London expects 2 thousand suicide bomber attack

[american pride]

Britain's Terror Threat Worst Since Sept. 11
LONDON "” The threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than any time since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, a British Sunday newspaper reported, citing a leaked intelligence document.
More than 2,000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks, according to a government threat assessment prepared this month, which The Sunday Telegraph said it had seen.
"The scale of Al Qaeda's ambitions towards attacking the U.K. and the number of U.K. extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged," the newspaper quoted the document as saying.
The newspaper said the document was being circulated between the Home Office, defense ministry, M15 intelligence agency and Scotland Yard's Anti-Terrorist Branch.
Click here to read the original article on the Telegraph Web site.
The Home Office declined to comment on the report, but said in a statement that security arrangements are under constant review.
"As (MI5 Director-General) Eliza Manningham-Buller has stated publicly, the threat of terrorism in the U.K. is very real and includes the intent to kill people and damage our economy," the statement said.
Manningham-Buller said in November that 1,600 people were suspected of involvement in terrorist plots against British targets.
Four suicide bombers killed 52 commuters in July 2005 transit attacks in London and security officials say they have foiled at least six other plots. Officials expect the number of plots to increase this year, newspaper said.
The report also said Afghanistan is expected to increasingly become a magnet for Islamic extremists seeking to fight Western military forces.
NATO is struggling to persuade its members to send more troops to southern Afghanistan where the alliance is fighting a growing Taliban insurgency that left 4,000 dead last year.
"With violence in Afghanistan intensifying, and therefore receiving greater media attention, the country may well become more attractive as a venue for foreigners wishing to fulfill their Jihad ambitions," the newspaper quoted the report as saying.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254402,00.html
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[Strange Biller]

Wow. That's pretty impressive, especially when you consider that there is no way a government would overstate the likelyhood of terrorist attacks just to keep people riled up. For instance, every single time Cheney and company raised the threat level to orange or red we had major attacks that killed thousands here in the US.

[Aught Six]

Take everyone's firearms and kitchen knives. All will be well.

[american pride]

ORIGINAL: Strange Biller

Wow. That's pretty impressive, especially when you consider that there is no way a government would overstate the likelyhood of terrorist attacks just to keep people riled up. For instance, every single time Cheney and company raised the threat level to orange or red we had major attacks that killed thousands here in the US.

Howmany times did Cheney raised the threat level tored?

[american pride]

ORIGINAL: Strange Biller

Wow. That's pretty impressive, especially when you consider that there is no way a government would overstate the likelyhood of terrorist attacks just to keep people riled up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/london.tube/

http://www.gabriellereillyweekly.com/gabrielle_reilly/politics/london_terrorist_attack.htm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article675998.ece



Overstate?

[Strange Biller]

I don't know how to tell you this, but those links you posted are to an attack that already happened, not something that is going to happen in the future. Surely you can see the difference.

[Aught Six]

I don't know how to tell you this, but those links you posted are to an attack that already happened, not something that is going to happen in the future. Surely you can see the difference.

I really find you amazing, SB. Haven't seen youaroundlately, but here you are inexplicablyseeing little or no connection between terrorism of the past and likely and stated terrorism of the future. That's downright frightening considering that a substantialnumber of people have been promising to wage eternal war against non-Muslim culture, particularly against us. Read up, man, read up.

[Strange Biller]

This report, like most of the Cheney/Bush scare tactics, is not about vague things, but about very specific TERRIBLE THINGS THAT ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN ANY MINUTE. Obviously there is still the very real threat of terrorism happening in US and UK. What with our failure to capture/kill bin Laden when we could have and destabilizing Iraq and creating a new breeding ground for terrorists and then losing the tenuous grip we had on Afghanistan in the first place, of course we're still threatened by terrorists.

However, these types of reports that make it sound like they have something concrete are nothing by a bunch of bull**** - if they had any real intelligence to back this up they wouldn't be releasing it, they'd be keeping it secret and using it to conduct further investigations. At least I hope they would.

[BenGarrett]

I find it absolutely hilarious that liberals like our friend Strange Biller criticize Bush because he didn't forewarn the nation of the 9-11 attack, and then turn around and criticize him because the terror threat level was raised and nothing happened. Oh, I'm sorry. Cheney. Criticized Cheney. Everyone knows Bush is just Cheney's puppet. What was I thinking?

[Strange Biller]

Excuse me? Have you ever once heard me criticize Bush or Cheney for not alerting us to the 9/11 plot before it happened? Of course you haven't, becauseI have never said that. In fact, this is one of the instances where I defend Bush. Despite the fact that he supposedy received a memo that said terrorists were going to fly planes in to buildings, I don't really feel like he could have done much to prevent it - it just wasn't reasonable to expect anyone to have had the kind of forsight required for that. He received countless similar threats on a daily basis. This one only looks ominous in hindsight.

But yeah, go ahead and put words in my mouth and make things up that I supposedly said - I'll do the same for you. Hey Ben, remember the time you were complaining because the age of consent in your state is too high? I still totally disagree, dude. Ten year olds just have to be kept off limits.