Foreign Diplomats Tease Pakistani Police With Fake Bombs

By Steve Hynd

Stories like this encourage my view that diplomatic ranks tend to be drawn from over-privileged frat boys with only a tenuous hold on reality.

The interior ministry said an 'unidentified object' found recently in the vehicle of Danish embassy security advisor Chris John turned out to be a fake bomb, the Daily Times newspaper reported. John told police he was conducting a 'mock exercise' to determine the efficiency and alertness of the police, the paper said. The Danish embassy was bombed in June 2008.

An interior ministry letter obtained by the daily quoted Islamabad police as saying that some other foreign missions were also 'caught' during the similar exercise. 'When the suspected objects are traced or recovered by police from the diplomatic vehicles, they (diplomats) simply say that this is a mock exercise,' the letter said.

Nicely diplomatic, proving how divorced they are from the horrors common people around them are enduring. The Pakistani police should should shoot one - just a flesh wound - pour encourage les autres.