John O'Connor
John O'Connor former Scotland Yard detective. He has been found on television on many occasions to have commented about the incapacity of so called terrorists/those suspected of terrorism. For example in one website while referring to him as a 'TV talking head'.[1] he is quoted as saying on CNN
- "This was a hopeless, incompetent terrorist attack, I mean when you see the ludicrous situation when none of the bombs were able to be detonated and these guys are then trying to set fire to petrol.All they got was a bonfire, they set fire to fuel - well that in its own way is not going to detonate the gas cylinders and it's not going to cause an explosion - it was just a fire, I mean that is so incompetent as to be almost laughable."
To him in that article the perpetrators of the attack should have been referred to as "jihadists" rather than Al-Qaeda.
On CBC-TV News, he goes on to say, in July 2005 when referring to the suspected London Bombers
- "The four suspected bombers arrested by British and Italian police are "dopey" and "not very bright" and will prove to be an intelligence gold mine" "They were so unprofessional, and not at all like the religious militants found in the Middle East"
The four, who he said drank, smoked dope and womanized, in contrast with the austere life of religiously motivated attackers, were susceptible to suggestion by their recruiters.
- "So they will be easy for interrogators to break down", O'Connor had said."That means the planners and bomb-makers, who assumed the four would die in suicide attacks on the London transit system on July 21, "must be quaking in their boots." "The capture of the four men is a break for the police, who need to arrest the planners to stop further attacks" he said.
John’s career with the Metropolitan Police Force spanned 30 years, operating in the Murder, Counterfeit Currency and Fraud Squads. Most of his service was spent in the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). John ran the Flying Squad at New Scotland Yard dealing with all armed robberies in London until retiring with the rank of Commander.
