt who has established links between identifiable persons and Islamic terror on the pretext that a dozen of her books were purchased in the UK.