Scotland Yard Goes Over The Top

[Wokeman]

Scotland Yard went over the top in arrest of terror suspect
Monday September 26, 03:29 AM

LONDON, (AFP) - Scotland Yard went over the top when police arrested an Algerian wrongly suspected of having given flying lessons to four of the 9/11 terrorists, The Times reported quoting a document it had obtained.

A letter from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to Scotland Yard dated September 17 2001, six days after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, said the British police should not arrest Lotfi Raissi and the matter should be handled "as expeditiously and discreetly as possible".

"The FBI requests that Raissi NOT BE alerted to the US government's interests at this time," the letter said, with the words "not be" in black capital letters and underlined.

On September 21, however, at 3:00 am the police acted very indiscreetly, smashing down Raissi's door where he lived in Colnbrook, Berkshire west of London and arresting him at gunpoint.

Taken away naked in a police car, Raissi, the first man arrested in connection with the 9/11 events, was held for five months until magistrates rejected all the accusations against him. His wife Sonia and brother Mohammed, arrested the same day, were freed after four days.

Raissi is still fighting to obtain an apology from the British government along with compensation for his career as a pilot that was ruined.

"The result of their behaviour is that my life has been destroyed," Raissi told The Times. "I have been branded a terrorist and can no longer get a job in the aviation industry."