They say a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.

And this picture tells you pretty much all there is to know about the Global War on Terror.



It shows the latest anti-terrorism arrests that happened last night on Britain's M65 motorway. As the arrested are only about 18 hours into their 28 day pre-trial detention the police are remaining tight-lipped on the matter. All they've released so far are some pictures of their firearms team looking windswept and interesting, the fact it is an anti-terror investigation, the number of people arrested and that five properties have been sealed off awaiting the arrival of an ominous sounding "specialist search team." Although it sounds sinister this search team is simply the Metropolitan police's "Viking" search team. These are the guys you'll see in blue overalls on their hands and knees going over crime scenes inch by inch or walking across fields in a long line looking for missing children. They are basically incredibly patient people who are very good at finding stuff. This stuff could be anything from tiny fragments of plastic or paperwork right up to large hauls of drugs or dead bodies. Of course if there's any suggestion of firearms or explosives the bomb squad are called into to carry out the search.

Although the police are yet to reveal which specific anti-terrorist offences the arrests have been made under I suspect they're offences of providing material support to terrorists. That is to say the suspects have been driving round the UK collecting clothes, tents, blankets and money to help the Palestinians. These materials were then to be transported across Europe and into Egypt before being smuggled into Gaza through the famous smuggling tunnels. Stuff like tents and blankets are of course little use in firing rockets into Israel or preparing suicide bombers to blow up trains but sending them to Gaza is of course an act of terrorism for one very simple reason. Israel has managed to convince the US, the UK and Egypt that humanitarian aid can only be sent to Gaza if it can be used as a weapon of war. That is to say aid agencies are only allowed to give aid to Fatah to distribute so they can use that aid to buy votes and ferment a further political collapse in Gaza making it impossible for the Palestinians to engage in any future peace process with Israel.

The people detained are clearly a bunch of amateurs who got themselves pranged up during the demonstrations outside the Israeli Embassy so I don't know how long it will take for them to be released but as with all other matters relating to national or international politics I must once again take a moment to apologise for the Brits;

Their translators assured them that "election" means the same thing in Hebrew as it does in English so now they're having something of a nervous breakdown and getting more then a little sloppy.

On a related note the results of Jade Goody's cancer tests are in and she's nothing more then a dead girl walking so I guess it's true what they say; As soon as you allow the cancer into you life you're chance of success instantly drops to zero.