Talk:Balcombe Street Siege

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1 Am I naive?
2 Rv Cite
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4 SAS

[edit] Am I naive?

Is it really true that:

the guys who actually killed so many people leading up to the seige are now free?
the guys who were wrongly convicted of some of those deaths remained in prison for another 12 years?

- simon

Yes it's true, and they were greeted as heroes at a Sinn Fein conference receiving a standing ovation [1]. (The real killers that is). Jooler

And we don't negotiate with terrorists!! simon

you do, you know. You've been doin it since the 1600s

[edit] Rv Cite

One died in jail, and the rest were eventually released after it emerged that police had beaten confessions out of them and suppressed information that would have proved their innocence.

This may be true (I was under teh impression it was true) but it belongs on the Guildford Four and you haven't added a cite. Could you explain why you reverted its removal? Rex the first ^{talk | contribs} 02:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

You think it irrelevant? Jooler 03:39, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Not irrelevant just that it doesn't seem to be about Balcombe Street Siege but about the Guildford Four. Also I couldn't find a part in the Guildford Four article about the confessions being beaten out of them and lastly you have not put a reference. I hope that explains why I removed it, sorry if it casued offence. Rex the first ^{talk | contribs} 03:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

The continued inclusion of a reference to the Guildford Four impacts the impartiality of the article. It can be easily seen as a transparent attempt to humanize convicted criminals, particularly as it clearly does not add to this article main thread. Further question: why are the edits so very careful to tiptoe around never referring to this group as a terrorist cell? (which, by definition, they were) is there some unwritten rule on this matter wrt NI?

WP:WTA and WP:NPOV. One Night In Hackney₃₀₃ 07:20, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] SAS

This is the sort of thing that's worrying:
"The men surrendered once the 22 SAS deployment was publicised."

This sentence was in an earlier version of the article and is supported by the BBC refs. However it's now changed to an uncited and different:
"The men surrendered after several days of negotiations with the Metropolitan Police during which time SAS teams had been deployed"

Rich Farmbrough, 00:32 8 December 2007 (GMT).