{"id":691,"date":"2006-06-09T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T20:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/06\/09\/forest_gate_it_was_either_this_or_that"},"modified":"2025-10-10T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:56:01","slug":"forest_gate_it_was_either_this_or_that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/06\/09\/forest_gate_it_was_either_this_or_that","title":{"rendered":"Forest Gate: it was either this or that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS | UK | Two held in terror raid released\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/5066166.stm\"><strong>STOP PRESS:<\/strong> the Forest Gate brothers have been released<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus: in this week&#39;s <em>New Statesman<\/em>, former editor Peter Wilby on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/200606120027\">the contradictory stories<\/a> of the events last Friday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe brothers who lived there were planning a terrorist attack using cyanide, sarin, anthrax, or bubonic plague germs. The noxious substance would be released from a vest or a canister. It would be a suicide attack or a remote-controlled explosion. The &quot;bomb&quot; was inside the house or &quot;out there&quot;. Its use was imminent or it was nowhere near completion. The information came from an MI5 informant or a police informant. The police operation was code-named Volga or Volgo.<br \/>\nOfficers entered the house by smashing a window or battering down the front door. One brother was shot by the police (either after a warning or not after a warning, and either after a scuffle or not after a scuffle), or he was shot by the other brother. The shot came from a Glock pistol or a Heckler &amp; Koch sub-machine gun. Both brothers had criminal records or they didn&#39;t.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOP PRESS: the Forest Gate brothers have been released Plus: in this week&#39;s New Statesman, former editor Peter Wilby on the contradictory stories of the events last Friday: The brothers who lived there were&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[85,41,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest_gate","category-good_news","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-b9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42405,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/42405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}