UK: Muslim police officer causes major terror alert with bomb threat, now says it was a joke

You'll die laughing! "Police officer caused major terror alert after ringing colleagues with a coded ‘bomb threat’ for a joke," by Ryan Kisiel for the Daily Mail, July 25 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

A police officer caused a major terrorism alert after ringing a busy port with a hoax bomb threat.

PC Hatef Nezami, 48, rang colleagues at the police Special Branch office with a coded message that a device was placed in a busy port.

Specialist terrorism staff were so concerned by the call's authentic nature that they started preparing for a full terrorist attack.

The constable, who has completed a regional Special Branch terrorism course, said that a bomb was on a Condor ferry based in Poole, Dorset.

However at the time of his call, the ferry was actually sailing across the English Channel packed full of people travelling to the Channel Islands. (...)