Posted on 08/11/2006 9:17:39 AM PDT by strange1
The youngest of the terror suspects arrested in the raids was a heavily pregnant woman from Hackney, London.
The Asian woman was taken by police handcuffed and still wearing pyjamas from a top floor flat in Denver Road.
It has been reported today that the woman, who has not yet been named, is the wife of Muslim convert Oliver Savant. Eye witnesses described her as five foot tall with braided hair.
One witness said: "I heard a man shout and then the door was knocked through. I looked out of the window and saw a team of armed officers - wearing helmets and goggles - pour out of a black unmarked Mercedes people carrier.
"There were another two vans full of police wearing bullet-proof vests. And there were two guys who looked like intelligence agents who were controlling things."
In another raid, a young woman and her six month-old baby was taken into custoday.
It is believed that terrorists were planning to use liquid explosives to blow up the aeroplanes and as a result, airport security checks are forcing mothers to taste their bottles of baby milk before boarding
So then the FR pajamahadeen will now be vigorously defended by the Left when they're on their next mission? ;^)
Um, you mean, a "car"?
This is wartime - Kill her BEFORE she gives birth to a future terrorist.
Good. I'm glad the authorities aren't letting the terrorists use one of their more common tactics (hiding behind women and children).
How the cops got into her pajamas I'll never know.
[waggles eyebrows and cigar]
""Asian" is standard British usage to refer to folks from Pakistan, India, etc. I don't know what they use for people from Japan, Korea, China, etc.--maybe "Oriental" still?"
Yeah Oriental or Far Eastern. Actually we'd probably call someone from Japan 'Japanese', someone from China 'Chinese' and someone from Korea.....err Chinese again, probably...
"Referring to arabs, pakistanis, persians, etc, as "Asians" is a compromise to avoid saying "muslim"
This is political rectitude run amok. It is annoying the hell out of, inter alia, the Sikh, Hindu and Chinese populations of the UK."
(1) No it isn't a compromise to avoid saying anything, it's an exceptionally common British reference to people eminating from the sub-continent - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
(2) The Daily Mail is one of the least PC publications around.
(3) I have never ever seen the term applied to a Persian.
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