Britain spends 25k pounds to protect Musharaff? WTF?

I thought we had stupid morons only in India to be paying taxes for the politicians to do us in the rear. It looks like even Americans are doing it in the form of Aid and British are also into it in the form of VIP Executive Committee of crap!

LONDON: The British government is spending around 25,000 pounds (over Rs.20 lakh) a day to protect former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf,

who has made London his new home, a newspaper reported on Friday.
The Times said Scotland Yard’s Specialist Protection Unit, known as SO1, has assigned a round-the-clock team of at least 10 men and women to protect the former army dictator, who lives in a luxurious three-bedroom flat in an Arab quarter of West London.

Musharraf has been using the flat as his base for about four months and also has a team of retired Pakistani commandos to protect him. He is said to be paying the Pakistanis from his own pocket.

The decision to provide him further British security was reportedly taken at a meeting of the Royal and VIP Executive Committee held at the home office.

The Times said the elite unit is responsible for the personal protection of the British prime minister, former prime ministers, certain government ministers, some ambassadors and "high-profile persons considered to be under threat from terrorist attack in the UK".

The costs are thought to include the provision of a car plus security equipment such as alarms and closed-circuit television cameras fitted to his flat. SO1 is providing the security detail.

Lord Nazir Ahmed, a Pakistani-born member of the ruling Labour Party, has written to British home secretary Alan Johnson urging him to stop spending taxpayers’ money on protecting Musharraf.

"I think the government needs to review Mr. Musharraf’s security. There are people within Britain who could do with those extra police officers rather than a man who can afford private bodyguards," he said.

So, Kasab is a Pakistani?

As a followup on my previous post –

New Delhi: In what probably could be a boost to India’s investigation into the November 26 attacks in Mumbai, the FBI has confirmed that Ajmal Amir Kasab – the only terrorist captured alive during the terror atttacks, is a Pakistani national.

FBI investigators also say that the Mumbai attacks were planned by the leaders of Lashkar-e-Toiba based in Pakistan.

A team from the FBI was allowed to access to Kasab and questioned him for nine hours. Their conclusions corroborate the findings of Indian investigators.

The details of the FBI’s findings made public by diplomatic sources. The FBI pronouncements comes hours after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari accepted that non-state actors were his responsibility and said nobody would be allowed to use Pakistani soil for terrorist activities.

Last week, Kasab’s father also admitted that he was his son.

[ source: CNN-IBN ]