London? The Olympics? OMG, what a recipe for disaster that is.
Off [Thread] Topic, but interesting:
http://www.defencemanagement.com/news_story.asp?id=10207
“Britain opts out of NATO cyber centre”
Friday, July 24, 2009
SNIPPET: “Britain is following the US’s lead in setting up a cyber warfare centre that is jointly run by the intelligence agencies and the military.”
Ticketing systems, the transport network and hotel bookings as well as security are among potential targets.
it’s ok, shiara law will be implemented during the games. the women will perform in burkas.
I doubt terrorist are only interested in an electronic jihad in 2112.
“Enforcement action threatened at Tablighi Jamaat mega-mosque site”
By Akhenaten • on September 18, 2009
For Immediate Release
SNIPPET: “Enforcement action threatened at Tablighi Jamaat mega-mosque site
Newham Council “doing the right thing at last” says Cllr Alan Craig. “Compulsory purchase of site must be next step”
Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), some of whose supporters in Walthamstow were convicted of planning airline terrorist atrocities last week (see note below), has been threatened with enforcement action by Newham Council over its continued unlawful use of the ‘mega-mosque’ site at West Ham, close to the London 2012 Olympic stadium.
TJ has erected a temporary structure on site and has been using it daily without planning permission since October 2006.
In response to yet another challenge at Question Time by Cllr Alan Craig, leader of the Opposition on Newham Council, the borough’s Cabinet Member for Regeneration Cllr Conor McAuley indicated that TJ have now been given until January 2010 to come up with a masterplan for the site or face enforcement action. He also disclosed that the Council will not be offering temporary planning permission for the current buildings on site. (For full text of Statement, see below.)
“At last Newham Council is doing the right thing,” said Cllr Craig who is leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance group on the Council. “The Town Hall has been giving TJ preferential treatment for too long by allowing them to use the site unlawfully for three years.”
http://www.google.com/search?&rls=en&q=muslims+against+the+crusades&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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“Militant Muslim warns Royal wedding terror attack is ‘highly likely’”
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:40 PM on 1st April 2011
SNIPPET: “Firebrand cleric Anjem Choudary has warned that a terror attack is ‘highly likely’ at the Royal wedding.
The hate preacher has told all Muslims to stay away from Westminster Abbey on April 29, describing it as ‘a prime target’.
Choudary has also been preaching to followers of the hate group, Muslims Against Crusades, and is backing its plan for a ‘forceful demonstration’ at the wedding.
Choudary said: ‘All Muslims should stay away from the public gatherings like the Royal wedding and the Olympics because there is a very high likelihood of an attack.
‘Prime targets most probably would be public gatherings like that, so I think Muslims in general should stay away to avoid injury.”
“Potential IRA ‘threat’ looms large over 2012 Olympics”
Last Updated: Sunday, February 05, 2012, 16:37 154 1
SNIPPET: “London: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is reportedly planning to carry out major terror attacks during the Olympics and Jubilee celebrations in Britain.”
SNIPPET: ““Nothing can be ruled out when it comes to big events like these,” said a member of Continuity IRA.”
Quote:
COMMENTS
JIMMY - Dublin
this is not the ira. this is a spin off group who has called themselves the ``continuity ira``. the only group that is known as the ``ira`` are the provisional ira.
[Note: Media contact phone number deleted in this post by me.]
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NOTE The following text is a quote:
homeland.house.gov/press-release/king-statement-visit-london-security-2012-olympics
King Statement on Visit to London on Security of 2012 Olympics
FEB 28, 2012
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Peter T. King (R-NY), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, issued the following statement on his visit last week to the United Kingdom to focus on international efforts to secure the 2012 Summer Olympic Games:
“My counterterrorism-focused visit to London was very productive. During the four-day visit, I continued a series of meetings with my British counterpart, Rt. Hon. Keith Vaz, Chairman of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, and met with the U.S. Ambassador Louis B. Susman, senior U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials, and a number of British security officials, including the heads of British security services MI5, MI6, and New Scotland Yard.
“I received extensive and focused briefings from personnel responsible for security of the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. I was briefed on the current and anticipated terrorist threats to London and the Games, the significant vulnerabilities of the Olympic sites, and security enhancements being made to address them. Particularly concerning is the fact that the Olympic site is located in the area of London where so many of the recent Islamist terrorist threats have originated.
“I was pleased to observe the close coordination between the U.S. and U.K. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. We can be proud of the important contribution that U.S. personnel are making to help secure the Games.”
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“Security Forces Will Outnumber Athletes Nearly 4 to 1 at the 2012 London Olympics”
March 5, 2012
“London 2012 Olympics: MI5 tells Cabinet terror threat remains ‘substantial’
MI5 director-general Jonathan Evans briefed the Cabinet on the terrorist threats facing the UK in the run-up to the London Olympics.”
By Telegraph staff and agencies 1:29PM GMT 20 Mar 2012
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16218246
“Olympic Plan To Put Missiles On Block Of Flats”
7:56am UK, Sunday April 29, 2012
SNIPPET: “The army is planning to position soldiers and surface-to-air missiles on top of a block of flats to prevent any airborne terror threat during this summer’s Olympic Games.
Residents of the block in Bow in east London received a leaflet on Saturday informing them up to 10 soldiers and police will be stationed at the building.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17936050
“Olympic Games ‘not immune’ to cyber-attack”
SNIPPET: “The London Olympics “will not be immune” to cyber-attack, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has warned.
He said attackers “would seek to disrupt the Games”, noting that the Beijing Olympics saw 12 million cybersecurity incidents in 2008.
“We have rightly been preparing for some time a dedicated unit which will help guard the London Olympics against cyber-attack,” he said.
“We are determined to have a safe and secure Games.”
Mr Maude, who is responsible for the UK’s Office of Cyber Security, made the comments during a visit to Estonia, a country considered a pioneer in the field.
“UK government networks continue to be regularly targeted by foreign intelligence agencies, or groups working on their behalf,” he said.
“And we know that the threat is accelerating.””
NOTE Videos included.
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16223051
“Worker Smuggles Fake Bomb Onto Olympic Park”
2:33pm UK, Sunday May 06, 2012
SNIPPET: “Questions have been raised about security at the Olympic Park in east London after a worker managed to smuggle a fake semtex bomb on to the site.
According to The Sun On Sunday newspaper, the unidentified man drove past two checkpoints in a digger without being challenged.
The ‘device’ was contained in a clear plastic container placed inside the cab.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/games-will-be-alqaida-target-says-europol-7791462.html
“Games will be al-Qa’ida target, says Europol
Intelligence agency believes terrorists want to make a symbolic strike after Bin Laden’s death”
by BRIAN BRADY, JONATHAN OWEN
SUNDAY 27 MAY 2012
http://blog.lumension.com/5384/london-olympics-ushers-in-it-security-threats/
“London Olympics Ushers In IT Security Threats”
Jennifer LeClaire - June 19th, 2012
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3355503/cyber-attack-warning-for-london-2012/
“Cyber attack warning for London 2012”
by Anh Nguyen
May 3, 2012
“London 2012 Olympic security visualized
Missiles, dog teams, and FBI agents are all part of the security plans for the 2012 Olympics in London. We explore the people (and animals) behind the numbers.”
By Jennifer O’Mahony12:18PM BST 21 Jun 2012
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/06/27/us-uk-security-experts-unite-for-london-olympics.html
“US-UK Security Experts Unite for London Olympics”
Jun 27, 2012
Associated Press| by Paisley Dodds
LONDON -
SNIPPET: “The British military has already made headlines with the weapons it will have available - surface-to-air missiles, RAF Typhoon combat aircraft and an aircraft carrier docked on the Thames, the river that cuts across London close to several Olympic sites.”
SNIPPET: “Despite the U.S.-U.K. collaboration, there will still be differences in how the London Olympics is policed. Most of the security personnel will be unarmed - a striking difference to operations in the United States.”
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2012/06/london_police_arrest_2_terror.php
“London police arrest 2 terror suspects”
By LISA LUNDQUISTJune 28, 2012 3:10 PM
SNIPPET: “Earlier today, counterterrorism police made arrests at two separate east London addresses, detaining two unnamed male suspects, aged 32 and 18. A UK security official told The Associated Press, “This doesn’t appear to be a big investigation, but it’s still early days.” Security in and around London has been stepped up over the past several months in anticipation of the Olympics, which open on July 27.
The AP report quotes Mizanur Rahman, 29, an acquaintance of the two suspects, as saying that the 18-year-old suspect goes by the name “Jamal ud-Din,” and that the older man is called “Zakariya.” Rahman also offers an explanation for the suspects’ recent suspicious activities — canoeing on the river that goes through the Olympics site, and shooting airguns at a nearby range — as simply “people trying to get into the Olympic spirit” that would likely be “paint[ed] by the authorities as jihad training.”
Rahman goes on to identify the man he calls Jamal ud-Din as the same man who appears in a YouTube video last year delivering an Islamic rant, according to AP.
Although the connection has not been confirmed, it is likely that the 29-year-old Mizanur Rahman quoted in today’s article on the London terror arrests is the same person who was sentenced in 2007 to six years in jail for soliciting murder and stirring up racial hatred in connection with the Prophet Mohammed cartoon controversy. [See San Francisco Chronicle coverage of the trials: In Britain, getting tough with violence-inciting Muslim protesters.]
Another article, from the Daily Mail in 2008, notes that jailed 25-year-old Mizanur Rahman, a website designer, had managed to get over 900 emails posted on an Islamist website since his incarceration the year before for inciting murder.”