Posted on 08/17/2006 9:34:56 AM PDT by knighthawk
A week after an Al-Qaeda plot to destroy at least five transatlantic airliners simultaneously was foiled, British intelligence considers that an attack is "likely." Security at Heathrow and all other British airports is at unprecedented levels, causing misery for tourists and business travelers.
The political aftershocks reverberate. Police continue to question some two dozen suspects, all Muslim. Forensic investigations, which are concentrated in a district of London called Walthamstow, have already shown that this was a sophisticated, international conspiracy which, like those that led to the 7/7 London bombings last year, received training and orders from Pakistan but was essentially home-grown and included white, middle-class converts to Islam.
Once again, the British Muslim community has come under scrutiny — and its largely self-appointed leaders don't respond well to criticism. The mere mention of passenger profiling, which would mainly focus on young Muslim men who fit the terrorist profile, met with accusations of racial discrimination from Britain's most senior Muslim policeman, who told an expert from the Manhattan Institute that it would amount to a new offense of "travelling while Asian." An allergic reaction greets even the gentlest hints that not enough is being done to prevent the radicalization of Muslim youth or to improve co-operation with the police.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
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Isn't that an interesting statement from the mouths of those that place bomb vests on the youngest of their tribe.
If the muzzies thought hard about it, they'd realize there's no need for violence. Demographics is in their favor.
So what? Many in the East share the same sentiments.
At least until the third world is decimated by flu. it's coming.
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Yeah, and AIDS was supposed to depopulate Africa, too. Dream on.
Muzzie numbers "may be subject to change without notice."
Three generations of marrying cousins has not made the UK Pakistanis quite so fertile or sane.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4442010.stm
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