Spot the Difference

There is a lot the world can learn from the astonishing British competence.

An Article in the New York Times this morning had this to say about the London bombing investigation:

British investigators have mounted a worldwide manhunt for the suspected bomb maker in the London attacks, a man seen on a videotape with four suspected bombers last Thursday morning at the Luton train station, an American official said Wednesday.
The four suspected bombers are seen leaving for a London-bound train, but the fifth man stays behind.

In the Luton train station parking lot, the British police found a car Wednesday that they said had been rented by the bombers who attacked London.

Police guards formed Wednesday on Stratford Street in Leeds around a house being searched for clues. Three bomb suspects were from Leeds.

In other words, the British police has been sorting through thousands of hours of camera footage from all across the country, gigabytes of data from flight and trains schedules, car rental databases, DNA banks, bank accounts and witness accounts.
Just one week after that, they found out who masterminded the attacks and they coordinated with American and European intelligence to catch him.

This Huge operation was executed in clockwork precision in less than an hour after the attacks happened, without causing panic and without affecting the livelihood of the rest of Londoners who went about their businesses normally just a few hours later (using the underground and double decker busses).

Not only that, there is more: at the same time, a set of political measures was taking place to reduce the tensions among the various British communities, to improve pan-European anti-terrorism coordination for the short term, and to find long-term measures in education and sociology to prevent such attacks in the future.

I’m so impressed, now I know why they call it “Great Brittain”

George Bush, watch and learn.

(I don’t want to even think of how investigations happen in Lebanon, where you can kill a prime minister without having a clue who did it)