UK officials are blithering idiots.

UK: You have one citing Osama Bin Laden on climate change and the police bending over backwards to make sure people realize they are spineless.

Tickell said terrorists were likely to seek to exploit the tensions created. "Those who are short of food, those who are short of water, those who can't move to countries where it looks as if everything is marvelous are going to be people who are going to adopt desperate measures to try and make their point." John Mitchell, chief scientist at Britain’s Met Office, noted al Qaeda had already listed environmental damage among its litany of grievances against the United States. “You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries,” al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 “letter to the American people.”

Bin Laden, chief steward of the planet listing off something to get useful idiotgs like Mitchell to quote as some sort of authority.

Then you have UK's Metropolitan Police which at times look like the keystone cops lead by head clown Sir Ian Blair who is pushing forward with this plan.

".....In a further move to strengthen relations, London police commissioner Ian Blair had earlier told the conference that police were finalising plans to allow intelligence to be shared with a respected group made up of Muslims of different ages and backgrounds before major operations. The move comes into response to criticism of heavy-handed tactics used during an anti-terrorism raid in Forest Gate in east London when a man was shot by detectives hunting for a suspected chemical bomb. No bomb was found and the man and his brother, who was also arrested in the raid, were released without charge. Blair said "sufficient information" could be given to the new body so they could "act as spokespeople to reassure their communities that the police action is proportionate and justified or to tell us early when they don't think it is."

How about you stop being so inept? Just do your job and point out to those who will find fault one way or another to stuff it. This is a foolish plan when you have focus groups going to dictate how you battle terrorism.