Posted on 11/16/2006 10:53:11 AM PST by OESY
British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday. The announcement, from an officially organised Foreign Office counter-terrorism briefing for the media, was the latest in a series of bleak assessments by senior officials and ministers about the terrorist threat facing Britain.
UK officials have detected "an awful lot of chatter" on jihadi websites expressing the desire to acquire chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons....
The warning comes after a speech last week by the foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, on the terrorist threat facing the UK, and a rare public outing for Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the head of MI5, who warned that there were at least 30 active plots to attack Britain.
With new counter-terrorism measures to be unveiled in tomorrow's Queen's speech, the weekend saw Gordon Brown back an extension to the time for which terrorism suspects can be held without charge, beyond the current 28 days....
For al-Qaida and jihadis, a devastating nuclear attack on Britain, not just the use of a "dirty bomb', would be part of the desire and agenda to cripple the west, sources said....
The network of the rogue Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, which is feared to have sold nuclear technology to Libya, Iran and North Korea, was broken up three years ago, but there are fears that other illegal networks may exist.
British counter terrorism officials believe plots they have thwarted and plots they claim are being hatched have strong links to Pakistan. They say hundreds of Britons travelled in the past year to Pakistan for terrorism activity, including training in camps and acting as couriers for messages. Officials also believe Britons are taking cash to terrorists in Pakistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.guardian.co.uk ...
Actually it could be pretty funny, in a dark way. Picture the Madras-educated terrorists sawing off the heads of American-educated diversity dimwits, with the rest of the them chanting in the background "Yeah!! WooooHooo!!!We deserve it!! I wanna go next!!"
Look, you have to laugh. Can things be any more ridiculous? Future historians are going to be in fistfights trying to prove their theories that western society became this suicidally stupid.
The dems demand UN action. I.E. nothing.
Where is Base Commander Ripper when we need him?
""I can no longer sit back and allow Islamist infiltration , Islamist indoctrination, Islamist subversion, and the international Islamist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids... "
-Base Commander Ripper"
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Never happen, the Democrats tell us there is nothing to worry about.
'They're all moms and dads, Rosie said so!"
Then drop Rosie on 'em!
If our government ever actually attached Mecca, I'd eat my hat.
"A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide... 'Sisayehiticha Dinssa is a potential risk to the community and federal agents want to get a warrant to search his computer more thoroughly.'.... Dinssa, a U.S. citizen....gave a Texas address and arrived in Detroit from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam and was headed for Phoenix."
What do the muslims have against Phoenix?
And ya know Rosie said their only moms and dads.
There's only one thing more dangerous than a nuke attack, anywhere, and that is the fear that we would capitulate.
(We - meaning America or its allies.)
The Cardinals, of course. Don't you?
Watching them against the Bears was like watching a classic Jets game, you just KNEW they were going to lose, and find a very creative way to do it.
begin to fight without regard for UN or media concern or opinion, and with a reduced concern for collateral damage.
At least they are who they thought they were.
Why would they waste it on GB when they can hit the US?
""I don't get it. Isn't Britain 25% Islam right now? Why attack there?"
The UK is under 5% muslim BUT over 90% screaming liberal so the 5% are pandered too...Perhaps britain is easier as it is in the EU and that open border system promotes such attacks and the country is small enough that a bimb in a UK city would have vastly more effect on the Country than one would here.
If one nuked London at night, about half the country would see the blast. If one nuked NY, less than 1% of the USA could see it directly.
Then you have to figure the results...AS the UK is overhwlming leftist, despite the mass murder, many would want to talk about hte event instead of reacting. Here the result would be a demand for a LOT of dead terrorists whereever the bomb came from.
At this point Alqaida doesn't have to do much more besides issue a notice that they are still out there and still intend to commit terrorism. We ourselves can talk ourselves into terror-stricken, scairt of our own shadows sheep from here on.
I'm not concerned about Newt, what I want to know is what does President Schumer propose?
(sorry)
sp
"What do the muslims have against Phoenix?"
its not muslim and if it was it would be the wrong flavor of muslim...those folk live to kill
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