Posted on 10/23/2006 4:31:39 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
LONDON -- U.K. intelligence officials have just provided a chilling assessment of the terrorist threat Britain faces. The country has become "al Qaeda target No. 1," security sources told me, confirming last week's press reports. Intelligence services now judge Britain's "home grown" terrorists to be organized, trained and controlled either directly from Pakistan or via Pakistani networks in Britain.
Until now, intelligence services thought British Islamist terrorists had no hard links to al Qaeda despite sharing its ideology. "Clean skins" in the security jargon, they were believed to have acted alone or in self-constructed cells. This theory was the product of what MI5 thought it knew about the terrorists before last year's July 7 bombings, which was far too little. Just two months before the attacks, MI5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Center concluded, "there is not a group with both the current intent and capability to attack the U.K."
The ringleaders of the July 7 bombers, Mohammed Siddique Khan and Shahzad Tanweer, both former students at Leeds Metropolitan University, showed up on MI5's radar on as many as nine occasions before the attacks. According to Whitehall sources, credible intelligence indicated that Mr. Khan had visited Pakistan between November 2003 and February 2004 and sought to contact al Qaeda. But MI5 discounted the significance of these visits at the time and only started taking them more seriously early this year. The London bombers' connections to Pakistan were initially dismissed as harmless, requiring no further analysis. It was "obvious," security sources explained in the aftermath of the attacks, that people of Pakistani descent would visit "their families" back home or take a "long holiday or gap year" there. The generally accepted theory was that the terrorists had simply used information from the Internet to build their organic peroxide bombs.
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BTTT!
And the gun grabbers want to take OUR guns away-NO WAY!!!
The Brits better get their shit together before they don't have any left.
I'm thinkin' "our partner/ally Pakistan" falls under the same oximoron as "the peaceful religion of Islam"
The ally in Pakistan is the government. Evidently our enemies agree: Islamist air force officers tried to stage a coup recently, while Musharraf was visiting the US.
The problem is that there are elements in the Pakistani intelligence services and armed forces that are on the other side, and the government's writ doesn't run throughout its nominal territory.
The Sunni tribesmen in Waziristan are definitely on the other side, but I've not heard of any terrorism perpetrated by Shi'ite 'seveners' (a.k.a. Ismaelis) who make up the bulk of Pakistan's professional class (well not at least since the Mongols got done dealing with them, way back when).
"felt good". That's the heart of the problem. Too many people are being "tolerant" because it makes them "feel good", like they are doing something noble and enlightened. One of the differences between children and adults is that adults understand that just because something feels good, or sounds good, or tastes good, doesn't mean that it is good.
Just think - if Hitler had been smart he would have invaded Britain under the cloak of religion. Gotta hand it to mohammed (piss on him), he picked a great imperialist tool.
"The problem is that there are elements in the Pakistani intelligence services and armed forces that are on the other side, and the government's writ doesn't run throughout its nominal territory."
Same in our State Department, CIA etc.
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