Britain Police: ‘We Must Start Negotiating With Al Qaeda’
Is this guy Sir Hugh Orde fucking retarded? Seriously!
One of Britain’s most senior policemen says the country should talk to Al Qaeda to try and end their bloody campaign of violence.
Sir Hugh Orde, a front-runner to replace Ian Blair as the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said he could not think of a single terrorist campaign that ended without negotiation.
And after 30 years of tackling the IRA Sir Hugh, head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said he was convinced that policing - detecting plots and arresting people - was not enough alone to defeat terrorists.
His comments come the day after Al Qaeda released a shocking image of their vision of America - devastated by nuclear attack.
The terrifying computer generated picture showing the ruins of Washington DC was released on an Islamic extremists’ website.
Sir Hugh admitted that negotiating with terrorists meant ‘thinking the unthinkable’ and said some of the biggest risks his officers took were talking to people that ‘historically they would not have dreamed of talking to’.
In an interview with the Guardian newspaper his 2004 meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was an example of how one-time enemies can become partners in peace.
Asked if he was saying ‘we should talk to al Qaeda’, Sir Hugh said: ‘Well that’s the logic of…I don’t think that’s unthinkable, the question will be one of timing.’
He added: ‘If you want my professional assessment of any terrorism campaign, what fixes it is talking and engaging and judging when the conditions are right for that to take place.
‘Is that a naive statement? I don’t think it is … It is the reality of what we face.
‘If somebody can show me any terrorism campaign where it has been policed out, I’d be happy to read about it, because I can’t think of one.’
On Tuesday terrorists attempted to fire-bomb a JJB sports shop in Belfast but failed after the device failed to properly detonate.
Sir Hugh said Irish terrorists still wanted to bomb the UK mainland, but lacked the capability. They were still attempting to buy weapons but were disorganised, ‘psychopathic’ and probably numbering no more than 200 people.
He also called for the number of police forces to be slashed from 43 to nine to aid the fight against terrorism and warned the threat from dissident republicans in Ulster was at its greatest in five years.
And he said the idea of parachuting people from the private sector into senior policing roles was ‘barking mad’ and said police chiefs who took the media ‘personally’ would be finished.
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