17-11-2010, 11:08 AM
Peter Presland Wrote:
POLICE have only just discovered that they held the fingerprints of the ringleader of the July 7 bombings on file before the attacks, it was revealed today.
West Yorkshire Police said it "recently" found two sets of Mohammad Sidique Khan's prints in its archives - one of which dates from when he was arrested aged just 11.
The force has launched an inquiry into the records as it prepares for the upcoming inquests for those killed in the 2005 London atrocities.
West Yorkshire Police took Khan's prints for the first time when he was arrested in April 1986, aged 11, for being involved in receiving stolen goods.
The second set of prints was taken by the force in February 1993, when Khan was arrested for assault.
The records came to light after Scotland Yard contacted West Yorkshire Police last month to check whether they had the July 7 bomber's fingerprints on file.
Details of the discovery emerged at a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London to decide what form the inquests should take.
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West Yorkshire Police said in a statement: "In preparation for the inquests into the events of July 7 2005, West Yorkshire Police recently found two sets of fingerprints in its archives belonging to Mohammad Sidique Khan, of which it was previously unaware.
Max Hill QC, counsel for the Metropolitan Police, stressed that this was not the first time that Scotland Yard asked West Yorkshire Police for detailed information about Khan.
West Yorkshire Police said it "recently" found two sets of Mohammad Sidique Khan's prints in its archives - one of which dates from when he was arrested aged just 11.
The force has launched an inquiry into the records as it prepares for the upcoming inquests for those killed in the 2005 London atrocities.
West Yorkshire Police took Khan's prints for the first time when he was arrested in April 1986, aged 11, for being involved in receiving stolen goods.
The second set of prints was taken by the force in February 1993, when Khan was arrested for assault.
The records came to light after Scotland Yard contacted West Yorkshire Police last month to check whether they had the July 7 bomber's fingerprints on file.
Details of the discovery emerged at a hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice in London to decide what form the inquests should take.
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West Yorkshire Police said in a statement: "In preparation for the inquests into the events of July 7 2005, West Yorkshire Police recently found two sets of fingerprints in its archives belonging to Mohammad Sidique Khan, of which it was previously unaware.
Max Hill QC, counsel for the Metropolitan Police, stressed that this was not the first time that Scotland Yard asked West Yorkshire Police for detailed information about Khan.
Source: Daily Mail
Am I missing something or are the police trying to suggest that their large collection of fingerprints isn't centrally digitized (as in the central fingerprint database IDENT1 using the Automated Fingerprint Identification System AFIS search engine housed and maintained by the NPIA)?
The picture presented in my bolded section of the foregoing article creates the impression that after the call from the Yard, some junior forensic assistant had to visit the cellars and dust down cardboard boxes and then manually search them alphabetically for the letter "k" for "Khan" before mouthing the word "bingo! and dashing back upstairs to his Guv'nor, his smile suitably gleaming"?
The reality would be that the Yard simply queried the IDENT1 database from their own in-Yard computer terminals and the word "bingo!" appears on screen - along with a voucher for five pints of lager and a bag of pork scratchings at the local pub.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14