[Gllug] London explosions

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:44:33AM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:38 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> > It might be rather early to ask this question, but:
> > 
> >         how would identity cards have helped to stop these
> > explosions ?
> 
> In my opinion they wouldn't have.
> 
> They didn't help in Madrid and there is a culture of producing
> identification on demand in the States which didn't help there.
> 
> Looking at the number of tourists in London it's hard to track people if
> they are slipping into the country to carry out attacks.
> 
> I don't think they would have helped.

Quite. But we will have Charles Clark telling us that it would have within
a couple of days .........

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