Monday, December 13, 2010

Might have guessed

I spent most of the day away from the computer, visiting the Royal Academy for the last day of its exhibition of paintings from Budapest and other matters, then I came back to find the news that the Swedish suicide bomber (thankfully, there was no homicide involved though it was intended) is one of our students.

The Telegraph reports
It emerged last night that Abdulwahab, who was due to turn 29 yesterday, is a former physical therapy student at Bedfordshire University in Luton, and that his wife and three young children still live in the town.

MI5 is now investigating possible links with extremists in Luton, whether the bomber was radicalised at the university and claims that he was helped by an extremist group in Yemen, the base for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
I wonder whether we really need a Bedfordshire University in Luton or anywhere else.

6 comments:

  1. And I wonder who has to pick up the tab for the wife and kids.

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  2. For "Bedfordshire University" read "Luton Poly"

    Why do we continue to delude ourselves?

    And what DaveP said too.

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  3. For "Bedfordshire University" read "Luton Poly"

    Why do we continue to delude ourselves?

    And what DaveP said too.

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  4. I only clicked once, honest.

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  5. I only clicked once, honest.

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  6. These things do happen, Andrew. I don't know why either.

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