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ABC's Jim Sciutto chose Scotland Yard as the location from which to tell us about Bob Quick, the redfaced British bobby. Quick had been the Metropolitan Police's senior counterterrorism officer until he strode into 10 Downing Street with a pile of briefing papers for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On top was a sheet of paper with eleven names. They were the intended target of a three-city overnight coordinated arrest, designed to foil a suspected bomb conspiracy against nightclubs and other targets. Quick's theory was that they were part of "an al-Qaeda driven plot," Sciutto explained, to launch attacks simultaneously in England and Pakistan.
Photojournalists' telephoto lenses snapped the list. The names were published online. The dragnet surprise was blown. The police were obliged to move in broad daylight. "Quick apologized and resigned in embarrassment."
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