I will resist the offer of a row about Irish political violence with Divis, as I am still licking my wounds from our last one.

A survivor of the tourist murders was on radio today.
He had heard one of his captors speaking to hamza saying, "we have the goods as ordered, there are American and British packages"

Hamza is known to have supplied their satellite phone and to have spoken to them from London before and during the kidnapping.

He appears to have been the guiding hand in the operation.
Sorry. guiding hook.

The conversations were intercepted but under british law can not be used as evidence.