Cal Thomas COMMENTARY SEPTEMBR 30, 2026
CAN A COUNTRY BE SERIOUS ABOUT FIGHTING TERRORISM WHEN IT FREES SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ON BAIL? THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED IN BRITAIN ON MONDAY. FIVE SUSPECTED TERRORISTS GOT 100 YARDS FROM A BASE THAT HOSTS U.S. BOMBERS INVOLVED IN STRIKING IRAN.
AS A NEW YORK POST EDITORIAL PUT IT: THEY MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN CLOSER, TOO, IF NOT FOR THE FARMER WHO SPOTTED THEM AND CALLED POLICE. IRAN, YOU MAY RECALL, HAS MADE SPECIFIC THREATS AGAINST BRITAIN FOR ALLOWING AMERICAN WAR PLANES TO USE ITS BASES.
THESE PEOPLE ARE SERIOUS AND BRITAIN APPEARS UNSERIOUS.
THIS FOLLOWS NEWS THAT LONDON GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS TO A HAMAS VETERAN THOUGH HIS TIES TO TERROR GROUPS WERE PUBLICLY KNOWN AND KEPT ON HOSTING HIM AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED IN A GERMAN TERROR PLOT.
BRITAIN HAS BEEN IN DECLINE FOR YEARS. THEY, ALONG WITH MANY OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, HAVE OPENED THEIR BORDERS TO POTENTIAL TERRORISTS. AND YET THEY TREAT THEM AS PETTY THIEVES AND LET THEM MAKE BAIL. DO YOU THINK THAT LONDON’S MUSLIM MAYOR MIGHT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN FREEING THE MEN? DOES ANYONE EXPECT THESE TERRORISTS WILL SHOW UP FOR TRIAL IF THERE IS ONE?
BRITAIN IS ENCOURAGING TERRORISTS, NOT FIGHTING THEM AND WHY DID IT TAKE A FARMER TO SPOT THEM AND NOT THE POLICE? I’M CAL THOMAS.
