I'd really like to get feedback from Andy on this article....

HH
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Secret report: Terror threat worst since 9/11

By Sean Rayment, Security Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph

Last Updated: 12:30am GMT 25/02/2007



The terrorist threat facing Britain from home-grown al-Qaeda agents is higher than at any time since the September 11 attacks in 2001, secret intelligence documents reveal.

 
Eliza Manningham-Buller warned there are over 1,600 'identified individuals' engaged in terror plots
The number of British-based Islamic terrorists plotting suicide attacks against "soft" targets in this country is far greater than the Security Services had previously believed, the government paperwork discloses. It is thought the plotters could number more than 2,000.

Under the heading "International Terrorism in the UK", the document - seen by The Sunday Telegraph - states: "The scale of al-Qaeda's ambitions towards attacking the UK and the number of UK extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we had previously judged."

It warns that terrorist "attack planning" against Britain will increase in 2007, and adds: "We still believe that AQ [al-Qaeda] will continue to seek opportunities for mass casualty attacks against soft targets and key infrastructure. These attacks are likely to involve the use of suicide operatives."

The document, which has been circulated across Whitehall to MI5, Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorist Command, the Home Office, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence, also reveals that al-Qaeda has grown into a world-wide organisation with a foothold in virtually every Muslim country in North Africa, the Middle East and central Asia.

Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director general of MI5, warned recently that there were more than 1,600 "identified individuals" actively engaged in plotting terrorist attacks. There were 200 known networks involved in at least 30 terrorist plots. It is thought that the number of British citizens involved in plots could be well in excess of 2,000.

MI5 believes that soft targets, such as the transport system and economic targets such as the City of London and Canary Wharf, are most at risk.

A senior political source said the picture painted by the document was "particularly bleak and unlikely to improve for several years".

He said: "The Security Services have constantly warned that the task of countering Islamist terrorism is a daunting one. There will be more attacks in Britain."

Patrick Mercer, the Tory spokesman for homeland security, said: "This document absolutely underlines the threat and makes me wonder why the Government still has a counter-terrorist strategy that has been officially declared obsolete. It does make the Government's response look hugely complacent."

 
The transport system and City of London are thought to be most at risk


Entitled Extremist Threat Assessment, the document, which was drawn up this month, also discloses that Afghanistan, where more than 7,000 British troops will be based by the end of May, is expected to supersede Iraq as the location for terrorists planning Jihad against the West.

It says that al-Qaeda's influence extends from North Africa, including Egypt, through to Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, and into Somalia and Sudan. Al-Qaeda is "resilient and effective" in Iraq, its "operating environment and financial position" in Pakistan has improved and a new group had emerged in Yemen.

"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 fulfil their Jihad ambitions", the document states.

Two years ago, western intelligence said that al-Qaeda was virtually a spent force, disrupted by counter-terrorist operations around the world.

In July 2005 the Pentagon obtained a letter written by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, stating that the organisation had lost many of its leaders and that it had virtually resigned itself to defeat in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda's lines of communication, funding and structure had been severely damaged.

Dr Jonathan Eyal, the director of international security at the Royal United Services Institute, said that the al-Qaeda revival was down to the West's inability to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and that wars in Afghanistan and Iraq made matters worse.

"This document clearly demonstrates a marked shift from the mood of western government only a year or two ago," he said. "It is a clear admission that the organisation is re-emerging and the reasons are that none of al-Qaeda's top leaders have been killed or captured."




 

Yikes.

Stay vigilant mates.

Maybe they will "Deport" all non-English people ?..........I wish that would happen here some day........May I live long enough to see it !

Quoted: I'd really like to get feedback from Andy on this article.... HH

Well, security is hightened as always, but we've had plenty of practice with terrorism.

To put it into perspective, Islamofacists have killed 52 people in the UK, the IRA, UVF etc killed @ 3,600 between them.

The current civilian security threat level is 'SEVERE'

www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/current-threat-level/

Will they have a go at us? Yes they will. It's a war, we will take casualties, it's the nature of war.

ANdy

Quoted: Maybe they will "Deport" all non-English people ?..........I wish that would happen here some day........May I live long enough to see it !

You want all non-British people deported from the United States?

Quoted: Quoted: I'd really like to get feedback from Andy on this article.... HH   Well, security is hightened as always, but we've had plenty of practice with terrorism. To put it into perspective, Islamofacists have killed 52 people in the UK, the IRA, UVF etc killed @ 3,600 between them. The current civilian security threat level is 'SEVERE' www.homeoffice.gov.uk/security/current-threat-level/ Will they have a go at us? Yes they will. It's a war, we will take casualties, it's the nature of war. ANdy

Be safe my friend.

HH

On a related note?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=T05XTYRHV2SFRQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/25/ncrash925.xml

Rail services face at least a week of disruption
By David Millward, Transport Correspondent and Martin Beckford
Last Updated: 3:37pm GMT 25/02/2007

Rail services between London and Scotland will face at least a week of disruption before returning to normal following Friday night’s rail crash in Cumbria.

The Virgin express train lies twisted on an embankment beside the line
As Network Rail awaited a preliminary report into the accident, in which an 84-year-old woman died, plans were in hand for replacement bus services to run between Lockerbie and Lancaster.

The delay in re-opening the line had been caused by poor weather conditions and a need to build an access point to where the train was derailed.

Network Rail said an inspection of 700 points across the country as a whole had been completed and “nothing out of the ordinary” had been found.

As work continues to return the line to normal, the emphasis has switched to a forensic investigation of what caused the accident, which will be carried out by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) and Her Majesty’s Railway Inspectorate.

Network Rail expects to receive a preliminary report within the next few days.

Speaking at the scene of the accident, Thomas Edwards of the RAIB said the main focus of the investigation was the points, the zone where the train went down the embankment, signal boxes and a number of other factors.

“We have been capturing a certain amount of evidence and looking at off-site areas where there is evidence relevant to the investigation.

“We are using surveying technology to put together the jigsaw of exactly where the points are,” he added.

“Each of those areas are important and must not be ignored. It’s just too early for us to be able to say more about the evidence we’ve captured.

“We are capturing all of the maintenance documents but it is too early to say how recently maintenance took place.”

Quoted: On a related note?

A train jumped the switch…

ANdy

Quoted: Quoted: Maybe they will "Deport" all non-English people ?..........I wish that would happen here some day........May I live long enough to see it ! You want all non-British people deported from the United States?

No England.........
.This country (USA) needs a good "House cleaning" starting in D.C......And going all the way to the "Left coast"

Ran across this article on another board I visit. Here is one of the comments posted.


BBBruce
one of us
 Posted 25 February 2007 19:05  Hide Post
Nonsense. The West has been interfering in Islam for generations in ways the West would never tolerate. America got a long-provoked kick in the nuts and lost two lousy office buildings in 2001. Grow up and join real-politik. You are finally reaping as you sowed.

Face facts, only America can go home and stop fighting. They are already home. Yankee Go Home.

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