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"Even the most liberal media have been less than enthusiastic about the decision". Mmm - why might that be then, Natasha?

"The ECHR judges recognised, however, that officers at the time had been working to prevent any further suicide bomb attacks" (Guardian).

“The police had been operating under enormous pressure and their overriding priority had, quite properly, been investigations and interviews to obtain as a matter of urgency information on any further planned attacks and the identities of those potentially involved in the plot,” the Strasbourg court said. “The possibility of restricting access to legal advice in such exceptional circumstances recognised the unique and highly difficult conditions with which the police in London had been faced in July 2005" (Guardian).

Perhaps the papers (and the rest of us) just prefer our terrorists well and truly locked away.

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