Armed US police could be on London streets

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From the London Telegraph:

Armed foreign police could patrol the streets of London during the 2012 Olympics under an unprecedented scenario outlined by one of Scotland Yard’s most senior officers.

Security experts are privately debating how to protect the Olympics from terror attacks from Islamic extremist “jihadi” terrorists in London, especially in the wake of the 7/7 terrorist atrocities in London in which four British-born jihadi suicide bombers killed 52 people.

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US and Israeli athletes would be among the principal potential terrorist targets, raising questions over whether the FBI and Israeli police would be allowed to operate in London.

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Mr Ghaffur added: “In Germany, use of foreign officers to actually control and provide tactical or cultural advice to local police was very successful.

“I don’t think we should shy away from that. In a global environment, a capital city, international policing is a global family.”

I just wonder when we'll be having that debate over here in the U.S.: Should we have armed foreign "police" patrolling our American streets, EVER?

I say, hell no.

[Robson]

1. It'll be Blackwater, etc

We won't have foreign police just paramilitaries such as Blackwater. That should scare us even more.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Bobbies policed British soccer fans in Germany last summer. nt

[Captain Hilts]

3. If I had to get arrested, I might prefer to be arrested by a Bobbie. nt

[PSPS]

4. "US and Israeli athletes would be among the principal potential terrorist targets"

What does it say about things when Americans and Israelis are always the sole "principal targets" of everything?