Spanish Police Response To The Terrorist Attacks In Spain

[anonymous-user]

I saw our good friend Derek Smith make a comment on this and he is quite correct its subject worth a look at.
Simply put I think the way they took out the second lot of attackers was excellent.

This article is well worth a look

http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-...

I am given to wonder however that if a similar situation arose in the UK that the police may be called to account for killing a bunch who only had "fake" suicide vests on.
Personally I have considerable respect for the Police which might surprise some. I often think rank and file officers are sometimes led by pen pushers who seem more concerned with box ticking than dealing with crime.
Its mentioned somewhere else that one officer was responsible its also been mentoned that the officer may have thought his time was up but whatever the reasons the officer deserves some significant honour. As Mr Smith himself put it

"Well done that officer."

Please do not do the usual and turn this thread into the usual direction. The context of the motives of the attackers is part of it ie suicide vests and a likelihood to press the switch but putting the motives of the attackers to one side this should be more about what we expect from our police forces. Again personally I think many of our officers deserve more credit than they get

[anonymous-user]

It appears to be quite a large cell / conspiracy, planned over quite a few months.

The intelligence services over there may be concerned they didn't get wind of it.

[anonymous-user]

AW111 said:

So you think terrorists should have no human rights?
Who defines what a terrorist is?

Hopefully not you.

[anonymous-user]

John145 said:

HairyPoppins said:

rscott said:

HairyPoppins said:

Cold said:

Spanish police have shot someone believed to be the driver, with unconfirmed reports of another "mock suicide vest". Happened to the west of Barcelona.

Apparently he too wanted directions to Alan's Snackbar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41004603

Do you actually find that humorous?

Hmmm......it tickles a little so

It makes me laugh too. I find it depressing someone thinks it's in bad taste to laugh at terrorists and the stupid st they say.

Where did he say he thought it was in bad taste?

He could have meant it's boring, obvious and over-saturated; equivalent to '335D' / 'dominate the stairs' on here. If he did I'd happen to agree.

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dandarez said:

Me?
It makes me despair that we shouldn't be able to laugh/mock/giggle at these demented, lowest of all low-life, scum.

I don't think anyone has suggested otherwise.

I agree we should laugh, but it's probably easier to when it's not the same unfunny, boring repetitive 'play on words' comment see on every thread related to Islam.

[anonymous-user]

Nice to see that with a little help from some self indulgent types this thread is going the way of all the others.
Well done
hats off to you

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croyde said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

Off topic but any excuse to post this. NreallySFW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJPN_H9LcQ

Any police officers watching this.

That's how you deal with moped gangs.

IIRC that was an armed robbery with hostages not long after the Madrid bombings, so the police weren't in any mood to mess about.

Faced with a similar situation over here you could argue it'd be justified, but depending on the outcome it could result in years of grief, as Derek alludes to.

The Spanish police have a lot more free reign when it comes to using force, accounting for the force used and a much smaller police investigation infrastructure. It's always amusing when the same idiots on here spout off about police complaints and discipline and the IPCC (plus other legal avenues) when they have no idea about how other countries do it.

The less you scrutinise people who have to make judgements in risk, the less risk averse they are.

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audidoody said:

NorfolkInClue1 said:

Hopefully not you.

You want a definition of a terrorist? Easy.

Someone who commits an act of premeditated extreme violence against non-combatants in pursuit of a political or idealogical aim

At which point their human-fking-rights cease to exist.

My apologies sir.
I read your post and assumed, based on the way these topics quickly become infested with the usual whining liberal cancer, that you were about to launch in to some tragic liberal garbage about the "real victims" of political decisions and there was no such thing as a terrorist, how we should talk to them and apologise for making them resort to violence etc etc.

Turns out I was massively wrong, fully agree with you and your definition.
Internet pint on its way to you........