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Field Fisher lawyers freed from Mumbai terror ordeal

Dreadful! So you are trapped in a hotel room with terrorists all around. What do you do? Answer: Call the Today Programme. How is this NOT crass self-promotion. What other purpose could there be for calling the Today Programme? If anything, in a world of international communications, doing this may have drawn a resident terrorist’s attention to him. What does the “except perhaps for one person” bit of “Everybody - except perhaps for one person - was there supporting me," convey? And the insistence on joining the meeting is just ridiculous. Like others, I felt a pang of compassion for him when I heard the interview. I am also delighted that he is out and safe and well, but I would be utterly ashamed of his behaviour if I was his partner. I have always found the crass characterisations in Towering Inferno and other similar disaster movies wholly unrealistic. Now I am not so sure. These people really exist!

28-Nov-2008

3:44 pm