> Also, why waking up the 'suspect' at 4.00 AM?
It's to make sure they're at home - you wouldn't want to line up your expensive SWAT team and support units etc only to find the target had nipped out for a newspaper.
My wife once worked as a translator for the UK Home Office and was asked along on a dawn raid on a family who'd overstayed a tourist visa and were living and working illegally in the UK. The raid was arranged for 5am but when they got there the wife had already left for work and there was just the bemused husband plus two young children. (It transpired, in that incompetent way that only a Government department can truly aspire to, the immigration officers had taken so long to track down this couple that they'd had a family while in the UK, so the children were UK citizens and couldn't be deported which meant the parents had to be allowed to stay. Waste of time and money all round.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
