Beating terrorism means good local policing, not a National Crime Agency | Simon Jenkins

Rather than the 'British FBI' and the US crashing about Somalia and Libya, it's police work on the ground that gets results

Navy seals storm ashore on Brighton beach. They race to a murky boarding house and bundle its occupants into a Mercedes and rush them to a ship offshore. Don't worry, they tell passers-by, they are terrorists. The innocent have nothing to fear. What would we think? The US attacks on Somalia and Libya over the weekend were against lawless parts of the world that harbour da...