Saturday, 21 June 2008

Bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe and the geek who hacked Pentagon computers to look at UFOs So who goes free?

Richard Pendlebury
UK Daily Mail
Saturday, June 21, 2008
One morning, Gary McKinnon was drifting into sleep, after another night of smoking dope and computer gaming, when an apparition addressed him from the end of his bed. At first, he wondered whether it was not part of a drug-induced dream. In fact, it was a real, flesh-and-blood policeman. 'Hello Gary,' said the detective from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. 'You're under arrest.'

In the pantheon of the American military's Most Wanted list, McKinnon must rank some way below Osama bin Laden. Yet while the Al Qaeda leader remains elusive, a vengeful Pentagon is inching ever closer to the capture and high-security imprisonment of an unemployed British hairdresser with a potentially disastrous interest in UFOs.

By his own account, McKinnon, 42, was nothing more than a 'bumbling nerd'. You would, perhaps, better describe him as a reckless idiot. Even his supporters would agree he's been a fool.
FULL ARTICLE @ UK Daily Mail

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